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girlofpreyI didn't really get to watch much of Coronation Street tonight, due to my nephew being here, and me sitting and eating tea in a different room while the first episode was on, and then just missing the second one. I have no idea if David actually got married or not. I did manage to finish seeing the bits of last night's episode I missed though. DAVID TOTALLY DID CALL NICK SEXY. And then went outside to give Graeme some puppy dog eyes until Graeme agreed to come out for a drink with him for his stag do. It was like David was willing to flirt with any male character he had to to make sure his wedding went well. It may still be the gayest heterosexual wedding I've ever seen. Dude.
But yeah. I saw bits of Maria struggling to get the order done on time though, while all the workers complained about her and made sexual innuendos about her and Frank. Oh God. And I read yesterday an article with Alison King about Carla, and how she suddenly decides she really likes Frank because he's introduced her to a load of contacts, and how apparently having Maria "play the victim" over the whole sexual assault thing has brought up some old resentments Carla had towards her. And OH MY GOD. I wish Tony would come back as a ghost. I've said it quite a few times, but it's still true. Most of the time I'm watching the scenes I'm just picturing him standing in the back somewhere, silently fuming over the workers not doing what Maria says. And just silently fuming whenever Frank is anywhere nearby. He could sort out all of Maria's problems pretty lickedy split, in my opinion. Although probably also make her life a hundred times worse, to be fair.
I was thinking earlier of the first time I realised I liked the idea of David and Becky together (friendship-wise). I don't want to go into too much detail, but it was one time when I was really into Coronation Street and was thinking about it in terms of fic cliches and my kinks. I'm not even go into great detail about my various fantasies about David/Gary scenarios where Gary was a werewolf. But I at one point hit on the idea of David having VISIONS. Visions of the future, or visions of things that needed sorting out. And at some point it became visions of a monster or a demon that was rising, and that they needed to stop. And there was going to be a sword and someone who needed to wield it obviously, and I decided that I didn't want it to be Gary because I didn't want to be obvious. And then I hit on the idea of Becky. BECKY BEING THE CHOSEN ONE AND HAVING A SWORD AND HAVING TO SLAY A MONSTER, AND DAVID KNOWING ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE'D HAD THE VISIONS, AND THE WAY HE WOULD LOOK AT HER, AND THE WAY SHE WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT BUT WOULD TOTALLY PROBABLY STEP UP IN THE END, BECAUSE PEOPLE NEEDED SAVING. Oh. The visions thing is a bit more unfortunate now, what with David having epilepsy and everything. But then again, it's not like the show has mentioned that much since he got diagnosed. But I'm still not sure that's not the Coronation Street I wish I was watching now. David having visions and Becky with a sword. And everyone else sort of struggling to understand and worrying about them. Again: oh.
I did manage to see some of Emmerdale tonight though. So, Declan's just a dick, isn't he? I can't tell if he's gotten worse since Nathan left, or was just always like that. And Mia thinks that her relationship with Adam should be more important to him than the fact she helped her dad try to evict his family. Okay. There's hardly anyone I really like on Emmerdale anymore, except Carl and Val. And it's just difficult to like Carl at the moment. And I don't even know what is happening with Cain and Amy. He doesn't know who she is or how old she is despite the fact they've been living in the same small village for a few months now, and she was working with his dad at one point? Hmph, Emmerdale.
Anyway. In other news, music I have learned I loved lately. Mostly it's You Think You're Cooler Than Me by Mike Posner. I heard it first in a garden and home centre on Monday, I think. I thought it was by Mika on hearing it, and I was so convinced about it that when I came home and looked it up and heard it on Youtube, I assumed Mike Posner did the original, or an earlier version, and it was actually a song from the 90s or 80s or something. But anyway. No. It's totally a new song, and I quite love it. It's funny actually, because I was thinking pretty hard about Blake/Jayden from Heavy Rain at the time, and it in some ways fits their relationship quite well. There are even a pair of high-tech glasses that Jayden wears to help him solve cases, which will probably make more sense if you've heard the song. But mostly I think it's probably Ryan Howard's theme song. Or everyone who knows Ryan Howards' theme song.
Otherwise, I finally listened to 19 by Adele, which I bought about a year ago, ahead of/around the same time I ordered her new album. It turns out it's really good, as I thought it probably would be. I really like Adele.
And speaking of Welsh people, it turns out the Newport State Of Mind vid from Red Nose Day is up on Youtube. Complete with Michael Sheen. Hurrah!
In other news, what the hell is happening with The Event? I knew it had come back, I saw it on the TV communities and stuff, but I don't know what my dad's download limit is like in terms of entire episodes of stuff, and I knew it would be coming back to Channel 4 at some point. So I waited, assuming I would hear about it, or that it would be back in it's old slot at 9 o'clock on a Friday. I'd heard something about it coming back on March 28th, and I looked out for it around then. But I heard nothing. Then a week or so ago I noticed in a TV guide an episode on one night at about 10.50 or 11.50, which I assumed was a repeat, but which didn't have the (rpt) symbol in the blurb. I forgot it was on and missed it anyway. Then I checked the Channel 4 website to see what they said, to find out they totally had started screening the second half of the season, and they had some episodes on the 4 on demand service that had already been on, but when I checked an episode guide it seemed that I'd still missed out on a few episodes before that. So what the hell? I'll probably have to man up and just download it. If my dad has enough downloading limit, obviously. But I really thought they might have MENTIONED it was back on somewhere. Man.
But yeah. I saw bits of Maria struggling to get the order done on time though, while all the workers complained about her and made sexual innuendos about her and Frank. Oh God. And I read yesterday an article with Alison King about Carla, and how she suddenly decides she really likes Frank because he's introduced her to a load of contacts, and how apparently having Maria "play the victim" over the whole sexual assault thing has brought up some old resentments Carla had towards her. And OH MY GOD. I wish Tony would come back as a ghost. I've said it quite a few times, but it's still true. Most of the time I'm watching the scenes I'm just picturing him standing in the back somewhere, silently fuming over the workers not doing what Maria says. And just silently fuming whenever Frank is anywhere nearby. He could sort out all of Maria's problems pretty lickedy split, in my opinion. Although probably also make her life a hundred times worse, to be fair.
I was thinking earlier of the first time I realised I liked the idea of David and Becky together (friendship-wise). I don't want to go into too much detail, but it was one time when I was really into Coronation Street and was thinking about it in terms of fic cliches and my kinks. I'm not even go into great detail about my various fantasies about David/Gary scenarios where Gary was a werewolf. But I at one point hit on the idea of David having VISIONS. Visions of the future, or visions of things that needed sorting out. And at some point it became visions of a monster or a demon that was rising, and that they needed to stop. And there was going to be a sword and someone who needed to wield it obviously, and I decided that I didn't want it to be Gary because I didn't want to be obvious. And then I hit on the idea of Becky. BECKY BEING THE CHOSEN ONE AND HAVING A SWORD AND HAVING TO SLAY A MONSTER, AND DAVID KNOWING ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE'D HAD THE VISIONS, AND THE WAY HE WOULD LOOK AT HER, AND THE WAY SHE WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT BUT WOULD TOTALLY PROBABLY STEP UP IN THE END, BECAUSE PEOPLE NEEDED SAVING. Oh. The visions thing is a bit more unfortunate now, what with David having epilepsy and everything. But then again, it's not like the show has mentioned that much since he got diagnosed. But I'm still not sure that's not the Coronation Street I wish I was watching now. David having visions and Becky with a sword. And everyone else sort of struggling to understand and worrying about them. Again: oh.
I did manage to see some of Emmerdale tonight though. So, Declan's just a dick, isn't he? I can't tell if he's gotten worse since Nathan left, or was just always like that. And Mia thinks that her relationship with Adam should be more important to him than the fact she helped her dad try to evict his family. Okay. There's hardly anyone I really like on Emmerdale anymore, except Carl and Val. And it's just difficult to like Carl at the moment. And I don't even know what is happening with Cain and Amy. He doesn't know who she is or how old she is despite the fact they've been living in the same small village for a few months now, and she was working with his dad at one point? Hmph, Emmerdale.
Anyway. In other news, music I have learned I loved lately. Mostly it's You Think You're Cooler Than Me by Mike Posner. I heard it first in a garden and home centre on Monday, I think. I thought it was by Mika on hearing it, and I was so convinced about it that when I came home and looked it up and heard it on Youtube, I assumed Mike Posner did the original, or an earlier version, and it was actually a song from the 90s or 80s or something. But anyway. No. It's totally a new song, and I quite love it. It's funny actually, because I was thinking pretty hard about Blake/Jayden from Heavy Rain at the time, and it in some ways fits their relationship quite well. There are even a pair of high-tech glasses that Jayden wears to help him solve cases, which will probably make more sense if you've heard the song. But mostly I think it's probably Ryan Howard's theme song. Or everyone who knows Ryan Howards' theme song.
Otherwise, I finally listened to 19 by Adele, which I bought about a year ago, ahead of/around the same time I ordered her new album. It turns out it's really good, as I thought it probably would be. I really like Adele.
And speaking of Welsh people, it turns out the Newport State Of Mind vid from Red Nose Day is up on Youtube. Complete with Michael Sheen. Hurrah!
In other news, what the hell is happening with The Event? I knew it had come back, I saw it on the TV communities and stuff, but I don't know what my dad's download limit is like in terms of entire episodes of stuff, and I knew it would be coming back to Channel 4 at some point. So I waited, assuming I would hear about it, or that it would be back in it's old slot at 9 o'clock on a Friday. I'd heard something about it coming back on March 28th, and I looked out for it around then. But I heard nothing. Then a week or so ago I noticed in a TV guide an episode on one night at about 10.50 or 11.50, which I assumed was a repeat, but which didn't have the (rpt) symbol in the blurb. I forgot it was on and missed it anyway. Then I checked the Channel 4 website to see what they said, to find out they totally had started screening the second half of the season, and they had some episodes on the 4 on demand service that had already been on, but when I checked an episode guide it seemed that I'd still missed out on a few episodes before that. So what the hell? I'll probably have to man up and just download it. If my dad has enough downloading limit, obviously. But I really thought they might have MENTIONED it was back on somewhere. Man.
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Date: 2011-04-09 10:31 pm (UTC)Emmerdale is a bit annoying at the moment, I can basically stand about five people in the cast. And OH GOD CAIN NO. Honestly, I have no idea why Cain hasn't been run out of the village yet. HAAAAAATE.
I have been unable to watch Coronation Street recently as too much of it has been getting on my nerves (Liz especially), but I would totally watch that plotline.
Also, am i supposed to like Kelly? At all? (Emmerdale Kelly) Because every time she's on screen I'm desperate for her to go away (and why is Eve working with her, ffs? Ugh)
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Date: 2011-04-10 12:18 am (UTC)I did kind of love the episode between Cain and Charity, violence aside, just from Charity's perspective and as a honest look at an unhealthy relationship. But aside from that, yeah. Again, I haven't been watching it so I don't know, but as far as I can tell this storyline with Amy doesn't even make any sense.
I do think visions and swords would make Coronation Street better. But I kind of like it as it is as well. Or some bits of it anyway. The bits with Becky, David, and sometimes Maria. People have been awful to Becky lately though, and it's been really hard to watch, and kind of hard to understand, just in terms of character. I don't know. I just feel like the writing on Emmerdale is nothing like what it was when I was watching it before. Which is probably to do with Gavin Blythe dying I guess, but still. And Coronation Street doesn't seem quite as good as it used to be either.
Kelly...well. I don't know. I didn't use to like her, she was basically like she was now before, if not worse. But then she and Jimmy got properly together, and really loved each other. And they were talking about starting a family, because he always wanted one, and he was supposed to be trying for one with his previous wife, but she'd been taking the pill behind his back. Kelly wasn't sure because she wanted to be a model, but she was getting older and her career hadn't taken off, so she genuinely properly agreed to start trying for a baby with Jimmy. But then she got an offer for a really good job, around the same time as she found out she was pregnant. And it was awful, because it was what she really wanted, but she sort of wanted the baby as well, and she'd promised Jimmy. So with some support from a younger Scarlet she had an abortion behind Jimmy's back. But then the job fell apart in a really horrible way, and she couldn't keep it to herself about the abortion and Debbie found out and blackmailed her, and then she ended up talking to Debbie's cousin who found out about it, and Jimmy thought she and he were having an affair. And then it all came out on her wedding day, and Jimmy just said she couldn't be with him anymore. And it was really awful and I really did like her at that point. And then she was coming back and I thought, oh, that'll be awkward and interesting maybe. But now she's doing this and I just don't even know, I don't know if she and Jimmy getting together is on the cards, or if they'll try to turn it around and say she really is in love with Jimmy, apparently. And I just hate her. I don't know. I want her to go away too, and for Nicola to be happy again, and I even liked her once. Oh, you know just before Nathan left I got to really like him and Nicola, the way they were together. If he was still around, I like to think he would be incensed and devious and protective over what's happening with Jimmy and Kelly. Just because she's his acquaintance/employee/possible friend. It's a nice thought. I'm having to imagine a lot of soaps as though they were better a lot of the time at the moment.
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Date: 2011-04-13 05:20 pm (UTC)