NEW Corrie thread - will Leanne ‘lawyer up’? Will Geoff get what’s coming? Will the Baileys learn to act? *NO SPOILERS PLEASE*

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Old thread full, so here we go again.

Going back to the last point on the old thread, I agree that they’re writing well for Tracy now. She’s still got her hard side, but they’ve made her caring in a straight talking way, rather than just a full-on bitch.

Entry in Belfast! Nothing good ever happens in the ginnel.

I'm sick of all the petty gangster/crime storylines - Todd, Johnny, Scott, Gary, Ray.....so boring and clichéd.

I want a cosy romance, wedding and baby. Just once.

@Deadringer

Undertaker man seems to have a plan, could he organise a fake funeral for Todd, or is that too ridiculous even for Corrie?

Or, or, Or undertaker man is really the big boss of the gang and he is gaining her trust to find out where new head Todd is It's a honey trap Remember you read it here first folks

We would call it an "Alley" in my part of the home counties. Ginnel sounds far more exciting!

Down the back alleeey, where nobody goes ... 🎵🎶

I too am fed up with dull stories involving petty criminals. Surely scriptwriters could come up with interesting ideas about interactions between normal law-abiding people, who don't skulk around in back -alleys, ginnels, entries etc in dubious disguises.

All this drama because Todd owes some twat £1k? £1k? Seriously?

There must be more to it than 1000 quid. Todd must have done something bad to the baddie, like Gary disappeared his baddie. They all seem to have a baddie, like other people have dogs and cats.

I'm laughing, yes they do all have a pet baddie! I'm fed up with all the petty Crims, it's boring!

I watched two episodes of an Irish serial about wind turbines, then read that it was a comedy drama. I hadn't realised. I wonder if Corrie is a comedy crime series now?

a kitty in the East Midlands

FFS autocorrect 🤬 It’s a Jitty!

Hahaha, I was thinking about the 'kitty'... wow, I'm just going up the kitty to put the bins out would sound strange lol

in Sheffield it's a 'snicket' apparently

Gangster action is one of my top 3 soap turn-offs. The other 2 are addictions/relapses into addiction, and gambling. The gangster/baddie always managing to overhear things and be a step ahead of his (it's usually his) victims is bubbling under at no. 4.
We didn't have ginnels where I grew up, but 'alleys' were marbles.

I don’t like new head Todd

Agreed, Brecon. I can't stand anything to do with drug heists, drug dealing, drug smuggling.

Gangster action is what turned me off 'Stenders in the 80s!!

I think baddies, drug dealing blah blah is what soaps turn to when they can't think of anything else.

Also in East Mids a Jitty May also be called a Twitchell.
Although I do prefer 'kitty'

Ah yes; I used to know the landlady of a pub called The Twitchell (that was up an alleyway).

We get enough of real life drug dealing round here without me needing to watch it on Corrie. I can look out of my bedroom window onto the main street and see it - no need even for a backitty ginntwitch.

It's all bicycles and a handshake these days.

I usually love Corrie but I'm really bored of all the story lines at the moment. Not a good one among them.

@JamieLeeCurtains
I know what you mean, I don't have to watch Corrie either.In my street they are dealing openly from cars.One pulls up, someone flies out of a house and is handed something from car window.Then driver and recipient disappear like grease lightning.
Gary would not last five minutes here.He would away like a frightened little weasel.

[quote nildesparandum]@JamieLeeCurtains
I know what you mean, I don't have to watch Corrie either.In my street they are dealing openly from cars.One pulls up, someone flies out of a house and is handed something from car window.Then driver and recipient disappear like grease lightning.
Gary would not last five minutes here.He would away like a frightened little weasel.[/quote]
Yes, and I live in a perfectly respectable neighbourhood.

Craig would be very befuddled with his little radio chattering while he gawped at actual traffic and actual bicycles and actual obvious crims.

I am amazed that good old Craig is in charge of everything police related in Weatherfield and District!

Craig is Super Cop!!!