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I’m really sorry that there was no update last week and with no prior warning either. Life had a way of catching up and overtaking any writing I was planning to do last weekend, although it did involve a visit to the old Coronation Street set where I said my final farewell (you can read all about that here). But I’m back at my computer now, wearing my weekly update hat and so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s words from Weatherfield and the Coronation Street Weekly Update.
Sally’s not well this week, she’s full of cold and Tim does his best to look after her. But when Sally sends him to Dev’s shop with a shopping list, it’s apparent that Tim can’t read it. And it’s not because of Sally’s bad handwriting. It’s because Tim can’t read. How then he ever got in contact with daughter Faye over th’internet is a mystery to this fan and one that I hope Corrie explains. Tim gets leaflets printed to promote his window cleaning round but panics after it’s pointed out that his ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ on his leaflets comes from cleaning Dirty Widows, not Windows. Norris has palpitations behind the Kabin counter when he finds one of the leaflets stuffed through his letter box. Tim manages to rescue as many of the leaflets as he can, but not before his phone starts to ring off the hook, Sally takes one of the calls and gives short shrift to a pervy punter.
Kylie takes more of Max’s pills this week and then goes off in search of harder drugs in her old haunt. Amongst the breeze blocks in dog dirt city, Kylie meets up with her old mates Gemma and Macca and Callum, Max’s dad. Only Eva knows what Kylie is up to spending time with her old mates in her old life. “You stole an actual bus?” Eva asks Kylie when she finds out the kind of crimes Kylie committed as a kid. “It was only a single decker,” says Kylie and then she lies through her teeth to David about her whereabouts when she finally comes home. Note that as the actresses who play Eva and Kylie are both pregnant in real life, there’s now lots of strategic placement of coats, handbags, cushions and much wearing of long floaty tops.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly/subscribe.htm
This week’s writers were Chris Fewtrell (Monday), Mark Wadlow (Monday), Jonathan Harvey (Wednesday), John Kerr (Friday) and Perrie Balthazar (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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OK, I accept (almost) that Tim can get the gist of emails, but how did he manage to set it up on his computer? It takes forever with passwords and POP3 outgoing servers etc.
ReplyDeleteSure, we can tell each other that he probably went to the library or some kind friend set it up for him. I don't want to be spoon fed the storylines, but we shouldn't have to fill in the gaping holes ourselves. I hope this is all explained in later scenes.
Didn't Tim originally turn up in Weatherfield after he and Faye reconnected on Facebook or some other social media site? I wouldn't mind this storyline if it didn't seem to come out of nowhere all of a sudden, with all the hints being dropped in the space of just a couple of episodes.
ReplyDeleteSince it seems that every 'issue' storyline leads to an affair,unfortunately,I suspect that Sally will dump Tim and recocnciles with Kevin[yawn!]yet again as I don't think it's a coicendnce that Tim is 'illerate'shortly after Kevin returns.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the producers have to work the stories around the actors personal circumstances, but I wish it wasn't done so clunkily. Now that the actor playing Kevin is able to come back to work, the ptb have to find him a story. Fair enough say I, but surely this can be achieved without making anonsense of all that has gone before?
ReplyDeleteWasn't the pub Kylie went to the old Jockey set from Shameless? If not, they made it look exactly the same!
ReplyDeleteYes, the Tim and illiteracy story line is so contrived it's insulting. We are to believe that he found his way around a computer and emails to find Faye, but can not soldier through a grocery list from the corner store. The reality is that the writers and PTB are simply ignoring the fact that we know Tim's brief history of how he came to the street.
ReplyDeleteYou would think they would have a continuity person on staff to say...no we can't go that route as we already introduced this aspect etc...
How difficult would that be? It's like they put story lines in hat and come up with whatever.
I've been trying to recall whether there have been any scenes in which Tim has been shown reading since he moved to the street - a newspaper, a menu, etc. Does anyone remember any?
ReplyDeleteTime buys a newspaper as a cover for his problem. He says he looks at the pictures and can just about figure out the football scores, so he can't be 100% illiterate.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he ever buys Playboy? Certainly not (as many men claim) for the articles. ;-)