Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[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......

[RogerOver]

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......

I take what you say as a reasonable criticism, especially the point about making it as depressing as Eastenders. I watched that very occasionally years ago, and it came across to me as a soap just full of people shouting and arguing.

Maybe I haven't noticed that Corro is begininning to descend to a similar level?
I've always watched it not for the plot, but for the (hidden) humour, although I know a lot of people don't always seem to notice it.
Btw, Phelan's already had his just desserts - it was the battenberg he asked Andy for...

[parkerman]

Soap villains constantly getting away with it is not good entertainment.

I certainly agree with this in both soaps. First Tracey getting away with murder (more or less), Ian & Jane getting away with getting Max imprisoned; Phil getting away with bribing the jury foreman; Dean getting away with rape and attempted rape and now Phelan. What sort of message does all this give out?

[Snagglepus]

I found the double episode on Wednesday

I must have missed the second episode and I can't find it on the iPlayer.

[lizann]

"He's behind you ! " Oh, no , sorry, that's Andy!

is that how phelan knew with the audience shouting

[Dazzle]

I must have missed the second episode and I can't find it on the iPlayer.

There wasn't a second episode last Wednesday. Perhaps Brucie's thinking of another day?

[parkerman]

There wasn't a second episode last Wednesday. Perhaps Brucie's thinking of another day?

Monday I guess.

[swmc66]

Phelan looks ok and should have been discharged by now

[lizann]

how utterly boring is aidan and maria both charisma vaccums terrible punch too

[Dazzle]

how utterly boring is aidan and maria both charisma vaccums terrible punch too

Yeah it was a really boring episode. I don't know why KO is insisting on putting the pair of them together. If Maria's going to fall for such a sleaze, I wish the writers would at least give her enough self-respect to insist on waiting until he's finished with Eva before getting together with him.

Her last line (something along the lines of "I love you...but there's nothing I can do about it") was ridiculously over the top and melodramatic: it was like something from a farce!