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Luckygirl Sun 29-Oct-17 09:58:53

Can't find the old thread.

How silly the Matt storyline is - like the Rob storyline it is OTT. No-one is as villainous as Matt is being portrayed - they have just made him a stereotype of evil and it is ridiculous. I have never met anyone who encapsulates evil to this degree.

Stop it now you crazy scriptwriters and give as some storylines that reflect real life.

phoenix Mon 01-Jan-18 22:14:58

Yes, nellie not a single intelligible sound, perhaps if he DOES actually say words, they have to increase what they pay him, possibly organic yogurt or whatever.

Either that or they have been force feeding the little chap on Uncle Tom's kafir, and the mere taste of it has rendered him speechless.

Nelliemoser Mon 01-Jan-18 22:32:54

Phoenix You may have hit the nail on the head there.

travelsafar Fri 12-Jan-18 08:09:05

Blimey has the Archers fallen out of favour again. I must admit it is a bit boring at the moment, and it doesnt bother me if i miss an episode now and again, not like when Rob was the evil villian!!

Hurry up and bring back Lillian and Justin at least they are more interesting than all the baby talk at the mo.

Lazigirl Fri 12-Jan-18 09:51:34

When TA is boring, as at present, I vow to give it up, but after a few days I'm back again, sad addict that I am. LoL.

travelsafar Fri 12-Jan-18 12:37:52

LOl me too.If i don't catch series in the week listen to the omnibus on Sundays

AyjayF Fri 12-Jan-18 22:01:22

I was waiting for David to deck Toby this evening. I wish he had!

starbird Wed 17-Jan-18 00:44:54

Who’se been doing what at Brookfield to pollute the river Am?

AyjayF Wed 17-Jan-18 07:40:03

Is it the remains of Stefan?

suzied Wed 17-Jan-18 08:05:13

Maybe it’s Tom dumping the unsold kefir.

Elrel Wed 17-Jan-18 23:03:08

Ayjay - When there was something nasty in the water I thought it might be Matt, or Rob, or even a depressed teenager. What DID become of Stefan? I think we should be told!
So Silliun is back, Justin is letting his good guy mask slip again, Jenny has decided to woman up and Kenton is advising Toby. It looks as if Pip will have trouble from her baby's DF for the foreseeable future. Did Jenny Darling ever hear from Adam's red headed DF? I can't remember.

merlotgran Wed 17-Jan-18 23:19:49

Didn't Justin pay off Stefan and send him back to wherever he came from?

I hope Kenton's advice hits home and Toby decides to step up where the baby is concerned. David and Jill will be royally pissed off.....Good!

BTW How on earth could Toby have just buggered off, as David has suggested, when he has a business to grow and what about Kenton's investment?

Kenton is now my favourite character grin

Elrel Thu 18-Jan-18 20:51:07

Wasn't it Rob who put Stefan out of the picture?

merlotgran Thu 18-Jan-18 22:09:32

IIRC Stefan was blackmailing Rob, Lilian overheard him and told Justin who realised he'd made a mistake in employing Rob (about time) and paid off Stefan to get rid of him so he could then deal with Rob.

Lazigirl Fri 19-Jan-18 19:21:29

So Kate has had a personality transplant hmm

NfkDumpling Fri 19-Jan-18 20:12:19

So, the pollution in the Am isn’t the remains of Stefan?

midgey Fri 19-Jan-18 21:43:03

Ooh I missed that bit about Stefan, I thought he was in the culvert too. Is Brian going to go bankrupt do you think, or just to prison!

Nelliemoser Fri 19-Jan-18 23:46:04

I did enjoy Kate's dreadful whinging about how hard done by she was the other day. I really enjoy Kate. She is such a good character and you can more or less predict what she will say or do next.
As you can with real people you know in real life. Brilliant script writing most of the time.

NfkDumpling Sat 20-Jan-18 07:55:14

Oh, Goody! Stephan may be in the rubbish tip that's poisoned the Am.

Lazigirl Sat 20-Jan-18 10:15:05

Hopefully Nfk. There's never been a resolution to the Stephan storyline has there?

merlotgran Sat 20-Jan-18 11:18:17

Am I the only one who heard the episode where Justin paid Stefan enough money to go back to Poland and Not Come Back?

Lazigirl Sat 20-Jan-18 11:21:03

No but you're the one with the better memory merlot grin

merlotgran Sat 20-Jan-18 11:32:26

"Lilian and Justin enjoy a secret phone call before he heads back to London with Miranda. He assures her that Rob is off the scene, as is Stefan. The former has been drummed out of town; the latter has been "paid off". He thinks he hears Miranda and has to end the call quickly. He phones Brian to make arrangements to keep him up to speed. Brian agrees to a meeting in about an hour or so."

This is from Lowfield so unless Stefan snuck back into Ambridge and Justin strangled him with the missing bunting (before he had a chance to cash his pay off cheque) I think/hope we can rest assured Stefan is back in Poland. wink

Iam64 Sat 20-Jan-18 12:44:08

merlotgran, you are of course correct in your re-telling of this story line. However - this is Ambridge. It's entirely possible that Rob killed Stephan with arsenic, which is now suddenly finding its way out of his remains and into the Am.....
I do hope Brain and Jenidot don't lose all their cash. Who is going to run the Yurts and holistic massage/therapy centre when Kate goes to SA????

merlotgran Sat 20-Jan-18 12:48:24

I laughed when Kate reckoned she could get a manager in a couple of days.

BTW Who is living in Kate's cottage?

NfkDumpling Sat 20-Jan-18 13:50:34

I felt sure someone saw Stefan after he’d left? Probably wrong, I sometimes listen to old episodes to catch up and could well have got muddled.