Archers... every story line sucks at the mo... it's awful

[nigelslaterfan]

Oh spare us!
Pipsqueak's makeover
Jazzer's horrible accent
Annette's putative abortion
The shop
The shop
The shop
Susan moaning about it
Vicky interminably always being unamusingly awful
Kenton and his bar research yawn yawn yawn
All the young people are so false and unnatural
Why can't they have some GOOD story lines they've got an army of writers.. what's wrong with them?

The great thing about the Archers is that you can miss loads of episodes and still keep up with the storyline. Hence, if you listen to it everyday you lost the will to live.

The shop storyline is reminiscent of when Caroline and Oliver wanted to buy Grey Gables - went on for months!

For me, nothing has topped Ruth and Sam.

I have strong and violent feelings towards Helen - will she just shut the fuck up. Somewhat, insensitively, I felt the same towards Kathy during the whole rape trial.

Betty died at the same time as my MIL.

When Brenda graduated I wept like a baby!

Ruth and Sam! We were living in Berlin at the time and had to listen on the computer which was in our bedroom. My parents were staying that week and every evening we all huddled together on the bed to listen - the kids thought we were mad!

This thread has also made me remember the actress who played Clarrie committing suicide - it took me ages to get used to the new Clarrie. Same goes for the more recent replacement of Hayley.

OOh yes (of should I say ohhhhh noooooooo)Ruth and Sam - that was just awful - David was being quite irritating at that time and part of me just though 'oh go for it Ruth' and then the sensible right part of me was saying 'ohhhhhhhh nooooooooo' Such a relief when she told him to forget it and he stropped in the car park of the hotel. Ugh!

My parents live in rural Warwickshire and their neighbour sounds like Bert Fry.

Agree that the Peggy and Jack story has been so sad.

OH PLEASE I wish you hadn't reminded me about John's death you great huge clan of MEANIES! I'm crying NOW.

The Ruth and Sam storyline was brilliant.
i know of the same thing happening in real life, where the husband put a stop to the affair by selling the cows, buying a tractor with the proceeds and going into arable farming.

I have never quite forgiven Hayley for leaving and having a more successful career. Same as Debbie I guess. I loathe Helen, I've always loathed her and I can't find a single redeeming feature. Why on earth Kersty likes her is anyone's guess. I do find the way they've watered down the village's betes noirs (Lillian, Matt, Linda) very annoying too - even Jim has been shown to have redeeming characteristics!

So I'm stuck with hating snotty Shula and uptight Helen which just isn't very satisfying somehow

Does anyone else feel it's unnatural for Tom to be quizzing Jazza about Jazza's pursuit of Fallon? Most young males I know would run a mile rather than enquire about each other's romantic interests -- sexual conquests, sure, but the touchy-feely flavour of Tom's questions, no way....

Every time the males on The Archers gossip with each other about village love lives it sounds so contrived to me.

Agree the Tom and jazzer thing stupid as is the sudden redemption o jazzer into someone who wasn't like a bad rural take in rab nesbitt.

I always liked matt and Lilian but agree Linda has mellowed. Although hasn't / haven't Susan and helen got worse?

Also how can someone as nice as Jill produce such loon children( David aside - he is just dull).

hmmmm but is Jill so nice really?.......

Surely she's concealing great depths of viciousness underneath that thin veneer of charm. I think she's passive aggressive. Like that whole generation can be all 'I'm just a little innocent Doris Day, me, really, oh big strong man come look at my fairy cooks OOOh you are a tease!' sort of faux girlish womanhood. It always conceals a near murderous resentment surely!

"Also how can someone as nice as Jill produce such loon children( David aside - he is just dull)."

As seeker said on the other thread, "So unlike the home life of our own dear Queen"

A very long time ago (possibly late 70s, early 80s, Jill went mad for a while - no doubt the scriptwriters of that time considered that was what happened to a woman at a certain age). So, it is there, but under the surface!

Lol at jill theories. Am not sure now which way the annette plot will go. And how has lovely fallon sunk to thinking a good night out is a curry with jazzer?

What did Jill do???!

I think Annette will get so sick to death of Helen's constant hectoring that she will blurt out all about Leon.

Helen will be plunged into a downward spiral of pills and booze causing her to leave Ambridge forever to go and live on a cheese co-operative in Cornwall.

One can dream .........

at least the storyline is better than all that milk yields and different kind of grass milarky

My husband thinks Helen is about to come out and will live with Annette and the baby in Ambridge's first lesbian family.

But the organic winery in NZ sounds like a better bet. Or Cornish dairy.

Helen topping herself would be a mercy to us all. What a dreary character she is.

Isn't Jazzer being sweet now, poor dear?

And Brian being useful placating Susan about subcommittees. Flattery will get you everywhere...

Brian is a sly old fox. He knows how to work committees.

he is masterful, I hate to admit it. But he is one of the best actors too and the best written as well.

NiGelslaterfan Agree wholeheartedly re helen going and I do like Brian as his plots are interesting.
Must say eddies broken van welcome relief from waht is wrong with pip

But don't you find so many plot lines utterly DREARY or painfully 'comic'. The writers can't actually be real people in a real place meeting other real people. I mean the teenagers are terrible. Helen is so so so gruesome. And they have this weird sort of perceived middleclassness that is not authentic. It's as if it's someone's guess at these people not a writer's real experience of people coming out in fictional form.

I can't help but think bloody Vanessa Whitburn should take a blardy sabbatical and give the whole thing a little shake and get some slightly different writers in. I mean I don't want to torch the whole cast in a barn fire tragedy I just want to stop groaning at the radio every day