*The Archers thread

[Ms T]

The Rob/Helen thing is so well done. I keep shouting at the radio.

 

[Shirl]

I think I read that they try to limit each episode to 5 characters, so some don't get used for a while.

Also ... I like the name Tamsin

I thought it was 7, it used to be I think because I used to count every night. Because I was a sad person then again, maybe it was 5 every night
Haven't done it for ages though

 

[trashpony]

Ambridge Organics

This is bloody fabulous. It's almost 4 minutes long but worth every one of them

 

[Mogden]

Ambridge Organics

This is bloody fabulous. It's almost 4 minutes long but worth every one of them

Fantastic!

 

[weltweit]

The Rob/Helen thing is so well done. I keep shouting at the radio.

It is a nasty line though ..

Rob is being extremely odious and Helen is gradually becoming a doormat .. it is painful to listen to ..

 

[trashpony]

WTAF? I'm giving up on it. 30 years of listening and Sean O'Connor has destroyed it. What an utter twat - the beeb should never ever have given him the job.

 

[two sheds]

I know the idea of putting Joe Grundy in a home it's despicable

 

[hendo]

I'm amazed at people's reaction to all this. I like that bad things happen in Ambridge. It lends to the drama

 

[wiskey]

I'm sorry, did a blink and miss a bit ... where did going to New Zealand come into it??

 

[Mogden]

WTF was that? I feel like I fell asleep and missed a week.

 

[trashpony]

I'm amazed at people's reaction to all this. I like that bad things happen in Ambridge. It lends to the drama

I'm absolutely fine with bad things happening in Ambridge. It's when people I've known for 20 odd years suddenly start behaving completely out of character that I lose patience.. Ruth suddenly deciding to fuck off to NZ when she has teenage kids? Bullshit. Pat telling Helen she shouldn't drive and should rest up because she's pregnant. Bullshit.

The Archers has always worked because it's character-driven - which is essential on radio. Now it's becoming plot driven so characters are shoehorned into behaving into completely unlikely ways to fit with plot development. It just doesn't work anymore

Obviously the fact that no one in Ambridge claims benefits or ever discusses them is ridiculous but that's been going on for years.

 

[two sheds]

But on the plus side Ruth is going to NZ

 

[trashpony]

But on the plus side Ruth is going to NZ

True

 

[wiskey]

Pat telling Helen she shouldn't drive and should rest up because she's pregnant. Bullshit.

this really irritated me too, it's completely at right angles with who Pat is and I don't think Rob is having that much of an effect, it's rubbish script writing.

 

[purenarcotic]

It is a nasty line though ..

Rob is being extremely odious and Helen is gradually becoming a doormat .. it is painful to listen to ..

She's an abuse victim, not a doormat.

 

[hendo]

I agree with you TP, maybe plot is subsuming character - maybe Tom/Kirsty aisle desertion was that in spades

 

[a_chap]

Ambridge Organics

This is bloody fabulous. It's almost 4 minutes long but worth every one of them

Genuine LOL at "Ambridge Organics Catering and Silage"

 

[two sheds]

"You'd better not drive home too fast"

 

[TikkiB]

It's taken a while (ever since Nigel fell off the roof) but I have finally reached my limit with the Archers - the complete Stepford wifeification of Pat, and the ongoing scapegoating of the Grundies, and the EastEnders style plot devices at the expense of character development have done it for me. Can someone please update this thread when Rob Titchnor gets his comeuppance so I can at least listen to that on iplayer, and gloat? Thank you.

 

[a_chap]

I, like you (used to), listen with an ever growing sense of sadness and fury.

 

[two sheds]

I see that the Grundies' Special Christmas Attraction has run into problems .

 

[friendofdorothy]

It's taken a while (ever since Nigel fell off the roof) but I have finally reached my limit with the Archers - the complete Stepford wifeification of Pat, and the ongoing scapegoating of the Grundies, and the EastEnders style plot devices at the expense of character development have done it for me. Can someone please update this thread when Rob Titchnor gets his comeuppance so I can at least listen to that on iplayer, and gloat? Thank you.

I was really hopeful that someone would accidently shoot Rob this morning. But no such luck. sorry.

 

[TikkiB]

I was really hopeful that someone would accidently shoot Rob this morning. But no such luck. sorry.

 

[two sheds]

Yes I think we should have had a trigger warning or at least a spoiler alert for that .

 

[friendofdorothy]

Yes I think we should have had a trigger warning or at least a spoiler alert for that .

sorry

 

[wayward bob]

rob's mum: "do you know where you're having the baby?"
hellin: "out of my cunt"

well, i can dream...

 

[wiskey]

Only caught the last few minutes of that but OMG Rob is something else. Is he actually homophobic or just spiteful?

 

[Shirl]

I missed the episode when Rob's mother turned up Have I missed something important and it is worth me finding it to listen to?
Also, he really did put the boot in tonight

 

[Shirl]

Only caught the last few minutes of that but OMG Rob is something else. Is he actually homophobic or just spiteful?

I reckon he's both

 

[wiskey]

I missed the episode when Rob's mother turned up Have I missed something important and it is worth me finding it to listen to?
Also, he really did put the boot in tonight

Helen rings rob to ask for a lift to town to buy a dress for the wedding but he tells her she should have bought something out of her maternity clothes 'allowance', whilst they are on the phone the door goes so she says bye and it's his mother. They have a nice chat about babies as you do when suddenly rob comes home.. Because he can't bear the thought of Helen having a life.