New New Corrie thread

Yes, Simon's casting is very odd. Peter is definitely his dad, and Lucy was fair skinned and blonde. He doesn't get very good storylines. He was involved with the drug dealer (played by Will Mellor) and his gang, but apart from that I don't think he's done much at all.

Primrose53

Beechnut

Calendargirl

Why hasn’t Simon been involved in a romance?

Probably because he looks a mardy little so-and-so, never seems to do anything much, just stomps around scowling all the time.

😠

Just like his ‘mum’.

Wasn’t his Mum an ex girlfriend of Peter, called Lucy I think. She was very pretty with blonde hair. She already had baby Simon by someone else then she died and he went to Peter.

I may be completely wrong because I am now wondering what happened to his real Dad. 🤔

I meant Leanne when I said mum. I knew she wasn’t his birth mum and didn’t know who his real mum was.

Why all this emphasis on ‘bunking off’ school, as though it’s normal and acceptable?

Now the ghastly Cassie is complicit in helping Hope skip school, just because it’s her birthday.

So wrong.

Oh, and the Evelyn/ stolen dog storyline is going to be boooring!

Ryan has lost his new job because a complete stranger has walked in off the street and told the company detrimental things about him. I thought it might be the videos that Ryan was doing and maybe Daniel had managed to access them somehow while he was in the flat, albeit for a very short time. However, Ryan said he had told them about the videos and they accepted it. What has Daniel told them - and why have they believed him?

daniel told them about ryan taking steroids

lemsip

daniel told them about ryan taking steroids

Even so, you would think they would have to go on more than someone coming in and just reporting Ryan.

Anyone could spread lies about someone else, (though I know it’s true in this case).

So bored with the Daisy, Daniel, Ryan love triangle, & with Asha & the goth girl ( can never remember her name )
The abused dog storyline is ridiculous.
& the man who looks like Kenny Rogers ( can never remember his name either ) & the granddaughter- boring! !
It’s really lost any spark lately but I continue to watch every episode religiously

I wonder if Evelyn is going to campaign against cruelty to animals? Viewers would like that, I think.

Agreed about the stories with the younger characters not being good just now. And with the Stu/granddaughter one. His character is floundering which is a shame. He has had some awful storylines and scripts, plus he has Yasmeen’s acting to contend with.

How realistic is the Gemma sort? Would a SW really expect her to find ways of not being alone with any of five children? Chesney has to work, Bernie is in jail, Paul can’t supervise toddlers - how is that meant to pan out?

Story , not sort!

I’m another who is bored with the Daniel, Daisy, Ryan story. The writers never seem to know when to let a story go. They keep stories going for too long.

There are too many stories, I think that's why. As each episode features just a few actors now, instead of most of them being in all the episodes, the stories drag on. I much preferred the old way of doing it.

Obviously Jenny is going to discover something crucial on that laptop. But surely the police would have analysed it closely.

Maybe not if they are too stressed to investigate the kidnap/taking hostage of Evelyn and the assault of Tyrone.

I think the missing money will be found and somehow redirected to a new recipient? The Platt/Roberts money changes hands on a regular basis.

I agree about the missing money. As soon as Steven’s laptop, phone and notebook were returned to Audrey I thought these items will surely come up with evidence . PC Plod mentioned a couple of times how overstretched they are at work.

I’m thoroughly bored with the Daniel/Daisy/Ryan story. I hope Daisy leaves for Glasgow with Ryan. I’m expecting Jenny to buy back the pub once Audrey finds a password in the notebook to lead to hidden files in the laptop which will lead to the cash. . Gormless Craig’s mouth will drop open even wider when he realises they’ve solved the mystery of the missing money. 👮‍♀️ 🚔

I've just realised that autocorrect changed 'stretched' to 'stressed', which changes the meaning of what I wrote 😡.

Anyway, the Platt/Roberts money has been passed around by fair means or foul, from Audrey to Nick and David. Gail lost her house to her mother who gave it to David. Has Sarah had a turn yet? Or will it skip a generation and go to Max? Or will it turn out that Audrey no longer owns Grasmere Drive, and will have to bunk in with the already overcrowded Platts?

Gail bought the house with her inheritance from her previously invisible dad.

Aveline

Gail bought the house with her inheritance from her previously invisible dad.

Oh yes, the never-heard-of-and-unseen-dad, who turned out to be gay, came into Gail’s life, then sadly passed away and hardly warranted another mention.

Wasn't Stephen's money really Carla's from the factory?

That’s right Clawdy. I forgot it was Carla he swindled not Jenny !

Calendargirl

Aveline

Gail bought the house with her inheritance from her previously invisible dad.

Oh yes, the never-heard-of-and-unseen-dad, who turned out to be gay, came into Gail’s life, then sadly passed away and hardly warranted another mention.

Was that before or after Nigel Havers swindled her out of it and gave it to Audrey, who passed it to David by way of revenge?

Their family affairs are 'complicated', to say the least

It was after that Doodledog and meant the house could be saved from Ray's dastardly plot. Also she could afford to fill in the sink hole in the garden.

I'm so glad that a combintion of memories from GN posters clears up these amazingly complex tales. I have thought that Maria should be an awful lot better off that she seems to be, although Gary appears to be able to provide a decent lifestyle selling odds and ends and old sofas (remarkable) Before Garry she lived in a rented, shared flat, but was she not married to Liam, who part owned the factory with Carla? When he was killed in a car accident, she would surely have benefitted from his estate, and she was then involved with the Scottish businessman, who I think had also been involved with Carla. He died too (what a singularly unlucky woman she has been) and he left her his esatae. Where has all the money gone?

I must have missed some years out of Corrie I don’t remember Maria’s husband or any of that drama

I remember all that. Maria still works in Audrey's salon as co manager of course as well as being a local councillor. Busy lady