tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250083790819664013.post2395662477871701625..comments2023-12-12T19:19:31.304-04:00Comments on State of the Street: State of the Street - July 2011Tvorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01414660140541680599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250083790819664013.post-4027780872912067952011-07-31T09:46:29.999-03:002011-07-31T09:46:29.999-03:00You've got a good point about Stella. It makes...You've got a good point about Stella. It makes sense that way. <br /><br />Though we didn't have much interaction between Tracy and James, I did get the feeling that she never liked him. She repeatedly made snarky remarks over the breakfast table etc. Mind you, she does that about nearly everyone including her parents anyway. It could be that Ken was referring to Tracy's suspicions from that start of the charity theft business. <br /><br />I really don't want peter to have an affair either but as a soap staple, with Leanne in a state with the miscarraige and her mother and Carla about to marry a man who is going to prove dangerous, and we have seen *that kiss*, it may be inevitable.Tvorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414660140541680599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250083790819664013.post-8103121201756040652011-07-31T05:03:31.895-03:002011-07-31T05:03:31.895-03:00You know, what bugged me more than anything about ...You know, what bugged me more than anything about the James storyline was the way after the fact Ken kept saying that Tracy had had her suspicions about him from the start. Except that she didn't, at least not that we saw. They shared exactly one scene when he first moved in, when they were first introduced, and then weren't seen together on-screen for two months until the storyline reached its closing stages. If we are supposed to believe that Tracy disliked him all that time while the rest of the family were adopting him as one of them, it would have been good to actually see a bit of that on-screen! Ditto Peter coming to accept James as part of the family after being antagonistic in the one scene they'd shared before this month, way back last September.<br /><br />Stella's backstory is a retcon of what little we already knew, but the bit about Les and his mother not letting her see Leanne isn't so hard to believe if you take apart what she told us and then flip it around to look at their point of view. This girl ran off with another fella, leaving Les alone with the baby, so he took her home to live with his mum. We don't know how long it was before Stella came back but it could well have been quite some time, long enough that they had got Leanne settled and in a new routine, which Stella then threatened to disrupt - with no guarantee that she wouldn't just run off again the next time she got fed up, with Leanne old enough this time to really feel the loss. And Stella admitted that when she came back, she came with attitude - shouting the odds, making demands and threats and offering bribes...when you look at it from that perspective, Stella looks like the feckless and irresponsible one and it becomes easier to understand why they'd say no when she demanded to see the baby she'd previously abandoned. Just look at some of the squabbles we've seen between Becky and Kylie et al over Max - I can imagine a very similar situation in which everyone was hurting and everyone handled things very badly based on their individual hurt and anger and prejudices.<br /><br />I really don't want Peter to fall off the wagon again - some alcoholics are able to stabilise and stay sober for years, we've done relapse stories, let's see some stability for a while - and I really don't want him to have an affair with Carla. I would like to see some of the imbalance in his relationship with Leanne ironed out. But I suppose we'll have to wait and see!Llywelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11481748388761716067noreply@blogger.com