Diana And Irene.

[Claire]

Yes but if you haven't noticed, I always love the eevil ones

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeees... but there was always something intruiging about the likes of Felix/Sarah and al... Diana's different in that respect...

Crazy... crazy I say

[Pierced Musie]

I like her. End of topic.

[Ashirr-Leigh]

Diana's certainly playing a smarter game than Irene at the moment! Irene may have the love and compassion needed to care for Olivia but she doesn't have the ability to think her actions through - and this is what she needs in order to get custody.

[zx50]

Well...just watched Home and Away and Irene just doesn't know when to keep quiet. Here we have the people who are deciding who Olivia would be best with..and Irene is just sitting there mouthing off at Diana. Isn't she forgetting that she's supposed to be giving off a good impression for these people??

I don't know whether it's the fact that Irene can't keep her mouth shut..or whether it's the fact that her mouth goes into gear before her brain does....I dunno.

[chatter box]

Irene is grieving, Diana isnt! Grief makes people act out of character. Diana is deliberately goading Irene and Irene due to her grief is falling for it at every turn.

Having said this...many of us did say in July last year when debating this when it aired in Australia...that this was yet another example of character being sacrificed for a storyline. Its still a good story though.

[zx50]

If Irene had acted in a civil way towards Diana..and if she had kept her mouth shut when they were at the table..she would have played Diana at her own game. I think Irene just didn't realise that Diana was probably wanting the reaction that Irene finally gave.

I think it might just take a note from Chloe explaining that she wants Irene to have Olivia if anything should happen to her for Irene to actually get her. Although......Irene taking Olivia away last night didn't help matters either. This will be just another thing to add to the list in Diana's favour. Hell.....she must be loving Irene as well as disliking her as well.

[hattie]

It was character assassination of the worst kind, both in the writing and in the story itself. Although on the whole I enjoyed the custody battle I was very disaapointed with the way they chancged Irene's character, and aspects of her past. No one ever mentioned she had a criminal record before this, and I think when she was the school secretery, and when she was fostering all those kids someone would have checked! Another example of lazy writing I thought at the time, it did not need it as the story was dramatic enough without it.

Irene does calm down folks so so don't fret.

[flinn-fan]

i want irene to get custody of olivia but i know this guy get's her. at first dianna get's her but then olivia isnt happy and wants to go back with irene.

[claire_louise]

I wouldn't call it character assassination. Irene has always been hot-headed and the sort of person who speaks first and thinks later. Diana has also always been able to wind her up, and the things she's been coming out with were bound to get a reaction. Maybe they've taken it a bit OTT, especially with Irene's behaviour towards Barry and Hayley, but this can easily be put down to grief.

Oh and Hattie, they may not have mentioned her criminal record specifically, but we always knew that Irene had done a lot of things in her past that stopped her being able to officially foster kids, and I'm sure that her past came up at her job interview too - it's just that it was so long ago that it wasn't much of an issue.

[Eddie]

Diana is really evil. I saw her today and she announced that she'd fight for the child.

And she even managed to throw an insult Morag's way.

Man, this is gonna be good.