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The night of the day I posted about my house having internet problems, and me having to use my dad's computer, he asked me to bring my laptop down to his room, and then put a thing in the USB socket and a disc in the computer to set it up, and now I can totally pick up N-something on my laptop and have the internet in my room again! However, my dad had warned me earlier in the week about us between us having almost completely used up our internet download limit for this month, possibly because of me watching old episodes of Hollyoaks off 4od, possibly because of a bunch of updates he'd been downloading. And I was trying to be careful, I really was, but last night I without really thinking about it clicked onto a few video links and things, and accidentally used the last of it up. So we didn't have the internet for all of today, and I only just got it back an hour or so ago. Our internet problems continue, basically. But they should be a bit better from now on.

In other news, I wish I didn't love so many characters that end up sexually assaulting women. I wish it so much. Although probably nothing will ever be as bad as when I loved Sam from Hollyoaks, AND THEN THAT WENT VERY WRONG. On a current note - I've basically been having problems with Coronation Street and been avoiding watching it lately because I heard a while ago - just about after all the murder trial stuff with Gail finished, I guess - that they were possibly going to do a rape storyline involving David Platt attacking Tina, his ex-girlfriend, in revenge for her still not getting back together with him and going out with his friend Graeme instead. And while it seemed like something that went a bit too far for David, it also seemed like something they might do if they wanted him to be a bit darker now that he was a proper adult. Or that they could do it, like if he did something while she was drunk, and he didn't really think of it as rape or something. But basically, I just found it really hard to watch thinking that that was something that might happen later on. I should have known better, really, given that even the 'insider' who was telling the newspaper about the story said that the producer thought that David, Tina and Graeme were the 'future' of the show, and you can't really have someone rape someone and then really stick around as an even vaguely sympathetic character.

But anyway, ( Tonight's episode, what actually happened )

( Spoilers for David, Tina and Graeme for the next couple of weeks/months of Coronation Street )

( Gary spoilers and speculations for the next few months, too )

It's weird with a lot of the characters I tend to love - a lot of them I love because they are basically jerks, who don't really cope with other people well, and if they are male don't always cope with women/relationships well. Which sadly seems to lead into some level of sexual assault/really terrible behaviour quite easily, when plots call for it. I'm not too worried about my apparent love of them, because I know from Sam from Hollyoaks that when things get REALLY bad I don't just keep loving them and forgiving what they've done because I liked the character. And there are plenty of characters I love that have never done any kind of sexual assault or anything weird to female characters. It's just that when ANOTHER ONE goes and does something, it gets slightly more awful. OH GOD DUDES, STOP DOING IT.

Anyway. In other news ( Tonight's Emmerdale )

( Spoilers for the next few weeks/speculation on the end of the Wylde murder storyline on Emmerdale )

So. That is my Emmerdale and Coronation Street news, basically.