Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[flappinfanny]

dont you mean appealing

i do agree we dont need sharon back, a mistake. youd have thought eastenders would have learnt from corries mistakes like bringing julie goodyear back. that must rank as one of the biggest mistakes in soap history, apart from dirty den.

as i watch both eastenders and corrie constantly i feel i can comment and as im a corrie fan, i can say what i say without being biased!

[Ruffed_lemur]

i managed to watch the big 3 this week and without a doubt eastenders was head and shoulders above the others. all i will say is itv you are lucky you have the most loyal of viewers in corrie, you can churn out so so episodes week in week out and get decent viewing figures and audience share. corrie viewers are the most loyal and the most easily pleased. ( i include myself in this. )

I am a Corrie fan too and know what you mean. There have been some silly storylines recently but I keep watching, hoping it picks up. Mary, Roy and Hayley's story saved it for me this week. That's the kind of story that Corrie does well.

Eastenders has been brilliant with Ben's story this week. Not so much to do with Sharon's return IMO, but for Shirley. Amazing acting!

[alan45]

dont you mean appealing

i do agree we dont need sharon back, a mistake. youd have thought eastenders would have learnt from corries mistakes like bringing julie goodyear back. that must rank as one of the biggest mistakes in soap history, apart from dirty den.

as i watch both eastenders and corrie constantly i feel i can comment and as im a corrie fan, i can say what i say without being biased!

I have to agree with you about Julie Goodyear. I would really like to see Liz and Jim McDonald back behind the bar of T'Rovers so I would. At least that would be believable.

[alan45]

dont you mean appealing

i do agree we dont need sharon back, a mistake. youd have thought eastenders would have learnt from corries mistakes like bringing julie goodyear back. that must rank as one of the biggest mistakes in soap history, apart from dirty den.

as i watch both eastenders and corrie constantly i feel i can comment and as im a corrie fan, i can say what i say without being biased!

I have to agree with you about Julie Goodyear. I would really like to see Liz and Jim McDonald back behind the bar of T'Rovers so I would. At least that would be believable.

[lizann]

The best thing last night for me was Hayley, Roy and Mary. I loved the way Hayley stopped Mary leaving. It was so mature of her accepting Mary as a friend of Roy's.

Don't like the idea of the surrogacy story at all! And why does there always have to be arguments at church services? It was a day for Joseph.

The surrogacy storyline is a way to involve Dr. Carter in a storyline

[flappinfanny]

who?

[Brucie]

Eastenders promotes gloom doom and misery - to the exception of almost everything else, except immorality, and couldn't do comedy to save it's life. One of the reasons that Corrie is generally a much better watch than Eastenders is that they employ good character actors, rather than people who are just good at playing themselves, and many of those actors have fine comedic talents (eg those who play Roy, Hayley, Mary, Norris, Steve McDonald etc etc). Very occasionally you get someone in Eastenders who can do comedy (like the girl who plays Kim), but since the writers think slapstick is the only form of comedy, laughs for the viewer occur about once every 2 years - if we're lucky. Eastenders is on a mission to swiftly eliminate the feelgood factor in the UK that the Olympics built up so successfully!

[N.Fan]

I didn't think Izzy would have been into Katy being a surrogate,not after what she went through with her own baby and she's only 17.

[Ruffed_lemur]

The surrogacy storyline is a way to involve Dr. Carter in a storyline

There are plenty of other ways for him to have a story, such as for Izzy to have her own baby. Pity that ended so quickly. Also, he could help Kirsty.

[tammyy2j]

Ches or Gary should have knocked out Owen at the church