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It was being built up for the audience to expect the DNA test to be positive. Perhaps the script writers wanted to play with us. Perhaps one day we will find that he managed to finagle the result.
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Or more likely I missed the episode that showed he was just lying to Helen by showing her a fake letter, and is having to pay anyway. Anyone else know for sure?
trashpony
Hag
I don't think he's faked anything. But on another Archers board I'm on, someone thinks that Jess faked Ethan's DNA swab to get Rob out of their lives which I thought was an interesting theory
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Maybe not in this case but we know he's a faker. There was that magic disappearing video that Helen shot during the cricket match when he absolutely never touched the ball, did he?
Interesting theory about Jess. Do you reckon we've heard the last of her?
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I suspect she'll be back.
As an aside it's really irritating me that none of the residents of Brookfield (all of whom drive) is able to go shopping, yet they can take time out to go to the Bull for lunch
... and then Ruth has a panic looking for her phone because she's going to miss her train but can them wander round the cow sheds looking at stuff as if she has hours to spare.... rubbish scriptwriting.
As an aside it's really irritating me that none of the residents of Brookfield (all of whom drive) is able to go shopping, yet they can take time out to go to the Bull for lunch
... and then Ruth has a panic looking for her phone because she's going to miss her train but can them wander round the cow sheds looking at stuff as if she has hours to spare.... rubbish scriptwriting.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
that was my theory, that he faked the negative ... but then he rang Jess gloating that it wasn't his child so maybe not.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
naah, the result was real, imo. A good bit of script writing, getting us all to think that the bastard had clearly had it, that he couldn't get away with it again, but then....!! Despite having to deal with some appalling character transplants, the writers are (generally) doing a good job with their lousy hands. It must all come out n the wash soon tho, and shorely someone is going to work out that Phoebe (it is Phoebe, isnt it?) his shagging his son
trashpony
Hag
I think they changed their mind about Rob. I think he was supposed to be Ethan's dad but his character evolved and it was more interested to have him take Henry from Helen (and that wasn't really a goer if he was Ethan's dad).
OMG - this is driving me insane. They managed perfectly well (we assume) the whole time Ruth was in Pruddah (I know that's not how you spell it) and now they're like a bunch of toddlers. And how was that going to work when she was going to be looking after Heather? When was she going to get time to do all the wifework then?
We're all hopeless - let's get the octogenarian houseslave back
I suspect she'll be back.
As an aside it's really irritating me that none of the residents of Brookfield (all of whom drive) is able to go shopping, yet they can take time out to go to the Bull for lunch
OMG - this is driving me insane. They managed perfectly well (we assume) the whole time Ruth was in Pruddah (I know that's not how you spell it) and now they're like a bunch of toddlers. And how was that going to work when she was going to be looking after Heather? When was she going to get time to do all the wifework then?
We're all hopeless - let's get the octogenarian houseslave back
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
interesting. He was meant to have been introduced as the 'new Brian' - a ladies man through and through, in which case no problem with him having a baby by his 'ex.' But it would have been too easy a get out with him being a controlling ultra-bastard.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I have not been listening to the Archers for long enough to know who Ethan is. Can someone elaborate?
I must say that I am finding it difficult keeping up with who is who and all the relationships, but some people seem to have disappeared and i am not sure if that is just me, or if they have. IYSWIM. There were two brothers who had been married to the same woman at different times, and who were at loggerheads because of that, and there was a child involved. Who are they?
I must say that I am finding it difficult keeping up with who is who and all the relationships, but some people seem to have disappeared and i am not sure if that is just me, or if they have. IYSWIM. There were two brothers who had been married to the same woman at different times, and who were at loggerheads because of that, and there was a child involved. Who are they?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
OMG - this is driving me insane. They managed perfectly well (we assume) the whole time Ruth was in Pruddah (I know that's not how you spell it) and now they're like a bunch of toddlers. And how was that going to work when she was going to be looking after Heather? When was she going to get time to do all the wifework then?
We're all hopeless - let's get the octogenarian houseslave back
This really annoyed me, too!
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I've been listening on and off for ooo 20 years and I'm afraid it doesn't get any easier.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Jess, Rob's ex-wifes, son - who she definitely didn't have with Rob. Honest guv
Ed & Will. Will's baby, Ed's the hubby. They almost get on now.
People do just disappear for a while (where oh where is Kathy??), but they usually come back. Eventually
dolly's gal
killing things
yes, this is fucking ridiculous, now you come to mention it. a complete script-writing about face
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Oh yeah - I did know about Ethan. I had just forgotten that they had given him a name in the show.
Who are Ed and Will? Is Ed one of those who is currently living in the hotel because of being flooded out? I have not seen Will, though.
I was waiting and waiting for Tamsin Grieg (one of my favourite actors and has a lovely voice) to appear, and then she did, but only for about one episode, and that was something about her selling something so that they wouldn't have to keep trying to get the actor to come back. Or something like that.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Ah yes, the Grundy boys. But I don't recall Will being mentioned recently. When I first started listening, the dispute between the brothers was a big story line, but they seem to have moved on to something else now.
Ed is the one whose cows were nicked?
I agree about Tamsin - it is a crap name, but it is not her fault (although I suppose, as an actor, she could have changed her name to anything she wanted, really)
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Not helped by the massive turnover of actors lately.I've been listening on and off for ooo 20 years and I'm afraid it doesn't get any easier.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Oh yeah - even i have spotted the sudden change of voice/accent of characters!
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Tony, Tom, Pip...
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Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Tony's change wasn't as noticeable as Pip's. I really could not work out who she was, even though people kept talking about Pip, because the previous actor had such a different voice.
Tom was away for such a long time, and I had forgotten how he talked anyway, so I am not sure I would have known it was a different actor if I hadn't been told.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
is it her? Someone is shagging a controlling boy, with the surname Titchener
