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Farzanah Thu 20-Jul-23 19:30:39

Is anyone still listening or have you given up?

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 21:08:18

Ah, you’d need to find the relevant episodes on bbc iplayer.

NotSpaghetti Tue 27-Aug-24 20:55:01

I didn't hear what happened to the car.
Obviously no SoC team came out.

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 20:41:01

Yes possibly notspaghetti but it could be later still

NotSpaghetti Tue 27-Aug-24 19:46:34

So the trial, Iam will be sometime in 2027 then???
... please no! 🙏

eGJ Tue 27-Aug-24 19:16:45

Looks like it mai13!

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 19:07:40

One if the positives of T A is their story lines tend to be Real Times

mae13 Tue 27-Aug-24 19:05:06

Wyllow3

Well Cloive has bumped in to Susan and Susan won't keep her mouth shut but...I'm getting weary of this drip drip storyline unless it comes out pretty soon what George really did do.

Yes, drip, drip, drip, drip.........

Are they going to stretch this Georgie and Uncle Cloive fiasco all the way to Christmas?

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 18:54:38

I do realise it’s a drama but Alistair and Denise - they’re just not dramatic (or believable)
At least the awful George is horribly believable, as are his totally out of their depth, well meaning yet hopeless parents.
EMMUR _ TELL ED

eGJ Tue 27-Aug-24 17:40:37

Alistair and Denise are not in next week’s cast, but Lottie Summers is. Their absence at least keeps us from hearing less about that relationship!

Wyllow3 Tue 27-Aug-24 14:20:15

Well Cloive has bumped in to Susan and Susan won't keep her mouth shut but...I'm getting weary of this drip drip storyline unless it comes out pretty soon what George really did do.

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 13:43:59

Really? Are you sure Farzanah?

Farzanah Tue 27-Aug-24 13:42:33

It’s only pretend Iam 😀

Iam64 Tue 27-Aug-24 13:30:01

Laura and her 13 year old sassy Cassie daughter are back. Laura had a date with Alistair which neither enjoyed. She captains a nearby cricket team and her daughter is booked onto the Ambridge out of school club.
She was ‘difficult’ with Alistair, Harrison ‘had a word’ and she went from sassy to Good Girl. Alistair congratulated Harrison on being great with kids. Yes, Harrison said sadly but that’s not to be
I do hope Laura isn’t being used to contribute to the end of Harrison and Fallon.
I’da much prefer dithering Denise to decide to return to John and Alistair and Laura to find they could enjoy a happy, rewarding life together
I just can’t see Alistair and Denise together. Maybe it’s that I’m picturing the Denise actor as she was in the tv comedy/drama about offenders on community service

Delila Tue 27-Aug-24 11:48:48

Oh please, no! Surely not another distraction featuring Alistair (and, inevitably, Denise)?

Are the scriptwriters actually trying to bore us into switching off? (While they ponder over which way to take the George/Clive/Alice storyline).

mae13 Mon 26-Aug-24 19:30:16

I heartily wish that the scriptwriters would invent a reason for Alistair to go off on a very long sabbatical.

I find him such an irritating WET!

Farzanah Mon 26-Aug-24 19:22:26

Yes, you could almost be seduced by him but it’s just a distraction as on and on and on it goes, until Alice gradually reveals all in her psychotherapy sessions, painful bit by painful bit.

eGJ Mon 26-Aug-24 19:18:51

I said things wouldn’t go well if Cloive met Susan! Susan surprises one these days with her advice and today with standing up for herself. The yoga, weight loss and healthy living is weird, but her still is giving George the wrong advice.

mae13 Mon 26-Aug-24 18:05:46

I'm expecting Georgie's blind faith in Uncle Cloive's "advice" to spectacularly backfire on him, and I can't wait.

Do nothing and see how the court case pans out? I think not.

I think either Emmur will crack and go and tell Harrison the real story or Alice's hypnotherapy sessions will produce the correct result - thus Georgie will go to pieces but won't get any support from Uncle Cloive.

He'll be out of Ambridge like a rocket!

And then Georgie will have to deal with Brian Aldridge......

eGJ Mon 26-Aug-24 16:32:18

Linda does B&B😂

Wyllow3 Mon 26-Aug-24 00:51:57

I suppose it was inevitable we got the stables and the fete but nothing on Cloive really except he is in a B and B.

NotSpaghetti Sun 25-Aug-24 20:10:30

And Sunday's episode was a snooze too.
😕

eGJ Sun 25-Aug-24 20:02:04

You're right that most of those don't even get a mention now. Alan's daughter's Amy. Lucas Madikane appeared a few times and we can't omit Paul Mack of course.

Farzanah Sun 25-Aug-24 19:42:40

Well there’s been diversity for some time but most seem to have disappeared.
Usha
Adil
Noluthando
Alan’s daughter ? Louise
Now Adil’s sister Azra.
That’s as many as I remember

eGJ Sun 25-Aug-24 19:00:14

Alistair and Denise’s relationship is there to show how diverse Ambridge is becoming. But is not catching our interest and is just boring us all!

mae13 Sun 25-Aug-24 18:49:44

Delila

Hope we don’t have to drag through another week of Denise & Alistair’s tedious “romance” and Paul’s angst before we get to another cliffhanger next Friday! When is the court case scheduled to happen?

Same here. Denise and Alistair's romance/not romance/romance-after-all is so much zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

This particular storyline is just lightweight ballast to drag each episode out against the REAL drama of George's increasingly chaotic behaviour over Alice's court case.