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I think the father is more likely to be Blake given she was mates with him not so long ago and he's drifted out of the storyline. I did wonder if it might actually be Ben having had a thing while he was split from Beth after the sister argument. There was some partying around that time.
 
Mogden said:
I think the father is more likely to be Blake given she was mates with him not so long ago and he's drifted out of the storyline. I did wonder if it might actually be Ben having had a thing while he was split from Beth after the sister argument. There was some partying around that time.
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You could be right! I've missed a few eps so jumping to conclusions!

I can't remember where Blake went after she cut his hair.
Besides, Chelsea's character would think it unbelievably gross and uncool to have an affair with someone as OLD as Russ. (Not that the writers are brilliant at keeping characters in character.) But there was that time when she flung her arms round him to say thank you for helping to save her job... And he does seem unduly invested in her welfare.
 
Not bad at the moment , but work prevents me from "listening in" on Sunday which is my boring norm......

Anyway , please keep it relevant coming up to Xmas - please , no cringing , pointless , supremely annoying Linda Snell etc and the futile show , let us hope for desperate measures on inflation and in particular energy cost problems...could the Ambridge rewilding be sacrificed for kindling.....
 
Mogden said:
I think the father is more likely to be Blake given she was mates with him not so long ago and he's drifted out of the storyline. I did wonder if it might actually be Ben having had a thing while he was split from Beth after the sister argument. There was some partying around that time.
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could be Ben at the rave but I still reckon Russ is the one. The Ben thing could be intrestingly explosive though.
bluescreen said:
You could be right! I've missed a few eps so jumping to conclusions!

I can't remember where Blake went after she cut his hair.
Besides, Chelsea's character would think it unbelievably gross and uncool to have an affair with someone as OLD as Russ. (Not that the writers are brilliant at keeping characters in character.) But there was that time when she flung her arms round him to say thank you for helping to save her job... And he does seem unduly invested in her welfare.
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I don't know drink/high at the rave. The tutoring, the saved job, his form. All feels a bit Chekhov's gun to me. The archers isn't exactly good at subtle plot twists.
a_chap said:
Is no-one pointing the finger at the little shit called George yet?
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well that little shit is a prime example of not being good at subtle! Brad: "you've got to. Eb careful nicotine is dangerous" little shit:"it's fine"... One trip to A&E! I also think the reluctance to name the father when genrally Tracy and Chelsea are show as close, at the very least there is some cheating but I reckon its going to be someone inappropriate
it would be jazzer
 
Heh
Well, tonight's ep was very subtle. Not.
They never waste an opportunity for dramatic irony.
And I wondered when Lily's little peccadillo was going to come back to haunt her. Classic case of Accidental Confession:D
 
kalmatthew said:
could be Ben at the rave but I still reckon Russ is the one. The Ben thing could be intrestingly explosive though.

I don't know drink/high at the rave. The tutoring, the saved job, his form. All feels a bit Chekhov's gun to me. The archers isn't exactly good at subtle plot twists.

well that little shit is a prime example of not being good at subtle! Brad: "you've got to. Eb careful nicotine is dangerous" little shit:"it's fine"... One trip to A&E! I also think the reluctance to name the father when genrally Tracy and Chelsea are show as close, at the very least there is some cheating but I reckon its going to be someone inappropriate
it would be jazzer
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Must admit I did think - as a joke - it could be Jazzer given how bad the plots can be
 
Elpenor said:
Must admit I did think - as a joke - it could be Jazzer given how bad the plots can be
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Yes, the plots are awful and the characterisation is badly co-ordinated, but they do try to follow Rules. So we get a lot of balancing Parallels in episodes and a lot of heavy Dramatic Irony. TBH there's not an awful lot I can recall in Chelsea's interactions with Jazzer that make you think in retrospect: 'Oh, yes, now I understand!' Plus, Jazzer is has transformed from Jerk With a Heart of Gold into Nice Guy. Whereas Russ has a lot of unexplaining...

Admittedly I've missed a few episodes along the way so may have missed some vital clues.

I am v interested to see how the writers cope with this latest national development. They probably have some stuff pre-recorded ready as one of their topical inserts along with snowstorms in July and nuclear armageddon.
 
Okay I’m all caught up.

So it’s Ben.
I don’t care, but nor am I surprised. I guess it’s yet another Archer so the soap is safe for another generation.

How many babies are there born out of wedlock in this village??

And why does no one ever get an abortion in soap operas? My money is on adoption for this one. Plenty of scope for succession and inheritance stuff in 20 years time.

And they had to drag it out and drag it out - the interminable “omg who could it be!?” - so much that they made everyone ceaselessly nag at Chelsea about who, what, when, how etc. The way she wasn’t given any privacy or space to think it through for herself was infuriating.


But my laugh-out-loud moment was Shula the Insufferable Sufferer trying to pack for her missionary adventure so that she didn’t come over to the lowly peasants and common oiks as horsey and hoity-toity.
 
I don't follow as attentively as I might, but didn't Josh evince a total change of character in his concern for Ben? Haven't noticed him being much other than selfish and heartless in the past. How long is this going to last?
 
bluescreen said:
I don't follow as attentively as I might, but didn't Josh evince a total change of character in his concern for Ben? Haven't noticed him being much other than selfish and heartless in the past. How long is this going to last?
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Oh you tease!
 
bluescreen said:
I don't follow as attentively as I might, but didn't Josh evince a total change of character in his concern for Ben? Haven't noticed him being much other than selfish and heartless in the past. How long is this going to last?
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His first thought would have been the impact on his inheritance
 
belboid said:
Elizabeth did. It was rather shocking. I think someone else did too, maybe Cathy.
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This sort of bears out my point. I don’t watch soaps these days and only watched Corrie and Earbenders in the 90s so I’m certainly no expert but abortion is always a shocking /subversive option, it seems to me.

Obvs there’s a lot more mileage for the scriptwriters for the baby being born but I don’t think that the only reason abortion is so rare in soaps. Certainly doesn’t reflect real world stats, eh.










Not linking this to demonstrate anything in particular, just to provide recent stats.

www.theguardian.com

Record number of abortions in England and Wales amid financial insecurity

Terminations increase to 215,000 with most pronounced rise among women aged 30-34
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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