With characters in soaps there has to be an element of empathy and 'like' for the character or they have to be so wicked you love them for their badness.

Hence my confusion over Corrie's lastest plot with Dev and Sunita.

Here we have a very popular character of Sunita, people feel for her, seen her grow and now shes going.

Why? Well apparently so they can explore the character of Dev and his daughter.

But following this storyline with Sunita and her exit I personally don't think I will feel anything but dislike for the character and even prior to this I have always been more interested in his lovers or family then him.

This storyline seems a bit strange, to turn the audience aganist a character that is staying in a show. Of course that works with people like Phil Mitchell or Kim Tate but Dev has always been a bit of backdrop character in many respects.

I just find the whole storyline a little strange.

Someone pointed out in another thread that Dev never even owned any of the shops until 2000 when he brought them from Vic's dad which makes the whole how he got them all up the duff so quick puzzling.

and then someone else pointed out that he could have bought the shops and installed his 'women' in them.
so they would have somewhere to work and keep his kids.

Well the creative license I can understand. All soaps do that.

Yes, shoddy writing really, isn't it?

He could have got them pregnant beofre he got the shops, just put them in the shops to give them some more stability.

Yes, it is a bit patchy in some places, i mean i would have let Dev get away with having the 1 secret love child, Amber as an mistake but has he never heard of a condom. Got a bit confused when the 2nd and 3rd and 4th child was mentioned. However i do remember with Mad Maya, Dev hugged and ensured that the people who worked in the Eccles Shop where unharmed, though i never thought much of it at the time. And as for getting rid of Sunita is silly, they need more the strong late 20s - early 30s women in it with, Karen left and Shelley and Tracy slowly following! oh well

Actually no, the writing on the whole is very polished, the basic problem is the premise of the plot.

Exactly! That's my point!

Sorry I thought your point was the writing is shoddy which was not the point I was making.

I find this storyline unbelievable and a waste of space.

How can you be married to someone and not check their bank balance or phone calls all this time and then go round to some chicks flat and see a photo of Dev and some chick? Then find out your husbands shagging half of Manchester?

The writers have truly lost the plot this time.

He must have done! His eldest daughter looks about 19 so he's clearly been breeding for about 20 years!

Which one? He's got 4!

I expect it's the ONLY one who happened to have a 'speaking' part!!! The others were just 'talked' about but Amber actually got to 'talk' back - mores the pity

This particular storyline does nothing for me, I'm afraid. One illegitimate child that you know nothing of I can just about believe, but 4...?

Well if you can hide one child, then why not four. Once you have the basis for a secret I'm not sure why you couldn't extned it to cover more.

I also love the fact that some posters will screen potential partners by checking their bank balance, phone records, DNA, police background.... Its like CSI: Weatherfield.

And I know I will be alnone in saying this but I really don't like Sunita's character. simpering, irrational, and currently flying of the handle. Lets calm down and talk/sing/speak-with-rising-and-falling-voices about it all.

It does seem bizarre getting rid of Sunita just when there's the possibility of some decent storylines involving coping with twins. Although I do like Mina Anwar who plays Amber's mother, I'd like to see her becoming a regular.

I think Sunita's a much better character, with more potential, than Dev (and of course Shobna is a better actor than Jimmi).

Re checking Dev's phone records - what would that show? Nothing except that he sometimes calls the shops he owns. And Ravinder has already said he is not interested in his kids, so he probably doesn't have any untoward contact at all.

I agree with your original post Polly, about Dev being the least sympathetic character in this storyline. As you say that has always been the case, I have never be interested in him, and I doubt very much that Jimmi is up to any major 'sympathetic' type future plotlines. Amber is great however so I hope she is sticking around.

Maybe they are hoping to 'do an Ian Beale' with Dev - he's nasty but then again he's nice, a complex human character etc. However for that you need a really good actor, and you could never claim that for Jimmi.

As I understand it he only bought the Corner Shop from his uncle cos of family problems - I believe he owned shops in Birmingham previously - it would not be surprising that someone who could be a serial parent could have moved his ladybirds into the new shops - he may well have had them in the old ones - we wouldn't know Living rent free and earning a wage at the same time has to be a good thing for the mothers. I do remember Dev screaming into the phone "get out and take your children" to his workers during "Mad Maya" - and then there was the whole business of organising accommodation for them while the shops were rebuilt. A dutiful employer or a man covering his tracks? Hard to say really. Guess we'll have to wait and see. ...

why did they have his kids in the first place, hes hardly a stud, even though he thinks he is.