Corrie Thread - Things starting to improve? Or just wishful thinking? (No spoilers please)

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Jason leaving has to help, he is more wooden than a clothes peg.

I wish Kym Marsh was properly leaving too - I feel they are taunting us with what could have been with all this cruise ship talk.

Akire - flying monkeys were characters in The Wizard of Oz. The wicked witch uses flying monkeys to do her dirty work for her. It seems to have become popular these days to describe those who do the bidding of a more controlling person.

Thanks Optimist1 yes seems weird think for him to say!

Just back from holiday and glad to hear there has been something other than the dodgy apartments and Steve's baby fathering going on.

Will try to catch up with judicious use of the fast forward button for any appearances of Tyrone / Fizz / Caz / Rita / Phelan / everyone related to the previous.

Love Liz in the black Cher wig!

Yes, Liz looked a lot better than Michelle and Eva did!

Yeah she was the only recognisable one!

Well tonight was very odd. I keep getting confused why Eva's boyfriend is bothered about Maria? What's the link?

When she took the kid to bed half expecting pull back the covers and there she is!! Though since Maria is wet dish cloth and Caz has military training hard to see who get worse off.

Maria was married to Aidan's cousin so is a Connor-in-law and her son is related to Aidan and the rest. It is ridiculous storyline isn't it?

I have caught up. Loved the David stuff apart from Fizz sniffling in the street.

I don't care enough about Anna or Kevin to care about her injuries though, and I would have been happy to see Anna's son die under the car.

Once again Corrie missed the an opportunity to use a disaster as a means of killing off the deadwood.

I'd forgotten Maria had been a Connor and therefore Liam was related to Aidan. She also had a one-night stand with Aidan a few weeks ago didn't she?

Yeah eddie I was thinking it was odd when he was looking after Liam Jr a few weeks ago and being called Uncle Aidan but then I remembered. Michelle doesn't seem to bother much with her nephew does she!

Michelle has never taken even a passing interest in her nephew. A bit like her real son who she discovered had been swapped at birth, he never gets a mention

And her fake son since he moved to Scotland or wherever he is.

Yes true, she never mentions fake son either (can't even remember his name). Now she is pregnant you'd think she'd at least say that she is going to phone and tell him the news.

I think he went to work as a DJ in Ibiza or similar.

Aiden's hair and stubble is so distracting. It looks like someone has drawn thousands of dots really close together all over his head and chin with a sharpie. It just doesn't look real. A bit like Jimmy Carr's Lego hair.

Go on, look at it when he's next on screen. You'll never be able to unsee it. 😁

Thinking about Monday's episodes......aren't Aldi and Asda now in Y7? Surely they wouldn't be sitting around at home in fancy dress waiting for Mary to read them a bedtime story.

Well Amy Barlow is nearly 14 and isn't allowed go to the pub on her own from Ken's so I'm not surprised.

Nearly 13 I mean.

Why are they doing a crappier version of Gone Girl with Maria and Caz?

If only one of the actors on the show resembled Ben Affleck, at least there would be something nice to look at and distract us from the silly storylines.

What a shame only Shariff is leaving and they can't find a way to write out the entire family.

Amy often drifts in and out of the pub to go to the Bistro or to Ken's. She must be old enough to walk home from school on her own but Tracey occasionally asks Liz to pick her up

Yes Michelle does seem to forget all about Ryan. Even if actors don't want to come back then at least they could be talked about from time to time. We could have Michelle talking to him on the phone or telling Steve something about what he's getting up to quite easily.

Where would Amy get picked up from? Liz doesn't seem to have access to a car, and we often see Faye waiting for the bus to get to school, so it can't be on the doorstep.

I think Amy is 12. Same age as my DS.

As if any grandmother would ruin her grandson's engagement party, in front of his girlfriend's family who had only just met them. What a joke.