Well, I agree with the comment about spoilers, but now that it's out in the open. . . so Helen and Tommy get married, then what? They separate? Divorce? Helen dies? I'm in the middle of season 2, but I want to know!!!

I hate Helen. She's boring, stupid and annoying. All the series I hoped he would hook up with Barbara.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

I think the three Helens just didn't match Lynley in any way. They were plain and brainless, and had no glamour at all. I preferr Havers a million times!

I'm getting tired of the 'Will they? Won't they?' game. Lynley doesn't seem to be all that hot as a stud anyway. Great cop; but probably boring lover.
LOL! I never actually thought about it that way. I've always thought that Nathanial Parker was gorgeous. Still do. But as the series has gone on, the Lynley character has become less attractive. My guess that has less to do with the actor's looks and more about how the character has been written.
Anyway, back to the point. Now that I think about it. You're absolutely right. Lynley seems as if he would bean absolute snore in bed.
And I agree with the OP. I don't remember Helen #1, but between Helen #2 and Helen #3, the character seems to have done a 180 degree turn in personality. #2 was a complete witch. Never could stand her. And #3 was so mellow and cheerful it was impossible to buy her as the same character.
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Helen's character is so annoying and unlikeable I actually press the fast forward button when she appears on the screen!
Strange, I did the same. And I hardly ever do that related to a character.
Almost everything she says is mindless blurb. The record of her lovers might include the male population of London

Same here. I don't know if it's the character or the actress (Vickerage) - most likely a combo - but she is a chalk shriek on a blackboard.

Besides switching the actors who played Helen and her motivations regarding their separation, they seem to have totally ignored continuity of script writing as well. They didn't even bother to make her death believable: the young woman from Bosnia who had taken the gun and said she had tossed it, was INSIDE the police premises with Helen and Tommy several times, including just before this incident, and apparently was never searched or even taken through a metal detector. Suddenly, just when the writers wanted to kill off Helen, she brandished the missing gun as if she had had it all along. This is impossible. So Helen dies because of crappy writing? Or crappy policework? After I saw that, never having liked Helen much, anyway, and utterly hating Tommy's simpering behavior toward her, I leaped up, and said, "Good! She's dead, and just in time!"

Normally I wouldn't be happy reading a spoiler. But Helen gets killed? YIPPEEEEE! I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing how annoying she is. I'm just seeing this series fo the first time, renting them from our library. I like mos tof the shows. But if Helen is in a scene, I find myself either leaving the room or fastforwarding. I started with the second season because that was all I found. Now I have the first season. Helen is in it. So I don't know if I want to watch them.

Besides switching the actors who played Helen and her motivations regarding their separation, they seem to have totally ignored continuity of script writing as well. They didn't even bother to make her death believable: the young woman from Bosnia who had taken the gun and said she had tossed it, was INSIDE the police premises with Helen and Tommy several times, including just before this incident, and apparently was never searched or even taken through a metal detector. Suddenly, just when the writers wanted to kill off Helen, she brandished the missing gun as if she had had it all along. This is impossible. So Helen dies because of crappy writing? Or crappy policework? After I saw that, never having liked Helen much, anyway, and utterly hating Tommy's simpering behavior toward her, I leaped up, and said, "Good! She's dead, and just in time!"

Yes I know. Although must admit to really enjoying seeing characters behave in ways that people really do behave - mind you with the Health Nazi's on the loose in so many Australian, English and Northern American countries it tends to be done behind closed doors.
Maybe they put this in (the drinking bit) to alert the viewer to the mess Helen was in? Although still think the entire characterisation is peculiar to say the least. There is quite a bit of unintentional humour going on here isn't there? This could just be my sense of humour though.sometimes, you really have to just laugh. In fact, watching this programme, it is essential!

My question is why the character, well into her pregnancy, was drinking alcohol at all?

Helen's character is so annoying and unlikeable I actually press the fast forward button when she appears on the screen! No, really. Is the script making some sort of snide comment about psychiatrists?? Let us be honest here, after watching this character visiting one seems like a very very dodgy thing to risk LOL! I wouldn't trust 'Helen' to navigate crossing the main road let alone tell me the profile of a criminal. Once again, very odd programme in so many wonderful - nay - peculiar ways.

I have to confess that I tried to like her but just couldnt, although I felt sorry for her when she was killed. First she was the friend helping Linley heal a broken heart, I still dont recall when the romance began.I'll have to watch all the episodes again.

Personally I think Emma Fielding was the best of the three.

Yeah, so did I at first. I guess I read it somewhere. Anyway, Emma Fielding played her just once in the first episode and is the one everyone forgets. Then Catherine Russell and Lesley Vickerage in later ones. I don't see Emma Fielding's name in the cast list. You have to look her up separate to see she played Helen.
"Don't tell me what I
can't
do."John Locke (Lost)

Three different people? I thought it was just two!

I think having three different people play her screwed up that character. It seems like a big personality change every time a new actress took it over.
Don't tell me what I
can't
do.John Locke (Lost)

That's a question I've been wondering too. Frankly, I find Helen to be extremely irritating. Lynley apologizes too much. Maybe it's his sense of nobles oblige (sp).