So William Roache, who has played "Sad" Ken Barlow in TV soap Coronation Street since the Roman Invasion, seems to have finally cracked and declared victims of abuse are being punished for sins in previous lives. For obvious reasons, this has pissed a lot of people off.
All we can do is label him a complete idiot and wonder if spending most your life pretending to be somebody else has finally snapped a twig keeping vital parts of his brain in some semblance of decent working order. Or perhaps some acid he took in 1967 has a pretty time-delayed second hit? Not too long ago, he was stating he used a "pet psychic" to try to find out why his dogs were always fighting.
It reminded me that a friend and I sketched an idea for a comic strip based on one "Len Farlow", who after years living on the same street, feeling that he has wasted his unrecognised genius, cracks and transforms into "Ubu Len", a hulk of a man who goes on a rampage of murder, cannibalism and insanity that ended up him fighting a breed of mutants unleashed by a mad scientist from underneath the sewer farm at Urmston.
As I remember, eventually the government sealed off Manchester from around the M60 and Ubu Len had to team up with nemesis (Inspector Colin Partridge, who was naturally days from retirement and "too old for this shit") to save the city before the nukes landed.
Compared to Bill Roache's inane ramblings, I don't think we were being that silly.
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