2025 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[Slade]

I agree with the previous comments about David's double standards.  He gets annoyed at Cash for Eden going to the station to see him but it's OK when Jo turns up.  I do wonder if something is going to happen with David and Roo.  I think David likes her possibly.

I am quite liking Roo at the moment.  She's is showing a lot of compassion and empathy with the fostering.  Yeah, I thought Alf prohibited her from doing any more fostering after Eliza so he's not going to be too happy when he finds out, although interestingly Marilyn has been quite supportive immediately.  When Roo mentioned to her how do you tell Cohen his mother doesn't want him, I was thinking Heather yet again.

Not sure what to make of Avalon.  I mean it's a cool name and I liked Mackenzie's reaction to seeing her but getting Remi on drugs and trying to effectively poach him from Kirby initially wasn't good.  I am glad she and Kirby are OK and I'm liking Justin's involvement.  Shame Remi is under such pressure.

[H&Alover]

I saw last night TPTB have put his correct surname - Langham, my error saying it was Kingham. 

Both Roo and David chickened out on telling Cohen his mum didn't want anything more to do with him, but how do you tell a young lad a thing like that? Two years at the  minimum is a  long time.  I think, well hope, Roo does send that letter to her, maybe it would be better coming from her. He's an intelligent lad and has some education along the way so must have gone to school at some time.  I suppose no-one can force Samantha to tell anyone her history.  David is going  beyond the bounds of duty  trying to help Cohen and find any family for him.  Could be a number of reasons why his father's name wasn't on his birth certificate - she didn't know it, he was married, or the worst scenario she was raped. Roo, so far, has been doing a much better job than she did with Eliza, but of course this time she has a SW in the form of Harper to hand.  Harper is doing a god job, she tried her best with Samantha and is making a  good bond with Cohen.  I'm wondering if Roo will let Alf know about Cohen in case he stays longer?   Roo, David and Harper make a good team.  

It was a totally different situation with Maz and Heather - she was a baby and Samantha and Cohen have been together for a  lot longer, still no mention of his age though, unless I missed it. 

It does feel like TPTB are leading us up the garden path and letting us think Remi has tried some of the drugs.  Kirby keep changing her mind about her launch and her duetting with Avalon would boggle anyone's mind never mind Remi's.  Justin isn't helping though pushing him to get the album finished.   Kirby finally clicked and made the right decision, she knows Remi and how much work he's put into the album.   I liked the fact Kirby wanted to do her Launch at Salt, amongst friend and people she knows and  less expensive, it'll take the pressure off Remi too.    I hope Flick gets a mention as it was down to her Lyrik  got their gig there.   It'll certainly bring in the crowds as long as Mac charges them.

Going back to Harper, it seems she and Tane have been 'talking' but she's not mentioned Archie is in day care but that is a face to face conversation. 

It looks like, going by the promo, Theo meets Jo and finds out she is Lacey's sister - oops.   He is not going to be best pleased that Leah knew and didn't tell him, but  she would have been damned if she did and damned if she didn't, she was keeping Lacey's secret.  Does it also come out David is their dad? 

 

 

 

[Red Ranger 1]

I have to admit I've not seen any of this spark between Roo and David that the rest of the forum seems to have done.All that's happened is they've had some scenes together, which, to be fair, is usually enough on this sort of show.But frankly I'm increasingly feeling like they should probably get together because they're both being pretty awful. Roo did exactly what I feared she would, crossing the line into gaslighting by telling Cohen she's posted his letter while hiding it away in a drawer as if she wants this to explode as badly as possible. Harper telling her it's all right to lie was spectacularly bad advice as well. I'd go so far as to say that Roo is actually handling Cohen worse than she did Eliza, and if it doesn't end as badly, that's entirely down to him, not her. Meanwhile, David continues his workplace bullying, and while he eventually gave Cash those "Sorry for being a total a-hole to you when you did a good job" beers, he actually tells Cash off for answering a personal call mere seconds after having a personal chat with Jo (who is treating the police station like it's open house just as much as Eden did and getting away with it because of favouritism) right in front of him, and probably doesn't even realise what an utter hypocrite he is. At least Harper's intervention was better aimed there.

I'm on Lacey's side here and feel like Theo should have shut Jo down instead of listening to her justifications. I'm in two minds here: On the one hand, David and Jo are credited as regulars, which suggests they're meant to be broadly sympathetic characters. On the other hand, no-one has really refuted Lacey's points, just resorting to bland and banal rebuttals, which does lead me to suspect there's something that we don't know yet. Anyway, it means Theo knows the whole story (maybe more than Leah does?), and I'm glad that Lacey seems to be doing a good job and Jo ambushing her at work hasn't affected anything.

Well, we got that brief hint at Irene having memory issue a couple of weeks back but they seemed to jump up a notch here with her forgetting her plans with John. Marilyn seemed a bit timid but, to be fair, she didn't have much opportunity to say anything else.