No more walking on eggshells for Helen! Heading for an eggsplosive Easter weekend in The Archers - will Helen Archer be resurrected by the end of this thread?

[PseudoBadger]

Helen knows she's not cracking up - Knob is an eggomaniac.

Are we eggshausted with this storyline?

Oh! Oh! And it's the 50th thread!!!!!

I've loved discussing The Archers with you all

Pseudo - I don't follow the Archers, but I often admire your thread titles.

Long term lurker checking in ever since "why are the scripr writers letting it happen?"

Is it wrong for me to read this thread since listening to Knob is too hard?

Hurrah!

I just posted on the other thread but will cut and paste

Rob doesn't want to endanger the baby or Helen. He wants Helen to be incapable of thinking for herself so constantly moves the goal posts.

"Of course you must have a home birth, mother knows best" becomes "of course you can't change Helen's mind once she's decided something" and would have inevitably become "you stupid woman, what on earth were you thinking, I never should have allowed you to endanger our child"

Helen needs to be confused.

He's employing the exactly the same tactic with "lie down, lie down, lie down, lie down, lie down, how dare you spend the afternoon lying down"

Thanks RomCom! More often than not I try to incorporate posters' suggestions to get a good one

And now you have this thread on your TIO - you'll be listening and wanting to murder Rob by Monday

Hurrah!

Stupendous effort Pseudo.

Congratulations to us all - listeners, posters, lurkers ...

Oh, and here's a nice interview with Helen. (Telegraph)

I think that conversation with her son made Helen has realise that she'll lose Henry if she stays with Rob, regardless of whether he is sent away.

I hope she escapes safely and in a way that other trapped women can take heart from.

"Is it wrong for me to read this thread since listening to Knob is too hard?" Many people can't bear to listen Geek. Nice to have you along

Place marking!
Helen is going to face worse over the coming days/weeks. Rob was panicking - he had to come back to check on her even though he just left, he took her keys on a whim I think. He's flailing as he can feel the control slipping, so now he will up the gas lighting and could go one of two ways - saccharine sweet or physically abusive. Possibly both. Helen is torn, her conversation with WA was a breakthrough but she's still hoping she's wrong, but equally you can tell she's made a decision to stand up for herself. The hospital birth, refusing to make his dinner, both signs of rebellion. It will get worse but we are gearing up for the crescendo.

Thanks Pseudo, eggcellent thread title !

I reckon we must have a while to go yet. They haven't started playing trails for the final showdown, for one thing (I don't think - haven't been aware of any, and I'm a hardcore R4 listener). Previous resolutions to major storylines have been preceded by weeks of teasers, culminating in The Big One, an ep that focuses solely on the people (usually two people) involved.

So I fear it could be some time before we have the epic HelKnob two-hander in which she'll escape and he'll be castrated with a rusty scythe, we hope

Well done, Pseudo, have 50 of these:

If we were at work, I'd be thinking what processes are in place for someone else to start a new thread if PB is unavailable (illness, holiday etc)? But then I think you're creativity with thread titles would be hard to replace...

🎉🎉🎉🍾🎉🎉🎉

Marking for an egg-citing conclusion!!

Thankyou Pseudo for this and all the other threads. For me they are the best thing on MN and I love being part of them.

I can't believe I typed "you're" instead of "your". I'm obviously getting too excited.

"Make your own supper" - yay! I hope she talks to Kirstie and Pat now...

Sorry for place marker which will fill up the thread faster.

D^3 ITYM egg-cited

I keep thinking that surely something has to happen that is unambiguous for Helen - a phone call from the school for further information which Helen takes? I know it's the holidays but maybe admin staff working?

Not all schools are on holiday.

Eggcellent title and Congratulations on your 50th thread Psuedo

Thank you once again Pseudo and cngratulations to you and all of us for reaching 50!

Who'da thought it

Many congratulations everyone on the 50th thread and creating it Psuedo Thank you

Marking my place for before girding my loins to LA. It's sounding very interesting

Brilliant title! Congratulations on the 50th thread. I am pretty sure I posted on the first one, and although I have generally lurked I have read most of the rest.

I was brave and listened last night and was so glad I was there when Helen took the first steps towards articulating her situation. I am also glad that it was Kirsty who gave her the number.