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Post by quincyme on Jan 29, 2013 8:00:15 GMT
After last nights episode (and series 1 of Ambridge Extra) I'll pay for Alice to go to Canada - just so long as she doesnt come back.
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Post by Steven on Jan 29, 2013 10:39:52 GMT
Oh god, this whole thing with Alice's job and the fact that it's SO AWFUL that her first proper job ever is one where she makes the tea and does all the crappy jobs that no one else wants to do makes me positively homicidal. So you spent a lot of time and money on a load of qualifications that don't actually mean much in the real world. WELCOME TO LIFE.
Also, I don't want to backseat parent or anything but if I'd ever spoken to my parents the way Pip was speaking to Ruth last night, they'd have torn me a new one.
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Post by pops on Feb 3, 2013 22:23:18 GMT
I think I slightly prefer bratty Pip to helpful, wholesome Pip Archer: Hay Detective as she was known on the other boards, but either way she's annoying.
I also much prefer gin-and-tonic swilling, dirty-laughing, giving Rouari the money to buy a hideous sculpture to wind up Jennifer version of Lilian to the current tortuted, torn-between-two-lovers incarnation. It's got so bad that Linda is currently overtaking her as my favourite Archers character.
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Post by Steven on Feb 4, 2013 15:08:42 GMT
I was kind of hoping Lilian would leave Matt after the whole Arthur-and-Joyce debacle because he really was irredeemably awful during that whole segment, but this affair storyline is rather dreary. I had hoped it was about to end, but no such luck, it seems.
My favourite character is still Susan, especially now The Crystal Bowl (RIP) has made its presence felt again.
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Post by Dave on Feb 6, 2013 2:23:23 GMT
I actually rather liked Ambridge Extra when we had the internal monologues. Usha being silently bitchy about Alan's dead wife was deliciously shocking. But at the moment I can't take anymore MattLillianPaul. It's the eternal love triangle but only in the sense it's all dragging on for an eternity.
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Post by Dave on Feb 9, 2013 0:44:36 GMT
So anyone else spot the massive Brief Encounter tribute/rip off in the show? Paul and Lillian on the railway station. Even the same lines. It was only missing Rachmaninoff on the soundtrack. To get an extra voice in just for that was bizarre.
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Post by pops on Feb 9, 2013 16:12:27 GMT
I actually rather liked Ambridge Extra when we had the internal monologues. Usha being silently bitchy about Alan's dead wife was deliciously shocking. I've still never listened to Amridge Extra, partly because a) making sure I hear The Archers Omnibus every week is enough of a commitment and b) I'm not really sure what the point of it is. I had been under the impression that it was focusing on the younger characters, but then it sounds like recent episodes have all been about the Jim, Joe and co going to Liverpool, so I'm a bit confused. However, if you get to hear the characters' internal monologues, that sounds kind of awesome, especially if they spend a lot of time thinking about how bloody smug Ruth and David are. I know I do. It would also have been good to hear what Usha really thought of Amy during her extended 'it's all your fault my boyfriend turned out to be married' strop a while back.
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Post by Dave on Feb 9, 2013 17:54:04 GMT
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Post by pops on Feb 10, 2013 10:58:15 GMT
I just heard it on the Omnibus - the grit in the eye, "are you a doctor?", that was pretty shameless. They should have spent their brief encounter thinking up feline-based pet names for each other. "Tiger" and "Pusscat" still sound like they have more fun than Lilian and Paul.
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Post by quincyme on Feb 10, 2013 19:08:24 GMT
NEW (old) Clarrie!
So was the previous Clarrie doing an impression of the previous Clarrie for the past 25 years? NEW (old) Clarrie sounds like a John Culshaw impersonation of how people think Clarrie sounds.
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Post by Steven on Feb 11, 2013 12:04:24 GMT
Clarrie suddenly starting to say "they'm" and "we'm" out of nowhere was a bit strange.
And for the love of all that is good and pure, can Alice please SHUT THE FUCK UP. Perhaps the reason that everyone else on her course walked into a great job is because they aren't as insufferable as she is. Or possibly because they didn't all want to go back to a village in the middle of nowhere to live rent-free with the local farrier, who isn't in a position to uproot his business and move elsewhere.
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Post by Dave on Feb 11, 2013 12:57:24 GMT
New/old Clarrie just sounds so much older. And I totally agree about Alice. Meanwhile the big question is WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ROB TITCHNER AND HIS SECRET WIFE??!
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Post by pops on Feb 13, 2013 19:24:23 GMT
The BBC are axing the Archers messageboard in a couple of weeks' time - the regulars will be on there now, blaming it all on Vanessa Whitburn and political correctness while they still can...
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Post by Dave on Feb 14, 2013 0:12:53 GMT
And there's no where else to go on the Internet.
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Post by Steven on Feb 14, 2013 12:41:47 GMT
Oh bloody hell. I hope they don't come here.
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Post by pops on Feb 14, 2013 19:24:08 GMT
I love a good moan about my favourite programmes as much as the next person - it's one of the reasons I'm glad Lowculture is back - but on the occassions I've lurked on the Archers messageboard I have sometimes felt the urge to point out "You know, if it upsets you this much, you really don't have to listen."
To be fair though, I've only been listening to The Archers for three or four years - my ex used to listen to it in the car, and it was a surprisingly quick transition from "You like The Archers? How old are you exactly?" to "God, that Kathy's annoying, Kenton is well rid." So, for all I know, they could have a point about how it's all gone to hell in a handcart pulled by Vanessa Whitburn.
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Post by quincyme on Feb 15, 2013 7:58:36 GMT
My favourite parts of The Archers messageboards right now are the people complaining that new (old) Clarrie isnt as good as old (old) Clarrie.
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Post by quincyme on Feb 17, 2013 20:12:09 GMT
This weeks Feedback is slightly odd as Radio 4 trot out people with cancer to say that the message boards must stay as they offer a vital social interaction service.
The man from the Beeb is very honest about the number of actual message board posters against listeners but alas they also invited in one of those loud mouthed "I AM RIGHT!" people to try and argue the case for keeping it open and she just made my toes curl.
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Post by Dave on Feb 17, 2013 21:11:34 GMT
To be fair though, I've only been listening to The Archers for three or four years - my ex used to listen to it in the car, and it was a surprisingly quick transition from "You like The Archers? How old are you exactly?" to "God, that Kathy's annoying, Kenton is well rid." So, for all I know, they could have a point about how it's all gone to hell in a handcart pulled by Vanessa Whitburn. I just sat down and worked out that I've been listening to The Archers for over thirty years (in my defence I got into it VERY young on a family holiday where there was nothing else to do). I think it's just as good/bad as its always been. I like the fact it's a soap where dullness is something of a virtue. I moan when something exciting happens (while secretly enjoying it). Frankly anyone who goes on the Internet to maintain the only true version of the Archers is the one in their head is just bonkers.
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Post by pops on Feb 17, 2013 21:26:19 GMT
I heard Feedback too - I must admit I've been morbidly fascinated by some of the more extreme reactions to the whole affair. Despite all the frothing outrage on the messageboard about how disgraceful it is that they are being encouraged to use Twitter, which is a dumbed-down, commercial enterprises out to steal your data, when I looked this morning there was a thread with people saying they had signed up with the sole purpose of sending hectoring Tweets to Nigel Smith, the guy who was on Feedback!
By comparison, yer actual Archers hasn't been quite so dramatic, although I was intrigued that Paul said his ex thought he was controlling, but he just like to take care of people. Has anyone ever mentioned Puss Cat having a pet rabbit?
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Post by Steven on Feb 18, 2013 14:35:29 GMT
I caught that remark about Paul's ex saying he was "controlling" too, and wondered if it was a big red flag. Maybe they should pair him up with Helen instead of Lilian.
Also, most of The Archers' attempts at comedy fall completely flat with me, but I did genuinely laugh out loud at Jazzer's suggestion that Ed call his business Ed's Shearin'.
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Post by pops on Feb 18, 2013 18:04:40 GMT
I laughed at the Ed Shearin' gag as well. I think sometimes they try a bit too hard to make the Jazzer the comic relief, but if they turned Ambridge Extra into an At Home with Jim & Jazzer spin-off, I'd probably listen - I find the hints of their domestic life, which seems to consist of watching Gladiator while Jim points out the historical inaccuracies, strangely beguiling.
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Post by quincyme on Feb 18, 2013 19:10:56 GMT
Oh please please please please please please please let Alice move to Canada and let us never hear from her again.
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Post by Dave on Feb 18, 2013 21:32:00 GMT
Away from tedious Alice-shannigans... have the writers given one of Linda's llamas a fatal dose of TB? Aha! I rest my case
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Post by Steven on Feb 19, 2013 10:09:13 GMT
Alice is every bit Brian's daughter, isn't she? Just doing what suits her and assuming her partner will fall in line. Hopefully she's in for a nasty shock when she realises Chris isn't the pushover that Jennifer is. The whole deus-ex-Canada job thing has been quite annoying, anyway - I remember a couple of years back when Brenda was looking for a graduate job and was unemployed for ages and couldn't even get an interview in the field that she wanted to work in, and when she finally found a job it was in Leicester, meaning that she had to commute for hours every day to get there. Alice, of course, finds a job instantly within reasonable distance, but because they don't immediately promote her to managing director she starts huffing about how it's not good enough, and then of course she gets headhunted, because she's just so amazing.
(In case you hadn't noticed, I really don't like Alice.)
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