Coronation Street Teens

[Adrian]

What I think stands out with Coronation Street (certainly more than any other UK soap) is the sense that the scriptwriters are having fun doing what they do and this is certainly manifest in storylines like these - ones which, although are funny, are very 'emotionally intricate' as well.

-A

[si]

Mr said:

Rosie is steaming up the screen on my TV. I love how the make-up team have actually given her a shit teenage dye job (Wella Colour Mousse with a touch of Dylon) instead of going for a salon-perfect hairstyle. Rosie is a hot goth, and you don't get many of them.

Seriously? I thought it was a really nasty wig!

[Snuff]

I also thought it was Wig. But the Guide reckons it's "Clairol Nice 'N' Easy; Midnight Mass"

[si]

Nevermind Sophie wanting to be a chav, she's a fan of Girls Aloud!

[Robbing the Dead]

si said:

Nevermind Sophie wanting to be a chav, she's a fan of Girls Aloud!

and they one and the same?

[Snuff]

More Girls Aloud today. This time "The Show"

[Ms Finerevolution]

Sophie is better than pie.
It was fucking great when she accused Sally of being a racist child murderer for hoovering up her imaginary imaginary friend.

[Steven]

Note to the producers: the gratuitous shot of Warren in a towel was much appreciated. It reminded me of the halycon days of Night And Day.

[Snuff]

The shot of warren made me go all weird and I didn't know where to look. When i'm staring at the TV can other people in the room tell that i'm eyeing up the boy in the towel. I always wonder this.

[mackenzie]

Good God.

He-llllllll-ooooooooo, Gothy Craig.

[Deleted]

It has just struck me that some extreme intersoapiality could be occurring: March 17th, the day that Rosie and Craig are predicting as the end of the world, isn't going to turn out to be the day EastEnders gets cancelled, is it? That would be spooky.

[Steven]

Once again I applaud the Corrie writers for taking a potentially dull family like the Websters and a potentially dull plotline like Sally's 536th affair, and making it enjoyable with the use of some brilliant dialogue.

SALLY: You asked for an egg, so eat it. There are starving children in Africa.
SOPHIE: Name one of them.

ROSIE: I just want us to be happy.
SALLY: Happy? That's not very goth, is it?

[Nick]

I know he's about as far from being a Corrie teen as it's possible to be, but for the sake of making another long-term boring character interesting, Ken really has to get drunk and turn evil at least once a week from now on.

TO THE BOOK GROUP: Chosen your book of the week yet? What is it this time? 'Cat in the Hat'? Or one of the Mr. Men series perhaps?

TO BLANCHE: Shouldn't you be knitting under a guillotine somewhere?


Drunk, sexy Ken:

[Snuff]

I love the Websters. They are me new favourite family. Rosie and Sophie easily steal the show. But Sally's affair based on pure love for her own family is bizzare! I love it!

[Tracy-Ann Oberman]

Forget Chesney, it's all about Sophie Webster. She is all kinds of ace.

Am I alone in thinking that Sally and Ian have the least passionate affair in the history of soapland? They seem so half-arsed about the whole thing.

[toby3000]

I much preferred Sally as the comedy pushy mother. Actually, I dunno if I did since I hated her so much at the time.

[Nick]

IdRatherJack said:

Am I alone in thinking that Sally and Ian have the least passionate affair in the history of soapland? They seem so half-arsed about the whole thing.

They talk about it and agonise and argue and pontificate and worry and thrash out all the possible outcomes, and go through every single member of their families and consider how it will affect them, and whether or not they suspect anything, and how they should divert attention away from themselves, and how stressful the whole 'having an affair' affair is.

And then, at the end of the scene, they remember that the whole point is that they're supposed to be touching each other, and they kiss in a weirdly forceful, urgent, completely sexless way.

Are they actually having sex? Is every kiss a prelude to a fuck? They always close the tinkly aluminium blinds before anything happens. Did Sally really need that condom? Poor Sally and Ian.

[si]

I don't know how someone with such beautifully white teeth (Sally) can bare to kiss someone with such rotten yellowing teeth (Ian).

Poor Sally and Ian.

[Steven]

Nick said:

They talk about it and agonise and argue and pontificate and worry and thrash out all the possible outcomes, and go through every single member of their families and consider how it will affect them, and whether or not they suspect anything, and how they should divert attention away from themselves, and how stressful the whole 'having an affair' affair is.

You'd think that with the amount of affairs that Sally's had in her time, she would have taken notes and written a handbook for future reference.

[Robbing the Dead]

Ian used to be married to Duffy in Casualty.
I'd rather have Sally than Duffy.

[pauliepoos]

She's not a teen any more, but Tracey's bit of trade is well tasty. I'd play tapes with him all night, as long as he jacked me up in the morning.

[raspberry]

After thinking Gothy Craig must be played by an older actor than the Platt boy , the last few eps have seen him looking much younger than I thought. The baby stubble and greasy skin of puberty is showing after knocking the white foundation on the head.

He's been quite good though with a tough storyline, imagine the trauma once/if the truth is out. He did cut Martin's brakes once so he isn't too far away from being homicidal himself.

[groopie]

Craig will be fine with his comedy grandparents.
Honest.

[Snuff]

Did Rosie say on Sunday night "Don't Have a Thromby?"

That's like the best thing ever. I'm going to use it all the time.

[Snuff]

Goth Rosie is officialy the best. "Your dirty little secret" was said with such distinction. I almost cried.