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  2. It feels like, as with Jo's blossoming friendship with Dana, this episode was designed to show us a softer side of David.All I could think though was "Hug your daughter in your own time", with another example of one rule for him and one rule for everyone else. Comforting Jo in his office when she'd been brought there on official business was one thing, but now she's dropping by for a gossip and a takeaway, and actually standing at his shoulder while he's dealing with a case..? Incidentally, we get a constable who isn't Cash or the departed Rose, and the actor was in two episodes in 2016 as a uni classmate of Oscar et al. Hilariously, he was in the same episode as Dylan Carter, although I don't think they shared a scene! Well, it was good timing that Roo came back and signed back up as a foster carer within 24 hours of another troubled youngster turning up! I wonder how Alf will react, given it seems he's being as unpleasant as ever on the subject. I was kind of disappointed to see what Roo did with Eliza's card. Keeping it on display wasn't healthy, but boxing it up with the stuff to send back to Eliza wouldn't be good for the girl's mental health, and I'd rather she'd put it away somewhere to remember it wasn't all bad. Still...was that a photo of Alf and Ailsa next to it?! It's not much, but after seven years of virtually pretending she didn't exist, it was very welcome! I'm usually on John's side, but I was glad everyone gave him short shrift here, given he was just tittle-tattling in a rather judgemental manner. Given how much he was on at Mali to hire someone to run the board shop, I thought he'd have been more motivated to keep quiet rather than trying to get Lacey fired just to crow over Mali. I'm glad Mali decided to keep her on: He was running what lessons there were himself anyway, so it makes sense to have Lacey run the shop while he does that and the boards. It wasn't until the credits came up that I realised Lacey was in the same episode as her family and didn't cross paths with them at all. I don't think that's a bad thing, she's benefiting from getting to interact with a lot of characters. Dana lost a lot of my sympathy by sniping at Jo like that. Ironically, when he took a deep breath and stepped up, Sonny actually gave her good advice!
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  4. So Mali hires Lacey without asking any questions about her experience or looking at her CV just to keep John happy.
  5. My comments from yesterday seems to have disappeared. Short recap - I don't blame Tane going to Japan - he did pay for it after all. Hopefully he'll take the time alone to think about what Harper said. He does have Archie to consider so hope he won't want to break off contact with Harper completely. I wasn't sure if Jo's meltdown was a tactical move to get Levi to feel sorry for her, though she does have experience, but I think he is more professional than that and he was going to contact her referees. He does know Dana so knows she is a good, dedicated and caring nurse even if her cardio skills aren't that sharp. Jo commenting on the fact David hadn't grieved for the loss of his wife being the reason she had followed him to the bay - well none of them have. I did when Levi got that booty call from Mac when he was with Bree at Salt - not that Bree found it all funny - no honestly she didn't. Levi, seemingly, dashing Eden's wish to invite Jimmy to the Wedding didn't go well, the argument spilling into the street. Bloody hell Cash - that was one whistle - nearly burst my eardrums. It did shut them up though. Anyways as we saw last night Levi did admit to Cash, who was the only one prepared to listen, he did phrase it wrong. He meant and I agree with him inviting Jimmy to the actual Wedding would be a bad idea. Weddings are stressful enough without the extra problem of having a dad who you haven't spoken to for ten years, ignore the brief meeting last year, at your Big day. Eden did see the reasoning behind it and we did see Eden, biting the bullet and ringing Jimmy. I think Eden was taking the anger she was feeling against Levi out on Lacey though of course their last meeting was pretty acrimonious. I think Lacey would work well at Salt. She's still wary at working at the Diner because she'd be working for her boyfriend's mum. I feel Mali was pushed into offering Lacey the job by John who'd been nagging him about abandoning the board shop. John was a bit nonplussed that Mali had been reading up on the terms of his lease and that was no reason why he couldn't not open it. He did gabble those instructions as to what he wanted done. Lacey was thrown in at the deep end - so to speak - so had to call on Theo to help out. May not be very woke but I did when she fluttered her eyes at him. Not as if he'd be doing anything to injure himself, just take them through the basic initial lessons, we've seen those before, how to lie on the board, get the feel of it, stand up, get your balance etc. Actually those instructions are pretty world wide. I saw a travel prog with David Suchet and he went to Hawaii and the surfing instructor he met did the same things. What I did like about the newbie surfers was they were normal people, all shapes and sizes - not a Love Islander look a like among them. I'm guessing David was off duty or on a day off so that is why Eden was able to use the pop in shop - sorry Police Station - to see Cash. Do any of the other cops there have people call into see them, drop off food? On that point will Jo be popping in to see him now she's in the bay? Seems Jo may be local now she's got the job at ND's. Sonny wasn't very understanding about Dana not getting it, him saying something like well you weren't bothered about it before you knew it was up for offer but now you are. She did have a dig about when was the last job he did then storming off. It is a wonder Salt makes any profit at all with Mac serving up free food and drinks most of the time, not to mention mates rates ones too. Seems Roo is back, did she and Alf pass each on the road to Martha's? David turns up on her doorstep with this young lad called Cohen and tells her she's his emergency foster carer! Can the cops do that without any warning at all? BTW nought to do with anything - but where are all the blond blokes in the Bay?
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  11. There have definitely been times when we've had too-similar characters in the same era. The current batch of characters proves that point, but it's happened in other eras too. The mid 2000s group of Lucas, Matilda, Cassie, Drew etc all felt somewhat interchangeable. The character-types like the popular girl, the tomboy, the surfie, the nerd, the jock For me, Joey Rainbow is the geek character, but depending which teen gang you grew up with, they'll mostly remember Steven, Damien, Dexter, Oscar etc. Occasionally, teenage characters have "broken the mould", such as Edward, Tegan Brook, Justine, Vinnie etc. But mostly, they are interchangeable, even some that are more memorable than others.
  12. If it was just based on whether they were attractive or whether I liked them the list would probably be longer. All characters have their place on the show to some extent, if anything because you need at least x amount of characters to make the show work. I understand the need for a teenage male character in the era of the school at least. But when you have a few male teens at the same time who are interchangeable which we did maybe 10 years ago they all seem pointless even if you need at least one of them to fill the slot. I only mentioned 2 nerds on there and the fact I mixed one up with the other kind of proves my point. There were nerds I didn't include such as Damien.
  13. Levi did a really bad job of explaining himself frankly, repeatedly saying "You've not thought this through" instead of giving any reason why it was a bad idea. I think we eventually got to him thinking that it might lead to a family argument at the wedding, which was oddly specific, and meant it was down to Eden to come up with the idea of meeting Jimmy and hashing things out before the wedding.Well, she's got six months. I did like Cash desperately trying to break the awkward silence at the start but I don't blame Abigail for getting fed up and going into work. Eden was completely out of line with Lacey and there didn't even seem to be any real resolution to it. I thought for a moment that Mackenzie was going to tear a strip off her but then she just shrugged and let it go. Of course, Mali then went to the other extreme, hiring her without any attempt to explain what the job was or find out if she could do it. I know Kirby used to help out with lessons but Abigail was just manning the shop so I'm not sure why he assumed Lacey would do that. Talking of jobs, Dana spends the day stressing but cornering Levi wasn't the smartest idea.I grimaced when Mackenzie turned up at the hospital to see Levi, expecting her to start clambering all over him again, but looks like she's calmed down. Why on earth did we have Eden turning up at the police station for a personal conversation with Cash only a week or so after David putting a stop to that? It's like there are things, like Mackenzie giving away free food and drink all over the place, that are so ingrained that even if one episode says it's not going to happen anymore, the next writer will just do it anyway.
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  21. The forum did indeed used to be on backtothebay.com, but it moved to .net back in 2013. When we first launched, the main site was on .com and the forum was on .net – and I've absolutely no idea why it all got switched around
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