Author: Amanda Jane

Amanda Jane is a 30-year-old writer, social media lover and pop-culture obsessed adult*. While she isn't working on her novel, she enjoys watching television shows, wondering about the YouTube business model for vloggers, movies and reading any books she can get her hands on. She might be made up of 20% coffee and 80% sarcasm. *An adult when her parents are looking.

I’m going to get so much crap for this, but this is how I feel after catching up on Corrie. 

Corrie may have more fans and higher ratings right now over Emmerdale but Emmerdale feels like a stronger, cohesive, and tightly written show than Corrie is right now. 

I look at Corrie like abstract art. You can see a pattern emerging, but there are too many splatters on the canvas for you to fully take in the design.  That makes sense to me at 1:09 am. They are trying to weave a story together, but there are too many splatters of random characters on the canvas for me to take it seriously. The story they are creating is excellent (Davids storyline) but the additional splatters (Michelle and Roberts story and even Eva and Aiden’s) it distracts from the well-designed story that could effortlessly weave into other areas of the show. (There is a reason why there is no ‘Corrie Live and Organized’ being written by me. Not that I didn’t think about it) 

Emmerdale is weaving big stories (Charity’s story and Ross’s story) within the comedy (Paddy and Chas and Marlon and Jessie), and it is working for me. I may not always be happy with the result but I can see the bigger picture and how hard the show worked to get us there. I appreciate the picture. I understand and care about this picture. The village weaves together to create this cohesive picture that makes sense to me. 

Does any of this make sense? I might delete this after I get some sleep and stop worrying about other things, but right now, I feel like Emmerdale is better than Corrie. Regardless of the ratings or promotion, ITV gives to one soap over the other…Emmerdale is working better for me than Corrie right now.  

Corrie – Random Thoughts (Amanda Complains…)

The show ignoring what Aiden did to Eva and making it seem like the end was all Eva’s doing is getting on my damn nerves. Also, SHE IS PREGNANT, and its obvious based on how the weight is sitting on her tiny frame and no one notices. Just Peter?!?! Ok then. I assume since Eva still loves him (I guess Adam was nothing to her then) that means Aiden and Eva will run off into the sunset with their baby? Whatever. Moving on. 

I love seeing the factory back. Odd. The factory was gone for so long it cracks me up that it looks exactly the same again. Like, THE SET NEVER LEFT! Hmmmmm. 

Aiden being made into a hero after all the crap he has pulled (aka he didn’t really earn the hero status in my eyes) is making me want him gone faster. Maybe he can take Phelan with him. It’s getting old. 

I swear I don’t hate the show. To prove that, I love seeing the old gang behind their sewing machines again. Makes me happy. 

EDIT: Aiden doesn’t think Eva looks 7 months pregnant? SHE IS HUGE. Eva is a tiny lady and that bump is HUGE. MY GOD. Also, I’m so anti-Aiden and Eva I can’t get behind this goodbye story. Before everyone is like, she lied about being pregnant before, I know. I don’t care. Aiden is just the worst to me. THE WORST. He sucks. Eva deserves better than him.