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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 358516" data-attributes="member: 23">When she returned I wasn&#039;t sure at first but now the snob and gossip is coming out in her and she&#039;s proving good fun. I really like the friendship between these two. They work well together.&nbsp; Like you, I initially got the sense he was introduced with a view to becoming a new romantic interest for Meg long-term, but I also enjoy seeing opposite sex platonic relationships as they&#039;re relatively rare in Soapland. Absolutely. It&#039;s a fascinating case of a series&#039; writers working an off-screen situation into the storylines and Roger&#039;s absences are a perfect fit for Xrds anyway since most characters seem to vanish for months at a time and then return, be it Diane to visit Nicky, Jill going to Germany or Bernard Booth disappearing into the store cupboard for several weeks. Picture the main character from the musical Annie, then imagine her grown-up with a Geordie accent and that&#039;s pretty much her. I suspect she&#039;s a very short-term character, introduced to do an &quot;issue&quot; storyline for regular characters to react to, so it&#039;s probably not surprising you can&#039;t recall her. She&#039;s a definite favourite of mine. I really thought I might have trouble getting past seeing her as Nora Batty but she proved me wrong very quickly. Ha ha. If only she&#039;d been a bit earlier that could have been my Easter break sorted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 358516, member: 23"] When she returned I wasn't sure at first but now the snob and gossip is coming out in her and she's proving good fun. I really like the friendship between these two. They work well together. Like you, I initially got the sense he was introduced with a view to becoming a new romantic interest for Meg long-term, but I also enjoy seeing opposite sex platonic relationships as they're relatively rare in Soapland. Absolutely. It's a fascinating case of a series' writers working an off-screen situation into the storylines and Roger's absences are a perfect fit for [I]Xrds[/I] anyway since most characters seem to vanish for months at a time and then return, be it Diane to visit Nicky, Jill going to Germany or Bernard Booth disappearing into the store cupboard for several weeks. Picture the main character from the musical [I]Annie[/I], then imagine her grown-up with a Geordie accent and that's pretty much her. I suspect she's a very short-term character, introduced to do an "issue" storyline for regular characters to react to, so it's probably not surprising you can't recall her. She's a definite favourite of mine. I really thought I might have trouble getting past seeing her as Nora Batty but she proved me wrong very quickly. Ha ha. If only she'd been a bit earlier that could have been my Easter break sorted. [/QUOTE]

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