2025 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[CaptainHulk]

1 hour ago, Medea Fleecestealer said:

Seems Leah's turned a corner at last.  Pity she's pissed Justin off so much he doesn't want to talk to her now.  

I know Abegail was drunk, but would she really have gotten on board the train for a kip?  

And why would kids be putting graffitti in a tunnel?  You want your "artistry" to be seen and that won't happen in there.  And how would they even ride their bikes into the tunnel?  Would they want to bounce over the rail supports?  Would be a pretty bumpy ride.  Bad story writing again.  

Largely bc kids can be idiots?

[James Martin]

5 hours ago, H&Alover said:

Did the main cast/guest actors/actresses actually travel on a train or was it just  a carriage being rocked about in a  studio? 

My understanding is they shot on a real, moving train.  A significant number of the cast and crew had a trip away for it, with the location being a good four hours' drive away from Sydney.

Unsure about the wreckage as I assume they can't really destroy a "vintage" train for the purpose of filming.

[Red Ranger 1]

Alf's episode count this week:Three. As is often the case in finale week, things go a bit mad with Remi, Dana and Jo all appearing in four episodes.

Mali was an absolutely terrible boyfriend here and I'm annoyed that Abby somehow got convinced that she was at fault. I'll say it again: If you're going to plan a surprise, then you have to accept that the other party don't know anything about it and might not do what you want them to. Especially if you're going to outright tell them you're not interested in doing something with them and they should go off and have fun on their own. Mali going into a sulk, refusing to meet Abigail and going off on his own instead, as opposed to trying to salvage the trip and actually spend time with her, was the definition of petulant.

And Alf takes the award of second most awful person in the episode I'm afraid. He's great with Leah and then he spoils it all by being nasty to John just because he can. John's an old friend of Leah and Justin, he's known Justin as long as Alf has, Leah for over half as long as Alf, why shouldn't he ask if she's all right? Why does Alf feels this incessant need to treat him like something he's stepped in? And why do the people making the show expect the audience to be fine with it?

As for the train...I was a bit confused that at the beginning of the episode, Remi's sat with a blonde woman who definitely wasn't either Jo or Lacey, who were further along. Was he networking? Lacey probably had more time than that to tell Jo what Eddie was going to do, but I'm not sure anyone expected him to do that. I guess we should be grateful he wasn't planning to do it on stage! Nice chat between Justin and Lacey. Isaac was like a dog looking for a bone. Holden...is Richie Amblin from Neighboyrs and that's about as far as it goes.

It's to be hoped that we'll begin next season with Leah keeping to her epiphany and trying to make things up with Justin.

Boy, that stunt was bad. It was like no-one could work out a convincing way to make the train turn over, so we get some shots of it out of control but upright, some shots of cast being flung about in a way that doesn't really convey anything in storytelling terms beyond "we're crashing", and then cut to it on its side in a "Oh yeah, that's happened" manner. Was there even room for it to turn over? Whilst I'll wait until Monday to give a full opinion, I don't immediately see a problem with the promo showing the locals responding to the accident. We're told at the start that they've only just left Yabbie Creek, and the episode appears to only cover a few hours at most, possibly less. Whose area would they be in, the kangaroos'?

So yes, 6pm is the new 1.45pm for everyone except the Channel 5 publicity department and those legally obliged to print their nonsensical schedule, as they imperiously demand that everyone must treat their First Look/Streaming schedule as gospel despite having deliberately come back on a Friday so the blocks are messed up. I'm not sure why following the same blocks and schedule as last year is a particular difficulty in avoiding spoilers, given full details of the episodes have been freely available since they were shown in Australia last month, but hopefully anyone wanting to comment on today's Streaming/First Look episode will have the decency to use the other thread to talk about it, and those of us still watching at 6pm will know not to look in there if we don't want to know.

Seriously, isn't the whole point of streaming that you can watch the episodes whenever you like?

[c120701]

I wonder who dropped the ball and forgot they needed a train driver for them to use one of the crew.