Has anything ever happened on Coronation Street?

Corrie is the only soap I have ever watched regularly and I would start watching again if I lived with someone who did. Lots of stuff happens but somehow the series manages to retain a kind of Alan Bennett-ish feel as if nothing ever did. Pretty much all Coronation Street characters under 30 were ghastly when I watched it and I don't see any reason to believe this has changed.

I think it's stopped due to industrial action a couple of times.

There was a crusty character called Spider a few years ago. I think they tend to avoid youth subcultures for the obvious and quite good reason that their older viewers dont care and their younger viewers would get embarrassed.

If I had BBC America (like my sister does) I would probably watch Eastenders for that reason alone.

Nicole, Eastenders is The Best Thing in the World EVAH but Kempo is leaving shortly to pursue a more glittering TV career elsewhere. Oh well, he is receding quite badly anyway.

Incidentally after the griping about the lack of youth culture upthread, Craig and Rosie became miserablist goths, which was quite entertaining. However they just ruined any pretence of knowing what kids like by making Scooter (yes, they actually have a teenage character called Scooter) miss the wedding to stay at home and watch a Victor Mature film. However I still find Scooter the most likeable young character in it.

However, Fred is about to pop his clogs, I say, pop his clogs. I'm back loving Corrie again these days.

scooter was absoluely fucking awful ailsa, one of the stupidest characters ever on the show.

other ones wot i have hated: that barman/cleaner who came in and only got one plotline, and it was some stupid thing where he saved the life of a business man who was coming to negotiate with m.baldwin at the factory he was cleaner in, so then the businessman said he'd only do business negotiations with the cleaner (???) (speaking of which, when was the last time betty had a plotline of note? she's pretty superfluous these days, though i'd still rather she was in it)

kirk - i don't really need to explain this, do I? especially big thumbs down for anything involving kirk& the young crowd arguing about the kennels, hanging out at the kennels, anything involving kirk and/or kennels basically.

sally's soulmate from a couple of years back.

i'm sure i can think of a few more.

Obviously the next week Janice was back to being gobby and annoying and pointless again.

*Not because I don't want Eileen to be happy with a nice bloke, but because Eileen is the best (yet most underused) character they have.

What happened to Kelly's mad Single White Female stalker? I appear to have missed the entire denouement of that storyline.

I liked Scooter because he was not Kirk/Chesney/David/Craig/Rosie/Molly/Sarah/Jason/any other badly-written young character ever. He was a geek! He liked stuff he found in bins and staying in watching old films and other non-angsty-teen stuff! (admittedly he was dragged down by supposedly being attractive to/attracted to Sarah).

Worst characters recently: Cilla, Yana, The Ramsdens, Karen McDonald, Lloyd, Chesney, Charlie-shagging nu-Maria (she used to be OK sometimes before she had this ludicrous personality shift to some sort of sub-Candice bimbette), Adam Fucking Barlow (who, lest we forget, was actually aborted yet somehow still managed to be born as some short-arsed fat bloke before coming back about a year later as The Bloke With The Worst Haircut In The World).

Most pointless character = Keith (Craig's grandad) and his stupid fucking pigs

Best character = Eileen.

It's gobsmacking how well written Corrie is compared to the other soaps, I have to say I really enjoy it. It never descends into absolute farce, and the characters are very human. It also is one of the few TV shows which seems to portray the elderly quite well.

And yes, poor Ashley, Bev, Audrey, and adieu to Fred, one of the legends of the street. : ' (

somehow (and to it's detriment) ILX seems much more of an eastenders type place than a corrie one.

I apologise herewith to Keith, even though he's fictional for making him the most pointless character ever in a show that had VERNON THE DRUMMER DUDE in it. Possibly because he was so pointless and rubbish that I forgot he existed until I thought about this more.

Add Violet to the under-used-but-potentially-OK list, surely there's a storyline for her round the corner. I think Liam seems a worthwhile addition, and despite all reservations I had prior to him joining, I really like Danny Baldwin too.

Things happen when people leave Coronation Street though.

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