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Post by Nick on Sept 18, 2006 8:57:34 GMT
I feel that the storylines in Corrie now are too throwaway..
in the old days if someone had a good storyline Ken/Deirdre/Mike or a death in the family .etc etc....it had a lasting affect on the character and was referred to in furure storylines..
nowadays you have a dramatic storyline ..ie:Mikes death..Seans paternity.Ernies killer coming back into Emilys life..Mad Maya...and its forgotten in weeks and everyone carries on as if nothing has happened,same with minor storylines like Fred falling down a hole in Audreys garden..her hole has never been mentioned since ...
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 18, 2006 11:50:41 GMT
I said that ages ago and it's interesting, as a non-viewer (except Reet's bits), to learn nothing's changed. I found the inconsistency with Reet's rubbish Stacey storyline completely ridiculous. Maybe I noticed it more because I watched the scenes one after the other. But one week she was traumatised, next it was like nothing happened, next traumatised again. She was banged up in the cells overnight in 2004 and all that was quickly forgotten as well.
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Sept 18, 2006 12:08:27 GMT
I know..after the Stacey business it looked like Reet was going off the rails and turning to drink and a good storyline developing from that ...then Bam..she's fine and its all forgotten
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 18, 2006 12:13:19 GMT
Exactly. She got over her fear of being in the flat remarkably fast. Yes she moved into Emily's but even after going back she would still have been scared. I remember when Vera was mugged. She was out and about again in no time and yet when they'd done it in 1982 (?) with Betty she was scared and far more upset.
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Sept 19, 2006 14:10:51 GMT
Yes I remember Betty getting mugged..she was frightened to go out for ages...didn't that cue a visit from our Gordon
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 19, 2006 15:57:35 GMT
Think it did. Deirdre was traumatised after her assault and it wrecked her marriage. Grief, heart attacks, cancer, all get over it really fast.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Sept 19, 2006 17:03:26 GMT
Yes I remember Betty getting mugged..she was frightened to go out for ages...didn't that cue a visit from our Gordon Yes. Its about time her Gordon paid her another visit. Considering she is 86 its unfair to expect her to travel to visit him all the time! |
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Post by valda on Sept 19, 2006 17:07:57 GMT
I agree with you Jez it`s high time he paid his mum a visit , why should Betty travel to see him all the time, at her age but he`s alway`s been a selfish person has our Gordon  |
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Post by sallywebster on Sept 19, 2006 17:10:30 GMT
He has. And I think his wife is also a right cow to Betty as well.
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Post by valda on Sept 19, 2006 20:18:11 GMT
I wouldn,t care but she think`s the world of our Gordon and his wife , poor Betty what has she done to deserve that kind of treatment :,(.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 20, 2006 14:29:01 GMT
Gordon's not too bad when he's not under his wife's influence. I didn't like the way when they recast a few years ago they gave him a new personality as well!
Patsy
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Post by valda on Sept 20, 2006 16:27:06 GMT
I`ve never seen Gordon`s wife but somehow I can`t imagine Gordon being under her thumb  that,s the trouble personality change often happen`s when they recast but why I don`t know do the new actor`s never study the role,s |
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Post by sallywebster on Sept 20, 2006 17:56:20 GMT
Yes I remember Gordon coming back with a new head, but his wife was the same woman as before (the one who came back for Betty's wedding in 1995!)
Betty doesnt have to high an opinion of Caroline either.
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Post by Nick on Sept 20, 2006 17:56:21 GMT
I remember Alyson Spiro saying,that when she took over the role of Sarah Sugden in Emmerdale,she had never seen the programme and didn't watch any with Madeliene Howard as Sarah..she just went in and did it
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Post by pearly queen on Sept 20, 2006 18:16:10 GMT
Yes I remember Betty getting mugged..she was frightened to go out for ages...didn't that cue a visit from our Gordon Yes. Its about time her Gordon paid her another visit. Considering she is 86 its unfair to expect her to travel to visit him all the time! Yes, why not? Betty has nothing to do at all, except the occasional hotpot with a scowl at the Rovers - she is practically an extra these days. |
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Post by CG Wendy on Sept 20, 2006 18:48:41 GMT
Wasn`t Gordons wife called Caroline, and an awful snob? As I recall she was the one who didn`t want Betty to live with them after she got burgled years ago.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 20, 2006 19:03:10 GMT
Yes but originally she was never such a snob. Bit stuck up. Maybe it was living with all those Joneses which made her that way. Though I'm surprised she stayed with the common oik and all round wet nelly that is Gordon in that case. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by pearly queen on Sept 20, 2006 19:39:24 GMT
I believe they were living in Wimbledon which is quite a posh area of London.
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Post by sallywebster on Sept 20, 2006 19:55:49 GMT
Yep and Caroline used to look down her nose when she came to Manchester with Gordon to visit Betty
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Post by Nick on Sept 20, 2006 20:58:45 GMT
I had a friend who lived in Wimbledon..she said it was ok but her garden kept getting dug up by Wombles..and around midnight she could hear distant choruses of Minuetto allegretto coming across the common
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Post by pearly queen on Sept 21, 2006 7:12:44 GMT
I had a friend who lived in Wimbledon..she said it was ok but her garden kept getting dug up by Wombles..and around midnight she could hear distant choruses of Minuetto allegretto coming across the common LOL! |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 21, 2006 15:50:15 GMT
LMAO!
Patsy
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that,s the trouble personality change often happen`s when they recast but why I don`t know do the new actor`s never study the role,s 
