Out, damned SOC! Out I say! When will Ambridge be free? Discuss The Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

A once-great soap is going down the Beverley drain.

(Please do not disillusion me until absolutely necessary.)

Thank you for the new thread Pseudo. Just lurking...

When does SOC bugger off? Surely he can't wait for his triumphal return to EE?

My once rabid listening has diminished to reading Lowfield and checking on here.

Badly, done.

Thank you for the new thread! Place marking; I've barely been listening the last few weeks.

I actually enjoyed hearing H talking to Kas.

Fab new thread, thanks Pseudo

Caz said something like she took the can for her 2nd partner (father of Jayden). Could be drugs. Or maybe receiving?

What Gasp0de said, except it's now over three months since custardgate.

Has Tony had a lobotomy?

I'm so disappointed we couldn't have a competent female barrister who would just, you know, present the case. Like a man might have done. Unimpeded by her own ishooos. But of course she has to have ishooos. Because she's a woman. FFS.

Hellin finally, achingly slowly, beginning to realise what Knob has been doing to her. What point are the SW trying to make that a fellow prisoner is the one removing the scales from her eyes? And to boot, an apparently working class wrong-un stereotype who is more articulate and considered than most of the middle class graduates I know!

Thanks for the new thread Pseudo and thanks to everyone listening so I don't have to (Out damn SOC!!!). Though I did listen tonight and hopefully it's progress but argh!!! What Gasp and others said: this is frustratingly, disappointingly crap.

Gruach just harming back to something you said on the last thread, I think that Wayne's last gf, mother of Rollo, was called Emmy. I remembered because I imagined the SWs were going for country music related names (Emmylou Harris) and I wondered if she was really called Doris a la Jolene/Doreen.

Harking not harming!

so helen has worked out that was how he knew she was at the school taking Henry... so how come she left her phone at home onthe draining board sometime just before custardgate?

thank God for Caz at the moment.

Rob is manipulating Tony and Pat quite well too. he pulled a fast one re the elves. what is the betting he takes henry out to the wildlife park on Saturday so pat and Tony don't have to.

Thankyou for another new thread Pseudo , they're the best thing about TA for me and you are a for making them happen.

Need to listen to last night's episode but just totally about Beverly Drain dying.

blackeyed she's only just remembered () about the tracker and only know because the police told her. She didn't know when she left it on the draining board. Anna would surely have been told that by the police though?

I know it's a bit clunky but I guess the Kaz conversations are a bit like Helen coming on here, going in relationships and working out what was going on. They need to that so we can hear her "journey".

Honestly P&T are a right pair of numpties.

Thank goodness the scales are beginning to fall from Helen's eyes, but seriously bored of the wailing and gnashing of teeth at Bridge Farm.

I'm back in the UK after 6 weeks of blissful non listening. I have followed these threads a bit though.
I'm not confident about turning the radio on...

I wish pat n tone would get their act together.

The only phrase they need to say in front of Rob:

"We'll just stay at home and play on the farm today Henry because of course this will all be yours one day and you don't get to play on the farm every day do you"

I liked the Helen and Kaz conversation last night. I thought you really saw the depth of her confusion, and the way Rob so completely tied her in knots.

Pat and Tony.....

Also is he still on the payroll? This needs to be addressed.

Isn't it astonishing that people who have run their own farm and various associated side businesses successfully for decades should be incapable of making sensible decisions about their employees?

Really, even if Pat and Tony's brains have perhaps understandably turned to mush, surely Tom or even Johnny would say "why are we still paying him?"

Hard to believe the SWs have joyfully travelled so far down this route of re-writing history and character.

Where is Tom? When will we have the conversation where PnT talk about Rob crashing the Elf Migration and Tom says "That's strange - remember that Bank Holiday Monday when told me I couldn't speak to Henry on non-access days. There's a double-standard going on here. Do you think, perhaps, that Rob is a bit weasely and controlling?"

R4 that would be great. If any scriptwriters are lurking, if you highlight with the left mouse, then control-c you can copy and then paste with control p.

Why hasn't Henry got a social worker?

Or has be, but because she's a woman she's too busy dealing with issues in her personal life to do her job?