Sexism and Corrie's ill-matched couples
Fiz came into Corrie and was great for years because the writers said to her: 'Can you do jolly for us love? Ah Jenny, you're a dear'. But a character that hangs around for a lot of years is going to have to get deeper storylines and demonstrate a broader range of emotions at some point.
And that's really not Fiz at all. I mean tell me your teeth didn't begin to itch when she was mangling vowels roughly into the shape of 'Tyrone, I'm really worried about Roy' for the millionth time, while gamely trying to shift her look from totally blank to totally worried.
Ditto Maria. With her one-paced acting she has totally nailed trusting puppy waiting to be put in a sack and and drowned by the latest no-good boyfriend. But watching her do anything else is deeply horrid, even the most basic stuff like anger.
Any half-baked actor can come in to a soap and create a character from a blank canvas based upon themselves and their own traits and get away with that for a year or two. Characters who hang around need to be bloody good actors though to handle the maelstrom of soap opera scripting shenanigans that will be thrown their way.
And that's why Steve is such an important character. The actor that plays him has developed the role from good looking fly-by-night chancer into a fantastic put-upon comic creation, one blessed with impeccable timing. He's the heart of Corrie at the moment and that's a really rare thing for a male character to be. And just to cast more doubt on the point of the opening post, you know he's so going to end up with Andrea who is not out of his League at all - just as Chesney ended up in a much more realistic relationship with the estimable girl whose name I have forgotten, and not with the beauty queen looks of Katie.
Well, she can act just like Fiz. Which is to say, annoying and visually....challenging.
And that's really not Fiz at all. I mean tell me your teeth didn't begin to itch when she was mangling vowels roughly into the shape of 'Tyrone, I'm really worried about Roy' for the millionth time, while gamely trying to shift her look from totally blank to totally worried.
Ditto Maria. With her one-paced acting she has totally nailed trusting puppy waiting to be put in a sack and and drowned by the latest no-good boyfriend. But watching her do anything else is deeply horrid, even the most basic stuff like anger.
Any half-baked actor can come in to a soap and create a character from a blank canvas based upon themselves and their own traits and get away with that for a year or two. Characters who hang around need to be bloody good actors though to handle the maelstrom of soap opera scripting shenanigans that will be thrown their way.
And that's why Steve is such an important character. The actor that plays him has developed the role from good looking fly-by-night chancer into a fantastic put-upon comic creation, one blessed with impeccable timing. He's the heart of Corrie at the moment and that's a really rare thing for a male character to be. And just to cast more doubt on the point of the opening post, you know he's so going to end up with Andrea who is not out of his League at all - just as Chesney ended up in a much more realistic relationship with the estimable girl whose name I have forgotten, and not with the beauty queen looks of Katie.
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