Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[LouiseP]

Welcome to SoapBoards, Louise

Thank you, Perdita. I think I am going to enjoy this Forum.

[tammyy2j]

Hi everyone. I am new here . My comments on this storyline are this-

She has been absent for 18 years. Ok she sent cards that were returned but what was to stop her all these years applying for access if she loved them so much , as she claims. She could even have applied to the courts for custody. No court in the land would stop access for a mother who just had a fling. It would have to be a lot worse than that to stop it, like abuse.

PS I hope no-one has said this before.

Welcome Louise

[Dazzle]

I'm beginning to think Linda's quite sly underneath the pleasant facade. The way she's forgiven Owen so easily is unrealistic. Is she manipulating him? What's very clear is that he's still in love with her as Anna suspects.

Leanne was a tad hypocritical in her condemnation of Jason's suspicions of Eva and Tony. Has she forgetten that she had an affair with her former boyfriend's dad (Jamie and Danny Baldwin respectively). I really felt for Eva though - she was right to dump the idiotic Jason. (I still feel guilty for enjoying watching manipulative Todd.)

[Perdita]

I am just glad it is winter time ... so many actresses in all soaps pregnant at the moment, at least they can wear big coats to hide their bumps although they are still visible in some scenes, especially with Eva

[Kim]

Sometimes I despair at the Corrie writers. "When they're married, we'll be officially brothers in law." If Andy were Gavin, he and Nick would be step brothers, not brothers in law.

[Perdita]

I am sure I heard Nick say brother-in-law too but thought I must have misheard ... Can't an actor point out a very obvious mistake and speak to the producer/director before saying the lines???

[maidmarian]

I am sure I heard Nick say brother-in-law too but thought I must have misheard ... Can't an actor point out a very obvious mistake and speak to the producer/director before saying the lines???

I think the script writers vocabulary must
be in Victorian times-like some of the stories.
It was normal.usage to call step- fathers -
Fathers-in-law then eg David Copperfield
calls his Mothers second husdand (MrMurdstone)
his father in law . Think it was similar re other
step relations.

The French still use same term for bro in law
and step-bro beau frere.

But we are in Uk in 21st Century!
Basic prob is a general lack of checking basic info.

Id do some smiley faces - but they shoot all over.

[maidmarian]

I am sure I heard Nick say brother-in-law too but thought I must have misheard ... Can't an actor point out a very obvious mistake and speak to the producer/director before saying the lines???

I think the script writers vocabulary must
be in Victorian times-like some of the stories.
It was normal.usage to call step- fathers -
Fathers-in-law then eg David Copperfield
calls his Mothers second husdand (MrMurdstone)
his father in law . Think it was similar re other
step relations.

The French still use same term for bro in law
and step-bro beau frere.

But we are in Uk in 21st Century!
Basic prob is a general lack of checking basic info.

Id do some smiley faces - but they shoot all over.

[Dazzle]

Sometimes I despair at the Corrie writers. "When they're married, we'll be officially brothers in law." If Andy were Gavin, he and Nick would be step brothers, not brothers in law.

I didn't even register that at the time. It does seem odd that nobody in the Corrie team picked it up either.

Since MaidMarian has said that the term used to be used in that way, perhaps it still is in some parts of the country? (I realise that's a bit of a stretch lol!)

[Perdita]

I can't believe they use very old fashioned terms of speech in what is meant to reflect current times ...