Twists in the tale

[Andy]

Michael Idato

Sydney Morning Herald

January 21, 2008

With one word - Milco - written in the sand, last year's final episode of Home And Away rewrote the rulebook on soap opera plot twists.

Milco returns, alive and unimaginary, Home And Away, 2007

No stranger to a nail-biting cliffhanger, Summer Bay's perennial innocent Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) explains to her own daughter, Pippa (India Falconer), the imaginary friend she once had while a young man further down the beach scratches a single word in the sand: "Milco". The implication - that this mysterious stranger, played by Josh Quong Tart, is in fact Sally's imaginary friend, Milco, in flesh-and-blood form - might seem ludicrous, but in the realm of soap opera anything is possible. And if, when the series returns for 2008 next week, we learn Milco is real, then Home And Away will have delivered a plot twist equal to the genre's best.

[I Love Mark Furze]

Michael Idato

Sydney Morning Herald

January 21, 2008

With one word - Milco - written in the sand, last year's final episode of Home And Away rewrote the rulebook on soap opera plot twists.

Milco returns, alive and unimaginary, Home And Away, 2007

No stranger to a nail-biting cliffhanger, Summer Bay's perennial innocent Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) explains to her own daughter, Pippa (India Falconer), the imaginary friend she once had while a young man further down the beach scratches a single word in the sand: "Milco". The implication - that this mysterious stranger, played by Josh Quong Tart, is in fact Sally's imaginary friend, Milco, in flesh-and-blood form - might seem ludicrous, but in the realm of soap opera anything is possible. And if, when the series returns for 2008 next week, we learn Milco is real, then Home And Away will have delivered a plot twist equal to the genre's best.

Thanks.

Papers can never get facts fully right. Pippa hasn't been played by India Falcner for a long time, she's played by Chloe Marshall