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Title: Corrie
Post by: oldspice on May 22, 2007, 08:12:40 am

What did you Corrie fans think of the Peacock fire story?

Title: Corrie
Post by: loulou on May 22, 2007, 10:01:42 am

Well it was a bit sad but believable to think a fire had started and baby Freddie had been killed then it went a bit barking when all of a sudden the police say there's a baby been found nearby and the story changes to someone stealing Freddie, setting the house on fire then abandoning baby in the park. Stupid storyline really.

Title: Corrie
Post by: goldencup on May 22, 2007, 10:37:10 am

Never mind that - at least Peter was ok in EastEnders!

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Post by: loulou on May 22, 2007, 10:51:28 am

And that was stupid too. One minute he is lying in the back of a crashed car barely breathing and the next he is walking about ready to go on holiday.

Title: Corrie
Post by: on May 22, 2007, 11:02:18 am

I would bring back Nikki Sanderson and let she and Tina O'Brien have a lesbian schoolgirl fling.  Would be compulsive viewing.  

Title: Corrie
Post by: goldencup on May 22, 2007, 11:03:22 am

Quote from: loulou

And that was stupid too. One minute he is lying in the back of a crashed car barely breathing and the next he is walking about ready to go on holiday.

 

Don't forget he got drowned between the two!

Title: Corrie
Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2007, 02:58:08 pm

Quote from: loulou

Well it was a bit sad but believable to think a fire had started and baby Freddie had been killed then it went a bit barking when all of a sudden the police say there's a baby been found nearby and the story changes to someone stealing Freddie, setting the house on fire then abandoning baby in the park. Stupid storyline really.

The storyline had to be completely rewritten at the last minute - that's why the ending was a bit strange. Basically Freddie was supposed to have been missing for weeks, and there was going to be a TV appeal with Claire clutching his teddy - the full nationwide story. Then the McCann case came up and the storyline was virtually identical, right down to the publicity shots of the parents with a teddy. The whole thing had to be scrapped, even though weeks of it had already been filmed.

Although the forced change to the ending made things difficult, I thought the acting was great - especially Julia Haworth (Claire).

Title: Corrie
Post by: wjp666 on May 22, 2007, 03:11:34 pm

i haven't watched Corrie since Alan Bradley was run over by that tram.

 

have i missed much?

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Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2007, 03:18:25 pm

This is becoming a pattern WJP 

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 22, 2007, 03:20:42 pm

So did Deirdre get out of prison?

Title: Corrie
Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2007, 03:23:47 pm

Yes, and then her daughter went in instead 

Title: Corrie
Post by: oldspice on May 22, 2007, 06:32:04 pm

I couldn't stand the thought of a baby burning to death in that way and then my son told me about the kidnapping storyline and how it had to be changed.   I thought it was very well done considering it had to be changed at the last moment.

 

I could not work out how the car in EastEnders landed up in the water because I went to the loo at a crucial point. One minute the car was on a remote road with just trees around it, then i came back in the room to find it sinking in a bloody great lake. 'Where did that come from?' I asked myself. It made no sense at all but then I realised I was watching EastEnders.

Title: Corrie
Post by: wjp666 on May 23, 2007, 12:36:03 am

Quote from: smurfboy

This is becoming a pattern WJP 

 

that's just it - i used to watch EVERYTHING on tv at one point, and now i'm left with these final moments in my mind.

Title: Corrie
Post by: lorri on May 23, 2007, 09:47:30 pm

Eastenders have had to change the Dawn/May/Rob storyline as well as May was going to kidnap the baby, for one,let alone both soaps to have a kidnap plot just now would of been awful, im so glad they have both pulled the story out of respect for the family.

Title: Corrie
Post by: Pussycat on May 25, 2007, 09:16:02 pm

I see some of you are soap fans so can anyone tell me why all the soaps have very big households but very small sofas? Has anyone else noticed?

Title: Corrie
Post by: oldspice on May 25, 2007, 09:36:15 pm

Title: Corrie
Post by: smurfboy on May 26, 2007, 12:23:04 pm

Soaps also appear to have expanding houses. How does Eileen fit Jason, Sean and Violet into her little terrace?

Title: Corrie
Post by: Pussycat on May 26, 2007, 02:25:03 pm

What about Ken, Deidre, Blanche, Tracy, Amy, Adam and Peter all living in that tiny house as they did until recently.  Who slept in the bath?

Title: Corrie
Post by: smurfboy on May 27, 2007, 09:15:30 am

In early episodes of Neighbours, Des decided to rent out the 'spare room'. Now apparently the same house has four bedrooms!

Title: Corrie
Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2007, 10:14:24 am

We always comment on how many extra shops Corrie has acquired over the last ten years. Where were they for the previous thirty years?

 

Also, how did the factory expand without building an extension?

 

AND - have you noticed how Corrie people go to bed, and wake to find their living room has been decorated over night? This has happened several times to Sally and Kevin and at the pub and more recently at the Battersby household. Doesn't include poor Ken and Deidre of course, whose house hasn't been done since just after Uncle Albert died.

oldspice2007-05-27 09:16:01

Title: Corrie
Post by: on May 27, 2007, 10:20:05 am

I'm not saying it's the case on the forum, but I know people who live their lives vicariously through the soaps and that's sad.

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Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2007, 10:22:37 am

Well I am not one of them. I watch Corrie in an ironic way and occasionally see EastEnders and watch it as a critic would watch a film.  I don't see any other soaps. 

Title: Corrie
Post by: on May 27, 2007, 10:26:30 am

I would still have the lesbian schoolgirl plot.  It would fly up the ratings.

Title: Corrie
Post by: on May 27, 2007, 10:32:11 am

In fact, I think there's room for an adult soap, starting after 11pm about a posh all girl finishing school, where they wear st. Trinian style uniforms and each episode ends where they pleasure each other in the showers.

Title: Corrie
Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2007, 12:33:59 pm

"and each episode ends where they pleasure each other in the showers".

 

That's a very literal interpretation of your signature  "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

Title: Corrie
Post by: loulou on May 27, 2007, 01:04:57 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter

I'm not saying it's the case on the forum, but I know people who live their lives vicariously through the soaps and that's sad.

 

What about those people who believe it's real life when  a character is pregnant and send baby clothes in.

Title: Corrie
Post by: goldencup on May 27, 2007, 02:51:20 pm

  What?  Do you mean I've been wasting my time knitting all those booties?

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Post by: loulou on May 27, 2007, 02:54:09 pm

I wasn't so worried about all that knitting you were doing GC, it was the cake you baked and sent in for Gail Pratts birthday that worried me.

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Post by: goldencup on May 27, 2007, 03:00:40 pm

  Don't worry - nobody would have been able to eat one of my cakes!

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Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2007, 03:25:15 pm

One of my local pubs is seriously sending a petition to Granada (or whoever makes the programme now)  to protest at Tracy's improsinment, believing she has been unfairly jailed because she was a victim of domestic violence!  They were all over our local newspaper and people actually wrote letters to the editor in support!!!

Title: Corrie
Post by: loulou on May 27, 2007, 07:34:38 pm

Don't they watch the programme? Tracey was no victim.

Title: Corrie
Post by: on May 28, 2007, 08:26:33 am

Quote from: oldspice

"and each episode ends where they pleasure each other in the showers".

 

That's a very literal interpretation of your signature  "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

 

Title: Corrie
Post by: smurfboy on May 28, 2007, 11:54:52 am

Quote from: oldspice

We always comment on how many extra shops Corrie has acquired over the last ten years. Where were they for the previous thirty years?

 

Also, how did the factory expand without building an extension?

 

AND - have you noticed how Corrie people go to bed, and wake to find their living room has been decorated over night? This has happened several times to Sally and Kevin and at the pub and more recently at the Battersby household. Doesn't include poor Ken and Deidre of course, whose house hasn't been done since just after Uncle Albert died.

 

They actually moved the stairs in the Peacock house for the fire storyline - they used to be on the other side of the room! They moved them so that Claire could easily be rescued, but why did no one notice?

Title: Corrie
Post by: Pussycat on May 28, 2007, 05:54:26 pm

That's probably why she fell down the stairs. She was obviously shouting 'Who moved the bloody stairs!' as she fell.

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Post by: Pussycat on May 28, 2007, 05:55:51 pm

An educated man like him probably reads the TV Times.

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Post by: smurfboy on May 28, 2007, 11:13:41 pm

Like who?

Title: Corrie
Post by: loulou on May 29, 2007, 10:24:41 am

My guess is Ken Barlow.