I'm getting a bit fed up with my favourite soap. It goes in cycles, and Corrie has its ups and downs for all fans, I'm sure. And at the moment, it's on a down for this Corrie fan.Here's why:
Graeme, Tina and Becky are fantastic characters. But I don't want them on screen - all the flippin' time! Anyone else cheesed off with GraemeTinaBeckynation Street?
I know Carla Connor's away right now but when she comes back, Michelle joins her in the factory - it's a storyline I'm not looking forward to at all, despite the fact that two women running the factory will be fantastic news I feel it's the wrong two women. Carla and Hayley would have been better. We'll have the two darkhaired Connor women on screen - all the flippin' time!
The tabloid news that David Platt might be involved in a rape storyline against Tina, chills me. I can only hope that this spoiler is so wide off the mark it's untrue. Sexual violence isn't entertainment.
Not enough use of some of the stronger, older characters like Eileen Grimshaw, Ted Page, Bill Webster and Aunty Pam.
The MolVin storyline did my head in - it's going to be a long time for Corrie to recover its credibility with this fan over that storyline but it looks like it's going to run and run and run...
Women who were brought into Corrie as strong, quirky, interesting - e.g. Fiz, Natasha, Mary - reduced to wittering neurotics.
And here's why I still love it and keep watching:Rita, Sally, Roy and Hayley, Deirdre, Audrey, Sian and Sophie, Emily, Eileen, Steve, Liz, Lloyd.