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Post by Nicholas on Mar 11, 2013 21:28:48 GMT
"recent complaints about storylines and political correctness" Then again, hardly anybody in Ambridge knows how to talk to their kids properly. Pat and Tony are still terrified of Helen, and she's well into her thirties at this point. To be fair, I'm quite scared of Helen, and I know she isn't real.
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Post by Steven on Mar 12, 2013 12:38:16 GMT
Nice. See, in a way, he was doing Jennifer a favour by knocking up another woman, because she'll have Rouairi (sp?) to keep her company when all her other kids have emigrated (maybe Adam will have moved to Poland by the end of the year to fin Pavel.) Or she would have if they hadn't packed him off to boarding school. That was one of my favourite scenes from a few weeks back, when the idea of Alice (and by extension, Chris) emigrating first came up, and Susan sniffed to Jennifer that she surely wouldn't mind because she must be used to it by now, and Jennifer responded by shrieking that she very much does mind, because she doesn't see why her children always feel the need to get as far away from her as possible. Susan/Jennifer scenes are always my favourite - they're pretty much the only reason I want Alice and Chris to stay together, just so those two can continue being awkward in-laws. To be fair, I'm quite scared of Helen, and I know she isn't real. OR IS SHE?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Post by quincyme on Mar 12, 2013 19:14:03 GMT
Daryl is so going back to prison.
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Post by Steven on Mar 13, 2013 0:31:43 GMT
At which point Elona will sigh loudly and say "oh DERRILL. Now I heff to work even more shift for Piggy. And who will fix washing machine now?"
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Post by quincyme on Mar 13, 2013 7:01:15 GMT
Daryl and Elona are an odd couple - I cant recall them having done one romantic scene and when they are in a scene together all they seem to do is moan at each other, I just dont buy them as a couple. They just come across as two people that the scriptwriters have created to open up storylines and who they decided to make a couple as it was easier that way.
I cant even recall the name of their scooter riding daughter.
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Post by Dave on Mar 13, 2013 8:13:08 GMT
At which point Elona will sigh loudly and say "oh DERRILL. Now I heff to work even more shift for Piggy. And who will fix washing machine now?" *sprays gluten-free breakfast cereal all over monitor*
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Post by Steven on Mar 13, 2013 11:07:34 GMT
I cant even recall the name of their scooter riding daughter. That one's Rosa, I think. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the other one, though. Have we ever even heard the other one speak? I agree that I don't get Daryl and Elona as a couple at all. On the rare occasions where they have scenes together, Elona seems to regard Daryl with barely-concealed contempt - and she was pretty awful to him when he was clearly having trouble trying to decide what to do about Matt using him to destroy that old couple's home so they'd be forced to move out.
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Post by Dave on Mar 13, 2013 14:56:59 GMT
Elona really just exists to back Derrill into a financial corner so he does something stupid. I mean dog fights at Home Farm? FFS.
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Post by Steven on Mar 15, 2013 12:33:02 GMT
The current pattern where not a week goes by without someone telling Tom he's a prat is the greatest fanservice The Archers has ever done.
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Post by pops on Mar 17, 2013 11:39:23 GMT
The current pattern where not a week goes by without someone telling Tom he's a prat is the greatest fanservice The Archers has ever done. Kirsty's was the best yet: "You do know that people laugh at you behind your back, don't you?" I almost - almost - felt sorry for him. I am kind of intrigued as to what Brenda's job normally involves, as whenever she moans about how much she has to do while Lilian is sneaking off to her antique-laden love nest (check someone out of their house, send an advert to the local paper and ring a heating engineer), to me it never actually sounds all that arduous.
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Post by Steven on Mar 18, 2013 12:32:02 GMT
The current pattern where not a week goes by without someone telling Tom he's a prat is the greatest fanservice The Archers has ever done. Kirsty's was the best yet: "You do know that people laugh at you behind your back, don't you?" I almost - almost - felt sorry for him. Having it come from Kirsty was the icing on the cake, since Tom cheated on her with that floozy from the supermarket years ago, so it's nice to know that she appreciates what a lucky escape she had. Nice to see Elona and Darrel are still love's young dream. "DERREL! Why not answer your phone? You could heff job if you just answer phone!" As for the idea that it'll break Anna's heart if they have to cancel her piano lessons - she's awfully quiet in all those scenes at home for somebody who apparently loves playing the piano so much. Also, hilarious that apparently nearly losing Chris in a terrible accident still hasn't soured Alice on the idea of going to Canada despite it being the absolute last thing he wants to do. Every bit her father's daughter, that one.
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Post by Dave on Mar 18, 2013 14:21:40 GMT
I did like Derrel sneakily getting round Jennifer to gain access to the keys for Home Farm's outbuildings though.
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Post by adamski on Mar 23, 2013 14:16:49 GMT
Dave, completely off topic, but who are those boys in your avatar?
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Post by Dave on Mar 23, 2013 19:18:47 GMT
The much missed Knights of Camelot from Merlin. This one was actually a Gay Times cover
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Post by pops on Mar 24, 2013 11:37:41 GMT
Poor Tony and Pat - what have they done to deserve Helen and Tom forming an unholy alliance against them? And it sounds like Henry is going to grow up to be worse than both of them.
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Post by adamski on Mar 24, 2013 12:07:27 GMT
The much missed Knights of Camelot from Merlin. This one was actually a Gay Times coverAwesome, thanks!
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Post by quincyme on Mar 26, 2013 17:53:21 GMT
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Post by Steven on Mar 27, 2013 11:57:26 GMT
I know it's the Telegraph, but CHRIST ALIVE some of the comments on that article. That paywall can't go up soon enough.
Also, I am enjoying the deliciousness of Vanessa Whitburn waiting until the messageboards closed before announcing that she was leaving.
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Post by Dave on Mar 27, 2013 12:43:05 GMT
I predict the Telegraph will explode when we get a Muslim Lord of the Manor replacing Nigel.
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Post by pops on Mar 27, 2013 22:56:38 GMT
The big shock for me is that she'd been there 22 YEARS!!! ? How long had the people on the old Archers message board been moaning about her? They must have been accusing her of being obssessed with box-ticking and political correctness before the terms were invented. I'd always just assumed she must have been appointed in the last five years.
Despite the warning, I looked at the Telegraph comments. Someone used the word miscegenation (along with some even less savoury terms). How very 1920s Deep South.
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Post by Steven on Mar 27, 2013 23:10:35 GMT
Yeah, I think that was the same poster who sent me scurrying back here with my fingers in my ears. Or, you know, the looking-at-things-on-the-internet equivalent of that.
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Post by pops on Mar 28, 2013 18:51:03 GMT
Yeah, I think that was the same poster who sent me scurrying back here with my fingers in my ears. Or, you know, the looking-at-things-on-the-internet equivalent of that. When I read it, it said the post had been edited by a moderator. God knows what it said before given the stuff they left in.
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Post by quincyme on Mar 28, 2013 20:04:15 GMT
Today was the 17000th episode,
hurrah!
Shula being a bit racist?
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Post by Dave on Mar 31, 2013 16:41:36 GMT
I take back everything I've said about the Telegraph comments section as they've answered a question that has always bothered me... "Kenton was not Kenton's original name - as a small child I heard the name-picking episode at my Grandmother's house and remember wondering why Phil'n'Jill seemed incapable of giving the twins real names!
They rolled alpahbet bricks across the floor and eventually came up with Shula and Blain. Someone then pointed out to them that Blain means a nasty sore and they changed it to Kenton - but I have no idea where they got that from!"From a gently amusing upsum of The Archers so far www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9962464/The-real-Archers-omnibus.html
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Post by quincyme on Apr 2, 2013 18:15:31 GMT
Was that anita dobson making her debut there tonight?
And shock horror Paul aint the person we thought he was.
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