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I could probably be here all day but: Aden and Nicole-It seemed to be set up when she first came in and they were always close and finally got together just before he left, but instead he got a miserable exit while she hung around for another year or so and, while I appreciate the show giving her a happy ending, it never felt her and Angelo would last...and they didn't! Maddy and Oscar-Incredibly sweet together, the first person the other went to when in a jam, and left just a few weeks apart, but instead of a happy ending, they got killed and maimed after being subjected to a terrible break-up that required a lot of leaps of logic and out of character behaviour. VJ and Billie-Built up well, ideally suited for a young family unit, and instead all the potential got thrown away with the short-sighted decision to kill her off.She could have stuck around for another few months for them to leave together, and we'd have been spared some of the borderline insulting storylines we got instead. Heath and April-I ummed and ahhed a bit about this one, but it always felt like they married the wrong people. April actually seemed to like Heath in a way Bianca never really did, and Heath brought out a lively and playful side to April in contrast to the downtrodden and needy person she was with Dexter. (I have to echo Nick and Jade as well. They are definitely near the top of my list of "Characters who got back together off screen in my head".)
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There was a period about a year in where Tom and Pippa were down to just Sally and Steven as foster children, although Carly moved back in pretty quickly and was in and out for the rest of her time on the show.
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They were halfway through taking Sophie on at the time. After that, I guess it would be Tracey Turner? I misread that as Sally's first day at school for a second! That would be 928. Her name was Tara and no, we'd never seen her before.
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What?! I know there's some countries where it's legal and possibly even encouraged in some cases (it's how the old continental royal families ended up so in-bred), but I didn't realise Australia was one of them! First cousins in legal in the UK, with certain exceptions, so I've never been bothered by that, but aunt/uncle/niece/nephew definitely isn't.
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Yes, they did make a big deal about the fact she was being sent back into a war zone. But, well, what else can you do? Removing Ukrainian children from their families by force and excusing it as "saving" them is not considered acceptable now. (And thankfully things in Bosnia settled down relatively soon after.)
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No they didn't. She didn't sleep with Frank until their wedding night, but it was made clear it wasn't her first time.
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Catching this now because I'm going to be away next week and gosh, that was dramatic. Well, some of it, and oddly the comedy and drama did sit well next to each other. I'm kind of glad we didn't actually see the attack on Xander and Jamie, since it sounds pretty brutal (and possibly unnecessary, since they'd probably have given the drugs up without a beating). Even though he only made one brief appearance prior to today, it was still a bit of a lurch that Jamie died. Well, I think Cash and Eden both managed to hurt each other's feelings there.I was glad that Cash calmed down quickly after Eden's joke was exposed (and also glad we got a proper explanation for her wearing the ring, which basically amounted to "drunken silliness").But yeah, it probably wasn't a good idea to be quite that panicked about the idea of her carrying on wearing it...
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There's Something You Should Know (by zara grace) - comments
Red Ranger 1 replied to pembie's topic in Comments
We should really have seen this conversation on the show, thanks for writing it! -
Both, maybe? I think the Morgans did eventually find out that he was more involved than they thought, but Justin did convince him to go to the police and give evidence against the others.
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No. Their father was an accountant turned whistleblower. The mother just got caught in the crossfire.
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I don't know, I think the impression was that Ailsa was still a newcomer in town and the locals didn't know much about her.Bobby bonded with the Fletchers in a relatively short space of time so I don't think we need to assume Ailsa must have known her for years for them to be close.
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I think it was still meant to be a pretty new relationship when the show started, to the point that Roo wasn't really aware of it.
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Actually, they're more in Morag's area: Every now and then, someone will insist that Ena's still alive because the show's never actually said she's dead (even though she'd be over 100 by now)! Annie's been confirmed as dead in throwaway comments but there was no big on screen announcement. They did it with at least a couple of earlier characters, mentioning the deaths in passing and not having an on screen funeral. I guess the feeling was that the actors' families might be upset by a big on screen funeral for the characters.
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It's curious how attitudes change. Once upon a time, the respectful thing if an actor died was to get rid of their character quietly without any fuss. Somehow, over the years, it's gone in the complete opposite direction and now the "respectful" thing is to turn a real-life death into a springboard for a week of fictional drama. At least that's what it's like in the UK. To be honest, I'm not sure if an Oz soap has ever done an "art imitating life" thing over the death of one of their old actors.
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I think she's pitched just right: She's meant to be an out-there fun-loving character, and I think her journey throughout last year was well worth watching. Maybe we frequent different threads, but most of the members of the forum whose comments I've read seem to be generally positive about her and certainly nothing I'd consider "hate". It seemed like, during the illegal gambling storyline, members of the forum were mostly putting all the blame on Mackenzie and saying she should have listened to Felicity, so I'm not sure what you've read that leads you to believe they "hate" her.
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Because she's one of the best characters on the show right now I guess, or so the people that voted for her (and quite a few of us that didn't) believe. Which "people" are you referring to?
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There might be a full list of regulars who didn't get votes along at some point but a few quick notes on those who've disappeared since last time.No Curtis, who as mentioned is the highest place character from last time to disappear.No Scarlett, who's the most recent character not to get a vote.No Lynn, who can usually be guaranteed a place in the lower stages.But actually, as with last time, there's been very few lost in transition (which is perhaps not surprising when you remember there was 60 more characters in this poll than that one!): I think the next highest place character to have dropped out was Karen Dean, and judging from the comments, someone might have voted for her and forgot to include a surname.
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Sally was the last of my five so, yep, I'm out.
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I think that's another two of mine down, so just one left!
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I think that's another one of mine in that update, so three more for me too! I think Matthew Lyons was the one that had me going "...Random", it feels like there were far more prominent characters from that era who you'd think would get votes before him!
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I think Michael's the first one of my votes to appear, although I'm not entirely sure I remember who I voted for!
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Interesting idea. The news of Shane's death spreading on screen was a bit "whoever's in the episode"!
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Channel 5 Transmission Discussion/Updates
Red Ranger 1 replied to 630si's topic in General Discussion
It's now been officially confirmed that the show is returning on Monday 2nd January, so it's definitely a six week break. That still doesn't explain how they're going to get through 35 years in six weeks without either dropping more than five episodes most weeks or leaving some years out. -
Channel 5 Transmission Discussion/Updates
Red Ranger 1 replied to 630si's topic in General Discussion
I got a bit confused over which episodes were shown in 2012 (I got confused with the repeats in, I think, 2014 where an episode just after Michael and Pippa's wedding was shown), but yes, that's three of the five episodes in the first week having been shown then. I don't believe Channel 5 have ever shown the Bobby/Frank or Ben/Carly weddings though. I'm curious how they're planning it.If it's 35 episodes, and they're releasing them Monday to Friday, that would need a seven-week break, not six. Maybe they're releasing them on Saturdays as well, for five of the weeks? At least they got the sound level right on Ray Meagher's announcement today!