2025 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[Medea Fleecestealer]

Also how is she going to afford care when she does need it?  Because I doubt such care is free in good old Oz.  She's gifted her share of the business to Leah, she's going to spend the sale of the house money on travel and then?  Hope there's something left over to pay for her needed assistance when it comes due?  Or is she going to end up with a family member somewhere supposedly looking after her?  Irl unlikely because most countries won't let you bring in relatives who might turn out to be a burden on their health services.

[Red Ranger 1]

11 hours ago, CaptainHulk said:

Maybe one the lesser remembered foster kids?

Actually, having done a bit of digging since yesterday, I was reminded that Liam Tanner wound up in Peru. You don't think? I mean, he was Joey's best mate but still.

54 minutes ago, Medea Fleecestealer said:

She's gifted her share of the business to Leah

No, she didn't. She was talked out of that and sold it to her precisely so she'd have money put aside when she needed it. So I think that's probably covered.

Alf's episode count this week:Three, and a stock footage appearance on Wednesday.

I think it's a bit early to be writing off Irene's decision. We don't know exactly what this trip is going to entail and whether or not someone's going to be with her and how effective the safeguards would be. Given she's obviously going to do it, her friends are probably best making sure the plan's practical rather than trying to put their foot down and get ignored.Leah and Dana crossing their arms about it when Irene was barely out of the room was daft, Alf and Leah's later attempt at an intervention was always likely to just have her walking out.So, yeah. Like she says, she doesn't want them to see her reduced to some sad old thing. Maybe it's not the worst idea ever.

Elsewhere, I loved Cash being the supportive partner to an increasingly neurotic Eden. The tension between Remi and Bree was a lot more serious, and even though they found a release at the end, the promo suggests it's not going to be as simple as that.Justin really is keen to have another act to manage, isn't he? And despite Abigail's reluctance to confide in him, Mali's on his way back anyway...

[CaptainHulk]

5 minutes ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Actually, having done a bit of digging since yesterday, I was reminded that Liam Tanner wound up in Peru. You don't think? I mean, he was Joey's best mate but still.

Tenuous tbf but ______ it, He had liked/respected her or Joey msy have visited , so I'm open to all possibilities. Then again he was quickly forgotten when Aaron stepped into the breach

[c120701]

1 hour ago, CaptainHulk said:

Tenuous tbf but ______ it, He had liked/respected her or Joey msy have visited , so I'm open to all possibilities. Then again he was quickly forgotten when Aaron stepped into the breach

Maybe Joey lives there with him!

Channel 5 are using ‘The history-making event all of Australia will be watching’ tagline for Irene’s impending departure that Australia used. Guess Australia are getting those VPNs enabled ready to stream it on 5. I wonder if the UK will watch?

[James Martin]

3 hours ago, c120701 said:

Maybe Joey lives there with him!

Channel 5 are using ‘The history-making event all of Australia will be watching’ tagline for Irene’s impending departure that Australia used. Guess Australia are getting those VPNs enabled ready to stream it on 5. I wonder if the UK will watch?

Yeah I noticed that.  Pretty sure Australia already saw it.  A million or so across the UK & Ireland, meanwhile, will tune in when the time comes.  

[CaptainHulk]

12 hours ago, James Martin said:

Yeah I noticed that.  Pretty sure Australia already saw it.  A million or so across the UK & Ireland, meanwhile, will tune in when the time comes.  

That's if they're not on Aussie pace via..."Alternate Means".

[H&Alover]

As Irene keeps saying she's not lost her marbles yet, so will take advice, medical and otherwise, she'd need to take some kind of travel insurance out which given her condition  would be pricey. She would take someone with her who it is we don't know yet.   I think and I'm not totally sure of this, that Lynne suggested  this is how Irene's   SL should pan out.  She wants her friends in the  bay to remember her as she is now and not someone who doesn't know them from Adam or Eve.   The more people object  Irene, being Irene,  will dig her heels in so they should accept her decision and  support  her.  She does have the money from her selling her share of the Diner to Leah and we/she doesn't know how much she will get from the sale of the Beach House.  I'm guessing she'll put some aside for her later care when she needs to.   I've had those "What am I doing" moments as I'm sure we all have. 

Sunny did get some flack for putting his hand up and admitting it was his idea that Irene went travelling, but Dana did come round to thinking maybe it wasn't such a bad idea.  He only  suggested to Irene she take control of her life and do what she wants while she still can.  Is it common knowledge yet? 

It was lovely seeing Cash being supportive to Eden when she was having a wobble about doing the gig, she's supported  him enough when  he'd been going  through tough times with his job.  Bree and Remi were more  intense  and he mostly seemed to enjoy his time back on stage and they were well received.  I saw the promo and while initially it looked good between Remi and Bree it seemed to go downhill. 

Yeh Justin being interested in being Eden's manager, but how is he going to fit that in with all this work he's, maybe, getting getting from the local taxi firm to look after their cabs?  Would he and Theo be able to manage as there only two of them? 

Did Abigail make a rash decision to 'fire' Theo so he could go back to work in the garage, she was panicking ringing around trying to find a  stand in surfing instructor, as she was having to refund those who had booked lessons.    I did read Kyle Schilling won Dancing with the Stars so I guess  that is why Mali is coming home.  Has he not been kept up to date on what has been happening? He did rather leave Lacey and Abi in the lurch somewhat.   

[pembie]

It took three episodes for Remi to accept to play a gig talk about slow pacing Without Theo though I don’t think Lyrik really works they don’t feel like a band to me anyway 

Edited Sunday at 18:17 by pembie

[atrus]

Blitzed last week and while the Cohen storyline continues to be the highlight, Roo is behaving absolutely appallingly. Any foster parent will tell you that facilitating contact between a child and their biological family is an absolutely essential tenet of the job (unless there is some safeguarding concern that makes it impossible), so somebody should really have explained this to Roo - and if they have, the fact Roo's already started fast-tracking Cohen on a course to adoption before the police had even finished searching for family members does not negate that responsibility, even if she's hoping it does. We obviously don't know if Adrian is really his father or not, but if he is then he needs to be part of the conversation here. Personally my view is that at Cohen's age (and I'm still assuming he's at least 13), what he wants should have a really strong bearing on where he lives, and that he should not be obliged to be packed off to live with a stranger all of a sudden who has had no role in his upbringing - but equally, that's a decision for him to make, preferably after meeting Adrian and getting to know him in a calm and conducive environment, and continuing to get to know him over a sustained period if they both wish. And so the last thing Roo should be doing is lying to Cohen about it (in a continuation of a worrying habit for her after hiding his prison letters) by pretending it isn't happening, creating unnecessary drama and anxiety by having a go at Adrian in front of Cohen and treating him like he's a physical threat, and generally treating Cohen like a six-year-old by marching him out of the room every time she wants to talk about him and sending him the hospital for DNA tests on a false pretext. Which in my view Harper shouldn't have gone along with; I don't know the legal protocols around things like this, but my view is you don't lie to older kids about this stuff and that they ought to be consenting to their DNA being taken or at least understand that that's what's happening. Of course this being Home and Away, it's highly possible that Adrian is evil and has every intention of locking Cohen under the stairs etc - but obviously that can't be used as a justification for the way Roo is acting unless it actually becomes apparent. And I'll be annoyed if that turns out to be the case, actually, because Roo doesn't deserve to be vindicated in her behaviour.

Enjoyed the Irene scenes and I liked the idea of her visiting all her former lodgers/foster kids in all the places around the world where they've ended up. But it would be nice if her kids volunteered to each accompany her on a leg of the journey or something like that. 

In other news, what was Eden wearing on Friday? While Mali manages to continue to have boring storylines about the surf shop even when he's not in the show.

Edited Monday at 01:23 by atrus

[Red Ranger 1]

Well, seems like that's all Remi's progress with Bree gone, not to mention with his negative associations with music. Justin might be on a hiding to nothing trying to get himself a new act to manage with Remi having other things on his mind. Eden too, perhaps.I dunno, it feels like other people have been forgiven worse, but it also feels like Remi has never had a good reason for doing what he did, no matter how much he might wish he could take it back.I'm not sure Bree saying he gave up on them is entirely fair, but then I'm not sure what else you could say that sounds any better. Forgot about them?

In the midst of Levi and Mackenzie taking small steps forward, Mali's back and he really needed to be back, having left his business, his employees and his customers in the lurch. Abigail's solution was rather cold and slightly hypocritical. Mali managed perfectly well for ages with Abby running the shop and Kirby handling the classes, and more recently Lacey was running the shop while Theo took classes.So the solution would seem to be to have Lacey carry on doing Abby's old job and find someone to do Kirby/Theo's old job...which Abigail has been spectacularly unsuccessful at, so it's hard to see how firing Lacey will help when they still don't have anyone to take the classes. Maybe the idea is that Mali can't afford two employees anymore, but it still shows a certain lack of self-awareness for Abigail to tell him to get rid of an employee who can't surf just as soon as that's not her.