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[girlofprey]

Things of the day:

• The volunteering dude I was talking about emailed me today to say he'd been off sick last week, and would let me know when he'd be getting back to work. This is still a little vague, but at least he's not MIA anymore and I don't have to do some sort of volunteering scavenger hunt, hurray!



• Coronation Street could literally be renamed 'Men Being Dicks' right now.



• I actually emailed ITV about the no helplines thing with Anna's storyline. They replied for the first time. It was not a good or convincing reply.



• I got my PS4 connected to the internet yesterday! This sounds like a small thing, but we have been having problems with our modem for a few months and I kind of thought it would never happen. But I did it all by myself, and then updated the software like a boss. It turns out it wanted me to manually input the name of the wifi network rather than just pick it out of a list of networks it had scanned for. This is a little odd, but actually is a problem I sometimes have with my PS3, so eh, it's just a Playstation thing I guess. And it worked at any rate.

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[brinysea.livejournal.com]

what did they say about anna's storyline? i've been livid about the whole thing

(also raph just looked at me and said 'are you talking about corrie?' and when i asked how she knew she said 'i recognized that person's icon as the person you talk about corrie with'. so that's you permanently associated with corrie. even after months away from lj)

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

The man who replied said, in a lot of awkward sentences that weren't broken up into paragraphs well, that they'd made sure that when Anna met Phelan all that we heard were 'sly remarks' and there was no physical contact shown, and it was clear it was going to happen from previous scenes, so everything was fine. He also referred to the scene as "Anna's foolish decision", and not 'the only decision available to her that a rapist took advantage of'.

How about a quote?

" If we had decided in the scenes involving Anna and Phelan to take the story to a moment of “high drama” that could have had a profound impact on our viewers, then we would have provided a helpline number and a pre-broadcast warning, which we have many times in the past, but as we pulled back from the “dramatic-edge” we decided at this juncture it would have been inappropriate. "

I could post the whole thing in a new LJ post, but these are basically the main points and the stuff that made me the most angry. He assured me that the writers and showrunners had heard and considered my views however. I replied saying that in my opinion, if you have scenes of a female character cleaning frantically and breaking down into tears because she can't stand for her partner to touch her after an abusive sexual encounter, then you have reached a moment of "high drama" that a lot of viewers will probably identify with and might be triggered by. But he didn't reply.

At the moment I don't hate how the storyline turned out, because Owen was a wanker as we always knew he would be, and it was made pretty clear that his attitude was abominable and Anna more than anyone didn't agree with it or feel ashamed. But the no helplines thing still pisses me off. Love to Gary for being all "I don't deserve to stand in the same room as you". Fuck Katy.

Corrie is a permanent association I am happy to bear, so hurrah!