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Does EastEnders Cora have magical moral wisdom and insight?
Green Knickers
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If she does were does she get it from and what is it based on?I think the writing for her is all over the place,ASBO granny,sharp tongued forthright moralist,encouraging her underage granddaughters to drink last year,moralising this year?Ann Mitchell is a great actress but i feel Cora is just being used more as a vehicle for clever quips a lot of the time.
Without more context I dont buy her as a moraliser with great insight and wisdom.Especially as half the time her own behaviour strays over the line.
So has she got magical moral wisdom and were does she get it?
Without more context I dont buy her as a moraliser with great insight and wisdom.Especially as half the time her own behaviour strays over the line.
So has she got magical moral wisdom and were does she get it?
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Her character template is closer to Pat than Lou Beale but the fact she is the matriarch of a large family allows for comparisons to Lou as well. She has always been a mix of livewire/moral compass, when we first saw her I recall her giving advice to Tanya about something or other [the details are vague now and we've had lots of those Tanya/Cora stand-offs], while also getting p*ssed and making a fool of herself on Tanya's hen night.
Generally characters are more exaggerated in their debut, it's the same for returnees, then toned down later on. Cora as she was in April 2011 could not be sustained there had to be more of a balance if she was to exist as a regular. Initially she was supposed to be in just four episodes. Also she only got the job in the charity shop because of Tanya's cancer as a gesture, we often see her bunking off to go for a drink with Patrick, and we still see her drunk. You can't really form a rounded opinion of a character from four episodes and say that IS the character.
You read my mind!!
I do think the writing for Cora is patchy.Being an ASBO gran is a bit more than making mistakes in life that you learn from.
THIS! The transformation was too quick and elegnant to be believable.
The ASBO granny was a stupid idea. I'm glad they've brushed it under the carpet.
I get your point but it points out glaring inconsistency in the writing of characters.Quite sloppy and poorly thought through.
Oh I agree, but there are times where things need to be forgotten about for the best, and this was one of those times.
She probably sees where she went wrong, especially after Tanya falling ill, and sees the same thing happening again. In Lola she sees herself, I think.
Cora does have some Pat-qualities indeed, and that is what I like about her.
Bad advice and contradictory advice from one month or week to the next.
Pat was in Eastenders for years and most of the people she gave advice to were well known to her as well as their families. Cora is trying to be a matriarch to a square full of people she barely knows. It's not always wrong for a child to be removed from a parent. Cora made that judgement knowing next to nothing about Lola's personality, history or parenting skills.