Over at Underworld, Rob takes on Eva as
a new machinist but she’s all fingers and thumbs. Fortunately for
Eva, they’re not the body parts Rob’s interested in and she carries
on stitching and gets on everyone’s nerves. Rob moves into sister
Carla’s flat now she’s done a runner with Peter, which begs the
question why Tracy can’t move into Peter’s. We find out soon enough when
Leanne makes it clear to bossy-boots Barlow that she’s in charge of
the bookies while Peter’s AWOL and Beth and young Craig are moving
into the flat.
Tracy slums it in a bad dressing gown and a scowl with Emily
and Norris for now.
Ryan Connor returns this week, all muscle-bound and
angsty. Heaven only knows what they put in the Irn Bru up in that
Scotland but young Ryan-me-laddo has changed beyond all
recognition. He’s only
back five minutes and he sets Steve McDonald’s house on fire with
the flick of a careless match as he’s trying (and failing) to chat
up Sophie Webster. He's
a bad 'un and no mistake. He disses his mother – although let’s not
forget she’s not his real mother and he’s not her real son – he’s
nasty to Kirk when he gets a job in packing pants and then threatens
to sue Underworld after faking an accident. When Rob suspects that
Ryan’s trying to rip off Underworld he asks Eva: “How do you fancy
playing Mata Hari?”. “I’ll play Kerplunk if it’ll wipe the smile off
his face!” she replies.
And so Eva calls Ryan’s bluff when she gets him to take her
out on a date and he confesses to her cleavage that there’s nowt
wrong with him, he just needs the cash from the factory. Michelle’s already at her
wits end with Ryan and doesn’t know which way to turn. Fortunately
for her, Steve’s lonely and sad and is happy to be that shoulder to
cry on she’s going to need very soon. With Fat Brenda off
having her gastric band realigned, Steve offers Ryan a gig on the
switch.
At Roy’s Rolls, Hayley gets a call from Aunty Maude to
say Uncle Bert is ill and so off she goes on soap plot device
number 11 (sub-section
F(ii)) as Mary gets her talons into Roy by inviting him to accompany
her to a musical event.
“I’ve never been so moved by a wind section,” she giggles
like a girl later in the caff when Roy invites her in for
cocoa. I’m not liking
this scary-Mary, not one little bit and wish that she’d leave Roy
very well alone.
Dev plans to wed Sunita in six weeks time, he wants a
rush job in case Sunita changes her mind, which is exactly what she
does after she gets caught in the Rovers half-dressed with Karl .
She plans it that way so that Stella, Leanne and Eva all troop back
from a night on the razz to find Karl and Sunita getting ready to
bonk on the banquette.
There’s an almighty row in the Street when St Ella takes out
her insecurities on Sunita before throwing Karl out. But she’s chucked him out on
the cobbles twice before and she’s taken him back. She’s got no
backbone, has St Ella and is such a waste of space because you just
know she’ll take him back again. If Corrie really wanted us
fans to like St Ella instead of hating every moment that she’s on
screen, they’d at least give us something to like.
And finally this week, there’s tantrums at tea-time over
at Tyrone’s house when Kirsty loses her temper once more . Run, Tyrone, run, and don’t
look back!
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you
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This week's writers were Jayne
Hollinson, Julie Jones, Mark Burt, Simon Crowther and John
Kerr.
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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