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Coronation Street (fresh thread)

Started by Sam, June 18, 2012, 12:34:27 AM

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Quote from: Sam on September 04, 2012, 07:34:28 PM
Bah, you Corrie flouncers have the wrong approach. I can sit through all manner of dreck for the furtive joy of a Steve gurn or Norris dither. During the initial Roy vs Mary chess scenes, for example, I watched with silent tears of gladness streaming down my cheeks.

It's just not the same without Graeme, I'm afraid.

Madison

Well quite- I think it's meant to reflect 'societies attitudes' rather than the reality. The whole 'she's pregnant and therefore couldn't possibly be a villain' bit is brilliant. Deidre assuming Tyrone was knocking her about, for instance.


MuteBanana

Quote from: Morrison Lard on September 05, 2012, 09:59:54 AM
This one ain't bad either-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbzjsONcCXI

Did Norris learn to act from watching Rainbow?

Jackson K Pollock

Quote from: Sam on September 04, 2012, 07:34:28 PM
There's little mini plays to be savoured most weeks, of glorious execution.

See this evening's "The Saga of Deirdre's Stuffed Marrows".

Proper British seaside farce.

Sexism Police

Quote from: Morrison Lard on September 04, 2012, 02:23:02 PM
Seconded. And Sarah Lou


Greetings.  You post has been reported to the Sexism Police for the following reason(s):

a) You referred to the majority of women as sluts and/or whores.
b) You made a blanket statement about rape, made light of rape, and/or made ignorant remarks regarding rape.
c) You reduced a woman to her physical appearance.
d) You have never bothered to find out how womens bodies actually work.
e) You made a sexist joke that, tiresome ironic meme or not, contributed nothing to the thread.
f) You ignored, belittled and/or insulted LGBTQIA people.
g) Conversation that started to be about women, now about cocks.
h) You did some of that misandry.
i) Other: You figure it out.


Please resolve this by doing one or more of the following:
a) Pause and reflect.
b) Read more about your topic and/or feminist literature in general.
c) Argue that your remark was in fact not sexist.
d) Ignore the Sexism Police.

doppelkorn

Quote from: Jackson K Pollock on September 10, 2012, 08:54:02 PM
See this evening's "The Saga of Deirdre's Stuffed Marrows".

Proper British seaside farce.

Was your use of farce to describe a stuffed-marrow incident intentional?

From wiktionary entry for "Farce":

QuoteFrom Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farcire ("to cram, stuff").

Gulftastic

'He robbed Peter Barlow and used Deidre as a lubricant" Oh, Norris. Never change.

Even when the show is awash with shite featuring the non-acting of Katie Ford, there's still a few wonderful scenes.

jonno

Quote from: Gulftastic on October 15, 2012, 08:12:17 PM
'He robbed Peter Barlow and used Deidre as a lubricant" Oh, Norris. Never change.

Even when the show is awash with shite featuring the non-acting of Katie Ford, there's still a few wonderful scenes.

Came here to quote that as well, tonight's had some nuggets scattered throughout. Particularly liked the newspaper cropping up in almost every scene with the unlikely 'WEATHERFIELD MAN LOST IN FRANCE' headline on the front and wonderfully non-specific 'F1 KOREAN GP - SURPRISING RESULT' on the back. Glorious stuff.

Sam

Just realised there's a misplaced apostrophe in the sign for 'Websters' Autos'. Unless Sally is counted as a silent partner and the plural is intended?

Brundle-Fly

There was that nice little pointless scene in the Rovers where the old'uns discuss their fantasy dinner party guests. Apparently, Dennis Tanner would want Kathy Burke at his side at his last supper. Yeah, right. Didn't quite buy that.

Scary Mary is doing my head in though.

doppelkorn

I saw her in Tesco's the other day (and Neil's gay dad off The Inbetweeners too). It all goes on in Tesco's.

Janie Jones

I've done a very unsatisfactory semi flounce (one word - Ryan) and am sort of half watching at the moment so I may have this wrong but did I see evidence last night of that hoary old soap chestnut, the secret cancer?  The one where you appear to be in perfect robust health, capable of, for example, standing up for hours and running a pub but are in fact close to death?  The one where you don't need the support of your loved ones but instead confide in a stranger you've known 5 minutes?  What cancer is it that kills you while you enjoy a normal life and are not skeletal, incontinent, incapacitated and demented with drug side effects which is how most people with terminal cancer spend their last weeks?  No hospice, endless outpatient appointments or oncology ward for anyone afflicted with soap cancer, no, a GP with whom you've been registered a matter of days is apparently all you need to ease you into the afterlife.  I'll say no more about this in case I've got it wrong but if anyone could post and tell me what Su Johnson and Nigel Havers are playing at, I'd appreciate it. 

Uncle TechTip

It's cancer of the face. This explains why she cannot now deliver any expression except "The Joker"

Daniel

Spoiler alert
Don't worry, she's lying...
[close]

Gulftastic

Fuck me, tonight's episode was bloody awful.

The writer's appear to have based their drugs research on some scare-mongering 1950's American film about the evils of drugs!

Off his tits on coke or speed, Ryan was playing chicken with speeding traffic, proclaiming 'I love speed!'. I half expected him to try and jump off a roof trying to fly.

And the actor is very, VERY shit.

And Sophie got knocked down pushing him from in front of a car. This will mean painful scenes of him crying about it being all his fault.

Sadly, I think it's unlikely it will lead to Sophie lezzing off with some fit nurse.

Gulftastic

Tonight's second episode had some of the best ever 'Angry Kevin'. He was on the rampage!

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Gulftastic on October 24, 2012, 08:33:55 PM
Fuck me, tonight's episode was bloody awful.

The writer's appear to have based their drugs research on some scare-mongering 1950's American film about the evils of drugs!


And no dealer would scowl and say "I knew you'd be back" to a customer who hasn't bought a gram for a few weeks. Pitiful.

And why has Kylie turned into a Tim Burton movie walk on?

Madison

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on October 27, 2012, 08:57:39 PM
And no dealer would scowl and say "I knew you'd be back" to a customer who hasn't bought a gram for a few weeks. Pitiful.

And why has Kylie turned into a Tim Burton movie walk on?

I've enjoyed how Kylie's hair-doughnuts have got bigger and sleeker the more upmarket her job has got. That bistro eh, it's reet posh.

is Sue Johnson on short term loan from Benidorm? She seems to be rattling through a years worth of stories in a couple of months, it's exhausting. She's one of those Tracy Barlow characters where you think 'in real life wouldn't you just tell her to fuck off?'

I'm with the Ryan haters. Compare and contrast Roy's genuinely upset, shaky car-coatted emotion that Mary let a boozy stranger touch his model trains, versus Ryan's "I've taken a drugs!" Biker Grove shouting. Rotten. As always, the show is only worth watching for the pensioners. Barbara Knox squinting with concern through fourteen coats of mascara.

Sam

Oh yes, imagine a show with just Norris, Emily, Mary, Rita, Dennis, Ken and Deirdre. With Dev, Steve and Lloyd thrown in.

What's with the plot holes in the Tina and Tommy story? Tommy threatened to leave Tina because of the surrogacy but Tina was going to carry on anyway. All the money problems are in Tommy's name, so if they split up there would be no need to do the surrogacy.

More to the point, after falling out with Tyrone, why not tell them to fuck their money? There's no legal agreement  between them, just an initial sense of obligation which should be zero by now.

Madison

Quote from: Sam on November 01, 2012, 05:33:17 PM
Oh yes, imagine a show with just Norris, Emily, Mary, Rita, Dennis, Ken and Deirdre. With Dev, Steve and Lloyd thrown in.

What's with the plot holes in the Tina and Tommy story? Tommy threatened to leave Tina because of the surrogacy but Tina was going to carry on anyway. All the money problems are in Tommy's name, so if they split up there would be no need to do the surrogacy.

More to the point, after falling out with Tyrone, why not tell them to fuck their money? There's no legal agreement  between them, just an initial sense of obligation which should be zero by now.

Yep - one of those storylines where I have no idea what we're meant to think, see also Sunita's affair (ooh, that just quietly slipped away didn't it, like realising you don't have a stone in your shoe any more)




The Masked Unit

I heard on the grapevine they have to employ a specialist sound engineer to EQ Deirdre's voice. Massive spike at around 100hz apparently and if they let it go out as is they'd be in breach of their broadcasting licence. Luckily they still had the equipment knocking about from Phyllis Pearce's day.

MuteBanana

Quote from: Sam on November 01, 2012, 05:33:17 PM
More to the point, after falling out with Tyrone, why not tell them to fuck their money? There's no legal agreement  between them, just an initial sense of obligation which should be zero by now.

Exactly. Especially since Tyrone has sacked Tommy, told him they're no longer friends and Dobb'ed him in to the whole street by revealing he was forced to sell drugs by some gang.

Tyrone has ruined his life and he's still demanding money. Well Kirsty is, but Tyrone seems happy to go along with it.

Jackson K Pollock

Kevin's heartfelt character reference for Lloyd was very touching... Or would have been if I could remember them ever having been in a single scene together.

Janie Jones

Fleet Foxes 'Mykonos' playing in the Rovers!  They're really pulling out all the stops to impress Lancashire Life.

Has Kevin still got a baby?  Does he ever see it?  How can he spontaneously take his daughter's physiotherapist out for several drinks after work? 

MuteBanana

Because of the unseen babysitter.

It's Pam and Bill I feel sorry for.

I think they're setting up a love triangle between Sophie, Kev and Lloyd's daughter.

Madison

Quote from: MuteBanana on November 02, 2012, 06:30:26 PM
Exactly. Especially since Tyrone has sacked Tommy, told him they're no longer friends and Dobb'ed him in to the whole street by revealing he was forced to sell drugs by some gang.

Tyrone has ruined his life and he's still demanding money. Well Kirsty is, but Tyrone seems happy to go along with it.

Yep

"Wheres our money?"
"Fuck off"
"No go on, give us that money back"
"Fuck off, you beat Tyrone up and various other bad things about pizza vans and suchlike"
"Oh righto"

FIN

Janie Jones

Quote from: MuteBanana on November 03, 2012, 11:30:11 AM


I think they're setting up ... Kev and Lloyd's daughter.

Perish the fecking thought.  If I see one more unattractive middle aged man like Kev, Lloyd, Steve, Peter, Karl or Dev being relentlessly lusted over by an attractive woman 10-30 years their junior, why, I'll do another pointless and half-hearted flounce.  Who writes this sh1t?  Aren't the writers nearly all gay men?  Do they hate strong, straight women so much that they think stunning-looking clever likeable women such as (in no particular order) Leanne, Lloyd's daughter, Michelle, Sunita, Mandy and Carla want nothing more than to win the love of some skint grizzled old baggage-laden bigamist/alky/liar/crim/dwarf with dozens of dark secrets, debts, kids and exes?

Madison

Oh GOD, pub of the year is STILL going on?

Daniel

"There were no clubs! She worked with him at a dry cleaners in Torremolinos...until she burned it down."

Acorn Antiques or tonight's Coronation Street?