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But Carla in hospital was one of three hospital scenes this week – the others were Aidan Connor and Nicola Thorp. Hospital scenes are supposed to be dramatic, have impact, we’re supposed to care about what’s happening to the character. But when hospital scenes are chucked at us left, right and centre, we stop caring – about the scene, the character… and even, perhaps, ultimately, the show itself? Please, Kate Oates, give the hospital scenes a rest. We get it that you like them. Please get it that we don’t want them in every episode, not even every week.
Elsewhere this week, Rana’s parents find out about her affair with Kate. They offer Zeedan a large amount of money to stay with Rana as a married couple, money that Zeedan can invest into his business. It’s a deal that Zeedan takes but Rana spends the week in tears, she can’t half cry that girl. When Yasmeen finds out what’s happened she tells Rana to pull herself together. “If you’re gay, you’re gay!” Yasmeen is great, she really is. Sadly for Rana she cries in reply: “But I don’t know what I am!”
Over in the Bistro, Chesney overhears Gemma’s fella Henry talking to his posh mate Hugo about Gemma. It becomes clear that Henry’s dating Gemma for a bet and Chesney’s not having it. He tells Gemma what he’s heard and she storms out of the Bistro after tipping food on Henry’s head. But Henry really has developed feelings for Gemma and isn’t going to let her go so easily even though she knows the truth about why he started dating her. And so Henry calls in at the kebab shop to see Gemma but Chesney forbids him and chucks Henry out. Later, Gemma’s quite taken when she hears from Cathy how Chesney defended her honour.
Tim packs to leave Weatherfield, telling Sally that he needs to get Faye away from the evil Phelan. But he spends so much time telling Sally that he’s leaving, that he doesn’t actually leave. He tells her in the pub that he’s leaving. He tells her in the kitchen at home that he’s leaving. But as far as we know, he’s still there. Meanwhile, Sally cries on Kev’s shoulder as she wonders if it’s the end of the road for her and Tim.
Speaking of Phelan, he knows there’s something odd going on inside Nicola’s flat when she won’t let him inside and he sees the curtains twitch. It’s Seb, of course, doing a terrible job of lying low and keeping away from the windows. So, when Faye finds out that Seb’s at Nicola’s flat, she goes there in a Streetcars cab. Unfortunately, Phelan overhears Steve take the call and follows Faye to Nicola’s flat. He barges inside with Faye, determined to find out what’s going on. In a bid to get her dad out of the flat, Nicola feigns pregnancy problems and Phelan rushes his daughter to the hospital for an ultrasound. Nicola then tells Phelan she’ll move in with him and Eileen until the baby’s born, thinking that it’ll be safer for Seb if Phelan has no cause to visit her flat again. But Phelan knows there’s something up and gets that look on his face again.
Elsewhere this week, Gina forgets to take her medication and goes off the rails, stealing fish fingers for which she gets locked up overnight. Dev tells her he’ll care for her (I’m not really buying their relationship) but she must remember to take her tablets as he can’t have her going off the rails while he’s got Aadi and Asha to look after too.
Speaking of pills, Billy’s in a great deal of pain after Adam swaps his heavy-duty painkillers for ordinary paracetamol. Adam wants Billy to suffer, of course, for what he did to his mam Susan in the past. Billy’s behaviour is affecting Summer now, and she’s become his carer. Where’s that nosy social worker when she’s needed, the one who was always popping in and out? Where’s the vicar’s convalescent home he can go to?
And finally, this week it’s Eva’s 30th birthday and it’s also Amy’s 14th birthday on the same day. Eva pretends to get drunk at her party in the Rovers so that Leanne doesn’t twig that Eva isn’t drinking because she’s really pregnant and is going to give her baby to Toyah. A truly daft storyline in every single sense.
And that’s just about that for this week.
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8 comments:
From the look on Phelan's face in the last scene, he wants his grandson now more than he wants his daughter. She's got a mind of her own and he can't risk her disappearing with the child after a row. He's already planning a very sad accident for Nicola when the boy's about two. As a side comment, I'm fed up with relatives asking the doctor about the sex of the baby. First Toyah, then Phelan. Plot device, obviously, but it jarred. Peter was great in the hospital scene with Carla and Daniel. Just proves what we've been saying. Absolutely no connection between him and Toyah. I like Gina but loathe Billy at the moment. A last thought, and people might shoot me down for this. The Rana storyline: why do the lesbians have to be young and gorgeous? Can the writers/advertisers not stomach a sensitive storyline about an older woman reassessing her sexuality?
Jeanie (anon):
Ha ha, Humpty! I thought the exact same thing when I saw Phelan's face at the end...Look out, Nicola! After the baby's born, you become expendable. And doting grandparents Eileen and Pat can raise the child free of the Windasses as well.
Except it won't be free from the Windass's. Gary is the dad
I hope Tim's concern about his daughter's safety hence his wanting to get away from Phelan doesn't become a ploy for Sally and Kevin to have an affair now that Anna is in jail[so much for putting Jack first].
Instead of crying on her ex's shoulder, Sally needs to sit down with Tim and listen to his concerns before it's too late for him or Faye.
I agree about the hospital scenes. I'd be curious to know how much it cost to create the new medical set. For the same amount of money, would it have been possible to shoot more scenes in locations around Manchester? Not even as long ago as 2000, the characters occasionally left the Street for a meal or event in town. Just taking one example, in 2001, the night before Karen and Steve got married (for a bet), Steve had his stag party in a bar we'd never seen! Karen had her hen party in a "new" salsa club where Geena (the barmaid) danced with a total stranger! It was almost as if there was a world outside of Weatherfield. That didn't diminish life on the Street, but made it feel more real.
Nice write-up Flaming Nora!
They really got some use out of the h'opital set, eh? The Peter/Carla/Daniel trio was hilarious, very droll.
Too much of the hospital set though. Is Aiden going to bail at the last minute, putting Carla in danger?
Yay, Yasmeen! I do agree we could benefit from older, more every-day looking lesbians on Corrie. And older, more ordinary looking females in general, even new characters.
Yay, Gemma! Yay, Chesney!
Wow, that scene of the ultrasound was creepy. I wouldn't want my recently-found estranged father gazing down at my tummy like that. Or even if he was not estranged. Very weird.
Billy, Gina and even the wonderful Eva are also becoming a bit of a bore. Let's hope Amy isn't going to go off the rails as another teen stereotype. She's too interesting a character for that. Give her some better little side stories and lines!
I wonder if Aidan's concerns are more like premonitions, and he dies during surgery? I believe Shane Ward is leaving, so that would be a heroic departure.
I was amused to see that Carla, at death's door and hooked up to machines, still had time to apply full make-up.
Gotta keep your standards up
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