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11
The big story this week has been the wedding
of sham and the wedding of shame. The sham wedding was Graeme's
marriage to Xin, pronounced Sheen or Shin or Chin or Cheen or Zin or
Gin, to secure a visa, prounced veeza, to allow her to stay in this
country. Tina's not too happy when Graeme and Shin are pronounced
husband and wife and she's even less best pleased when Graeme and
his new bride Chin get to grips with the visa formalities and share
a tender moment deciding what colour pen ink to use.
The
other wedding, the wedding of shame was David's marriage to Kylie
who is now Mrs Platt the younger. Gail did her best to bribe the
bride with a used envelope full of cash, just like they do in The
Sopranos, hoping Kylie would take a thousand pounds to do a runner.
She did, straight to the tackiest dress shop she could find and
spent the cash on a wedding outfit that knocks Gail sick then spends
the rest of it on a Platt honeymoon to Tenerife. And I know I'm not
the only Corrie fan to call it Tenerefee. For those who like to know
these things, guests at the wedding included an unlikely comedy
pairing of Sally and Kirk. Sally was in full wedding outfit mode
complete with fascinator. Sally looked fascinating and it's fair to
say that Kirk was fascinated. "I wish there was a Mrs. Kirk," he
laments to Audrey at the reception in the Rovers over a wedding
breakfast of Scotch egg and kebab.
Away from the Weatherfield
weddings, there's disharmony at Underworld when Frank Foster wants
his knicker order ready on time, as per contract, and Maria hasn't
got a clue about managing the girls and Sean at the factory and it
all goes a bit pants. This storyline bores me rigid, it really does.
Maria is not a character I've ever admired. To have her cut hair in
the salon was just about as much as I could stand but now she's in
management at the factory and trying to round up the workforce with
her voice so shrill I swear it's on a frequency that sets off the
burglar alarm three doors down from us. And just where is that baby
of hers when she's at work? Eh?
Elsewhere, Anna and Eddie
are having trouble with little FayeE who's moved in with them for
good. First off, FayeE nicks Fiz's handbag which has a load of
nicked money in it that Fiz has procured from Joy Fishwick's will.
Then, FayE tells Gary that she saw Eddie hit Anna. Eddie would
never, could never, hurt a fly and would certainly never harm his
loving wife. But the rot's started with FayE. "She needs
psychiatrists and that, we're out of our depth," Eddie tells Anna
and you know that he's right.
Now then, you know when the TV
continuity announcer makes a stern statement before Corrie comes on
that you're in for something special. So my ears pricked up when she
gave a warning that Monday night's double episodes of Corrie would
contain "some dramatic scenes of violence" and would come "with
scenes of gun violence." Cor, I thought. Cor. What she really should
have warned us about was that Corrie would contain some scenes of
Big Jim McDonald acting a right eejit, so he does, which would have
been more accurate, so it would. Unable to raise the cash to buy the
Rovers, Jim gets a gun off his ex-jailmate, goes into the building
society and demands some cash. He hands the bag over, points the
gun, cries "Wun hundred and twenty thoysand poynds in the bag. Noy."
Scared bank teller rings the alarm, cops surround the building, Liz
cries on the phone, Jim declares his love for Elizabeth, there's
much use of black and white CCTV footage, no doubt to hike up the
tension a notch on the "dramatic scenes of violence" scale from
?zero' to ?a bit' , Jim gives himself up, Liz cries a bit more. What
the point of that story was is anyone's guess but it was
disappointing from beginning to end and a bit daft.
More
interesting was the arrival of Roy Cropper's mum who turned up this
week after attending the funeral of Roy's step-dad. Roy didn't go to
the funeral, he didn't want anything to do with his step-dad. Roy's
mum storms into the caf?, looks around and her first words are: "I
knew this was a bad idea." Well it goes from bad to worse when she
finds out that her boy Roy is now a married man and he hadn't
breathed a word to his own mother about it.
And that's just
about that for this week. It's nice to be back.
This week's
writers Damon Rochefort, Julie Jones, Jayne Hollinson, Mark Wadlow
and Joe Turner.Find out more about the Coronation Street writing
team at: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda
Young
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