tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post1330185441826916805..comments2024-03-27T12:54:12.585+00:00Comments on Coronation Street Blog: Is Coronation Street taking things too far?Glenda Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03366238040782331941noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-58219408485725675592014-03-27T12:44:09.761+00:002014-03-27T12:44:09.761+00:00But what's worse... seeing two beached whales ...But what's worse... seeing two beached whales or a middle-aged Peter's awful tattoos and fake-tanned Tina who could be playing his daughter! Both are enough to induce a certain symptom of food poisoning or stomach flu... but I suppose we've all been sufficiently warned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-8483326274250181122014-03-27T08:21:16.822+00:002014-03-27T08:21:16.822+00:00I hope we don't have to see them at it... it&#...I hope we don't have to see them at it... it'd look like two beached whales!John McEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-5006142176206849982014-03-26T23:54:50.265+00:002014-03-26T23:54:50.265+00:00Corrie's moral compass went out the window whe...Corrie's moral compass went out the window when they let Tracy Barlow walk free after committing pre-meditated murder. Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-83262415503998226492014-03-26T22:48:18.855+00:002014-03-26T22:48:18.855+00:00Where are the day to day stories ? I agree write...Where are the day to day stories ? I agree writers are going too far and seem stuck on the same kind of story line - affairs and sex. I'm sick of how each storyline drags on. I, too, will be turning the channel. It gets boring. Bring Norris, Emily and Rita back into the day to day goings on. Corrie of yesteryear was much more entertaining and so much more pleasant to watch than other Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-14914209308791720422014-03-26T20:53:57.583+00:002014-03-26T20:53:57.583+00:00I probably won't be watching, this storyline i...I probably won't be watching, this storyline is ridiculous, as with Peter and Tina which makes no sense. They have yet to show why Tina would be so in love with Peter and some of the scenes are embarrassing to watch.<br /><br />Todd/ Marcus at least makes sense but the way it's written makes it hard to watch.<br /><br />I had hoped the Owen/Phelan thing would have gone differently since Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-87200998486139433712014-03-26T20:37:13.846+00:002014-03-26T20:37:13.846+00:00Sally did the same thing with her boss so Rosie co...Sally did the same thing with her boss so Rosie could go to Oak Hill, so no, Corrie's moral standards haven't slipped - it's always been sleazy. Would anyone watch it if everything was Roy and Haley all the time? No. What bothers me about the Phelan/Anna is that people are so outraged. Remember when Anna first came to the street? She was no shrinking violet - conned Joe MacIntyre out Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-2820439213896931742014-03-26T19:14:04.501+00:002014-03-26T19:14:04.501+00:00As usual you are absolutely right Graeme. These st...As usual you are absolutely right Graeme. These stories have been running since day 1 (Remember Elsie Tanner and rumours of her GIs), but never so relentlessly and without any disapproval. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-21204223529338729022014-03-26T18:17:38.025+00:002014-03-26T18:17:38.025+00:00I'd rather hoped that Fiz and Tyrone would gro...I'd rather hoped that Fiz and Tyrone would grow into a strong, decent partnership, prepared to speak up against the wrong-doings on the Street. Not going that way by the looks of it. <br /><br />The moral compass doesn't really apply to this latest Anna saga IMO. You need to be rooting for favourite characters and hoping they beat the bullies. We should hate Phelan but one, we don't Humpty Dumptynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-12715321101340051372014-03-26T17:59:43.423+00:002014-03-26T17:59:43.423+00:00I find it impossible to believe that anyone in thi...I find it impossible to believe that anyone in this day would consider a soap of any caliber or origin as "family viewing". The time slot might cause confusion but I believe it's meant to cater to older viewers who'd rather turn the telly off after 8.<br /><br />In the same vein, soaps have always been charged with taking things too far. If folk on TV took to calling the So it is.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-64417998956152577832014-03-26T16:40:32.497+00:002014-03-26T16:40:32.497+00:00Time to switch off again for a while I'm afrai...Time to switch off again for a while I'm afraid, until we get an imaginative producer who will develop characters and allow them to achieve something in life, instead of wall to wall affairs, which ultimately result in babies ( bet Anna ends up pregnant, money on it).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-53118980842780222102014-03-26T15:57:51.278+00:002014-03-26T15:57:51.278+00:00Let's see...I'm fast-forwarding through th...Let's see...I'm fast-forwarding through the Peter-Tina-Carla debacle, Owen/Gary vs Phelan BS, Todd/Marcus baloney and will certainly do the same with Anna prostituting herself for the good of the family.<br /><br />I think it would be great if Anna/Owen faked the 'dirty' with Pat, have the encounter on video and throw it back in his face. THAT I could understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-76507916481162355032014-03-26T15:48:55.795+00:002014-03-26T15:48:55.795+00:00The idea that Corrie has 'lost its moral compa...The idea that Corrie has 'lost its moral compass' makes it sound like the show used to be clean, virtuous family viewing, which I'm sure was not the case relative to social mores in the 60s and 70s. [Think Suzie Birchall seducing that hapless Steve away from his date and into bed at Elsie's or Ray Langton's affair or Arnold, the petshop owner, who was also a bigamist, to nameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-32012751475152635982014-03-26T15:32:19.702+00:002014-03-26T15:32:19.702+00:00Didn't Judy Mallett also prostitute herself fo...Didn't Judy Mallett also prostitute herself for the sake of paying off debts, or do I remember this wrongly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-16904478645919370982014-03-26T15:19:11.632+00:002014-03-26T15:19:11.632+00:00While sex is part of every day life and people hav...While sex is part of every day life and people have affairs, our favourite soap seems to be sex driven rather than character driven these days and I often wonder if it goes out too early at 7.30 pm. We have Todd and Marcus being caught naked and Todd hiding his appendage behind a cushion, within the week David and Kylie are caught in the same way with David hiding his appendage, then going on Frosty the Snowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830446634490957159.post-68351079151946850912014-03-26T14:09:12.162+00:002014-03-26T14:09:12.162+00:00Once everyone has had it off with everyone else, i...Once everyone has had it off with everyone else, it will be impossible to create quality sexual tension between any two characters. It's all getting a bit naff.<br /><br />Another thing: I was very happy to hear they were introducing more black and Asian characters, but all at once??? It ended up looking like a PC exercise to wind up the Daily Mail. And why no Chinese or Jewish characters? ItAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com