Last week we asked: should Tina stand by her man? I think the answer has to be "we don't care really," because there was a very small response in comparison to recent weeks. For what it's worth, I think the majority view was that Tina should do what she feels is right, regardless of whether it's what David wants. So that's a Nay.
This week, I've been thinking about the spoiler we brought you earlier in the week about Kevin Webster and Molly Dobbs having an affair. We still don't know if this is really going to happen or not, but would it upset you if it did? I was upset when we first heard the spoilers about Steve and Becky getting together (I even Monday Moaned about it here), but by the time the storyline actually came around the writers had developed the situation so that it was really plausible, and now to me they seem like the perfect match. I can't rule out that the same could happen for Kevin and Molly (but for them to still end up back with their original partners). After all, Jack and Vera, to whom Molly and Tyrone are often compared, weren't always the most faithful of partners, but they endured to become one of the Street's all-time favourite couples.
So let's ponder the broad question: in soap-world, is a happy couple a boring couple? Click the comments link to have your say and vote yay or nay.
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There are lots of ways you can introduce plotlines and even trouble and strife with a happily married couple without giving them the inclination and excuse to have an affair. Roy and Hayley have done just fine. That Tracy thing was drug induced and didn't happen anyway and Hayley's crush was just a crush. They've been through lots of non-boring stuff and are still a happy couple. They're about the only couple ever that's happened to i think!
This is quite a complex question really. It totally depends on the writing and the delivery of the character for me.
My problem with the potential Molly and Kevin storyline was that affairs are far too frequent and in many cases become boring in themselves, because we see them soooo often.
Couples do not need to have affairs to not be boring. Great material and gritty storylines can keep even the happiest couple watchable.
Yay or Nay? Not sure to be quite frank.
I don't think boring = happy. Annie and Jack Walker were together and happy for the first 10 years of Corrie and they made a splendid, touching, very funny and warm couple. They were never boring. Sometimes soaps need boring couples who have drama come from outside of their relationships. Like Claire and Ashley before that awful affair storyline.
They already started weakening Molly and Tyrone with all the money stories, and it just seemed like causing conflict out of nowhere. This sounds like more of the same.
I'm a big fan of Kevin. I think Sally's a great character but I don't need to see Kevin + Sally. I would enjoy stories of them if they split up, because there's so much story potential. They only got back together in the first place because of practicality, not love. But to do this with an affair just does not make sense to me, especially not a Molly/Kevin affair. I think it's too clever by half and I just hope if they do this story they go all the way, even if that means the original couples not getting back together. I want to make sure this doesn't destroy any of the characters involved, the way that Martin Platt's last few stories destroyed him.
Sorry to ramble. I will say NAY, a happy couple is not a boring couple.
Nay. A happy couple in the street would make a pleasant change.
Peter and Tvor said it quite well. Couples do not need to cheat on each other to be interesting. I think the street needs some moral stability that Molly and Ty can provide.
the notion of molly having a fling with kevin is just ridiculous and I shall believe it when it happens. if anything, kevin is even more boring than tyrone who is, at least, young and enthusiastic. also it would inevitably lead to tyrone quitting his job which would be considerably worse for kevin than sally walking out.
Certainley not, what's wrong with a happy couple? even though I know in soaps there always has to be a kink or some drama like Ashley and Claire, and look at Roy and Hayley, there not wild, but keep us greatly entertained, and now look at Steve and Becky - there happy and hilarious at the same time! So no I dont think a happy coupl are a boring couple.
It would be refreshing to have a happy couple in Corrie. No it's not boring, I am sick of the cheating on your partner of the Corrie storylines. That's whats getting boring the repeat storylines of couples cheating. Also so many of them are out of character as would be Molly.
Nay, a happy couple is NOT a boring couple. A happy couple would be most welcome.
Successful happy couples that weren't boring are Derek and Mavis, Jack and Annie, Ernest and Emily, Stan and Hilda, Jack and Vera. Mind you, they had similar personalities. Ken and Deirdre was another happy marriage before there were insults that Ken was a bore, and that's why they spiced up their marriage. Mind you, if couples are like Steve and Michelle, then I'd be very bored. You need established couples in a soap as an example for viewers.
nay !
i think the boring couples are the ones which argue all the time, e.g michelle & steve. boy i'm glad they broke up !
Don't care either way. Have the writers run out of storylines that all they can think of is bed hopping?
These 'affair storylines' are so tiresome! Who is next, Claire and Norris? No, a happy couple is not boring if you have good writers who can provide them with rich and interesting dialogue and just let the everyday drama of their lives take over.
Mags, good thoughts on this, totally agree with you. there is nothing wrong with happy couples.. not too many of those on Corrie anymore..
Nay from me. I'm sick of all the cheating storylines, and especially the fact that they happen so soon into the relationships. You mention that Jack and Vera weren't faithful to each other, but I'm sure it didn't happen one year into the marriage, which is occuring with alarming frequency on the Street these days (i.e. Ashley and Claire). And the thought of Molly and Kevin makes me sick: I like Kev a lot and think he's a goodlooking bloke but come on, he's old enough to be her Dad! Let's have more typical storylines for Tyrone and Molly setting up house together and beginning life as a young couple, and if we MUST have an affair (sigh) let it happen after a number of years together.
good writers and actors like ken and diedrie can make a great story about affairs,look at thier past. so give molly and tyrone a chance at a juicy story
Ditto to what Mags has posted. The repeatativeness of affairs is what bores me, not happy couples. So nay!!