Corrie 'actors'.

[smothy]

I am, thankfully, banned from watching this awful series, my wife forces me to go and play on the xbox when it's on.

The standard of acting is am-dram at best. Whatever drives proper actors to go within a country mile of weatherfield is beyond me. Gail...is it actually possible to flutter your eyes a thousand times a second? This ailment is most pronounced when talking quietly to someone in a very low whisper.
Dev...why? He machine guns sentences without drawing breath and is just genuinely a terrible actor.
Audrey...It is ThursdaY, not Thursdah. It is OK to pronounce the last letter of a word, even if it is Y.
Sally... Why have a daughter called Rosie when you can't say it? 'Wruussie' Sally screeches, followed by 'Surfie'.

My wife was, for many years, a sewing machinist. Even she is puzzled as to how someone in a wheelchair operates the treadle on the sewing machines in Carla's factory.

There is no attempt to make things realistic (it was years before I dared to ask my son to pop upstairs and get my screwdriver).

Emmerdale is by far the best soap on telly today (even overlooking the garage that has no trained mechanics yet people drive from all over Yorkshire to have their cars serviced there). The characters are believable, in the main, the story-lines aren't as barking as those in Corrie, and the scenery is most certainly better (OK I'm a Yorkshireman and biased).

Time to wrap up Corrie unless they employ good actors, good scriptwriters, etc.

[CG Wendy]

That`s an excellent point about Izzie not able to operate a sewing machine. Doing a lot of sewing myself, I never thought about it til now.
I am another one who is really going off Corrie at the moment. When it`s good it`s very good and no other soap can touch it. But when it`s really really bad as it has been lately - then it`s really embarassing. I sometimes wonder why I bother sticking with it.
Welcome to the forums smothy
;D ;D

[sootycat]

Welcome smothy.

You have made some good points there.

Another thing that has annoyed me for a very long time is how the Underworld staff seem to spend their lunchtimes drinking in the Rovers....then back to operating machinery.
Health and Safety would have a fielday if they knew.

And don't lets get started on the debacle that is John Stape !

I have preferred Emmerdale for a while now.

[Nick]

I am preferring Emmerdale too....I agree the characters in Emmerdale seem more 'real' with no gurning and pulling faces and over acting to emphasise the plot (Steve & Becky)

[CG Wendy]

I am enjoying Emmerdale too. I`ve completely given up on EE altogether.
My fave soap of them all is Pobol Y Cwm - I always enjoy watching it. If Wales ever made it an English speaking soap, then it would be so much more popular than what it is know.

[smothy]

Wow, I'm not alone! lol. Thanks for the welcome, kindred spirits I feel.

The John Snape storyline is so far fetched, it would be more realistic if they introduced some aliens into the street. Corrie has had some cracking storylines in the past, but they really seem to be struggling now. It's as if they introduce something, putting the feelers out, but then they can't think of a way of leaving it so they let it run in the hope it will click. Far too often it doesn't.

I am as old as The Street, and very proud that the worlds longest running soap is British, but it needs something if is to last another 50 years.

At least Jimmy is getting his memory back, that Kelly will soon be on her wicked way haha.

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Hi Smothy, and welcome.

Emmerdale has always been my favourite soap, tho' to be fair it's had troubles of its own in the past, and still hasn't fully recovered to its absolute best (the days of the plane crash, and the Tates living at Home Farm).

I gave up on EE years ago, and have never had any inclination to return to it.

I'm a relative newcomer to Corrie (last twenty years or so), and totally agree that at the moment it is complete pants - the storylines are ludicrous (John Stape and the appalling Becky/Steve/Max saga), and some characters are given far too much to do, while other (better ones - Eileen for example) are left on the sidelines.

The only thing I'd take issue about tho' is the quality of acting - Emm has its fair share of 'panto' actors too - Marlon & Paddy are both excellent 'gurners', and neither seem capable of getting a sentence out in one go - did they go to the same drama classes? And we had even worse exponents in the past - the ghastly Viv springs to mind!

However, when all's said and done, Emm shines because it's entertaining, and at the moment Corrie is sadly not.