Karma is such a bitch

I certainly don't enjoy the Frankie-Jamie storyline and i think Bradley Walsh as Danny is playing a blinder, what a stonking performance he's putting in this week as his world crashes down. But you know, after the years and years that he's cheated on Frankie and after what he did to Jamie, persuing and seducing Jamie's (willing) fiancee, karma really did come back and bit him in the ass big time! There is some small satisfaction as i watch and think "how does it feel to be on the other side of things, Danny boy?" even while i'm totally disgusted and turned off by Frankie shagging her stepson. I still feel that down deep somewhere Jamie did all this because of what Danny did to him with Leanne even if he doesn't really realize it consciously. He doesn't seem to feel bad about hurting his father in the least little bit. He feels justified and smug, even enjoyed the sneaking around and getting one over on Danny. I've no doubt he thinks he loves Frankie and is attracted to her. Why she is remotely attracted to someone whom she babysat, wiped skinned knees and dirty noses, helped with homework and even now, acts more the mother to him than lover (other than the obvious) is beyond me.

After all the horrible things Cilla has done over the lifetime of her children, what's the one thing that has brought her down to earth with a resounding thud? A result of her own vanity. Hours under the sunbed have produced a cancerous melanoma on her breast. If any of her children were hurt or ill, i don't think she'd react as strongly as she has to the possibility of her own death. She doesn't have a very strong maternal instinct, just a very good survival gene. She's one of the most selfish characters we've ever met on the Street but also one of the most enjoyable. Up to now, Cilla has been pretty much one dimensional. This story is giving Wendi Peters a chance to stretch her acting chops and show us there's more than one side to her. This week she has nowhere to turn so she reaches out to the only person she can. Her daughter. Will this crisis make her appreciate her family more? Not likely. Mind you, Les will prove to her that he's not worth her appreciation, as per usual but that's only tit for tat if you will excuse the pun. She's certainly run circles around him for years.

I think she might love Les a little, as far as she's able to love anyone that isn't herself but he was more of a meal ticket to her than anything. I've always felt that. He's probably the first man that was willing to make a committment to her and loved her son so that was a way to shed some of that responsibility, too. What more could she ask for? She's trashy and mouthy and almost unredeemable but I do love the character. I know they won't kill off Cilla so watching karma kick Cilla around a little also pleases me. If it were real life, not fiction, of course i wouldn't take pleasure in someone else's tragedy no matter what but this is tv and Cilla won't be long getting back to form. Trust me.

Charlie's karma is about to jump all over his sorry ass too. He has used women and controlled them over and over and he's done the dirty on the wrong one this time. Tracy really did love him, though the fact that he's got a house and a business doesn't hurt! One of my friends thinks her current campaign to make herself seem like another of his victims is intended so that she'll end up with the house and the money which is all she really wants. I'm not so sure. I think she'd have found some way to exact her revenge even if she didn't manage to get back into the house. She's playing him. I think he knows it but allows it for now. The sex must be incredible is all i can say. As Tracy has said, she's definitely not boring and he likes that. He likes that she stands up to him and gives it right back to him. He's done some things to try to keep her under his thumb and he seems to think he's got his message across, maybe he's letting Tracy think she can run him around but will come down on her whenever he wants to but i don't think he realizes just how psycho this woman can be. She rarely shows much in the way of a conscience before or after her deeds. She is certainly another one for whom the maternal instinct doesn't come naturally. She's got a chip on her shoulder the size of the Gmex centre and it's all going to lead to her downfall. In spades.