By the end, the street were all sleeping quietly together in the Rovers, with Steve stood at the doorway, thinking over what had happened over the last three hours. Roy and Hayley soldiered on through the night, providing warmth and a smile to all who needed it. Josh and Freddie lay fast asleep, unaware that they had lost their daddy.
Two themes were very present in the final minute, hope and devastation.
So true. The last day really rounded up the stories beautifully. I was exhausted on Thursday and didn't think I could take any more emotion, but tonight was somehow calming. Some closure, sad as it was. Rita was great with her pearl bracelet! Betty, thankful for Betty.
ReplyDeleteI agree, after all the shouting and drama through the week, everyone settled down, and we had a very quiet double, still packed with drama though.
ReplyDeleteMonday's episode has a brilliant scene with Betty :)
Maggie, I felt like you last night. I didn't know how much more I could take. I thought that tonight's shows were brilliant, particularly the Sally/Kevin scenes. The writing was amazing and I was really moved by the way Betty was comforting poor Claire. So nice to see Rita rescued, the bit where she offered the toffees to the rescuer was cute and very "Rita" thing to do.
ReplyDeleteChewy, that's exactly what I've been thinking. At the time when Phil Collinson was saying things like "Corrie but not as you know it," and so on I was thinking "he's full of himself, isn't he?" but he really has pulled off a remarkable piece of TV.
ReplyDeleteWhat got me was the best line of the night Rita's comment, " what is it with me and trams!" Pure brilliance!
ReplyDeleteIts been good but who are the "best loved" to die? I still think the pudding has been over egged but I hope to be proved wrong. I thought Mary's facitious comments were totally out of place, her obsession with Norris is just not funny any longer and she should be written out. Marvellous how there was still leccy in Kevin & Sal's house. I would have preferred it if Molly had kept her trap shut and it was left as an open secret. I thought Bill's comment that Kev was off the hook after Molly's death crass. Whats the point of him lately?
ReplyDeleteI rather suspect (and hope) that Rita will move in with Emily and Norris for the time being, and Mary will turn her steely gaze on Rita as a "love rival".
ReplyDeleteIt didn't look to me that there was electricity in Sally's house at all, just ambient light from the lights the rescue workers had outside. I do agree with Frosty that Mary's presence was very jarring and her attitude inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Ashley was probably in the "best loved" category though Molly was probably only best loved by Tyrone, baby Jack (and the late Duckies) and Auntie Pam, with Kevin a distant third.
There wasnt any electric in Kev and Sal's lol
ReplyDeleteI definatelybelieve that PC is the best thing to happen to Corrie in a long time
I suppose when there's devastation all around... when the very ground beneath you shakes and buckles and the walls tumble down, you don't have much to place your faith in except the hope of one day putting all this behind you. I didn't find Mary disruptive. Many things happen and why shouldn't an outsider like her stick around? To portray only the heroics and the tragedy would have been too tiresome for the viewers -- there had to be some injection of the absurd just to keep it real...
ReplyDeleteNo reason why an outsider like Mary shouldn't stay around but her glib attitude didn't sit right. I suppose she was there for comic relief but it felt inappropriate, her style of it. I would have hoped that Mary would be a rock in a crisis instead of wibbling to Norris and looking jealous when they found Rita.
ReplyDeleteThat shot of Josh and Freddie asleep in bed, Josh with his hand on his little brother's shoulder, was absolutely heartbreaking.
ReplyDeleteI watched this in ireland on tv3 and the song at the end was different it wasnt U2 it was a female singer and the song words where something like "you always be forever young". Did anyone watching in Ireland notice this??
ReplyDeleteYes I noticed that too wonder why they changed song??
ReplyDeleteGadgee, that was the bit that choked me as well. What a brilliant week on Corrie.
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