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.

I just honestly cannot fathom why they thought this story was a good idea.

It has no structure to it - Max suddenly went very naughty then stopped just as abruptly - no build up, no minor concerns expressed by Kylie or David or Bessie Street - Kylie struggling to cope with a disabled son and leaving would actually have been a good storyline and one we'd have cared about.

It makes no sense that prescription drugs for a child with ADHD would be the thing to woo Kylie away from her mum and wife life.

David is often absolutely awful to Kylie and when he threw her out, it makes no sense (again!) that he'd spend months looking for her.

The Callum and max thing is just so incredibly stupid and ridiculous I can't even start on it. It's stopped even making any sense: just been months of David being beaten up, Callum smirking and Mad woodenly saying 'Dad!'

There have been some bloody STUPID stories on corrie of late but this one is actually the worst, largely because it's been so painfully drawn out and little attention has been given to anything else for months - including Deidre's death. That was an opportunity (at the risk of sounding callous - I'm not) but Ken rejecting Tracy, Ken and Roy bonding, Amy turning to religion and becoming close to Sophie - anything like that would give opportunities to some 'real' storylines with people we care about but for some unknown reason they keep defaulting to the stupid Platts!

And what's happened to Michael? Has Gail forgotten about him?

Once again I agree. It got to the stage, for me, that any night, the Platts and Callum didn't feature, I thought 'that wasn't a bad episode'. I think Stuart Blackburn was obsessed with the Platts, and while I do like some of them, it was close to becoming 'Platt Street', they were so central to it. It's a shame that Corrie has this fancy, new set, but centres every other scene in the Platt house.
Callum has to be the most unconvincing and boring villain ever. The night Max got knocked down, and the episode finished with Callum gurning, as usual...aaaaargh.

I didn't like the way Deirdre's death was dealt with, either. There were some (not many), good parts, but I believe they were more down to the actors and actresses involved, and their genuine grief, than anything else. Eileen Derbyshire/ Emily breaking down, in the pub, while talking about her, was one.
The door blowing open, as they drank a toast to her, was absolute nonsense. Ken and Tracy rowing during the funeral service, was just a horrible, badly done storyline.
And they kept cutting away, in the Deirdre death/ funeral episodes, to feature Callum, Bethany and Sarah, of all people.
Anne Kirkbride RIP, deserved so much better.

I actually really like the Platts in general.

This whole Callum thing has been awful, but I think that it could have been better. I think Max's dad turning up out of the blue could have been a good storyline, but they took it all too far with all the dog and gun scenes, the awful Gemma, the gun, the blackmailing.

They could have shown Max being let down by a useless dad.

There are loads of characters I love, Liz, Steve, Tony, Jason, Eileen, Sally and Tim, Leanne and Eva, Rita, Norris and Mary. I liked Tyrone until they put him with the awful Fiiz.

I agree pyjamas. The "Max's dad turning up..." Storyline could've been dealt with far better.
Getting sick to the back teeth of the platts now and just wish that they'd change direction and give some other family some decent storylines!

PLEASE...??

does anyone know if alya is pregnant another story just forgotten about, im sure she ran out the bistro crying and told the blonde girl she pregnant with jasons baby but as nothing been mentioned im beginning to wonder if i imagined it.
i wonder if stephs brother is going to be killed off in the car race leading to maries maternity exit. (sorry im really crap with names)

I think Alya's pregnancy test was negative, because when it was found in the factory toilet Sinaed claimed it was hers, and told Beth it was a false alarm.

In Platt Street, I like David, and Gail. They are both well acted, and can be very funny together. I hope the new producer brings Gail's character back to what it was. Nick has improved, and lightened up, (even though he looks older than Gail) especially since his new romance.
Kylie is a good well played character, dragged down by the nonsense of 'it's Callum, he will kill us' having to be repeated by her every five minutes. I think, in a fair fight, I would back her against Callum any day of the week.

Sarah could be okay, again, minus Callum, she used to be a good character, in her previous life on the Street. Bethany is dreadful. Audrey is not of course a Platt, but she is my favourite of that family.
There just has been too much centred around them, since the rubbish Callum storyline began, what feels like years ago, it's dragged so long. Let's hope Callum dies this week. Maybe he falls off that cliff ...

Just when I thought Callum's howling balloon of a sidekick couldn't get any worse! It really is unwatchable.

Gail's only good line recently was 'I got one of mine from there'

The Blackpool trip was the wrong thing, at the wrong time and poorly scripted. There was no way it was going to work.

I want Martin Platt back. I know in RL he is making cheese but where is he supposed to be?

He moved to Liverpool, has remarried and has at least one child of that marriage. David goes to see him sometimes and often comes back with a tan

Yes ^^ I want to go to Liverpool, if you can get a tan like David's there.

Jason looks remarkably healthy and refreshed, complete with a new hairstyle, too, considering he was at death's door, in hospital, a short while back.

The spoiler web sites are being pretty cagey about the aftermath of the live episode, other than things being changed forever for the Platts. I'm wondering if Jason and Tony get involved and (accidentally?) kill Callum ; then,unbeknown to the Platts, conceal the body in the garage manhole. Callum will have disappeared, Gemma will tell the police about the passport and the matter to all intents and purposes will be concluded.

Ooh, tbe manhole...you could be right about that eddie

I was sorry to hear that Simon Gregson is ill and has been signed off for three months. Both he androver will be missed.

Never seen anyone peel carrots like Sophie last night!

I prefer Sarah now that she's beings bit nicer, more how she was before she left.

Yes, I've seen speculation on the Digital Spy website about Callum ending up in the manhole. Hope he doesn't reappear though, like Ross did in Emmerdale.

I read that Simon Gregson's wife is due a baby, and that was why he was taking time off, I don't know though. I will miss him, I love Steve.

Maybe that's right then, rachel. He'll be missed.

I loved it last night when he emerged drunk from the cellar and shouted 'Karen!'

Made me giggle when he shouted "Karen"! I'll miss the double act that is "Steveandlloyd".

I see BArbara Knox has been written out with illness. And what could be wrong for Simon Gregson to be written out for three months ?

I'm thinking not paternity leave!

I read an interview with Lloyd this week and it doesn't sound like he's coming back. It's hard to imagine that it's not that long ago that he was caught smoking crack in his cab.

That would've been a good storyline!!

I think Simon needs a break. I read somewhere that he suffered from depression some years ago, and didn't want it to recur. It seems a sensible time to go for a bit with the baby on the way.

The last few episodes have been almost unwatchable because of the Platt/Callum crap, but I enjoyed the Roy and Cathy scenes and Sally's snobby remarks.

I'll be having a drink during the live episode if Callum really does die, though we know Jazz Hands goes for sure tomorrow night so will have one anyway

I wonder what would happen if one of the actors in the live episode is taken ill or has an accident before the showing. They can hardly send an understudy on.