Corrie:Breaking the barriers of UNREALISTIC.

[sensesworkingovertime]

Firstly, I'm a huge huge huge Corrie fan but pleeeeaaaaassse, the unrealism is reaching new limits.. few examples:-

1. Anyone and everyone is a seamstress and can make knickers in t'factory
   
2. Mary (I thought she was a newsagent)Taylor can suddenly not only run a cafe but be a chef of specialist cuisine, design adverts and purchase theatrical costumes and totally restyle the cafe all in one day.
   
3. And the most unrealistic of them all - the doc (Weatherfields only) can see people for an appointment without a minutes notice and do housecalls into the bargain. He also seems to go around with a portable cytology/histology clinic/MR scan - how else can he do on the spot diagnosis of terminal illness? i.e. Gloria.
   P.S How on earth does everyone afford to booze all day in the Rovers, eat breakfast every morning in the cafe and eat out in the cafe or bistro every night when they all work in the above mentioned factory. Rob ( the manager who's just come out of prison) and Michelle (the manager who was a barmaid a few months back) must pay good wages.

[SoleSource]

I agree with cremeegg :)

[CremeEggThief]

Just my take on it, OP, and wondered if anyone else thought the same!

[onedev]

Thanks so much Senses as it had been bugging me who she was! I liked her in it so would like her to be regular character

[sensesworkingovertime]

Woooaaaa Creme Egg, this is getting a bit deep. Have you got this information on good authority or is it your take on it? Devious.

By the way, has anyone realised that that Penny woman who Lewis scammed was the legendary Miss Diane from Crossroads? DH used to have the hots for her and he remembered her name in the credits. Don't you just love trivia?

[bringbacksideburns]

Meant Rovers not Corrie, obviously

[bringbacksideburns]

Is Gloria conning the con man then? I do hope so. So glad they put her in Corrie!

And note to producers : no one has ever referred to people as 'folk' up here, since about 1925.

In real like Corrie would have closed down once the fags ban started and Ken Barlow would not have that place as his local. He's be in a gastro pub with nice ale and overinflated prices.

[EdithWeston]

Corrie timings have been all over the place for some time now. They moved it from Wednesdays (where it had been since it began in 1960s) to accommodate the (lower numbers watching) footie. And now have it on either or both, and it's all too easy to miss. And once you miss a few, you realise it is eminently missable. Especially as both place and plausibility have taken a turn for the worse in recent months.

[SoleSource]

Ooh doh! Thought it was Friday today Lol!

[CremeEggThief]

No, double episode tomorrow! They swapped back to Wednesday from Thursday a while back. I think that's what's confusing you.

[SoleSource]

Ahh! Thank you cremeegg:)

Hope it is on tonight.

[CremeEggThief]

Last night (Wednesday). It's been a bit all over the place the last few weeks, with football, but seems to be back to normal this week .

[SoleSource]

Well I watched the This Morning programme today, the soap watch segment. The soap Lady was telling of Sophie being run over by a car. I realised I had missed an episode and watched today on ITV2. What day was Corrie last on?

[MurielTheActor]

Clearly what we're not being told is that Coronation Street has its own micro-economy. Seeing as no one ever (rarely) spends any money anywhere else it's the same tenner that gets passed around as wages, spent on beer, paid in wages, spent on food etc etc. As all money made on Coronation Street gets spent on Coronation Street it's the purest example of Capitalism as success story.

[toldmywrath]

Ooh do please watch Doctors especially last Frdiday's episode (19/10) absolutely brilliant as Sparklingbrook say. Waves to Sparkling & Angels
Yes Mary is a brilliant success at her themed evenings & everyone can afford to eat out & drink every day (recession-what recession?)

[SoleSource]

I hope you are right cremegg hehe

[CremeEggThief]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, Sole. But I think he wants the money he thinks she has and that's why he's honing in on her.

[Hammy02]

Surely most employers wouldn't allow their staff to drink at lunchtime. It is a sackable offence where I work.

[SoleSource]

Oooh I believed Gloria too
! Confused

[CremeEggThief]

WRT to Gloria, isn't she just pretending to be ill to try to expose Lewis?

[chocoluvva]

It's a victim of its own success - too many episodes a week now.

[SoleSource]

Totally agree. Corrie is dumbing down by the episode.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

One of the reasons i have started to watch Doctors recently is so that it makes Corrie (my all-time favourite) look much better.

This Lewis business is beyond crap as well.

[sensesworkingovertime]

Love it love it love it....you are all so right, can see you've all been making sharp observations, 1944girl so true you made me giggle. And what about the other day when Michelle ( you know, the MANAGER) had a personal crisis and solved it by getting boozed up over lunch - a fine example to the staff (actually not totally unrealistic, I used to have a boss like that but that's another thread...)

Yes I forgot about the children and the invisible 24/7 nursery, boy what I would give for access to that, wonder what the fees are?
It was amazing how little Liam was always with Kirky when Maria had one of her many problems or out with one of her many fellas and you never saw the little bleeder. What has happened to him now that he, Kirky, is on the razz with Beth all the time? Honestly, it's enough to give me sleepless nights I'm tellin' you.

[chocoluvva]

"At least at some point you will get laid" :o

[lighthousekeeping]

At least you at some point you will get laid. It's like pass the parcel around there.