I do not like this new bullying storyline on Coronation St.

Tell me the bullying story.

I mean just who and whom will do.

A man who works for Charlie is bullying Roy in his cafe. He is threatening and, well, creepy. Weirdly, the story may have been abruptly resolved this evening, making it seem even more pointless.

he's not fit to lick Scotch Trevor's boots

much more enjoyable is the goth storyline - best thing in a soap ever ("she's not my girlfriend, she's my partner in darkness") Corrie you've still got it...

i always wished we had a dedicated corrie thread on here but i was a bit too embarrassed to start it!

i, on the other hand, am not so concerned about my dignity...

corrie at the moment

corrie lately = shit overdone implausible comedic sequences (for instance "she's not my girlfriend, she's my partner in darkness")

sorry stevem, but even the most muddled teenager would have too much self-knowledge to say something that daft with a straight face!

i missed tonights episode but apparently the goth kids were listening to Joy Division's "Transmission" tonight!

i missed tonight too, but i saw the one before it where roy was "opening up" to hayley, and i thought it was probably one of the better recent scenes.

i thought candice playing at being a footballers wife was a daft plotline.

the current penchant for silliness and drastic changes in behaviour for main characters on the street needs something more quietly affecting to keep it grounded. i have high hopes for the upcoming "sally affair", but my one reservation would be that the webster infidelity thing has been done quite a lot already.

the "sally affair," much like sally "the girls" webster herself, inhabits a limbo of ludicrosity beyond deliverance.

what happened over xmas? i was out of the country so missed the climax of the karen/tracy/steve thing - was it like the end of the good the bad and the ugly with the three of them forming a triangle in the red rec waiting for the first one to shoot? also did bradley walsh and his missus go out onto the rooftop and do a pisstake of similar scenes in eastenders? typically with the latter there is not much need to catch up, except that lee out of the office appears to have turned up as shane richie's cousin.

There was a rooftop scene... but involving Tracy trying to kill Karen, thinking she'd killed Aim-eh.

The christmas day episode had the obvious comedy-of-Norris-replacing-the-organist-and-playing-'summer holiday' at Ashley & Claire's wedding; of course accompanied by bemused, aghast, cheeky looks from the congregation... And "The Godfather" pastiched with Fred's speech in the church playing over silent scenes of characters back in t' Street; like Karen and Steve, marriage in tatters, christmas tree toppled...

Simon Gregson's really good as Steve, I find; comic and terse in equal measure: last night's episode. Getting the chance to play swaggering again, rather than henpecked. ;)

And aye, the Sally thing is unspeakably laboured; haven't they done this storyline countless times before?

I probably said it on another thread, but Suranne Jones really is a dreadful actress. Tom OTM about Simon Gregson though, maybe he will have a chance to shine without that head-shaking, nostril-flaring histrionic mare next to him.

Why would anyone fancy Sally Webster? And what the bejeezus has happened to Adam Baldwin?

And "The Godfather" pastiched with Fred's speech in the church playing over silent scenes of characters back in t' Street; like Karen and Steve, marriage in tatters, christmas tree toppled...

The Christmas Eve episode ended similarly with Rita singing (doesn't it always on these occasions) "Silent Night" to herself in the Rovers as Tracy and Steve ran around the Red Rec to try and find an increasingly bonkers Karen who had kidnapped Amy, then discovering the car they won in that stupid TV show ablaze with no Karen or Amy to be found.

I think Charlie's bullying of Shelley is also a very strange storyline. In fact I think every storyline Charlie has ever been involved in is strange. Shagging Bev? Dear God.