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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 128977" data-attributes="member: 23">With Series Twenty Two commencing it seems there&#039;s been some real effort to rectify things. Punky Babs is gone forever, while Tom and Mrs Avery have moved into Compo&#039;s old house. So my previous concerns about the characters operating in a vacuum and Babs being wrong for the show have been completely addressed. There&#039;s a bit of competition going on between Mrs Avery and Nora to look after Tom with cups of tea and the like.Tom&#039;s money making schemes see him introducing Mrs Avery in whatever capacity she&#039;s needed, so Julie T. Wallace is getting to interact more with the others. I&#039;m reserving judgement on whether this is going to work. So far, there&#039;s just been a tedious plot in which she was personal trainer to Barry, so it hasn&#039;t endeared me. Barry is a character that works ok as a secondary character giving Edie feed lines to put him down and looking awkward while Glenda swoons over him. And I&#039;m still of the opinion that he worked best in the six years when he was offscreen, his name invoked frequently by Glenda to much eyerolling from the coffee circle. He&#039;s certainly not a character that needs any plots of his own, something that unfortunately seems to be increasing. I hope it&#039;s not a trend. The main triad in Series Twenty Two seems to be Clegg, Truly and Billy Hardcastle, though Tom is also frequently seen with them. Neither Billy nor Tom have the charisma and presence of any lead character seen so far in the series, so I&#039;m quite happy with the energy being split between them. In the circumstances I&#039;m finding the current group more interesting as a tedrad than a triad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 128977, member: 23"] With Series Twenty Two commencing it seems there's been some real effort to rectify things. Punky Babs is gone forever, while Tom and Mrs Avery have moved into Compo's old house. So my previous concerns about the characters operating in a vacuum and Babs being wrong for the show have been completely addressed. There's a bit of competition going on between Mrs Avery and Nora to look after Tom with cups of tea and the like. Tom's money making schemes see him introducing Mrs Avery in whatever capacity she's needed, so Julie T. Wallace is getting to interact more with the others. I'm reserving judgement on whether this is going to work. So far, there's just been a tedious plot in which she was personal trainer to Barry, so it hasn't endeared me. Barry is a character that works ok as a secondary character giving Edie feed lines to put him down and looking awkward while Glenda swoons over him. And I'm still of the opinion that he worked best in the six years when he was offscreen, his name invoked frequently by Glenda to much eyerolling from the coffee circle. He's certainly not a character that needs any plots of his own, something that unfortunately seems to be increasing. I hope it's not a trend. The main triad in Series Twenty Two seems to be Clegg, Truly and Billy Hardcastle, though Tom is also frequently seen with them. Neither Billy nor Tom have the charisma and presence of any lead character seen so far in the series, so I'm quite happy with the energy being split between them. In the circumstances I'm finding the current group more interesting as a tedrad than a triad. [/QUOTE]

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