Tracy's Cunning Plan

[RitaLittlewood]

Personality transplant. She'll be flashing her bloomers at Ken before you can say "Polish hip".

Patsy

[valda]

Blanche flashing her bloomers Run for the door Ken:o

[pearly queen]

She's have to ask Adam to hold her skirt up in the air for her, the old fart.

[sallywebster]

Blanche and Ken are a lot closer in age than Deirdre and Ken. I wouldnt put it past the writers for them to have an affair LOL!

[RitaLittlewood]

Who said anything about holding it up? She could just drop 'em.

Patsy

[BillyNiblick]

Grace Dent in today's Grauniad:

Death certainly becomes Tracy Barlow. Her love life has never been perkier since she murdered Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street. Within days hapless Steve McDonald was on the sniff, keen to fill Charlie's workboots. Next along came David Platt who promised that he'd stand as a witness for Tracy (ie tell a load of huge fibs) just as long as she paid him back in bed.
Whose bed it wasn't clear. I couldn't imagine Gail letting her David thrash about with the local psycho under his Action Man duvet while she made chips downstairs. Gail Platt is the dictionary definition of "cockblock" at the best of times. Sneaking into Tracy's house for a quick romp was out of the question too. There's a reason Blanche wears those magnifying specs that blow her eyes up into a central screen of vision a bit like Leela from Futurama: she aims to miss nothing.

Of course, the mere thought of Tracy and David "at it" is rancid, but at least we now know why he's such a complete brat. Of course. He's sexually frustrated. His beef isn't about Richard Hillman or Martin Platt or resenting his mummy at all. He's just one big festering blister of unsated teenage lust waiting to pop. Obviously this is no excuse. All teenage boys go through long spates of sexual desperation. Most of them deal with it by languishing in a back bedroom for five years surrounded by crusty socks and well-rustled pictures of Linsey Dawn McKenzie. They don't choose to be an architect of terribleness towards everybody within a 15 mile radius.
Anyway, what is Steve doing back with Tracy? What? Not only is Tracy up before the judge soon for murder, meaning Steve could be implicated, he doesn't even like her. Dating Tracy again must be a bit like banging your own head repetitively with a tea tray: painful and futile but lovely when it stops. I think he dates her as it makes him appreciate the simple pleasure of being single.
Who Steve is really in love with is barmaid Michelle. Michelle likes Steve but she's in love with smooth besuited businessman Sonny, who likes Michelle a lot but he's also been getting off with barman Sean.

Yes, there's a whole big bisexual love triangle plot in Corrie right now replete with snogging, meetings in lavatories and debates about what it means to be bi. Weirdly, no one in the real world seems to be that fussed. We've come a long way in four years since the Todd Grimshaw gay peck where the duty log was buzzing with frothy-mouthed folk vowing to set fire to their TVs if the abomination didn't stop forthwith.

I hope Sonny chooses Sean over Michelle and that Michelle takes Steve off Tracy and that Tracy gets 30 years in Strangeways without bankrupting Ken and Deirdre in the process.

Deirdre's new good idea to raise money for Tracy's legal fees is to use one of those charming companies who advertise in every ad break from 10am till 4am convincing old people that life will be much more brilliant if they free up equity in their home so their grandkiddies can have money for turbo heelies and trips to dolphin parks. Even Blanche thinks this is a great idea. I despair.

[valda]

I agree with Grace Dent Billy for the first time.

[RitaLittlewood]

LOL! Spot on as always.

Patsy

[Cheetah]

sallywebster said:

Blanche and Ken are a lot closer in age than Deirdre and Ken. I wouldnt put it past the writers for them to have an affair LOL!

As long as they don't show the bedroom scenes!!!!

[valda]

shudder don,t give them ideas Cheetah (groan feeling ill )

[sallywebster]

cheetah said:

sallywebster said:

Blanche and Ken are a lot closer in age than Deirdre and Ken. I wouldnt put it past the writers for them to have an affair LOL!

As long as they don't show the bedroom scenes!!!!

Lets hope not!

[RitaLittlewood]

LOL! Ugh I suddenly feel sick. All it will take is the usual soap cliché - bottle of wine!

Patsy

[tracey]

i like the way they played the song the female of the species(are much deadly than the males) last night while Tracy was talking to David ;D

[Nick]

I think the whole plot is ridiculous

when you think about it..why would she murder him just for cheating with Maria.I know there are some crazy people out there but it just dosen't ring true at all with Tracey

[RitaLittlewood]

Or getting Shelley up the duff.

They effed up the character thanks to Daran Little and now haven't a clue what to do with her.

Patsy

[Nick]

They get themselves into a corner with characters..so they are so unbelievably cruel or evil that htey have nowhere to go with them..they did it with Cilla

[RitaLittlewood]

Yep while at the other end of the scale they overdid the cuteness with Chesney, Now he's growing up and losing it.

Patsy

[sallywebster]

tracey said:

i like the way they played the song the female of the species(are much deadly than the males) last night while Tracy was talking to David ;D

I noticed that too Pearly. I loved that bit - one of the few good bits during yesterdays ridiculous double episode.

[RitaLittlewood]

They're filming the trial now in Leeds or something. The end for KF is nigh!!!!!!

Patsy

[Nick]

I just don't get the point... WHY exactly did Tracy kill Charlie..?...she has no money from him...the house has been sold..all she has got is a future in jail to look forward to...it would have been much simpler if she had just left him..instead of all this overblown nonsense

they could have brought her ex husband Robert back..his opening line could have been 'Well you're not the Tracy I remember' they could have rekindled their love and gone back to live in London

[BillyNiblick]

blanche said:

I just don't get the point... WHY exactly did Tracy kill Charlie..?...she has no money from him...the house has been sold..all she has got is a future in jail to look forward to...it would have been much simpler if she had just left him..instead of all this overblown nonsense

Very good point. The only apparent motive seems to have been that she thought that she could do it and get away with it on the basis of a fabricated illusory impression that he abused her. Which proves two things : that she is indescribably venally evil, and/or that she is quite incredibly stupid. Which of course she is.

[valda]

I can,t disagree with you on this one Billy very true about Tracy

[RitaLittlewood]

Good idea, Nick. Because she's not the Tracy he or any of us knew.

Patsy

[sallywebster]

Well she obviously wanted Charlie to pay for what he did and the way he treated her. The only way she knew how was to kill him and hopefully get away with it!

[Nick]

bit drastic tho innit..??