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Corrie Tina's Mother - what is the point of her?
Maria_Robinson
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This awful daft looking woman was never there for her daughter when her dad died, she had the abortion, did the surrogacy, split up with Tommy.... the list goes on but she has time to turn up to Weatherfield and sit boozing in the Rovers feeling sorry for herself!>:( A totally needless character that is not particularly well acted either IMO.
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I don't think she's drippy, just she'll shocked. I don't think it's properly sunk in and she feels guilty for not having been closer to her in life. It is odd that she's not sitting there going "but who'd want to kill her" but maybe she just hasn't processed it was murder yet - as I say she's till in shock, anger at the circumstances will come later.
Narratively, she is there to keep reminding Rob of what he's done and pile even more pressure onto Carla.
She turned up too late. She should have been there at the hospital but Rita had to be the centre of attention and be told of Tina's death first. In reality, Tina's mother would
have been have been there not Rita.
Tina's mother is now secondary to the plot and there so that Carla can have a rant and Rita can play the big I am.
It's the fault of the Corrie writers who churn out this unbelievable crap.
But Tina was only the carrier, the baby does not have any of the Mcintire genes.
BIB: Totally agree with this, even if she lived on a remote Antipodean island could have got home before they had her turning up on the street!!!! This aspect of the storytelling is silly, everyone is right, she should have been at the hospital.
As per, I agree!
I know she's supposed to be a bit numb but I think I'd be more suspicious of people than she's being, I'd be looking at them and thinking "did you kill her? do you know who killed her?" Maybe she feels overwhelmed by Rita taking control and telling her that everyone loved Tina (and she's naturally getting comfort from that) but somebody obviously didn't and as a mum you'd think that that thought would be at the forefront of her mind. If it was me I'd have probably have been screaming in poor Carla's face "DID YOU KILL MY DAUGHTER!!!!!" when Carla was talking at her last night but she just stood there, well, dumb looking, expressionless. Where's her fire? Where's her anger?
LOL, very true
I read somewhere (I think on DS) that she speaks her lines like she's reading them off a beer mat. Kudos to whoever said that because unfortunately I have to agree!
Say what you like about Tina but she was alive, she was forceful, you knew she was there under any circumstances. This woman has as much presence as a soggy beer mat and I can fully understand if she drove Tina up the wall. Even when relating the force of love she felt for Tina when she gave birth - she ended up making it sound about as forceful as a slowly dripping tap!
But I'm cutting her some slack. Perhaps she's embarrassed because everyone knows her and Tina didn't have a great relationship and everyone seemed to have known her daughter better than she did. It's also hitting home that Tina effectively chose her own mother-figure in Rita and it was her that Tina confided in/talked to and this realisation is making her all the more depressed and feeling a bit of a failure as a mum? (even though everyone knew that Tina was the ultimate Daddy's girl!)
I'm hesitant to say she's a bad actress, but there has to be something in it because she isn't believable.
Or, to put it another way, a second wife who's 30 years older than the first wife.
It was stupidly handled. Why wasn't she at the hospital when Tina was first admitted? Why was it Rita that contacted her and not the hospital or the police? Her mother can't live that far that she can't turn up. It was stupid during the hospital scenes when the doctor referred to the likes of Rita, David and Rob as relatives when they weren't.
Shouldn't the mum be a bit annoyed at the fact nobody called her sooner?
I thought exactly the same thing...if it was me I'd be in the Rovers tearing off heads and lining them up on the bar, not sitting drinking with them It was one of the worst prepared story lines ever. There was the big Tina's death buildup and bam it was like they lost their train of thought...
And Linda's pretty bad herself. But up against Tina's Mum she's Judi Dench's standard!