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Post by pippa on Jan 6, 2011 16:08:32 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, but does (did) Nigel talk like Gussie Finknottle? If so, then the actor (whatever his name) is possibly not a very good actor and deserves to be unemployed, at least until they adapt some more P G Wodehouse for radio. aqua's already referenced gussie finknottle. well it's taken 30 years to find out whether he is any good or not. anyway ito takes all sorts to make the world go round, including toffs, so dont be so intollerant.
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Post by pippa on Jan 6, 2011 16:16:54 GMT
... it really is an appallingly shabby way to treat someone who has been with the programme for the last 30 years. Nigel Seed has lost his job merely to create an "impact because Nigel was so polular". such callous and shallow regard towards a employee* is shameful. Look, pippa, the actor's name is Graham (or maybe Graeme), not Nigel (the clue is in 'actor'). And he's probably been paid to be part of the post-publicity-keep-it-bubbling-for-as-long-as-we-can-get-away-with-it ploy. In other words, you don't have to take him under your wing and keep telling everyone else they're piling in on him when he's the dog's bollox and bee's knees. We just can't take it any more! Archers, Barchers! Oops, that didn't do it ... (Cripes, the bally fellow didn't even realise he talked like Gussy Finknottle!) alright, alright, keep your hair on, heartless aqua... so it's Graham, not Nigel playing nigel. when characters have been written out it is often because they've wanted to go. this is different so i don't see why they couldn't have come up with another story line that didn't kill Nigel off. it seems just a cheap cop out. they could have left him badly injured which would have provided an excellent opportunity to keep him. plus the opportunity to explore living with a long term disability and all its implications, ramifications on family, friends, community, etc. and how much more constructive. Jack Wooleys dimentia has been a education with just such an opportunity giving practical and informative help to those who have partners and family members suffering from dimentia. knowing very little about the disease, it has been quite an eye opener. people often feel tremendous guilt about shuffling loved ones off into care homes when they no longer can cope with the violence and the wandering off in the middle of night, when sometimes it is just kinder to involve professional help and care. the archers has dealt with the Jack's dimentia brilliantly over the years. strikes me that the programme makers opted for the cheap alternative in axing Grahem Seed.
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Post by jean on Jan 6, 2011 18:10:06 GMT
aqua's already referenced gussie finknottle. I know. I was replying to aqua's post. If Nigel speaks in exactly the same way as Graham does (I don't know, as I don't listen) then all I'm saying is that Graham doesn't have to do much acting to play him. And if that's the limit of his range, then he's not very versatile - which would be the case whatever the social origins of the accent he was stuck with.
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Post by aquatic on Jan 6, 2011 18:36:36 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, but does (did) Nigel talk like Gussie Finknottle? If so, then the actor (whatever his name) is possibly not a very good actor and deserves to be unemployed, at least until they adapt some more P G Wodehouse for radio. I don't know, jean - Gussie is a character in a book! (Thanks for silently correcting my spelling Gussy; and I have to correct myself further - it's Fink-Nottle, I fink.)
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Post by jean on Jan 6, 2011 18:48:50 GMT
Gussie is a character in a book! I see. I expect that explains why the bally fellow didn't even realise he talked like Gussie Fink-Nottle!
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Post by aquatic on Jan 7, 2011 0:37:28 GMT
Anyone for Double-Fink? Nigel was a bally good fellow. He must've been to f**k Shula. After that, he couldn't get enough of the Archers (that was his downfall ), and went and f**ked her sister as well! When HE'd sobered up, bally Brian went and f**ked the Irish woman and she had his child and went and died so Jennifer took him on as her own without turning a hair. (As you do.) And NO-ONE in the village commented on two 60+s having another child! F**K!
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Post by pippa on Jan 7, 2011 10:39:47 GMT
how about rat-fink?
next thing you'll be drawing parallells between the archers story lines and the bible!
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Post by pippa on Jan 8, 2011 1:08:43 GMT
i noticed on feedback today they were talking about Nigels death scream and managed to the maths on how far he would have fallen taking into account the increase in velocity per second. they calculated it was the equivalent of falling from the top of york minster making lower loxley hall 20 stories high
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Post by nickcosmosonde on Jan 8, 2011 9:56:29 GMT
Nigel fucked Shula? Damn, I missed that episode.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 8, 2011 11:52:43 GMT
What's the "Common Purpose" line on all this?
I think we get a taste already.
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Post by nickcosmosonde on Jan 9, 2011 12:21:08 GMT
A Taste of Shula, by Heiney Delaney. Played by Roota Tushanwhambham.
Did he scream, though, and for how long? I bet she cried.
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