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Post by sallywebster on Feb 9, 2008 17:20:48 GMT
LOL! Could say that Barbara is your baby as you carry on watching her scenes and wont stop even if she is still there in 5 years time. Oh no I will be 31 then  |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 9, 2008 17:29:20 GMT
But Barbara IS my baby. Great, fat hairy baby who likes eating my feet.  I'll be 43! That's worse! Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 9, 2008 17:37:13 GMT
I mean Barbara Knox!
LOL! I wonder if Reet will still be in it then?
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 9, 2008 18:43:21 GMT
Oh well Barbara Knox is a great fat hairy, er, woman who better stay away from my feet if she knows what's good for her. The smell's enough to kill her anyway but my Barbara loves them regardless and if I don't get out of bed, she goes down the covers and eats them. Then she eats them when I get up. Can't win. LOL!
Probably just to spite me. Still interminable Norris storylines and sighing a lot. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by CG Wendy on Feb 9, 2008 23:46:05 GMT
I`m the same way as Jez. I could never give up totally on Corrie...it`s been part of my life for many years. Even when it`s bad then I`ll keep watching in the hope it will improve.
The double helpings on Monday and Friday are getting a bit much though.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 10, 2008 13:52:53 GMT
Ah but you've come close recently and said if it doesn't improve you'll stop watching. Nick did give up for a few weeks at one point. Reading posts here and other places I've come to believe it's habit. Despite a lot of complaints about boring this and boring that they don't stop watching. It's an addiction. Stamp it out. Better for your health. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by CG Wendy on Feb 10, 2008 15:50:05 GMT
Yes I came very close Pats by fast forwarding most of it the episode after Veras funeral and it shocked me that I could do such a thing after all these years.
Its all this baby swap stuff that is ruining Corrie, and as a viewer it made me furious that *my* Corrie is on the way to becoming a shadow of its former self.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 10, 2008 18:47:58 GMT
It did a long time ago though. Even one of the former writers says it's not the same show. It has the same name, few of the characters, set but that's where the similarity ends. Jez was convinced I'd go back and I haven't. Seen the odd full ep like Vera's over-hyped demise, but they bored me. Maybe if they reduced the eps and cast and returned the show to it's glory I would. I stopped caring for any of the characters a long time ago, even Reet. She bores the arse off me and she's my favourite! It's the drivel she keeps getting to make up the numbers and justify her constant contracts which will never change until something drastic is done to the show.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 10, 2008 19:51:50 GMT
I thought you'd go back as you are a loyal fan - and there is still time for you to go back yet. You still havent given up watching Reet's scenes despite saying they give her drivel.
Ive given up so many other soaps - Neigbours twice but im back watching now, gave up Emmerdale, Home and Away and Casualty at various times. Coronation St is the only one ive watched consistantly since the day I started watching and I always will.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 10, 2008 20:31:47 GMT
Yes but that's for the wordies now rather than watching Barbara and they don't get any better. If anything they get worse! I constantly get deja vu and I'm fed up with it. Since July 2005 there have been only a handful of scenes I've actually enjoyed of hers. The rest has been a waste of time. Often there's not even any real need for her to be there. Why else do you think I keep getting behind? If I wanted to watch Barbara I'd do it that day but I don't. I get my pad and pen and write it all down, not paying any real attention to the scene at all, especially if it's got bloody Norris in it. I got months behind last year and the year before. The wordies have become habit like the tallies. She goes I won't have anything at all to do with Corrie in its current form.
I doubt that. Tastes change as you get older. You get to a point where you can't be bothered with whatever because you become jaded. Many long-term viewers (even since day 1) have stopped watching Corrie, EE and Emmerdale. TV has changed since we were young and for the worse and the storylines just get more and more outrageous and stupid to get viewers. Like you I gave up on all the rest (and Brookside) at some point but not Corrie but have now. It's like saying you'll still be earning in 5 years and will have a nice posh car when you could be out of a job and lost your house. No one knows what will happen in the future and you don't know you will always watch it. For all you know by the time of its 50th anniversary you could have got so sick of it.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 10, 2008 22:57:57 GMT
I might have got sick of it but I will still watch.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 10, 2008 23:51:48 GMT
If you can see so far into the future, tell us when Barbara will quit. Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 11, 2008 18:51:32 GMT
Um........... 2020! LOL!
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 11, 2008 18:59:24 GMT
LOL! The oldest newsagent in the world!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 11, 2008 20:07:10 GMT
Well Betty must be the oldest barmaid so Reet can be the oldest newsgent. She would be 88 then and Betty would be 100! |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 11, 2008 20:32:01 GMT
My God! Betty will be twice my age! Bet Reet's had more face jobs. She'll be like the Wildenstein woman by then. So, Oh Great Seer, when's Ken going? Patsy |
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Post by eithne on Feb 11, 2008 23:14:46 GMT
Hmmm... this whole issue is something I've been wondering about since Jez posted it. While Eastenders is rather good now, and in some ways better than 10 years ago (the diMarco's verses the Slaters/Brannings etc) - the opposite is true of at least Emmerdale (Lady Tara/the early years of the Dingles/Kim Tate verses the drivel nowadays) and probably Corrie (the Battersby's arrival verses the [Sn]ortons arrival).
So I'm kind of divided. In some ways the production can be better as well, the long shots in tonight's Corrie being an example and the writing can be better *sometimes* also, especially in EE. But as for other things (acting, stories) they can fail miserably. Also secrets are rarely kept nowadays either, so you sit down knowing exactly what will happen in each episode. I don't want to repeat the anti-spoilers debate again - just to say get rid of them. They make me not want to watch and lose viewers rather than gain them.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 11, 2008 23:23:34 GMT
I completely agree about spoilers and they're well named because they spoil everything. We know what's going to happen in every flipping stage. They've all clearly forgotten less is more. Same for the number of eps really. LOL! I'm finding there are more Corrie spoilers in the papers than EE ones. EE have done well a couple of times keeping things quiet. Steven's return for one. Pity they blew it with Jane being shot after going to all the trouble of a cliffhanger.
I said in 2006 or last year I dare them to go a year without spoilers and see what happens. I still challenge them to that.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 11, 2008 23:33:59 GMT
That would be good. I try not too read the official spoilers in great detail - just skim through them. Sometimes I dont bother at all it depends. I do read the tv guides and some soap mags but again I tend to flick through them so I still get the occasional surprise. But with big things like the wedding its impossible to keep it a surprise unless you buy no papers, mags, dont read teletext, dont surf the internet and watch no tv shows like GMTV!
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 12, 2008 0:54:18 GMT
Yep. Though you didn't answer the question about Ken going. Or is he going to be there for eternity which is why you didn't? All these shows are now just major plugs for ITV and have been for donkey's years. They waste so much time during these frothy shows on soap exclusives and behind-the-scenes stuff. They'd be hard-pressed for ideas if they stopped. May get decent guests again! Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Feb 12, 2008 20:27:46 GMT
Yeah. Ken will never quit. He will Corrie on forever remember.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 12, 2008 20:56:53 GMT
LOL!
Patsy
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Post by CG Wendy on Mar 3, 2008 2:43:16 GMT
That`s the way I see it too Jez. I can`t give up on it 100% - it`s been a part of my life since I was 7 or 8 years old.
I`m too old and set in my ways to ever stop watching Corrie compeltely. Although I must confess I don`t strike up as much enthusiasm as I did before.
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Post by sallywebster on Mar 3, 2008 18:52:22 GMT
I still enjoy it most of the time its just it goes through stages of being boring sometimes mainly due to the amount of episodes and dragging storylines out. Seeing the same people at the expense of others.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 3, 2008 19:01:37 GMT
Maybe it's because I'm a Sagittarian. We get bored easily and won't put up with crap. LOL!
Patsy
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