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and when will Shula give up mothering Daryl, at this rate they will have to have to sectioned as a heartwarming Christmas story.
 
oh god, I can't abide Darrell but I really don't think Shula's brand of support is very helpful to a man clearly suffering from some mental health issues
 
Perhaps it will demonstrate to some of the more blinkered R4 listeners that help has to be appropriate and targeted, you can't just tell someone to get back on their feet and expect it to work.
 
Did you hear feedback? It had the woman who is the Archers archivist, her job is knowing what fictional people would be doing at any given moment... And I bet she earns more than I do!
 
Wondering what they will do with Darryl?

eta: Don't like Schula's husband and son keeping on saying he is just a loser and she should abandon him, have they no comprehension that people sometimes are having a hard time?
 
I thought they'd been quite accommodating actually. Both of them recognised that it was something they couldn't deal with well before she did (I still don't think she has).
 
wiskey said:
I thought they'd been quite accommodating actually. Both of them recognised that it was something they couldn't deal with well before she did (I still don't think she has).
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I agree she can't deal with the issues that he has and I think that is dawning on her. But that is not the same as saying simply he is a loser, so they should get shot of him which they have pretty much been saying!

I wonder how the plot will develop wrt Darryl. Are there any social issues they (the script writers) want to explore, family breakdown, homelessness, alcoholism, depression, mental health, suicide, how the NHS or social workers deal with such issues? ... I wonder if Darryl has a future in the Archers longer term or not.
 
I hope that's the end of him. I'm sick to death of his self-pitying nasal whine. The SWs' track record of dealing with issues is piss poor - remember Jazzer and his 'overdose' of ketamine which gave him brain damage which he recovered from with no lasting after effects?
 
Surely Daryl tried to top himself because of Shula's non stop wittering? As it is I'm surprised Alaistar and Daniel havent given Daryl a thoroughly good thrashing..
 
trashpony said:
I hope that's the end of him. I'm sick to death of his self-pitying nasal whine. The SWs' track record of dealing with issues is piss poor - remember Jazzer and his 'overdose' of ketamine which gave him brain damage which he recovered from with no lasting after effects?
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and the fact that with the exception of Helen and her anorexia I can't remember a single character ever going to have counselling for anything, particularly bereavement.
 
Having said that there was a nod towards generational understanding with ?Neil telling Jamie to shut up when he was calling Darryl a loser.
 
Daryl is of course a device of the nauseating metropolitan elite to criticise their listenership.. everyone hates him and wants him to die and are therefore evil heartless middle-class radio 4 archers listeners. They achieve this nearly post modern twist by making the character more fucking irritating than pip - which is an achievement. Really the rot set in when they effectively murdered Nigel in an act of class war because of his preference for private education.
 
wiskey said:
Having said that there was a nod towards generational understanding with ?Neil telling Jamie to shut up when he was calling Darryl a loser.
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I loved Neil for that. I generally love Neil - he is the soundest person in Ambridge.

That whole storyline should go away so that we can focus on the over-enunciating Jess/psycho Rob/psycho Hellin love triangle
 
I'm STILL cross about Nigel's death. The Archers isn't Game of Thrones and Nigel wasn't Ned Stark.

They still could have had him fall off the roof but break his back and become a paraplegic. There would have been loads of mileage in that; Lizzie could still have blamed David, Nigel could have temporarily lost his cheeriness and his erections, driving Lizzie into a dalliance with a game keeper (but not Will Grundy cos he would make an unlikely Mellors). They could have explored life in a rural setting and a stately home as a person with disabilities.

It could have been really good. :mad::mad::mad:
 
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trashpony said:
I loved Neil for that. I generally love Neil - he is the soundest person in Ambridge.

That whole storyline should go away so that we can focus on the over-enunciating Jess/psycho Rob/psycho Hellin love triangle
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Yes. to all of this.
How come if Rob and Jess were childhood sweethearts she sounds the same age as Pip (and clearly came from the same shit stage school)?
 
TikkiB said:
Yes. to all of this.
How come if Rob and Jess were childhood sweethearts she sounds the same age as Pip (and clearly came from the same shit stage school)?
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Actors that sound like actors is one of my pet hates about the Archers. Kirsty is a classic example. And if I have to hear her doing that breathing in through her teeth thing again I will scream.
 
Kirsty is shaping up to be almost as irritating as the others and her adoration for Taam is completely baffling. Oh sausages!! Talk some more about them -
 
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