Corrie is refreshing in my eyes, surely as a soap watcher you want a full mixture of story's.

And at the end of the day if anybody doesn't like it, why waste your 30 minute slot it is on

who was actually on the roofs? looked a bit high up

For me Phil Collinson's biggest mistake was the Tram Disaster. The look on the driver's face as he plunged off the viaduct into Dev's and Sunita's shop was very, very laughable.

And some of the lines and their delivery were weak!

However the BIB I completely disagree with, sorry!

Tim Metcalfe was fixing Sally Webster's aerial at Number 4. Neil decided to nick his ladders and climbed upon the roof of The Rovers Return.

Andrea then decided to try and join him to talk to him but the ladder slipped from under her feet.

One problem with the aerial shots looking from The Rovers over to Tim? The blatant CGI roof of Nuttall's Brewery facade (the MOSI on the old Granada backlot.)

I didn't mind last night shows.

But for 2 people on a roof, why was part of the road sealed off, and did it really need half of weather field fire service there.

Tiny Paul and Princess Toni could have saved the day, if they were still around

I would much rather watch 'Invitation to Love' on repeat than current Corrie.

Andrea's "acting" whilst she was hanging from the ledge was laughable.

I was half expecting Muddie to appear from the cgi background in a lycra costume, fly up and swoop across the rooves, tucking one man under each arm. before spinning a huge Web, spiderman style, to act as a safety net to soften Andrea 's fall! They might as well embrace the madness.

Who ever said we don't care about the characters is spot on which is good cos it's not too late. They should spend more time focusing on ones we do care about , in storylines that tally with their personalities, use the others as props, simple.

Absolutely awful episodes, have we really just gone through weeks and weeks of Neil stalking Andrea for it to end like that? ... The part with Tim and Sally was bad enough.

If anyone has the episode on sky,fast forward or backwards...and watch the sky in the background when the are on the roof, you will see jerky movements of the cgi sky background. So clearly not on a roof. If you was on the roof of that pub you would be gripped with fear, but they are sat on it having a chat, lol.

Also this business with Michael, I don't remember him being ill or showing any symptoms of being ill til his auntie showed up.

As for Carla taking madden under her wing, omg noooooo

Under the Mental Health Act possibly

There isn't a balance though? It's all just the same bland repetitive rubbish.

Corrie is terrible at the moment.

It was stupid to keep Tim up there to be honest, why wouldn't Liz let Tim use his own ladders, if she was so insistent though surely someone else in the whole Street must of had a pair ladders somewhere. Silly storyline.

Surprised no one has mentioned this maybe I dreamt it. Kirk and Beth coming out with a small stepladder, and a tiny piece of foam. Kirk is not the brightest but surely even he is not that stupid.

AS for Craig munching on a whole unsliced loaf, simply too ridiculous to be funny

Are any of the actors brave enough/daft enough to say to the writers or producer, "this is crap you cannot expect me to do/say this!"

Invitation to love, now that was a soap you could believe in lol. Didn't it leave you panting for more? lol
Corrie is missing that vital ingredient,,,,PASSION!!!!!!
Where is the love?? and not to mention the hate!

And yeah Andrea's mole is a better actor than she is.
She's unworthy of the name.

you know what you've hit the nail on the head there with that observation about Kirky boy, and your right he's not that stupid and neither is Beth, these are adults... not mentally challenged either, both hold down regular jobs, one skilled, one not FFS according to sally. whilst on the subject... another thing that has got my goat is the way they have shoe horned Maddeh in at the factory (because she reminds Carla of herself!! Deary me) who thinks this crap up?? But the back to what i was saying ...they are trying to make Maddeh seem more brighter and better than Kirk. I haven't seen Kirk stupid enough to find himself on the streets and bumming off people, FFS

Who is her with the hair?

A bigger mistake of Phil Collinson was to give his bestest friend a part in the show and push the character of Stella into every storyline. Now, Stuart Blackburn is doing the same thing with Muddie; I hope this will be his downfall.

I agree with you on that part.

Stella could have been a great character... Instead she never took off and it's no surprise why!

Maddie should be alright too, but she's got her work cut out!

Sorry to say but totally agree. Out of the 3 main soaps Corrie has spiralled into a total mess. Bitty, stupid storylines, awful acting pointless characters and no real direction. If it was an animal I would say put it out of its misery now.

However, I like Corrie, I would hate to see it die, but it needs someone new at the helm and some decent writers. Come on lets do a Brian Park and axe the deadwood - there's a lot of it (MADDIE AND SOPHIE hint, hint )

Oh FFS, it wasn't THAT bad. Nowhere near as bad as the Eastenders "walking backwards" episode, or the one where Den came back from the dead.

Don't watch EE all the time so don't know what the walking backwards episode was. However Den coming back from the dead was feasible, he was involved in some pretty dodgy stuff and people like him do disappear for years only to resurface when the dust has settled. What happened to the character afterwards WAS pretty stupid but I thought his comeback episode was OK.

All soaps have bad weeks, months or even years. Eastenders has gone through them, but Corrie really has had a crud patch at the moment - lets hope it steers out of it.

Haven't read 4 pages of posts in this thread, but guessing my take will be different from the rest. Husband & I watched on YouTube last night & laughed our way through some highly menial paperwork at hand. Nearly half the street went out to see the "action" which alone amused. Simple story, simple people, simple show & I love it. It began as a kitchen sink drama; I'd like to see more, personally.

Really, really silly. I am dispairing of Corrie ever being the great soap it once was. I feel my intelligence is being insulted by truly poor and ill thought out story lines and lack of continuation, especialy where characters are concerned.
Maddeh started out as an opportunist thief frequenting a soup kitchen - scruffy, bad mannered and all round unpleasant person, but suprise suprise - she turns out to be a lesbian and Sawfie falls for her - jeeeeez, the writers must make it up as they go along. Sally allows her to stay in her house - a real SoR - and now maddeh is all cleaned up, champion packer and capable of holding down 2 jobs. She was originally portrayed as living on the streets despite having a home and a brother she deeply cared for. All so ridiculous. Don't the writers get together to thrash out a storyline anymore? It's a bit like that game we used to play where you write down something on a piece of paper, fold it over and hand it on to the next person who writes something else and passes it on etc. etc until at the end the paper is unfolded to reveal a silly story. I swear that is the way they write Corrie nowadays.

Corrie has ALWAYS had its crazy street moments when everyone comes out to watch!
It dates back to Ena and Elsie having that handbag fight in the 60's! Classic

About the roof fiasco...someone suggested it was meant to be humorous. I must be missing something .