One thing i find annoying sometimes about Corrie is how they will start up a storyline that looks like it might actually be interesting and then more or less drop it. This is happening now with the Platt councilling business. They had a good start, with family councilling and even David admitted he didn't like himself much. It seemed like he was sincere but basically the councillor just zipped by it and it was left there. Now, wouldn't you think that would be a BIG alarm bell going off in a councillor's head? David is at the root of all this trouble and the reason they're having family councilling in the first place. Duh. Why didn't we have more about that?
Why didn't David have one on one sessions? Sarah and Audrey were the ones that weren't taking it seriously even though Audrey was the one that thought David should have been at councilling since the start. David at least showed up so it sounded like he actually might have been willing to try. Gail makes all this noise about councilling and then doesn't encourage that.
She then goes to parenting classes. Great idea. Really! But we see it once and then it's referred to one other time and then nothing. Basically that's dropped and so are the family councilling. I think it would have been more effective for them to show the family working through it all. But you can't have that when you're planning for David to develop into a TerryDuckworthInTraining, can you?
Audrey was pretty flip about the whole thing but I do agree on one thing, i don't think she needed to be at the sessions. It's mainly for the immediate family and as much as she's part of the family, she doesn't take a hand in disciplining the children and doesn't live with them on a day to day basis.
After this week, we won't hear much more about the councilling at all. Dropped. Just like that when it could have been a lot more.
Then there are some storylines you wish were dropped and they drag on. But that's another post.
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