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Tell me it's just that my heart has withered within me or

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kohl · 07/02/2013 19:16

has it gone too far? This weak homage to Brief Encounter is embarrassing.
I wish Matt would just discover them and take soppy Paul out with Joe's shotgun.

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happystory · 07/02/2013 19:21

Yes gone on too long now, I can't believe her heart really in it, just a bit of excitement. We need Matt to show his true colours!

R4 · 07/02/2013 19:52

No, it's not only you. It just shows what the SW think of the progrmme - something to make fun of.

I can only hope that they were playing a clever trick - thinking that we would be so sidetracked by the Brief Encounter vibe that we would fail to notice that Miss Busybody is actually a PI employed by Matt.

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kohl · 07/02/2013 20:01

Please God let her be a PI, it's about the only way that they can save this stomach churningly bad storyline.

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Songbird · 08/02/2013 09:52

Ooh I think I need to catch up. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but apparently not...

R4 · 08/02/2013 10:24

I think that it was spectacularly bad judgement. As someone on Mustardland has said, they broke the fourth wall - which you can't do in a soap.
It may possibly have been amusing as a skit on another programme, for Comic Relief or something, but not within the hallowed timeslot of TA itself.

wellcoveredsparerib · 08/02/2013 14:17

Gosh, definitely not just you OP. It was cringe-worthy.

TheSilveryPussycat · 08/02/2013 14:27

Well I quite enjoyed it And life does sometimes imitate art, don't you find, though perhaps not quite to that extent. My theory is that the PI was such a fan of Brief Encounter that having noticed the resemblance she couldn't stop herself mentioning bath buns etc.

Songbird · 08/02/2013 14:57

Having never seen Brief Encounter (), it just seemed a bit cheesy and cliche to me - was it a complete rip off?

This is on the BBC Archers website.

TheSilveryPussycat · 08/02/2013 15:04

Funnily enough I was looking at someone the other day and I thought you suddenly look much younger

at my age I thought I was past all that. seemingly not (though am not quite as old as Lillian (who I remember getting a pony as a birthday present when I was about 10 and she was 14 or something)

ArtexMonkey · 08/02/2013 15:07

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PrincessFiorimonde · 08/02/2013 15:14

I love that someone on that website refers to Paul as Lilian's 'personality-free paramour'.

Am also hoping that Connie turns out to be a PI.

Panzee · 08/02/2013 16:31

They broke the fourth wall? What happened?

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