Your least-favourite Archers storylines?

[Terpsichore]

Title says it all, really. I know it goes through centuries of deep, deep dullness interspersed with nanoseconds of excitement (I've been listening for years so probably have heard about 5 minutes of actual drama in total), but atm I frankly can't be bothered - everything seems so utterly tedious.

My particular bugbears currently are:
Pat'n'Tony eternally whingeing about the demise of The Bridge Farm Brand
Tom the Sausage King being even more vile than usual (footballing pigs? Give me strength)
JennyDarling becoming a mad empty-nester
Willyum flying into rages and then canoodling revoltingly with the dreadful manic Nic
Jimus and his bleedin' community orchard
Lilian's spawn-of-the-devil son and the entirely-believable 'book' he's 'writing' with Leonie
......and as for Alice, all loved-up with her weird adenoidal wheedling voice - please, no more; it's even worse than Peeeeeep!

Tell me I'm not alone, please. Worst of all is the fact that I just can't see any resolution of the Pat'n'Tone thing and I fear they're going to drag this one out for a good few years yet. Not sure I have the strength. All that's keeping me listening is the hope that Elona will turn out to be a master con-artist and divest Peggy of her millions (not to mention her enamels) before trashing No. 3 The Green and doing a moonlight flit

YY to all of Terpsichore's.

Plus Lizzie - David

Centuries back but ne'er forgiven:

Lizzie and the Brookfield inheritance saga.
Ruth and the Sam/YawnAsIf saga
Ruth at all other times
Kate - any appearance but mostly when she let Roy hold Phoebe for a minute outside the court telling him it was the first and last time he would hold his daughter.
Helen after John died.
Shula every bloody storyline
William - ditto
Susan Smug and Clive

Anything to do with Wil n Nic. Ever.
Or Kate

(But I do have a soft spot for anything Hayley does ...)

Damn. Just heard Tony letting JennyDarling hear a few home truths - richly deserved! Slightly undermines my theory, but still.....

Emmer letting Clive visit the children and going hyper manic freaked out about him bringing them pressies or wanting a pic. What else would she expect??

Struggle to find anything likeable about Will. Ever.

I miss loathing Helen, though, she's so boring nowadays!

I still hate Helen.

I agree that many of the sub-plots are tedious - James and Leonie's book wins by a long shot and is also (unusually in my opinion) entirely unbelievable. Peggy and Ilona is also dragging on a bit - I'm strongly suspecting she's going to turn out to be a con artist who will rob Tony (and the others, but he's the one really counting on it) of his inheritance. I also find the recently formed book club a dull subject - though it's clearly meant to provide humour. Ditto the cider club. However I can't believe any long-term Archers fan (I've been listening for nearly 30 years - oh my God, can I be that old!) could find the Bridge Farm drama boring? Having watched Pat and Tony go organic, build up their brand, see their eldest son die, watch their youngest step into his shoes, expand the dairy and open the farm shop, remortgage their home to grow their business only to lose everything because a well-loved and long-serving employee came back to work a day early - sorry, but that's what the Archers is all about.

Debbie is hideous now. As are Tom and Helen who have the empathy of a Tonka toy when dealing with their parents. Would any child who had parents who had a 10k fine on them slapped on them by Underwoods for very dubious reasons really crow when he got a contract? Really?

I am going through one of the rare phases where I hope Ambridge is swamped by a tsunami from the Birmingham Ship Canal. I won't stop listening because it is my curse

Well rebranding was always the solution to Tony+Pat's calamity, I can't believe they've been so resistant. Archers has always had the sub-theme of the old farming folk who resist new ways.

Oh bother, just wrote a long post and got an error message plus disappearance of said post......well, I was going to say to Lillian that I too have been listening since the days of John's demise and feel I've devoted a good chunk of my own life to Pat, Tone and their ghastly offspring (John possibly excepted), BUT I just can't cope with Pat droning on and on and on and on and on and on (you get the picture), pausing only to inform Tony in that special, weary, glazed voice that things have just.......got worse.

Mind you, Tom's shouty Apprentice-style bigging-up of his bangers is actually starting to make me feel that I'd prefer Pat's endless woe. Which is quite some achievement on his part

But don't you think that Pat's endless woe is justified? Her business has been destroyed and as they remortgaged the farm to grow the business she could be looking at being homeless to boot. Suddenly, in their fifties, she and Tony are looking at starting again from scratch. I feel so sorry for her (cue dh saying "It's not real you know"!). That storyline (depressing though it may be) seems so much less contrived than the return of Clive Horrobin for instance, or even the death of Nigel.

I do feel sorry for her but she should have let Brenda handle the media. She completely fluffed that interview and made everything 100x worse. Plus she should have let Tom do the interview with Borsetshire Life. Maybe if they rebrand the whole place, they'll do it then and it will be a 'Tom pulls Bridge Farm back from brink of ruin through his ingenuity' story.

It's Will and Nic who are making me want to gouge holes in my eardrums at the moment. I wish he would just get on and ask her to marry him so we can put an end to the tedious isn't-Nic-a-saint-and-Will's-not-so-bad really stuff

Does anyone reckon Jim's going to get it on with Christine Barford? I'd like that :o

I don't know why I felt the need to use her whole name there. I'm not Joe Grundy

Marking place

Sometimes though, the very dullness and predictability is whats so good about it-I like the annual who-har (sp?) over the Christmas show for example. It doesn't really seem like Christmas until Lindas started rehearsals.

I do think they miss a trick with having no arguements about who's going to whose house at Xmas and moans about MILs-they could log on here for some ideas

:o snice - that would be ace

Gah! All of these really. I'm afraid I hardly listen nowadays and when I do I seem to pick it all up again in two minutes.

Not so much storylines but any mention of polytunnels and their wily ways has me fossilising mentally. Ditto 'har-hars', treetop walks and veg competitions. I'm guessing the now threadbare 'stir-up Sunday' episode will be wheeled out again soon. Jill reminiscing over the Christmas pud.

I wish someone would a bullet through Lay-onie and J's brains. I trust at some point someone with an ounce of intelligence will put them in their place.