Sunday Comments - June 2

I'm very glad Tina raked Gary over the coals. He just says he's confused. I do think he's not really thought it through. I believe he's just mixed up the feelings about being a dad and Tina's carrying the baby for the real thing. What she should have done was smack him hard. Now she's really in a hard place having to lie to Izzy as is Gary who is making a career of of lying. Tina went running to Rita but Tommy offered to help instead. Still, these two can't seem to find their way back to each other.

Someone's going to notice the coolness between Tina and Gary sooner or later because Tina has really been thrown for six over all this, second guessing whether she's giving the baby to a loving couple or a volatile nutter. I realize Tina needs to confide in someone but Tommy was absolutely the wrong one, what with his propensity to blurt out in anger but it doesn't stop him from giving Gary an ultimatum. 

Izzy can see there's tension and she doesn't know why, not really. Gary keeps trying to put her off peacemaking because he's guilty and he is no match for Tina's fury, is he? How can Izzy not pick up on all that? Tina and Gary and Tommy are going around the Street glaring at each other. Gary is trying desperately to get them to act like nothing's happened and Tina and Tommy are busy blanking him. People are noticing. They have an argument in the builder's office and guess what? Ryan overhears, because he's come to talk to Owen, man to man, about Katy. There's another one to find out the secret and he's dating Izzy's sister. One little kiss sure seems to cause a lot of trouble on this Street.


Poor Marcus keeps getting corralled into medical advice. At least there's no test they can do. That lets Kylie and Nick off the hook for now. David further pushes the envelope by asking Nick to look after the kids if anything happens to him and Kylie. Awkward! One seizure and he's looking at his own mortality and talking about making a will. Well, really, that's not a bad idea when you have kids but it does ratchet up the uncomfort zone for Kylie and Nick.

Chesney's miserable face is really annoying me. Why is he accusing Katy of dumping the baby... on his own father. You'd think Chesney would be thrilled to spend more time with Joseph. Katy's date with Ryan went south because Chesney ruined her mood. Then she really did palm the baby off on Anna because she didn't want to get into another row with Chesney who moans and hollers about it but hates to mind the baby to let Katy spend time with Ryan. He's always starting rows in the middle of the street. Everyone else is criticizing Katy too and it's pushing her right out the door. Who the heck cares. I don't. What's Katy using for money now that she's not working at the kebab shop? Is Chesney giving her money? Is she on single mum benefits?

Ryan and Katy are also making me ill. I hate them. I hate this story. I hate how they've changed Chesney into a miserable jealous old man all because of one kiss. He pushed Katy straight into Ryan's arms. Owen nearly pushed Ryan right out of them, too, in his usual bully way when he caught Ryan and Katy just after doing the rumpy pumpy. A lot of that going around, eh wot?


Owen's already got his solicitor onto Stella. Gloria is looking more and more guilty. Eva's back from yet another holiday and shocked to see the pub up for sale and even more shocked to see her mother scrubbing floors and she's blaming it all on Leanne. With that crisis coming to a head, it all comes out. Gloria's got the cash after all. How? Plot hole of the week, that's how. Eric's wife and his solicitor both said Gloria wouldn't get a cent. When did Eric change his will? And if she did inherit, why wouldn't the former wife contest it? Why would Gloria watch Stella struggle for weeks and keep the secret of her money to herself and spending it on her own, hoping Leanne would pay up or the bank would? I liked her before but this really is the limit of selfishness and she's off my Christmas list. And even after all that, she didn't offer it to Stella, preferring to keep it as her nest egg, at first anyway.

But everyone's put pressure on her and added to the guilt so she went to Owen and offered him her inheritance. She pointed out that he'd still get nothing if he took Stella to court and everyone would know he'd be the one that shut down the Rovers. After everything she'd said about not giving the money to Stella, it was quite a surprise when she told them. At least they're putting Karl to work...for free too! You notice that they're going to have to find second hand tables and fittings so that means the pub is already going to have a lived-in feel, nice and traditional. Even Leanne was guilted into contributing a bit towards the decorating. It's certainly given Stella the opportunity to quit the cleaning job. That didn't last long.

Why on this green earth would Karl have the slightest hope that Nick would give him a job given the way Leanne feels about him? Anyway he's having to be a builder for no money at all to help with the rebuilding expenses.

But what I wanted to know is, if Gloria is so worried about having no security, why didn't she offer the money as a buy-in partnership rather than just a gift which is what it sounds like she was doing? Well apparently they are doing just that as she's calling herself co-owner. The pub is nowhere near being ready but Gloria's already inviting people to an opening in less than a week and Stella's putting pressure on Owen so he's going to concentrate on the pub and leave the living quarters to later. Karl continues to make me ill by being all loved up over Stella.

Paul and Eileen have had their days away in London. Brian's at a loose end without Julie. That bit with the vegetables was mystifying wasn't it? Brian talking about Paul's dangerous job isn't helping Eileen, though. She got through his first day back at work with a little help from the wine bottle.

Tim's not paid for the school trip. One more point against him. Faye's realizing it's not so green on her Dad's side of the fence. Anna's right, if Tim can't afford the school trip, and Anna can find the money, she's still her mother and it's only right she contribute. She's just trying to make a point but she couldn't disappoint her either.

Peter and Rob are still rutting like stags on the hill, both moaning and complaining, Peter pulling rank and Rob pushing back. The coffee machine is pouring coffee when it's not asked for and making a mess but Rob delays fixing it mainly because Peter told him to. I would think the company he leased it from is responsible, not Rob as the customer. Anyway, Tracy distracted Rob from his rant with a bit of rumpy pumpy in the back room and Peter arrived back to find the machine spewing coffee all over the floor again. Not happy.

Roy's read the letter. It's full of regrets and his father wants him to get in contact. Sylvia thinks that should be an end to it but Roy isn't sure. Letting a phone ring for 3 minutes is a pretty safe bet someone isn't home. He's even made a list of questions except when he finally gets through to someone, his dad isn't there. He's moved out ages ago and apparently the new owners took over the old phone number. That is doable in the UK, in case you were wondering. Roy has decided to find his father now and nothing will get in his way.

There's a trip through the family photo album with gems from Sylvia non-stop. Wonderful, wonderful stuff! Sylvia tracked down an old friend of St. John's and then Roy got all nervous again. Roy is really thrown off centre. He is already questioning his life and fears that he will not hear the answers he wants. He also fears his father will be disappointed him him, too. But the end result was not what was expected. St. John has been dead for 3 months, dying with many regrets. Roy's got half-brothers and a half-sister, will he want to meet them? Probably not.

Even now that Roy knows his dad is dead, Hayley keeps pushing. Now she wants him to talk about his feelings and to visit the grave. I am really loving the Cropper storyline. It's really developing the relationship between Roy and his mother for one thing. Some amazing scenes between Roy and Sylvia especially when Sylvia was emphasizing how different Roy is from his father. You know St. John's abandonment hurt her as much as Roy.  Roy really is resisting getting in touch with his feelings. LIkely as not he doesn't know how he feels, very mixed emotions i should imagine, knowing Roy. But Sylvia and Hayley manage to get him to the cemetery because Sylvia herself wants to go anyway. Lovely scenes with Sylvia telling Roy how she met his father and how different things where back in the day, then hissing about hating him for leaving her and her young son.


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