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[Blaxland 89]

I do tend to see Home and Away as before and after Bobby

[c120701]

Is anyone else having trouble accessing today's online only episode? The link doesn't seem to work

yes, me too.

[beau_t]

I do tend to see Home and Away as before and after Bobby

Sounds like a line Ailsa says in the pilot!!

[Ryan]

You know what I realised today, I'd never seen the 1994 closing credits.

[Skylover]

I really really really hope 7Two makes it to the 1994 season. The wait for the 1994 season is almost exactly as long as the 7Two eps have already been playing.

I noticed that the shot of Damian and Jack is slightly different between versions, has anyone else noticed this?

[Red Ranger 1]

Caught the Dale episode online earlier today(er, yesterday).I always thought it was a lot further into the episode before he was pronounced dead, I think ITV's extended recap was basically all that storyline's scenes from the first ten minutes and the last scene.I remember Sally running upstairs and then just stopping perfectly just from that recap.Oddly, I remember Damian turning up with Michael and sticking around for the rest of it.Guess the memory's faulty there. Surprised that the episode wasn't more focused on that storyline, you had all the Sarah/Tug stuff that was nothing to do with it.Debra Lawrance shows an amazing ability to play emotionally distraught without actually showing any emotion.

Bobby's death was an accident.Sure, Adam carries a great deal of responsibility but, as he pointed out, he didn't hit that log on purpose and pretty much everyone in town understand that and forgave him pretty quickly.(Greg left shortly afterwards so the only one that continued to resent him was Don and even he made a public gesture of reconciliation and accepted he couldn't go on blaming Adam in the end.)I hope we get to see Irene's 1992 stint on 7Two next year so I can see exactly how it played out, I missed the key episode so never really got her apparent abrupt turnaround.

So, the Shane and Angel era.There's an odd innocence around those scenes which made them quite sweet and Shane seems very gentlemanly by this point;it's a shame we didn't see much of his early stuff to see just how far he'd come.Best exchange of the episode and possibly of the year:Don:"You will be careful.You know, careful."Shane:"Yeah, I won't go a K over eighty."He really was tempting face by saying he'd only feel like this once though...I think either I've mellowed or this was during Jack's good period:I seem to remember he came in as a jerk, got better for a while so I started liking him, then slipped back again around 1995/1996 so I kind of gave up trying to like him and at best tolerated him.And Rebecca Mark II.I have very fond memories of her and was sorry that she left so quickly and the thing with Luke was over before it really got going.I was disappointed when the Belinda Emmett version turned up and seemed to have morphed into a good time girl who threw herself at Steven to hide the fact she was sleeping with Casey's dad, fortunately she settled down pretty quickly.The cleaned up Irene surfaces a lot sooner than I was expecting, you could have stuck her scenes with Luke in the current show and aside from the bleached hair she'd be exactly the same.Is it sad that I noticed they've started listing Miss Miller as "Roxy" rather than "Roxanne" in the opening credits?(Not that we've seen her outside the credits and that mysteriously unavailable online only episode yet...)

You can tell Shane and Angel were the show's main selling point with the way they moved them up to second billing after Michael and Pippa, ahead of Alf and Ailsa.Ah, Isla Fisher, back when she was still acting with her own voice.I can't say it ever bothered me but looking back I'm surprised that the conceptual incest of Curtis and Shannon's relationship didn't really get commented on.Then again, characters who'd lived in a family setting hooking up is a standard feature of the show, only difference is they were legally related.(Which quickly became irrelevant, later characters didn't even seem to be aware of it, which also feels odd.)They didn't last long as a couple anyway and I'm suddenly remembering just how many girls Curtis dated.I forgot what a straight arrow he was when he first came in, quickly winning Ailsa's trust while Shannon gets defensive and lies to Pippa.He got darker later on:Not Karen dark, more Jack dark.(I choose to dismiss the 2000 claims of a tragic ending as Sam being a tool.)Alf's befuddled attempts to handle the situation were fairly amusing.Also amusing that, with his teen group not quite here yet, Jack is left hanging around with the big kids.My thought processes when Angel and some girl I don't recognise come in:"Who are you?"[beat]"Oh, hang on, you're Angel's sister, who appeared out of nowhere one day and then got forgotten about the moment you left."Poor continuity is not a recent phenomenon...Another character I'd have liked to have stuck around, as they seemed to be teasing here.Instead...nothing.

[Ryan]

Watching todays episodes, they were more normal episodes I thought, though about as much happened in the whole of 1994 as what happens in one week nowadays. Might have just been the episodes chosen, but despite some episodes being only 200 episodes apart, they felt like completely different shows.

I always feel if I was to choose a BC/AD point in the show, it's Sally's wedding.

[Skylover]

I always feel if I was to choose a BC/AD point in the show, it's Sally's wedding.

What do you mean Ryan?

[Ryan]

Blaxland was saying that if they were to split the show into two pieces, they have Bobby and then After Bobby. I was saying that if I were to split the show in two, Sally's wedding to Kieran would be it.

[Skylover]

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I agree with that. You have all the returnees and then the next episode you have the arrival of the (dreaded) Sutherlands who would go on to dominate the show for a fair few years.