"Becky just ruined it"

These were the words of my favourite TV critic, the Mirror's Jim Shelley, on Friday's wedding episode. "Becky just ruined it - not the wedding, the whole episode." And I have to say, I agree with him. Much as I love Katherine Kelly and the character she plays, the wedding episodes were so over the top they were ludicrous, and Becky turned in one fell swoop from being a flawed character who I could relate to, to being grotesque. "The wedding was a horrible combination of being totally implausible... at the same time as being desperately predictable," according to Shelley, and he points out something that I felt was glaringly obvious - that Becky resisted having a hen night because she didn't want to ruin her big day, and then got so hammered she ruined it anyway. I know that true love is never supposed to run smooth in these things, but good grief.

Not everyone agrees with me and Jim Shelley, of course. Our Tvor certainly doesn't, and regular Corrieblog commenter Peter emailed me (comments on Corrieblog not working at present) to say: This was Corrie in tip top form. Both episodes were superb. Entertaining from start to finish, we kind of followed Becky on an emotional journey before she even made it to the registry office. Katherine Kelly portrays Becky where it is simply impossible not to like her. Her initial link up with the Croppers is paying dividends now as her scenes with Hayley today were very touching and i loved how when Roy gave her away he kept the basket and shopping bag tightly gripped! I cannot wait to see her reaction when she discoveres she never actually got to say "I do!"

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