SWEETEST PET SELFIE
Miserable modern soap storylines are forcing Corrie fans to go back in time.
Although frankly you’d be hard pushed to know it was 20 years ago, according to Tony Sykes in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who says nothing much has changed.
“We watch Corrie from 2003 on ITV3. I know, sad innit?” he says.
“In the last year there’s been eight people committing adultery, two murders, an attempt to drown four people, a bigamous marriage and a kiss between two men.
“Add in Janice Battersby’s police officer boyfriend beating up Les Battersby, then colluding with Curly Watts’ police sergeant wife to get Les banged up. “Why do we watch it?” he asks. “It’s because we’re masochists, obviously. “And another thing,” Tony adds, “The Rovers pub is like the Tardis – it’s about 12ft wide from the outside and 30ft wide inside!”
But while Tony is unimpressed with the “magic of TV”, reader Anthony Flood of Dunmurry, Belfast, is bored with the sound of life on the cobbles. “My wife and I love to watch Emmerdale and Corrie,” he says. “But we find the sound effects so predictable and irritating.
“To signal every external scene on Corrie, you’ll hear the clickety-clack of the same old tram to say, ‘Hello, we’re outdoors now’. How about the sound of an ice cream van or a dog barking?” I agree, Anthony. And that ginger cat in the opening titles must be 50 years old by now! The reader is also concerned about the cast’s footwear.
“Do they all wear clogs? Please! No more clip-clop sounds.
“And, they all go ‘thump thump’ running upstairs. Can’t they just walk up quietly?”
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