*The Archers thread
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trashpony
Hag
It's Usha's isn't it?
I can't actually listen to his voice any more. Or Ursula's. It's like listening to nails down a blackboard
This plus Henwee -the perpetual 3 year old.
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He did that in yesterday's episode too.Was it an innocent mistake that Henry called Ursula "Grandma Arseula"?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
That's when I heard it.He did that in yesterday's episode too.
I found something out the other day about Henry that has amused me since, it's a bit spoilery but not in a storyline way...
Helen and Henry have never met, the actor that plays Henry can't be in the studio at times when the other actors are most of the time because he's little so they pre-record his lines, he does them all at once, they add them in later.
Every time he says "sorwey" now I imagine a wall of Henry buttons but that one is a bit worn
I'll look for the link
Every time he says "sorwey" now I imagine a wall of Henry buttons but that one is a bit worn
I'll look for the link
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I didn't know they'd never been in the same room but I knew when they got all the new kid actors they started recording their lines separately (same is true of George I think).
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
That all came out a while back when there was a cock up and it went out without the children's lines at all. Once I heard that this happened because the children were recorded separately, I understood why they appeared to be such hopeless actors.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
what like they recorded all his lines when he was three and just keep putting the words together like train station announcements?
I think this is exactly what's happened. He's got a pretty limited range of phrases, and I think part of the reason he sounds so odd is that his intonation doesn't ever change in response to whoever he is with, or to any given situation.
As anyone posted this yet? It's a lovely antidote to the ongoing gloom. The Archers as written by Victoria Wood. Victoria Goes To Ambridge, The Archers - BBC Radio 4
Quite - Lilian in particular.After 30+ years of listening, tonight's episode was the last straw. Character actions and just plot utterly unbelievable.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
You stick with TA for years because you get to know and love (or hate) characters and their history. Now they act completely irrationaly with no thought to future consequences or seemingly have any link with their past. It's just stupid and vaguely depressing.
And so it came to pass that I hurt my hand, trying to reach through the radio to bang their heads together and let some sense back in or throttle the whole damn lot.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
It's so much less interesting than it could have been, had they just run with the storyline they had.
story
Changing the facts
I'm only listening to the Sunday omnibus at the moment, so I've not heard this week's episodes.
But for chrissake why won't Helen pull herself together. She keeps whining on about how the only thing that matters is Henry, but she can't seem to grasp that if she doesn't stand up and fight her corner, she'll lose Henry. I can't stand this martyred fragility bullshit. She's not fragile at all. She's been abused, but she's survived a heap of nastiness in the past and made decisions and run a business. Being in custody gives her the chance for some perspective. I keep shouting at the radio that she should just get a grip.
And her mother's sudden emotional incapacity is also infuriating.
But for chrissake why won't Helen pull herself together. She keeps whining on about how the only thing that matters is Henry, but she can't seem to grasp that if she doesn't stand up and fight her corner, she'll lose Henry. I can't stand this martyred fragility bullshit. She's not fragile at all. She's been abused, but she's survived a heap of nastiness in the past and made decisions and run a business. Being in custody gives her the chance for some perspective. I keep shouting at the radio that she should just get a grip.
And her mother's sudden emotional incapacity is also infuriating.
story
Changing the facts
I agree. Real abuse goes on for years and years. They could have just tucked it away in the background and referred to it obliquely along the way.
I wouldn't mind Pat and Helen being so wet if they'd been this wet the whole time. But Pat has always been a robust and independent person, never shied away from speaking up even if that meant hurt feelings along the way.
I get that Helen was on the ropes when she was with Rob, but she saw clearly enough to try to leave him and to use the secret phone. And presumably if she's come back from mental health issues in the past she does have some coping strategies and emotional resources.
