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Terrible Corrie script tonight

Rapunzel2010Rapunzel2010 Posts: 136
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After a month of being the best thing on TV it suddenly has become the worst thing on TV. The lines for Tracey are so cringeworthy I'm wondering if a 10 year old wrote this script? As for Kate Ford. Utterly terrible actress who is completely out of her depth here.

If this is what we have to look forward to then I might not be watching anymore.
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    AppleTangoAppleTango Posts: 1,893
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    When is the Corrie script not terrible?

    Ken Barlow: "Please try!"

    WTF
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    ClassicsGuyClassicsGuy Posts: 751
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    Ken's poem was very good, to be fair.
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    TheSlayer10TheSlayer10 Posts: 1,866
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    BEST episode in a while
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    SteveOwenSteveOwen Posts: 30,430
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    ClassicsGuy wrote: »
    Ken's poem was very good, to be fair.
    Carol Ann Duffy wrote that though, not the script writer.
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    Vodka_DrinkaVodka_Drinka Posts: 28,753
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    TheSlayer10 wrote: »
    BEST episode in a while

    I enjoyed it as well. I suppose you can't please everyone though.
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    GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,424
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    But Tracey's so frustrating not being able to act anything!
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    Rapunzel2010Rapunzel2010 Posts: 136
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    Pleased to see the majority in the episode thread agree it was crap.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,352
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    Tracey's line ruined her comeback IMO. :o
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    ClassicsGuyClassicsGuy Posts: 751
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    SteveOwen wrote: »
    Carol Ann Duffy wrote that though, not the script writer.

    Good choice by the script writer to include it though.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 605
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    The '2,000 year' line was the cheesiest, cringiest thing. High camp lines only work when they are genuinely funny. This line felt utterly forced, and the delivery of it was hideous. I had to hide behind a cushion it was so awful. Truly awful.
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    FuddFudd Posts: 167,002
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    I thought the script for everyone but Tracey was fine - the problem is Tracey took up the last line in the first episode (dear me) and most of the second. It's like the writers had no idea how to write for Tracey. Certainly it was a dramatic change from what they've been writing of late.
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    Stupid_HeadStupid_Head Posts: 37,826
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    She looked embarrassed saying that line really.
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    cheekypetercheekypeter Posts: 6,552
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    Yes quite a bit of it was cringeworthy but I did love to Gail, "your case has more holes in it than Joe's boat!" :D
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    Monster101Monster101 Posts: 2,923
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    it was all far too like eastenders tonight, i hope this wont be a recurring trend
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    -Sid--Sid- Posts: 29,365
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    I'm not a regular viewer of Corrie and the return of Tracey and the dreadful actress that plays her were enough to put me off watching part two tonight.

    Her opening line was awful and the delivery not much better.
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    ofniofni Posts: 3,398
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    Fudd wrote: »
    I thought the script for everyone but Tracey was fine - the problem is Tracey took up the last line in the first episode (dear me) and most of the second. It's like the writers had no idea how to write for Tracey. Certainly it was a dramatic change from what they've been writing of late.

    "A dramatic change" is EXACTLY the problem.

    The explosion/tramcrash and aftermath have indeed been dramatic, with a lot that has been melodramatic but allowably so except for the Stape stuff which verged on farce. But the Tracy return stuff tonight was just so ludicrous it beggars description - and Deidre's exaggerated "TracyLUV" was surely deliberately post-modern ironic self-parody.
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    jsmith99jsmith99 Posts: 20,382
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    [QUOTE=ofni;46816473...........Deidre's exaggerated "TracyLUV" was surely deliberately post-modern ironic self-parody.[/QUOTE]

    I take it that's an example of self-parodying post-modernistic irony? :)
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    ofniofni Posts: 3,398
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    jsmith99 wrote: »
    I take it that's an example of self-parodying post-modernistic irony? :)

    Possibly, or perhaps it was ironic self-parodying post-modernism.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 193
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    Me and my family were creasing at some of the 'dramatic lines':D
    Don't think that was the intention...
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    crystal_methcrystal_meth Posts: 8,379
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    SteveOwen wrote: »
    Carol Ann Duffy wrote that though, not the script writer.

    PMSL, we should really hope Carol Ann Duffy would do a better job of it that the scriptwriters or Ken! Although quite what was her motivation is curious.
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    Get Den WattsGet Den Watts Posts: 6,039
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    bobsicle wrote: »
    The '2,000 year' line was the cheesiest, cringiest thing. High camp lines only work when they are genuinely funny. This line felt utterly forced, and the delivery of it was hideous. I had to hide behind a cushion it was so awful. Truly awful.

    I was waiting for her to start cackling and for flames to appear all around her.
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    GeowitchGeowitch Posts: 341
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    I too have really been enjoying the latest episodes. The return of Tracy has ruined it for me. I have never liked Kate Ford in the role and think she is a terrible actress.
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    MaksonMakson Posts: 30,488
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    EE pooped all over Corrie tonight..Tracey's return was awful. Corrie needs a new super b*tch. Kate Ford just can't act I'm afraid.
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    JournalJournal Posts: 995
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    I was so excited for Tracy's comeback but the 2000 year line made me jump out of my seat in hysterics, don't even get me started on the Nelson Mandella one!

    Still loved it though, have to admit :).
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    EurostarEurostar Posts: 78,519
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    bobsicle wrote: »
    The '2,000 year' line was the cheesiest, cringiest thing. High camp lines only work when they are genuinely funny. This line felt utterly forced, and the delivery of it was hideous. I had to hide behind a cushion it was so awful. Truly awful.

    Crazy stuff : she sounds more like a cartoon character than a real person.
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