*The Archers thread
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dolly's gal
killing things
gosh well that (last night's) was all a bit emotional 
still, FINALLY!
send him down
still, FINALLY!
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tofu eating wokerati
Is this the first we've heard of the "again and again"? I only recall the once. Nice bit of dramatic surprise there, reminding the audience they don't know everything going on. Like that time Caroline said to Brian when he started getting fresh: "Don't let's start that all over again."
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I thought that!
But they did have a long affair
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tofu eating wokerati
Did they? It must have been during one of the periods when I didn't listen. I take it back then; I'd always regarded it as one of the high points of their script writing.
An hour long
can't wait to hear that!
Yeh, it was years ago but it went on for quite some time. I can't remember how it ended but I think Jennifer found out about it.
eta 1985 according to google.
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tofu eating wokerati
Thanks. Disappointing.
trashpony
Hag
It was at least twice - the night that Henwee was conceived and then there was another time too
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Don't you mean Gideon? (is that what Rob calls Jack? I have forgotten...)
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tofu eating wokerati
Eh? I thought Henwee was IVF, long before she met Rob. You mean Jack/Gideon?
trashpony
Hag
Oh sorry - yes of course
dolly's gal
killing things
yeh i think so. although there may have been a scene i recall where he was building up to sex, and she didn't want it, but we didn't hear the rape as we did previously...
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tofu eating wokerati
Ah, that makes sense.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
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tofu eating wokerati
Must confess I didn't see that one coming.
My deep irritation is that this seems to have been just about the only thing on the scriptwriters' mind. It's utterly implausible. It shows complete contempt to the storyline (so far), the characters, and the listeners. And they didn't even fucking bother to develop it.
It's not like it's actually a meaningful part of a plot, that's been carefully worked in, or developed to any extent at all.
It's just, wham, there you are, his honour bob has discovered the clunkiest fucking plot device ever, fuck you listeners. In thirty fucking seconds.
And next week, the fucking rapture comes to Ambridge, and Joe's ferrets are amazed to find they're the only fuckers left behind. Except for Nigel, who turns out to be Jesus resurrected.
Fuck this.
Total scriptwriter melodramatic bullshit. Fuck them all in the ear, bunch of fucking cunts.
They're hardly "building" anything.
It's a fucking twenty second portakabin plot device, dropped in on juggernaut by a driver ripped on ketamine.
Fuck them. The scriptwriting cunts.
I hope their next
When they do this, tonight will still stand as an unforgivable twenty-second stack of clunky, melodramatic fucking bullshit.
And beyond that, they've spent over a year developing a plot line about domestic violence and intimate control, a lead character had finally disclosed her repeated rape, another character who suffered for years finally comes forward and feels able to speak about her abuser / her repeated rape. And there's a backdrop of intergenerational violent, male control.
And the fucking "cliffhanger" is about a non-event by some non-cunt in a context that's even rarer than women stabbing their husbands, developed in a non-context by a bunch of cunts who are after nothing more than twenty seconds of surprise.
And who couldn't even be bothered to work it into the script in a semi-coherent way, or do anything with it beyond "fuck you, listeners. Here's some shit."
Fuck them all, and fuck every fucker complicit with its development and broadcast.
The fucking massively fucking cuntish fucking fuckers.
Cunts.
And the fucking "cliffhanger" is about a non-event by some non-cunt in a context that's even rarer than women stabbing their husbands, developed in a non-context by a bunch of cunts who are after nothing more than twenty seconds of surprise.
And who couldn't even be bothered to work it into the script in a semi-coherent way, or do anything with it beyond "fuck you, listeners. Here's some shit."
Fuck them all, and fuck every fucker complicit with its development and broadcast.
The fucking massively fucking cuntish fucking fuckers.
Cunts.
