*The Archers thread

[Mrs Magpie]

It's all Alice's fault.

 

[trashpony]

It's all Alice's fault.

Yeah I have to say this storyline is all a bit 'women, know your place'.

But absolutely - didn't see that coming at all

 

[a_chap]

It's a bit preposterous really. In fact I can't think of any TA storylines that I've liked in the last couple of years.

 

[pennimania]

Don't worry about Chris.

I'm sure he'll be right as rain in a fortnight.

Alice will forget Canada and probably be in pod by May.

Shame they've left it a bit late for an Xmas baby.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

No way, Chris will develop a quite rational fear of horses and dump the business on Jazza in exchange for an old Massey Fergusson, and he'll be off to Canada to try his and as a lumberjack.

 

[trashpony]

I listened again today at lunchtime and Alice reduced me to tears

 

[pennimania]

I listened again and Alice made me feel unwell.

Mr mania overheard this and commented that my prediction had been correct. I knew they would be very unlikely to let her leave Ambridge

 

[wiskey]

II listened to the phone call earlier and I have an overwhelming desire to kill Jennifer.

"oh but darling..." *bang*

 

[pseudonarcissus]

It's all very well this emotional intensive care scene YET AGAIN, but what about the TB infected llamas, the true drama?

Will it be the end of David'n'Roof, or could an evil badger infect a high quality guernsey heard ad put end to doorstep delivery for ever?

I am convinced we will end up with wholesale emmigration to Canada and tumble weeds blowing around the green.

The decline has started. You notice no one is tending to the telephone kiosk any more!

 

[trashpony]

FFS this storyline about Alice not being able to get on a plane for days and days is really getting on my tits. Surely you'd ring the airline and tell them your husband had been critically injured and they'd find you a seat. It's not like she's in Borneo or something

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Brian could afford to charter a plane, for that matter.

 

[trashpony]

Brian could afford to charter a plane, for that matter.

Yeah and there's that. Flying via Seattle and Amsterdam. Good grief - it's the 21st Century!

 

[pennimania]

FFS this storyline about Alice not being able to get on a plane for days and days is really getting on my tits. Surely you'd ring the airline and tell them your husband had been critically injured and they'd find you a seat. It's not like she's in Borneo or something

All these potentially good storylines are spoilt by lack of attention to detail.

Not to mention the number of fatal or serious accidents to young characters and the equally idiotic death by chair to non speaking nonagerians.

In this last episode we had two sisters, both widows by fatal accidents.......

I knew I should never have started listening again

 

[Corax]

I think that Walter's on the island that Oliver was rescued from.

 

[susie12]

Yes if you don't die young of farming then you live to be 2,000 and die of sitting down.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yeah I have to say this storyline is all a bit 'women, know your place'.

I thought it was more, posh, selfish & young, me, me, me and no discussion with her other half.

 

[pennimania]

I thought it was more, posh, selfish & young, me, me, me and no discussion with her other half.

No, I don't see it that way at all.

She is going to see the error of daring to look beyond ambridgep. I thought Chris was appallingly complacent and bucolic. Alice should never have married him mind, but she has a right not to want to stay stuck in the same place all her life.

Mind you, I may have missed something because I only started listening again in August.

I am reminded, however, that there was a hospital bed vigil quite recently. I didn't hear that, but surely twice in less than a year beggars belief?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

...it was the way she went behind his back. Sneaky and selfish. He clearly feels betrayed.

 

[wiskey]

and deservedly so imo, she lied repeatedly and she only really thought of herself.

much like Pip is. I really want to kill her in the face atm!

 

[trashpony]

But surely they would have had a conversation about Alice's career ambitions? Why would she do a masters and then sit on her arse in some shitty job in Borsetshire?

When was the last hospital vigil? Freddie? Honestly, those horses are a bloody menace

 

[Mrs Magpie]

But surely they would have had a conversation about Alice's career ambitions? Why would she do a masters and then sit on her arse in some shitty job in Borsetshire?

...but his struggle to get his business together...Did she fail to notice any of that? It's like Alice just saw it as a erotic vehicle for Chris to be sweaty and stripped to the waist in the forge.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

When was the last hospital vigil?

Don't forget Adam getting clubbed over the head when the thieves tried to rob the farm vehicle.

 

[trashpony]

Don't forget Adam getting clubbed over the head when the thieves tried to rob the farm vehicle.

Oh yes. He's been quiet for so long I'd forgotten about him

 

[pennimania]

Oh yes. He's been quiet for so long I'd forgotten about him

Just like the scriptwriters

 

[wayward bob]

am i the only one that's pretty at all this banging on about freddie's inheritance? where does lily fit in to the picture?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

She's a girl...feudal inheritance, innit?

 

[wayward bob]

no fucker still does that do they?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The very posh do, or the estate will have to be split between siblings.

 

[wayward bob]

wasn't there some massive deal over elizabeth's share of the farm years back? so she's not posh enough to turn her own inheritance down

 

[trashpony]

wasn't there some massive deal over elizabeth's share of the farm years back? so she's not posh enough to turn her own inheritance down

Oh yes, Lizzie and her me, me, me ness - I insist I have my share of the farm even though I have married a man who is as rich as Croesus