Sarah lou is an a terrible mother.
dancerdaisy
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Is it just me or does anyone else think that Sarah Lou is an awful role model, she allowed her fourteen year old daughter to travel home from Milan alone, alright she didn't know she had run away but she should have, when she arrived to take her home she had no authority over her and just screamed at her like a fishwife. She laughs at all her bad behaviour, and actually encourages her to be rude to Gail and David. She doesn't seem to mind her drinking, or wearing inappropriate clothes and makeup for her age. And last but not least she allows her to hang out with Callum her drug dealing boy friend.
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She is completely & utterly inept as a mother!! Thre's no wonder Bethany is like she is!! Not only has there obviously been zero discipline, she does really seem to find it funny her young daughter verbally abusing her elders, getting drunk, bunking off & lying about it!! It's almost like she wishes she could be more like her!!
That is the problem for me & why people on here are so against these two! It's not so much that Lucy Fallon/ Bethany isn't like a 15 year old (I think she's doing a great job as I've stated in another thread), it's more that Sarah is acting like her younger sister, looking up to her almost!
The problem is definitely with Sarah not Bethany for me!
No wonder Bethany is what she is.
Time for Sarah to woman up and get a grip, (ideally of Bethany's throat).:D
I realise that she is only twenty eight, but even so, we are supposed to believe that she lived an independent life in Milan and worked in the fashion industry, l just don't see it, she seems to immature to have done any of that, in fact she's struggling to hold down a job in the rovers.
As others have discussed, if the production team wanted to take Sarah down the route of being on the bones of her arse, without a job or any prospects, they could have easily done that. She could have returned to Weatherfield with her tail between her legs because her career had failed in some way. Instead we're meant to believe that she has gone from pulling strings in the Italian fashion industry to pulling pints in the Rovers. The whole thing is just disastrous. From the moment I saw her stumble into No.8 with a suitcase I knew things would be bad.
My biggest question is what does Sarah actually do? She just totters around the Street in her heels like a prototype Liz McDonald and barely says a word. The scripting since her return has been atrocious. Watch any scene featuring Sarah and she rarely says a thing.
Add to that the seemingly utter contempt for her family, her deluded approach to parenting and general lack of any kind of common sense and you've got a character that I simply can't stand. They may as well have got a couple of pieces of wood, a loose handful of nails, some stuffing and a 'Milan'-style outfit and fashioned a scarecrow to play Sarah.
I don't necessarily blame Tina O'Brien for this, it's certainly down to the writing and the development of the character (or lack of).
Her relationship with David should be full of tension but I find myself not caring in the slightest. Jack P Shepherd is marvellous, showing David as a complex, interesting character but sadly when he's pitted against the current incarnation of Tina O'Brien's Sarah, all of his efforts seem pointless. I'd tell Sarah to sod off and not come back. I just don't care about her.
Gail's transformation into simpering whimp doesn't help matters either. Why hasn't Gail given her a good shouting at? She always used to.
The Platts should be Corrie's premier family, particularly at the moment. On paper they are perfect - two of the show's longest serving actresses as matriarchs and three well-established adult children along with Paula Lane's Kylie. A few younger children dotted around to add to the mix. Surely this is a perfect soap family?
Gail needs to move out of No.8 and let David and Kylie have that as a family home. Gail was in a similar position when she lived with Ivy so it surprises me that Gail would do the same to David.
Her character lost all direction after that.
Having her return from Italy should've been her own story not shoe horned into the David/Callum stuff. But her character was a shambles before she left and there's been no improvement or growth with her at all.
Theres so much more they could've gone with her, she could have her own business, be selling franchises, be a drug dealer, an escort, had to flee coz Bethany was accused of cyber bullying, arrived with her boyfriend/ secret husband and a step child, arrived with a friend and have an absolutely fabulous style set up where Bethany tries to be the parent to the two washed up wannabe fashionistas.
Loads of opportunities
I completely agree, the two act more like sisters than mother and daughter which is to be expected. If they played Sarah as some great doting mother it wouldn't ring true to life
Gail: "Is this really your future Sarah? Him? (she turns to see Bethany grinning) And what are you smirking for? (turns back to Sarah Lou) If this is your life now; If you really want him then you can have him, but don't come round to my house anymore. Don't come asking me for favours because I am done with you whilst you let that low life ruin your life."
Ok maybe she isn't the type of mother to do tough love and it's not her house and the dialogue isn't great but it's a damn-sight better than most of the corrie scripts under SB unfortunately.
I would have loved to see Gail react like that, which would have been much more realistic, bring back the feisty Gail, l remember the rows she used have with the likes of ivy brennen and Vera Duckworth, she was able to give as good as she got, no way would she allow Callum to speak to her like that and get away with it. She also allows nick David Sarah kylie and Bethany to treat her like a door mat, she needs to get some back bone.
The problem with the Platts is they've all been through so much they're a parody. How could anyone go through everything Gails been through and still be the same person!