The Archers - It's so much more than just a soap. It's a bloody drama!

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Will it still be Sunday tonight?

I've just caught up. Going to ignore all the Hellin staff and say..... fiver on Tom and Kirsty getting back together!

Haven't listened - is he dead?!

Tonight Susan went from annoying to frankly utterly hateful. I'll be hoping she falls on a knife next, too.

Well, maybe if Rob dies, it will indeed be better for Helen. At the very least it will be better for Henry and the baby.

Devil's advocate re: Tom. I thought his reaction was normal. He's feeling guilty and I think that's understandable. But guilt is indeed a less than helpful sentiment.

Re: Rob's infection - given where it's coming from, it's blackly hilarious to think that in the end it might be the tuna bake that kills him.

Not dead just..... he MIGHT DIE

duh duh DURRRRRRR!!

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I don't think Rob will die. TA characters have survived worse: being trampled to near death by a bull, being married to Shula (well one out of two has survived though appears to have taken a vow of silence) and eating Christine's scones.

Off at a tangent, but do we think Dorothy is still at The Stables? Wonders how long Shula's supply of yellow towels will last.

Yes, they're miracle workers at Felphersham Hospital, look how they brought Tony back from the brink of death. And then the Ambridge health fairy will restore Knob to full loathsomeness in time for the trial.

Due to various outside circs I haven't listened this week, or had time to catch up on the threads.

And - I don't care

I think I might be cured of my 30-year Archers habit

I hope SOC is pleased with himself

Onemorestep more poetry please . .... I think your work has epic potential... Surely it cannot be the end for Thomas the binned bunny ...

Thomas the binned hunny will contain drugs

Slightly off topic but has anyone listened to the Now Show this evening? I loved the database of evil names, they came up with: 'Ebola Titchener'!!

Perhaps we could sponsor a breakaway Archers, say The Real Archers, bringing back all the actors that SOC sacked and either wind the clock back to 1 April and continue the DA SL as we would want it to go, with Helen leaving, pressing charges and Rob going down for DA…

or possibly wind the clock back to 31 December 2010 (I know it was V rather than SOC):
David: Nigel, are you OK
Nigel: Yes, I just need to get up here to untie the last bit.
David: Nigel, careful, you’ll fall.
Nigel: Good point. Thank goodness you warned me. I wouldn’t have wanted to lose my footing and fall from the roof screaming with you shouting Niiiiiiigeeeeeeel as I crash to the ground and died. I wouldn’t have wanted to shake Ambridge to the core. And what would Lizie have said?
David: And I wouldn’t have wanted to have had to live with a guilty conscience for having not prevented your death and being blamed by Elizabeth for it.

Nigel: Good stuff. Let’s go back inside and enjoy the party.

Dum de dum de dum

Oh dear. I really have lost the plot - or perhaps I’ve actually found it…

Wh-, what's this gathering dust in the corner? Oh, I remember this. It's the... the klaxon!

Mmm, maybe we could use it as a doorstop to keep the door open for all the listeners showing themselves out.

I quite like that Rob's my die from his own poisonous shit.

That's sort of poetic justice.

OneMore I may start a fantasy life where that all actually happened and I'm Elizabeth...

So who was the unexpected visitor in the shop?

Ursula

Arsula. So not really that unexpected.

Sooooo not unexpected.

Yes, sorry about that!

Onemore, that's exactly what I wish could happen. How sad that the Dallas option seems a good one? I loved that you could always dip in and out of the Archers. I hate the tyranny of having to listen every day to get the story. It's like it used to be one of those true friends your could go months without seeing and then just pick up happily where you left off but has become the annoying needy friend who gets the huff if you don't call each week.

Has the last few years maybe been the stream of consciousness that Nigel experienced as he fell through the air?

I mean, the scream was long enough.

Then he'll wake up in hospital, having suffering minor injuries, and we can all go back to normality.

I know! The hospital scenes WILL be Nigel. He'll have dreamt that he had an extra-marital affair with Helen and that he became a horrible abuser!