Corrie Thread - you know it is bad when the best storyline is about a dog

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Time to start a new thread. Hopefully by the time this one has finished there will have been a terrible disaster and half the current cast will have disappeared.

At least Jazz-hands-Andrea is on her way out. I'd be grateful if she would take a coach-load with her.

Argh Fiz having a go at Tyrone, can't watch.

I know I'm not saying anything new but I'm really struggling to get interested atm. We 'watched' 2 episodes last night, everyone was chatting and wandering about, nothing grabbed our attention, the kids were bored, I didn't yell at anyone to 'shut up and let me listen' It's just so dull. I've even missed a few episodes recently and not bothered to catch up, that's unheard of for me.

Turned on , saw Fiz's face saying "tempriture" and turned over.

What's going to happen with Simon?

I fell asleep during tonight's. Did I miss anything?

Edith

What is it with 'cute' child actors? They grow up and can't act ...... Chesney and Simon.

Completely agree eddie. Chesney was a dote, as a child, but that was it.

I never liked Simon. I remember watching some soap award show, he didn't win, in his category, although nominated, and he just looked like an absolute brat when the camera focused on him.
I know he was just a kid, at the time, but I remember thinking

I pretty much just fast forward through Fiz and Tyrone scenes.

I actually think that they are awful together as a couple.

Cannot take much more of Fiz and Tyrone. I want light relief telly at Xmas day, not watching a four year old die. Not to mention the atrocious acting.

At least the actress who plays Leanne is decent.

I did lol at Mary pretending to be a paramedic

Jane Danson is an actress who has appeared in many other programs so she is able to portray emotions even with an appalling script she has to work with
is Hope really going to die? - I was hoping she would be saved by treatment. This is a very inappropriate storyline for the parents who are really going through this trauma and at this time of the year as well.

could not really understand why Beth was so upset and mouthy about Hope in the workplace - what is her relationship to Fiz and Tyrone? have I missed a familial connection?
thank goodness for Tim and Sally and even Gail (for her cutting remarks) am on the point of giving up on the program knowing the storylines to come.

Beth is the aunt of Sinead the cowbag who was mean to Roy (will never forget that), who is going out with Chesney, who is Hope's uncle. I think.

What happened to the Irish guy in the hospital with Sinead? That went nowhere, didn't it?

lots of story lines go nowhere - maybe they assume viewers are so thick they will not notice or they think it is a good idea at the time to introduce a character and then change their minds ?
understand now about Beth but it is a bit of a stretch to make her part of the immediate family
Roy and Kathy are good together although she annoyed me at first - but she also has appeared in other TV progs - that is the real problem with the soap (and dare I say many others) is that some very poor actors/actresses are given poor scripts and storylines and they are not up to getting the best out of those scripts and it all seems terribly flat and emotionless.

"maybe they assume viewers are so thick they will not notice or they think it is a good idea at the time to introduce a character and then change their minds ?"

Interesting thought mollie and has got me wondering if they're trying to run plot lines by focus group. There is certainly too much focus on on thing, followed by another in an unsatisfying sequence; rather than the integration of multiple strands of life with stories having property growth and resolution.

I just hope that they're not doing it via monitoring threads such as this. Because all the praise for Sally/Tim will tempt them to 'do something' (like that dull stuff nicked from another programme about a bracelet) because viewers seem to like them. Whilst missing the message that we like them as they are, and don't want them fiddled with by the current bunglers.

Roy and Kathy are good together although she annoyed me at first - but she also has appeared in other TV progs - that is the real problem with the soap (and dare I say many others) is that some very poor actors/actresses are given poor scripts and storylines and they are not up to getting the best out of those scripts and it all seems terribly flat and emotionless.

+1.
The ones who can act (such as David Neilson and Melanie Hill) bring something to the most mundane of scenes, because they are capable of doing so.

The ones who cannot act (too many to list), combined with the dreadful storylines, make a once great, realistic soap almost unwatchable.

Simon is getting worse, his acting is appalling. But my biggest gripe is Fizz, always the same blank/puzzled expression, and to have given her such a huge emotive storyline is baffling. I love Sally and Tim, if the useless writers split them two up (which wouldn't surprise me) I think I really will have to stop watching.

I agree re Fizz. I feel nothing looking at her attempt to act what would be a nightmare to a parent, to hear such news.
The first time I felt the story was in any way 'real' was when Roy told Cathy.

I'm definitely not going to watch Corrie regularly until this story is over. I know it's another attempt at grabbing ratings, but between that and Simon hitting Leanne, I've had my share of misery.

roy reading hope and ruby goldilocks , she was actually a burgler
cant wait for carla to go bloody fed up of the gambling story line

Next it seems that we'll definitely find out the number of bedrooms in the Platt household.

I missed out 'week' after 'next'. Sorry.

And the number of bedrooms will be around 7?!!! How do you know that?

Digital Spy.

Just read the spoilers and apart from Tracey's confession to Carla nothing appeals whatsoever! And the story involving Max's school and Callum seems unrealistic to say the least.

Although good news that Carla will be around for a while longer

Thought she was leaving tho?!