I loved Corrie years ago but now I can take it or leave it. In the good old days of Corrie the characters were interesting and the storylines were much better.
Now everything and everybody has to tick the right PC box so we have to have lesbians, gay men … I believe we now have Sean, Billie, Paul, Todd so that’s 4 in one tiny street. We have to have a black family, Asian families which wouldn’t be so bad if any of them could actually act!
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I loved Corrie years ago but now I can take it or leave it. In the good old days of Corrie the characters were interesting and the storylines were much better.
Now everything and everybody has to tick the right PC box so we have to have lesbians, gay men … I believe we now have Sean, Billie, Paul, Todd so that’s 4 in one tiny street. We have to have a black family, Asian families which wouldn’t be so bad if any of them could actually act![/QUOTE]
I agree with that, Flowerpower.
The one who drives me bonkers most is the gormless son who fathered the baby. Even his voice irritates me.
Yes, it’s all about PC these days and, as a consequence, much has been lost.
Me too Mups!
I like the Asian family though - especially Yasmeen.
The Yasmeen/Geoff storyline had me glued to the TV.
I don’t like Ed’s voice, or his acting.
I agree. That was the last exciting thing that happened on that programme.
I get the feeling that they’re desperately thinking up something else equally exciting, but that will have to fulfil their PC agenda!
If he’s the one I’m thinking of, like Dev Alahan, he’s of the ‘shout your lines in order to make them more interesting’ school of acting!
Lol, yes, the black dad.
I’m just watching one of the early Coronation Street programmes now showing.
How different to today’s offerings!
No PC gay or black characters (well, one with ‘a slight tan’).
Don’t misunderstand me. I have nothing against a representation of proportional reality, but today’s programmes are now so biased against the real situation they are quite humorous.
EDIT:
I’m trying to work out exactly which year these programmes are from. They just say ‘April and a date’.
Does anyone know?
I’m liking the Asha/Cory storyline & The Seb/Nina.
The beating up of Seb & Nina got me quite upset.
I wonder should such violence be on so early evening? What happened to the 9.00pm watershed?
As I said before, I no longer watch the current crop of Coronation Street for obvious reasons.
I have been watching regularly the older ones from 1998 on ‘catch-up’.
Not only has it not yet crossed their minds to go all ‘woke’ and ‘inclusive’, but the characters in the old series are far more interesting and professional: Alec Gilroy, Jack and Vera Duckworth, Fred Elliott, Les Battersby and Emily Bishop, for example.
The storylines are also consistently interesting and there is an excellent mix of exciting events interspersed with humour in almost every episode. Something which is rarely seen in the current series which just goes plodding on featuring the required range of every possible race and sexual proclivity imaginable!
You should watch it! It really is much better.
I agree carol, it really upset Mrs Fox but the street has suddenly come alive. I think you have made a mistake to leave it just yet JB. I wonder if we are going to lose some characters after this. I was rather hoping that Harvey’s goons caught up with Leanne, Nick and the annoying Simon.
I’m looking forward to Friday’s edition when Holby City meets the Lost Boys…
Mrs Fox will be watching it from behind the sofa…:surprised:
Thanks OGF.
I think I did ask people to let me know if anything interesting should happen in the programme, so I’ve told Marge and she suggests we could watch Wednesday’s and tomorrow’s to see if it’s worth returning for a while.
When it gets boring again, of course we can leave it again.
I would be grateful if anything else exciting should develop again in the future you or others might mention it on here!
Was once full of faith, now faithless, Corrie has left me entertainmently destitute.
And the canned Heartbeat in favor of letting this continue??
Further to my last reply about the latest Coronation Street story, yes, a very exciting few scenes, so much so that I became quite angry.
Followed by the usual dragging out of the story, in fact it became really quite dreary after a while.
What a shame. An excellent storyline which should have been jumped on and extended, building up the excitement instead of beginning to send the viewer to sleep!
Nevertheless, we have decided to watch tomorrow’s just to see - hopefully - how things turn out. I’d love to see the perpetrators arrested and sent down, possibly for murder?
On the other hand, I shouldn’t be surprised if it is dragged out for another couple of days or so.
I read the storyline will drag on for a year.
Heaven help us…
Well, the Yasmeen one did!
On the other hand, the Dierdre one on the 1998 replays lasted less than a month, and other interesting stories wove around it all the time.
From what V told me last evening, the Seb/Nina storyline will continue for at least the rest of this year and, probably, into next as well. Where she got that from I know not.
Well I read that, too.
