Ok. We've arrived at the storyline where Jamie has professed his love for Frankie. You know, *real* love. Attraction. He's loved her all his life. Well duh. Apparently he was 7 and she was 16 babysitting him and within a year was his stepmother and mother of his baby brother Warren. Yeah, ok, have a crush on her when you're 7. Perfectly normal, stepmother or not, especially when you have a harridan for a biological mother who is now an alcoholic harpy. Be supremely pissed off and jealous when your dad shags your fiancee and steals her from you. Even be a bit narked because your stepmother has found a hot new boyfriend. You might be pissed with your father and think she's done the right thing chucking him out but seeing her in a new light, being hot and sexual with a younger boyfriend is probably a bit weird because you know, you don't think about your parents having sex even though you know your father is chasing everything in skirts. Now you know your stepmother is having sex too, well that's just not on is it. she's your step mother. Has been for 20 years. She treats you like her own child.
But what? because your drunken mother suggests jealously that you have a thing for her, you start to believe it? And Frankie? lonely, sad, seeing how much Danny still wants her and still loving him and still attracted to him but terribly hurt, doesn't want to take the chance on him again (and rightly so. leopards don't change their spots, m'dear). You rebound by kissing your stepson when he lunges at you? wrong!!!! so so wrong! Seems like she's catapulting back to Danny because of it when she should have chucked Jamie out on the cobbles to get his head straight. I wasn't a big Jamie fan before and i'm definitely gone off him now. What were the writers thinking? If Danny hadn't got together with Frankie until Jamie was 16 or 17 or so, already more or less an adult, it might have made more sense. Or at least you could stretch it to a bit of understanding. She wouldn't really have "mothered" a teenager as much as made friends with him. But he was a child. 7. Running to her with scraped knees and nightmares. It's just going to be too hard to bear. And because i do the Sunday comments, i sort of have to watch it rather than tape and fast forward it. The things i do for you lot! ;) I'm going to hate every minute of this ill thought out storyline. I really am.
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I found the story line unsettling as well at first, but as it went on I thought it was done quite well. Strange? Perhaps. Far fetched? A little. But incest? That's just insane - she is not his natural mother. Whoever suggests this needs to get their head out of the gutter. This is a story about two people who have naturally and innocently loved each other for years and whose love develops into something greater than either had planned. Through their tragedies a stronger bond was created. Regardless of how disgusting the story seems to some, I find it a very passionate but ill-fated love affair and the chemistry between the actors is undeniable. I love the story! I will miss them when they leave the show.
Your interpretation is exactly what the producers and writers were getting at. I do know it's not incest but it just feels wrong for someone that's brought up Jamie from a child and only ever loved him like a mother. For me it really has that Ick factor. It almost feels like Jamie is doing it to get back at his father for taking Leanne from him. Tit for tat, sort of. I personally don't see the chemistry but even over on Corrieblog where this discussion went on a few days ago, there were some in favour of the story and some in varying degrees against it. Neither one of us is alone in our opinion and that's what a good discussion is all about!
I was okay with this story at first, since I could accept that Jamie might have developed a bit of a crush on his pretty stepmum when she came into his life, and it could have evolved into something more, especially as their joint betrayal by Danny brought them even closer together. I am liking it less now, though, and am confused by Frankie's reaction. It just doesn't seem believable. Corrie has frequently flirted with incest, such as the Linda/Mark affair when Mike was marrying Linda. I would have found the story more convincing if Frankie had firmly repulsed Jamie and stuck to her guns.
I enjoy your entries on Corrieblog, and am glad you have started this one for us Canadian fans!
Nancy: At least with the mark and Linda thing, Mark was an adult and Linda actually ran after him. It just doesn't seem likely that Frankie would be attracted to someone she always thought of as a son.
And thanks for the kind words! Spread the word around about the blog!
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