Dev

[Warren]

Not my cup of tea, actor nor character. But his protectiveness for Sunita is rather sweet at the moment, I must admit.

Let's hope the romance develops because he realises he loves her, not just because he feels sorry for her.

[RitaLittlewood]

According to the Mirror Dev and Sunita plan to marry but the dumped Maya seeks revenge by stealing Sunita's birth certificate and marries 6 blokes, trying to frame her as being a bigamist.

[Warren]

Maya is demented - just so neurotic like Steph in Emmerdale.

Great bitches like Kim Tate, Tina Dingle and Tanya Pooley do what the do "because they can". With the likes of Maya and Steph they have no choice - they are totally screwed up.

[RitaLittlewood]

Steph is really selfish and horrible. I don't even like Maya so none of this has any interest for me.

[RitaLittlewood]

Anyone else notice his number plate containing 666? Says it all really. LOL!

[Jade]

Warren said:

Not my cup of tea, actor nor character.

Thanks goddness @ last some1 agrees with me i think he is an appalling actor always has been always will be! I can't wait until he leaves. I got very very angry when Dev got the all clear from the hospital as his acting was terrible, i know some1 who didn't get the all clear, and as a result isn't hear to tell the story. I can't stand him!

[RitaLittlewood]

Me too. My grandfather died of bowel cancer 11 months before I was born. I hate these storylines just to get viewers. Look at Alma and the way that was done for ratings.

[Norris Cole]

For ratings or not for ratings, Rita, these kind of storylines can make people understand the dangers and symptoms of cancers.

[Warren]

I won't over do it, but I have to give a pinch of credit where due, I think Jimmi who plays Dev has been a lot less awful in the last few episodes where he has been overcome with emotion for Sunita.

[RitaLittlewood]

Alex it wouldn't be so bad if people knew what to look for in when they do these illnesses. But symptoms are glossed over.

I agree Warren. Pity the storyline's a lot of rubbish.

[Norris Cole]

All I'm saying is that I think ALL if not MOST bowel cancer victims would support Coronation Street for helping men think about being checked over.

[RitaLittlewood]

But Alex, what if they don't watch? How can they look for things when the symptoms aren't mentioned so be checked over? My next door neighbour is currently dying of bowel cancer with secondary cancer in his liver. None of his family watch Corrie. All it said about Dev was he might have it. No weight loss, bleeding etc. Same with Alma. She was told she had cervical cancer but not what to look for so women could see if they had it. Yes, it would be good if more men and women went to the doctor like cervical smear tests rose. But it's always a short-term effect and Dev never had it in the first place so it was a pretty pointless storyline.

[Norris Cole]

the number of smear tests did actually rise when Alma had her cancer storyline it was in the paper. And soaps get great praise for these kinds of storylines. I dont think your looking at this right Rita. What if I were to say that the murdering of innocent victims was a horrible thing to use "just to grab ratings", and that I would prefer it is Richard Hillman hadnt killed Maxine because someone in my town was killed by a burgeler.

[RitaLittlewood]

But the murders were to grab ratings Alex otherwise they wouldn't have plugged them so much since before Christmas. Besides murder and illness are quite different because illness lingers with symptoms (sometimes agonising ones) and murder is usually instant. Women went to have a smear after Alma yes. But has that stayed? No. Parents were more cautious of who their kids were talking to on the Net after what happened to Sarah. But we still see the same things happening. Underage pregnancy is still on the rise so that hasn't had any effect on it. All these things have a short-term effect and are easily forgotten in a month or two afterwards. Alma's was different to Dev's scare. Alma missed a smear test so women could relate to that. Dev was a scare and nothing more. He wasn't even feeling ill. If they'd done testicular cancer or even male breast cancer which are 2 things men don't bother about, then I'm sure more people would be going for checks. Alma's scared women who hadn't bothered. My sister never had a smear in her life and had her first one at 38. But Dev's wouldn't have the same impact mainly because he was fine.

[Norris Cole]

1. I cant believe you think that murder has no "lingering" side-effects. Your forgetting about the families and loved ones.

2. You can't expect women to keep on having smear tests from a storyline 4/5 years ago. Thats why they are re-done.

[RitaLittlewood]

I never said that. I said they were different. The person murdered doesn't have 'lingering side-effects' because they're dead. But an ill person suffers for months or years with maybe no cure. Not the same thing at all.

Wasn't Alma's death 3 years ago? And I never said that either. Men and women will choose to go to the doctor or whatever regardless of a short-lived effect of something on TV. By the time the women who went after the Alma storyline get their next appointment, how many will have forgotten what Alma died of? How many will go? How many will put it off for work or something else saying they haven't got time? I haven't read anywhere that people going for bowel cancer checks have risen. Have you? The problem with these issues in programmes is that they don't last long then the public forgets because they're onto another.

[Warren]

Alma was one of my favourite characters, but I must admit I couldn't remember for the life of me what type of cancer she had suffered from.

[Norris Cole]

RitaLittlewood said:

I never said that. I said they were different. The person murdered doesn't have 'lingering side-effects' because they're dead. But an ill person suffers for months or years with maybe no cure. Not the same thing at all.

I never said they were the same thing, but I did say they both hurt a lot of people but yet you seem to think its ok for a fictional someone to be slayed to death for ratings, but not for someone to have a cancer scare, Soaps mirror real-life and cancer scares are part of real life EVERYTHING soaps do are to get ratings!

[RitaLittlewood]

Soaps have always mirrored real-life. But until Brookside came along, it was never in-your-face and over as quick as it began before going onto the next one. Cancer is one of the most common conditions in the world, worse if it's hereditary. But you never seen them doing something like a hereditary disease like breast cancer. Heart attacks is another. You ignored my question about people going for more bowel check-ups so I'll ask this: Have you read of more people going for heart checks after Jack or Alf or whoever in another soap suffered? It amounts to the same thing. Did people stop drinking and driving after characters in various soaps were banned from driving or killed someone? No. That's the point I'm making. They have limited effect. And as you're so obsessed with characters being murdered, well, in soapland that's forgotten pretty quickly too. Grief doesn't last as long these days as it did before it started copying EastEnders.

[Norris Cole]

OK, Rita I didn't want to get violent or offensive in this argument so I'm going to make my finishing point:

I dont think you are understanding me, my argument was that every topic raised in soaps have affected soemone in the real world and so if corrie didnt do the storylines which could upset some people who have been affected then they wouldn't have any storylines left!

[RitaLittlewood]

Alex, they would have stories left if they used their imaginations. They ran for plenty of years before doing issues. You say I'm not understanding you but that workd both ways so maybe we should agree to disagree otherwise this will go on for years by which time Dev will have quit. LOL!

[Norris Cole]

ok then, you throw all the storylines you can think off that wouldnt affect someone in the real world at me and we'll see..

[RitaLittlewood]

Now you're just being silly Alex to continue an argument. Everyone's affected by something from buying a house to washing up! We're talking about ISSUES here and nothing else.

[Norris Cole]

there all issues. Some more serious than others, and i think your acting rather jaded.

[Nick]

Anyway back to Dev..he has had a very low profile since tara left hasn't he?..I am looking forward to Sunitta returning to see what effect that has on him

Anyone know when she first appears?