Originally Posted by
Brucie
I found the double episode on Wednesday to be the poorest Corrie watching for many a year. I hope that the downward spiral the programme is currently on is not terminal, but there seems to be a clear plan to make Corrie as depressing as Eastenders, with fewer and fewer light-hearted moments. A 13 year old choosing to get drunk instead of being excited about the concert she was being taken to at great expense (paid for people who on the face if it do not have a receptacle to urinate in), plus a 17 year old who has an outrageously sparkly personal hipflask full of vodka, who's hitting on her mother's twice her age boyfriend. Then there's Sarah getting to Leeds at the speed of light, only for them all to waste every penny they got for selling the magic beans, to spend on hotel accommodation and concert tickets, by deciding that no-one would be going to the concert. And then there's Phelan. Not only does he have eyes in the back of his head (or did have before they were bashed by a brick), but he's clearly allowed to stay in a much sought after hospital bed despite being as fit as a fiddle playing puppetmaster with someone who would surely have said - "you're mistaken, it wasn't me" (given that it'd be his word against someone who had taken a severe blow to the head) rather than turning to crime.
Soap villains constantly getting away with it is not good entertainment, and the only way this will end well as far as I'm concerned is that Phelan gets his just desserts soon, but only after he has taken the moronic Eileen for every last penny she owns.
Too many poor, one-dimensional characters and kindergarten quality scriptwritng is making this much loved soap almost un-watchable just lately. All I want for Christmas......
