Elves have needs too - will there be a pheasants' revolt? Discuss The Archers here

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I've just browsed Lowfield for the first time - they really don't like Pat do they!

Just read it too. If only the listeners were able to share in the toast. As it is, it's just a load of hogshit.

They need to get someone who understands character!!!

And the sw need to be sent back to sw school

I know. I feel like the thread dementor these last two days but goodness it's been dire.

I live in hope that it will improve forthwith

Even my dp who doesn't listen honest he doesn't even though he knows everything that's going on said "so that moving storyline was even more crap than we thought at the time then."

I feel I need someone to rouse my rabble

Worried Anna doesn't eat well since she and Max split at Christmas?

Never mind, she can come and stay in Ambridge for a while, where she can drink her mother's herbal teas and her godmother's endless cakes, and while we sort out her nutritional needs, she can uncover everything about Rob, sort out Helen so she only gets a sentence that she's already served on remand, get Rob banged up for coercive control, and sort out the children's legacy.

Maybe we can marry her off to Dr Locke as well, upset Shula and Elizabeth in the process and have Jill moaning about how they used to get on so well as children (I've no idea if they did.)

Sorted.

Wasn't Max banged up for Lucy's murder? (Bit awkward for a barrister spouse.) But I gather they've now arrested some child? Probably Ben Archer or one of Frilly ...

With all the male characters' voices sounding the same these days, I got a bit of a shock when David first spoke today - thinking why is Rob all pally with Ruth? They were about the only 2 I wasn't getting mixed up till now....

I did question the uncomfortable parallel of Anna having issues with food and a recently broken relationship .

SOC does have a tendency (actually I suspect deliberate plan) to mark significant episodes in a "low key" which means pretty boring way.
So last night - celebration over a road not happening that no-one believed in.
New Year with the discussion about cows.
But does anyone know who the script writer this week is - because it has been particularily poor (SOC's neice or something...?).

Pretty sure it's KD (possibly for for two weeks iirc). Not all the listener tweets in reaction have been entirely positive ...

That was truly dreadful. What was Ruth doing all that heavy breathing for ? Absolute rubbish. As for Daveed - I'm actually lost for words well I have quite a few but they might just get deleted

It's dire. So dire I just can't summon the enthusiasm to moan any more about it.

Sounds like I did well not to bother LA to last night's!

BOOP for the image of the geek summons upthread!

Commissioner Gordon takes the cover off the searchlight to reveal the bat sign has been replaced by a calculator... DDD stirs in his lair and sees the familiar symbol projected on the cloudy sky, urging him into action to save Gotham Ambridge with his actuarial skills..

BOOP faints

Dear New -Despoiler- Editor,
Please allow a sinkhole to open under the marital bed of David and Rooth
And let it be very deep.
Please let Caz be studying an OU degree in Eng lit. Let her girls' names be jokes that she came up with to make Helen smile.
May Helen smile.
And explain her reasons for not wishing to let her boys be brought up by Rob. Using such words as 'Control. Isolation. Rape.'
Please let PipantheFairgropers set up a skunk farm (the herb, not the mammal) in one of the barns.
Let there be a corpse found in the woods all knotted up in bunting and with a prep school tie wound tightly round its poor throat. Let Scruff, Linda and Rovert find it. Let Ursula be a witness. Let her frantically examine it to see if the ancient woven Cash's name tape is still sewn inside. Let her faint when she discovers it. Let Robert have his camera handy for photographic evidence.

Let less cake be eaten, all sex beyond earshot, let Joe win the lottery and let it be a roll over.

Amen

Except - Joe would immediately hand over the £50m to a gently protesting Ed. Who won't ask for advice because he "wants to stand on his own feet". So it would all be disastrously lost within the space of three months ...

I wonder if the "Get out of Jail Free" card for Helen will be that something on Rob will emerge that is so incriminating he won't dare to give evidence against her and will acknowledge that he was attacking her and Henry and she was acting in self defence? Maybe the elusive Miles will come up with the trump card?

I know it would be a cop-out and pretty ridiculous, but when has that ever been known to deter SOC?

I think the sw ers were attempting a Shakespearian 'this England' type speech with David. I felt embarrassed. < goes out to get a life>

Me too. Cringey.

What if Hellin doesn't get off at the last minute? What if she gaaaaaas daaaaaaan? What then eh?

God I love Soosan.

God I hate the Bearfrotters.

Oh yes, let's all laugh at another comedy common person!

I enjoyed Susan this evening, too.

Me too Bore.

So did I. I don't think we laugh at Susan because she's common, any more than we laugh at Lynda because she's middle class. There's nothing laughable about her brother Clive nor (on the whole) about Neil, Christopher or Emma. It's her Susanness that makes her laughable. That and the excellent acting of Charlotte Martin, of course!

But Neil and Christyfurrr Know Their Places, don't they? I agree we aren't supposed to laugh at her for being working class: we're supposed to laugh at her delusions of wishing she could aspire to anything else. Same with Emmur citing her Nvq in catering.

Well we also laughed with Susan didn't we when Jennifer was trying to palm off her old kitchen on her? And Jennifer wasn't born that much higher the social class, she just pulled herself up (which is something Lillian doesn't seem to have forgotten).