harrietjames

It's quite common for prejudice against "the enemy" to stem from military service - certainly a plausible explanation as to why someone would be prejudiced against one ethnic group, not another. Having said that, I would expect Alf not to like Roo's suitor because he wasn't good enough for his little girl, rather than his race

If he was going to be against a particular race, it would likely be the race that was shooting at him during the war.

Alf fought in vietnam - makes sense he'd have more problem with Asians than Europeans. And Frank was pretty Australianised

Is that about Carly being self absorbed rather than about Bobby per se

Could be that they all thought bringing up Bobby would be too painful for the other characters...

I'm not sure the police would rush in like they did on Jesse and Kylie's wedding day. It would me more off a here's a summons crime.

Josh West...

Josh did feel responsible - he thought he could have saved her, if he had a defib

It strikes me as the sort of thing that Alf wouldn't have hidden in the house he shared with Ailsa - it was a secret he was kept from her and he would have kept it elsewhere...

Yeah, but that was always meant to happen - they even go by the same name - the first syllable of their surname....

They just cut scenes AFAIK - for example they may have embraced and kissed, but we just saw the hug - something like that. Damn Celia Stewart types....

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I think she was a reasonable kid - she didn't deal well with her mother's death and father's re-marriage, at the time - so she acted out - rather than those things being personality traits. Curious: do you think any re-cast is better than the original?

Adulthood makes a lot of difference to people - you don't notice it so much if you watch them grow up, but if you meet them again after a number of years it's very obvious

Lots of kids have bad home lives for a long time before someone realises...