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Corrie - Carla just a joke now?
This exit story has been rather amateurish, repetive and drawn out, surely a once strong character like Carla deserves so much better, its rather a sour way to end things imo, Ali King is one of their best and on screen it comes across as force as if she doesn't believe any of this herself.
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Who t f's bright idea was it to totally diminish a once utterly fabulous, charismatic character and have her leave in a cloud of shame after a 1NS with Tracy Barlow's sloppy seconds?? Hand's up??
I was also thinking that Peter Barlow should have been somehow involved with her exit storyline as they had amazing chemistry together and he was the love of her life.
Maybe she'll join him in Portsmouth.
The sooner she's gone, the better
Before that it was the Carla/Peter/Leanne merry go round. And now it's the Tracy thing, same plot endlessly repeated.
This.
For me, Carla has been going round in circles since 2010 when she suddenly fell in love with Peter Barlow. That was only four or so years into her time on the show. For the past six years she's been stuck in the cycle that you describe, although that's actually the same pattern her stories have followed since she first arrived.
Don't forget, jsmith, that Nick was also involved in the Carla/Peter/Leanne merry-go-round when the story first started to develop around the time of the tram crash. Those four characters have really been treated shoddily over the past 5 years or so, simply shifting from one to the other as part of the show's next 'explosive romance'. I'm surprised that Carla and Leanne haven't embarked on a doomed lesbian affair ...
You would have thought they would have wanted to see how KO deals with things
Though as me and jsmith have said, it's not just Stuart Blackburn that has treated Carla like a rag doll. Crowther and Collinson were really the ones to start heaping the misery on Carla, Blackburn is just following the template that they set.
I'll be glad when she has gone to be honest. Alison King is a good actress but i'm sick of Saint Carla..
This!
Did I read something the other week about it?
This is a woman who has found out her husband had cheated with the au pair, battled her alcoholic and gambling demons, slept with her 'enemy's' boyfriend, escaped a coach crash, battled her way past a fire which she thought she started, was about to tip herself over a cliff until Tracy confessed, learnt the true identity of her father, tried to keep her business afloat to various levels of degrees, suffered a miscarriage...................and this was just under Blackburn's watch!
It's just misery, misery and more misery. So glad she's leaving............forces the boss to give other characters a chance to lead storylines. Carla's a tired character, butchered by Blackburn..........if they handled her properly I doubt she'd be leaving full time.
Agreed.
I have never liked Carla that much. But I don't like seeing the far more tiresome Tracy, constantly getting the better of her.
Nothing will change until Kate Oates work is seen on screen
I hope Alison King does well away from the show to save her returning to more of this.
Carla would have just told her to shove it from day one, not bowed and scraped to a poisonous witch like Tracy.
She'd have brazened it out, denied, denied, denied and told Rob to do the same.
Sadly, yes.