Lori
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Post by Lori on Nov 24, 2004 21:49:38 GMT
I'm not really a Corrie fan but I thought I'd watch it as it was supposed to be great. Did anyone else think it was really crap tonight though? A load of hype over nothing? I was very disappointed and very bored throughout it all  |
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Post by Nick on Nov 25, 2004 17:48:18 GMT
If your not a fan and don't really know who the characters are and what their background is..then I suppose you wouldnt appreciate it...if it had of been Eastenders it would have been all Dev,Sunitta and maya..doom n gloom....but good old Corrie had light relief with Deirdre,Eileen,Liz and Frankie after their drunken night out
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 26, 2004 18:00:02 GMT
  The problem with all these spoilers is they are aiming at the casual viewers like Lori to boost the ratings. We've all tuned into something because of what we read. I think they should axe spoilers then people who want to watch will anyway. I'm old enough to remember when we knew if people were leaving but they never said how so it came as a surprise. But since EE came along, they've tried to out spoiler each other. Patsy
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Post by Lori on Nov 26, 2004 22:47:52 GMT
It wasn't all that long ago that I stopped watching Corrie, so the problem wasn't that I didn't know the characters and their background, because I do. And by the way, I stopped watching Corrie and Eastenders when I discovered The Bill, Casualty and Holby. I realised that these were much more for me and since then, the soaps I used to watch don't interest me at all anymore. But hey, that's just the way I see it through my eyes. How the world would suck if we all had the same opinions  |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 27, 2004 15:40:57 GMT
The soaps aren't want they used to be. Someone remarked to me yesterday that Corrie's getting more like Brookside, and we all know what happened to that. I don't care if I miss it these days because it's returned to the rubbish it was a year ago. Again, we didn't need 2 eps last night. It's been overkill this week and apart from Monday's 3rd and Wednesday's 2nd, they've been boring. Now we have more explosions at Christmas with Karen so it IS getting like Brookie. It was always a character-led show not issue or shock tactics. I enjoyed The Bill after as usual this week far more than Corrie. So I don't blame you for stopping watching the soaps, Lori. You and millions of others. Patsy
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Post by Lori on Nov 27, 2004 19:06:47 GMT
Thank you Patsy. You've just saved me the bother of typing... everything you just said there fits my thoughts exactly  |
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Post by sootycat on Nov 28, 2004 12:12:09 GMT
Oh for the good old days, when no soap had more than three episodes a week.
Todays number is overkill, no wonder people get sick of watching.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 1, 2004 21:18:29 GMT
The ratings used to be better too when there was less. Now you can miss some eps and not really miss anything. A few people I know were still watching the old ones on Plus. I'd give up in 2001. But they were more enjoyable because you had characters then instead of ratings-grabbing storylines, and less cast as well as 2 then 3 eps as week. So it was more enjoyable. Tonight's had lots of humour (though Vera still doesn't behave like she's had a traumatic experience with the mugging) but they can never keep it up. I really wish they WOULD reduce them but they want the advertising revenue. If they did, they might come up with new ideas and put the characters to better use instead of most of them being sidelined. Patsy
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