Ashley redux

After my rant a month ago about Ashley, we're about to see the crashing end of the storyline this week. At least it wasn't one of those storylines that linger on and on until you're ready to poke your eye out with a fork. I think that's testament to the charismatic Zoe Henry (did you know she had a part on Corrie before, as Spider's girlfriend Log Thwaite?) Casey is wigging out now that Ashley has rejected her firmly. Firmly, did i say? I'm wrong. Even when Casey jumped in and assumed Ashley was trying to tell her that he was choosing Claire, and she went on and on about the two of them being together, did he say anything? Did he stop her and say nooooooo. Did he eckerslike! The only thing he could do for certain was look Claire in the eye and declare he did not have sex with that woman. Which he did, of course, and everyone knows it but Claire. She'll know soon and I wouldn't blame her if she left Ashley again or locked him out of the house.

If she leaves, though, can she please take poor little Josh with her? That poor child keeps getting abandoned by her, the only mother he really remembers. Oh it's ok if she takes Freddy, he's her *real* son while I'm just the leftover one, right? Poor kid could be the David Platt of the future. Ashley and Claire will disappear off our screens for a few months after the dust settles. Apparently they all worked double time filming two versions of the storyline due to the original one about the missing baby coinciding with the real life case of Madeliene McCann. They filmed their original one and the altered one, the one we saw for awhile, according to Stephen Arnold and after that they all had the long break they deserved.

This storyline still rubs me the wrong way and i'm very very disappointed in Ashley for doing this. tsk...


Just as this is winding down, Hayley gets a storyline. Yay! It's a bit of a rip off from a recent movie and they've done some major rewriting of Hayley's history for it which kind of sucks but i think the performances will be good. Julie Hesmondhalgh will also disappear from our screens for about a year after this storyline because the actress wanted some time off. Hayley will be back though.