As time went on she became a little more accepted. Then people started to dislike her for another reason, she started constantly inviting people "into the back room", to talk them through their problems.
The problem with these scenes is they feel terribly forced, I can see that Corrie are trying to make us like her, but they're trying too hard, Stella doesn't need to be some sort of guardian angel for the street, that is not what makes a good Coronation Street landlady. Look at Annie Walker, she had faults, she had delusions of grandeur. Look at Liz McDonald, she had dozens of faults, but these are what made her likeable.
If Corrie want to make us like Stella, they need to tone down on the guardian angel angle, in last night's episode, she was shoehorned into Eileen's storyline for no apparent reason. A better character to use for those scenes would have been Steve McDonald, Eileen's old friend, not the landlady of the local pub.
It seems there is light ahead though, with the impending arrival of Gloria Price, will we finally start seeing cracks in Stella's heavenly armour? Personally, ever since it was announced Sue Johnston would be joining Corrie, I've thought that she would have been the perfect choice for a landlady at the Rovers.
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