Friday 14 December 2012
Potential Corrie plot line avoided
With the main focus of Street activity being centred on Leanne stomping around the cobbles, Carla wallowing in a vat of her own misery and Peter Barlow's new stoned/tanned/serial killer persona, a few well-chosen words from Rita last week ended any possibility of a certain storyline surfacing. Like some Sword of Damocles hanging over t'Street, I lived in fear of a long-forgotten Miss Littlewood offspring turning up.
The re-emergence of Dennis Tanner and the knowledge of his fling with Rita back in 1923 brought about the possibility that the erstwhile cabaret floozy had been left in the family way. How easy it would have been for our favourite redhead to sit Dennis down and tell him that, all those years ago, she had popped out a baby Tanner. Of course, it would have been 'ret-con' of the highest order but given that Betty Williams was the Rovers' longest serving landlady, the elasticity of Peter Barlow's accent and Carla's brother acquiring a new name several years down the line, anything is possible.
It was with a sigh of relief that I witnessed Reet admitting that she had never been blessed with children. Stately as a galleon, she drifted back to the Kabin leaving us safe in the knowledge that there is no chance of a surprise visit from a wise-cracking, middle-aged Tannerette. Although this being Weatherfield - never say never!
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6 comments:
Very good! If they do change their minds on this though, I'm available to play the Tannerette's son...I'm flame-haired and very cheap ;)
I find it worrying that I remember some of the older characters first time round and in black and white (I prefer the cobbles in black and white and wonder if they could do a version of Corrie in sepia?)
If dead people can be brought back to life several episodes down the line by one character merely walking into a shower, finding the dead person alive and well, with a:
"I had a bad dream that you'd died. Everything that has happened since then, must also have been a dream, it seemed so real at the time."
- then anything is possible.
1923? Surely not! That would make them both in their 90's at least :O
it was inferred at the time there was no hanky panky in Elsie Tanner's bed the night that Rita stayed over-2/12/64;the scandal at the time was that an unmarried woman had spent the night in Elsie's home and in her bed. Charlie Moffatt found Rita alone in the bed when he fell through the ceiling.Rita was an older woman(32)at the time and i believe Dennis(22)respected Rita & did not fancy Rita in a sexual way;they were just mates from the nightclub circuit.
an old Corrie fan from Canada
I'd like to see the Cobbles in black and white or sepia, as well.
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