2023 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[H&Alover]

Let's start off on a high - JP's Juice Bar - like it!   His loyal customers who we see in there on a regular basis have deserted him pretty quick -peasants.  Was funny when he was taking selfies of himself in the background. Needs to get in new ones , won't need much board outside JP's is now open for business, word will soon spread. 

Kahu I am not taking to, he did assume a lot with Mac, she 'owns'  a big house, has her own business, has a flash car so therefore can throw money at his business venture.  Mac, to give her her due, did catch on pretty quick, letting him know the big house is rented, she only owns half the business and the car belongs to the bank and he did look rather deflated. I did get the feeling he would have liked to move in until he found out the truth. They were both being eyed very carefully by Tane and Flick.

I know both Mac and Flick use the "I'm the boss so I can take time off when I like line" which is what Mac did when she sneaked off with Kahu for their Afternoon Delight session.  But Kahu is not a boss, he's an employee of his cousin and was supposed to be keeping an eye on the gym, but just bunked off for a bunk up.  Anyone else and they would have been fired, but because Tane is family he feels he can't, but did give him a rollicking.  It was only John who gave Tane & Flick the heads up as he had seen them go off together. Yep Mac did use the "I'm fine" line when Tane, Flick and Mali showed concern. 

I suppose it's not that unusual for Kirby not to know where Irene lives, she's only an employee of hers not a friend and Irene can be  a private person and not invite just anyone round. 

Defamation, as I said, has  to be proved by the person accused of it, in this case Stunning Organics.  Could be scare tactics by them serving papers on   Maz and  Kirby, but they do need to get proper legal advice - enter Alf and Roo. 

It seems, from what we saw, Rose made an error of judgement or was given the wrong advice, with Mali.  Personally I'd like him to hook up with Mac. 

 

 

[stevester55]

Wow a miracle Bree was pretty decent in today's episode and wasn't on one about Remi lol

[Red Ranger 1]

Mackenzie was out of line having a go at Mali without any evidence whatsoever, but credit to her for apologising fairly quickly and also for dealing reasonably with Tane and Felicity when they explained what really happened.I'm not sure that Mackenzie taking time off is the best course of action really: She might have been a bit on edge but she's not exactly falling apart, and a distraction might have been better for her than being sent to sit at home and dwell on things.When they were talking about their being a job for Xander right round the corner and it cut to Salt, I had a feeling he might end up working there, given he helped out that one time. I liked John giving genuine gratitude and credit to Mali.

Well, having appropriated Irene's house as their operational headquarters, Marilyn and Kirby have at least come up with a fairly decent plan. Marilyn's fear that Stunning Organics would scare everyone off may have had foundation, but she probably should have waited more than what appeared to be just a few minutes for a response!

Embarrassment for Rose but I loved that last scene of her collapsing in half-serious shame while Xander does his best to comfort her. As Bree said, they're weird together but they also work!

[H&Alover]

Forgot this 'quote' from Maz the other day about her and Kirby locking horns with Stunning Organics as being like David going up against Goliath, has she forgotten who won that battle?

Kirby is firing on all cylinders, Maz was expecting a lot to get an instant response,  but she has got Alf's antenna twitching, he'll get it out of her. Can just hear his response when he sees all those boxes Strewth Maz what are you dong?

Will Mac be apologising to that employee she fired?  Crossed lines with Mali getting it in the neck but as you said she did apologise.  I suppose Felicity didn't want her snapping customers heads off and she did look distracted.  A few days away may do her good. 

Odd how a few days ago Rose was worrying over Xander overdoing things but now she's on at him to find a job, quite  an u-turn there.

I could see that she thought  Mali was being over attentive when he was fixing her ankle strap so got the wrong idea - poor girl. Both Bree and Xander told her to go for it. That was funny Xander patting her head.  Handy  his RSC is up to date and the fact he is an ex paramedic so can be useful if any customer falls ill, injures themselves.  Did they, btw, get the rest of their staff on a First Aid course after he attended the guy who had the stroke as he just happened to be there?  

John giving Mali full credit for the new look juice bar was, dare I say it, very unlike him.  It did look very busy, nothing for Xander but did  recommend SALT. 

 

 

[CaptainHulk]

Blah blah blah Remi/Bree... BORING!

Mac latest Crisis Who cares?

Mali/Rose... Zzzz.

The Andrew thing is the only thing I can be bothered with. And maybe Xander trying to "Find himself"

 

5 hours ago, H&Alover said:

Forgot this 'quote' from Maz the other day about her and Kirby locking horns with Stunning Organics as being like David going up against Goliath, has she forgotten who won that battle?

This is a woman who worried about Don not being able "to loosen his hair and let his belt down" at one point

[Red Ranger 1]

We don't really learn anything new about Andrew, but he does finally get to meet Theo, and after some early resentment, he seemed to get on quite well with him.Theo volunteering to stick around and help Justin and Leah with him shows just how far he's grown in the last two years. I guess Andrew's obedience is kind of ingrained the way he fell into line with Justin when he stopped making polite requests.I can see why Justin felt bad about it but sometimes these things have got to be done.

Whilst it didn't do much in plot terms, Rose being a fun if slightly depressed drunk was entertaining, it allowed Bree something to do other than overthink things with Remi, and it gave us some more good interaction between her and Xander. I'm glad she apologised for her comments about his job once she'd sobered up.

Marilyn seemed a lot more assertive with regards the plan when talking to Alf than she did when going over it with Kirby, which leaves me wondering how much of it was an act for his benefit.To be honest, it's hard not to feel like Marilyn's problems could be solved with a tiny bit of common sense.Presumably Stunning Organics are taking payment from her for these deliveries, and presumably they can somehow take whatever they like or there'd be no point sending extra boxes.So why not just...stop the payments? Sure, they'd probably threaten her with legal action for breach of contract but they're doing that anyway.

[H&Alover]

That was a good introduction with Andrew and Theo so no people overload for him and I guess Justin or Leah explained what they knew about him.  He didn't come bursting  in just sat down and started playing his guitar which seems to help Andrew.  Naturally Andrew was very quite but gradually opened up.  Liked he helped with the washing up.  His hug with  Leah was so gentle not something I guess he's been used to doing.  

Lovely scenes when Justin and Theo took Andrew to the beach which he had never seen before but not that unusual  I suppose kids living in the bush or the city wouldn't have.  People like Justin and Theo assume everyone would have seen the sea or been on a beach just because they have. His smile when he curled his bare toes in the sand and took the plunge - kind of - when he paddled was beautiful.  Shame it went  a bit pear shaped later when he wanted to go back to the beach but Justin was insisting he had to go and see the social  worker, I don't think he meant to scare Leah but it did, he's a tall lad.   It's because, I think, he hasn't had much interaction with people and doesn't get social distance or not to invade others space.   Luckily Leah ran into Bree who although isn't a  social worker could offer some advice.  Little flash of the Justin we know and er love when he ordered  Andrew out to the car.  Who is going to be looking after Andrew when Justin does do his CS  stints?  Seems we may find out more about Andrew and not looking good tonight as Yabby Creek finally  seem to have got their act together and got some news. 

Rose certainly tied one or six down ad it looked lie she was sitting  there most of the afternoon and night- I hope she paid for all those cocktails - Rose's hangover didn't seem that bad sitting   out in the bright sunlight, didn't ask Bree to keep her voice down.  I'm guessing she had asked Bree to check if Mali was about downstairs before she was led out. Glad she apologised to Xander and if course I meant his RSA, it was her nagging him to get a job, just because  it didn't meet her expectations.  Any other bar tender would have said no long before.

I nearly got it right  with Alf's "Strewth Marilyn".  He simply followed her to Irene's.   Did Marilyn have to pay up front by cheque for the whole order? Or is the money being taken out from her account by DD  or whatever the equivalent is in Aus?    Maz told Alf she isn't selling anything  on but aren't  SO going to wonder why they aren't getting any money back from her  for all these products she's being sent?  She could stop the DD payments but if her bank is anything like some of ours are over here can take months to get them stop DD payments. 

 

 

[CaptainHulk]

 I suppose we'll get a "Gawd, Girlie! You're still going on with this rubbish?" when Irene gets back from Cyprus.

 

[Red Ranger 1]

Whenever I've instructed a bank to stop a direct debit, they've stopped it. Immediately. Ob one occasion, even when I didn't want them to. (I told them to let the next payment go out and stop it after that.)

No Andrew despite him being one of the main topics of conversation, yet they use up one of Leah's episodes so she probably won't be around tomorrow, with Roo apparently being set up to sub for her like she used to do with Ava. We get some answers about Andrew, although not the ones people were hoping for: Justin doesn't get to yell at anyone for how he's been treated and Andrew has lost someone who was likely his only contact for years. I forgot about the belated reference to Irene being in Cyprus, her turn to visit Luc, I guess. And we actually heard (but didn't see) Buddy!

Remi and Eden's brainstorming session wasn't exactly a huge success although their romantic lives seemed like an upswing.It was good to have an episode where Remi and Bree weren't either tense and snappy or in bed together. (It feels there's nothing in between sometimes!) I wasn't too sure about Eden hanging around Cash at work, it felt like something Bella would have done with Colby except she was a teenage girl, but at least she backed off when she realised she was in the way. As I recall, Remi's parents are the ones who are professional classical musicians. Do they not approve of his musical taste? Remi seems to have changed his plan with the album: Before, he said they should focus on the album and go back to touring after, but now he's saying that if they have the album out they won't need to tour (even though it was said before that they'd need to tour to publicise the album!).

[H&Alover]

I spotted that about poor Buddy - never mind Andrew he needs a new home.  I don't think it was mentioned before where Irene was, she just said she was going on  a trip.  At least they - Leah and Roo -  are consulting Andrew's counsellor and psychologist before going ahead with Leah teaching him to read and write and not just jumping in. Hope Andrew gets on OK with Roo, she can be a bit out there.

This Archie Lawrence bloke we don't yet know if he is related to Andrew just an assumption on Cash and Justin's part.  You would have a go at the person a fully grown adult for seemingly abandoning  a vulnerable kid. His bosses can't have had  any next of kin details  seeing as he's been dead three weeks and no-one appeared to have been to see Andrew.  Andrew must have had enough water and food for some of that time, you could live without food for a certain time but you can't go without water for more than  a few days. No-one - not that anyone is ever in the station  - blinked an eye when Eden walked in and plonked herself on Cash's lap.  Bella though was Colby's sister not a girlfriend.

We didn't see it but it appeared Bree and Remi did have some alone time.  Bree, from what she said to Remi is getting her head around Remi's  going away. That was an odd throwaway remark about Remi's mum and dad, has to have been  a reason for it.  Will we be seeing/hearing more?