kev in corrie

[crisgal]

how come he never mentions his dead son? You'd think he'd get a bit tearful on certain days of the year at least. It's as if alison and what's his name never existed!

[andy hughes]

That's soaps. Notice how, when a character leaves, they don't just leave, they become a '1984 non-person' - all memory appears expunged, they are never mentioned again.

Similarly, world events - elections - test matches - all fail to penetrate the seal bubble of soapland. Who says it's like real life?

[crisgal]

oh yeah, andy, i know what you mean - i'm just surprised that the scriptwriters have never took the opportunity to send kevin a bit doolally(sp) and got him into councelling or something - it was such a massive storyline at the time! Diedre and Ken seem to be the only characters who refer to their past!

And Rita doesn't have flashbacks; Shelley's all better; Eileen and Janice don't reminisce about Dennis; and Dev and Sunita have rebuilt all the shops (and their lives!)

[andy hughes]

It's always been this way - that's why Dallas failed to sell to japanese audiences, they couldn't understand why a load of grown men still lived at home with their mother, and discussed bsuiness with the women!

I just had problems with them eating on the windiest patio in the U.S., and never managing to finish any meal, ever!

[joko]

I hate it when they decide to leave - they go first thing the next morning!

No months of sorting things out, packing, organising a new abode etc, just up and gone.

and when someone gets married or changes their name everyone instantly refers to them by the new name as though is already ingrained in their minds - no overlap while people get used to it -

i still say bet lynch, and she was always deirdre barlow not rachid!!

[Piper-AK]

It's all the long lost siblings, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and what not that get me. I really love it when a character reappears after an absence looking totally different without any explanation. Even a 'My, you've been going to the gym haven't you?' would do. Also, why are they not all in alcohol counselling when every second of free time seems to be spent in the Rovers/Vic etc?

[joko]

and they never seem to have any friends, other than people in their street or live in very close vicinity - they invite all the old codgers and neighbours and local shopkeepers to their bithday parties and weddings etc, but not any other family members or friends!

[crisgal]

And if it really wanted to be real life and believeable - every one would be talking about the soaps!