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“Welcome to Summer Bay”: Rewatching the early years.
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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 196594" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><u><span style="font-size: 22px">Episodes 148-153</span></u></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/5ClHZu.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/YDgMqK.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/jTmhkI.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/5CYECT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Ailsa and Alf are in trouble. And it’s a wonderful thing.</p><p></p><p>This blow up is an arc that I’ve shamefully forgotten. Even as I watch, I don’t know what will happen next. It feels new, unfamiliar and unpredictable. It’s giving some of the rawest moments on the series so far. Blame is given. Feelings are hurt. Voices are raised with a frequency and intensity that could give <em>EastEnders</em> a run for its money.</p><p></p><p>To get from being the series’ key example of triumph over adversity to Alf delivering the above line to his wife in the heat of yet another argument is quite a feat. It may have started out with them simply being in different camps over The Macklin Group’s Sands Resort (something which it’s implied Roo orchestrated with Brett as part of an elaborate revenge plan), but it’s spiralled into something far more serious.</p><p></p><p>Old ghosts have returned. Ailsa’s ulterior motive in her hasty marriage to Alf has all but been forgotten. Until the throes of yet another argument cause a slip of the tongue:</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/tUIVLL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/Z1hbXS.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/ryeb2N.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/DwSwgq.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Roo’s motives remain less than perfectly clear in this. Is she still the sulky, selfish daughter who has become better at concealing her true self from everyone but Ailsa? Or does she genuinely believe she’s protecting her father’s interests?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And after the argument over Bobby:</p><p></p><p></p><p>She persuades her father to talk to Ailsa - cradling her baby bump and telling him she sees things differently now - because she knows that tempers will flare up again. And she revels in Ailsa’s pain. Left alone with Ailsa, Roo goads her stepmother into <em>almost</em> slapping her. Then uses it against her.</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/p99xeT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/J8taTL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And she was involved in a delightfully soapy interval involving a letter. Left by Ailsa for Alf. Discovered and concealed by Roo.</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/L1TE6s.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Miscommunication on top of miscommunication.</p><p></p><p>Better still, is the sense of permanence. The damage done is serious and irrevocable. Ailsa has made life-changing decisions about her marriage, her store and her residence in Summer Bay.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/gOX1Dk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/TEtOl0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/dYlbkE.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>With the store on the market and an Averyesque tears-behind-the-wheel departure, it seems there is no going back.</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/J2mhwK.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/h6cUu9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/DeRlAD.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/J8qUWA.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 196594, member: 23"] [U][SIZE=6]Episodes 148-153[/SIZE][/U] [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/5ClHZu.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/YDgMqK.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/jTmhkI.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/5CYECT.jpg[/IMG] Ailsa and Alf are in trouble. And it’s a wonderful thing. This blow up is an arc that I’ve shamefully forgotten. Even as I watch, I don’t know what will happen next. It feels new, unfamiliar and unpredictable. It’s giving some of the rawest moments on the series so far. Blame is given. Feelings are hurt. Voices are raised with a frequency and intensity that could give [I]EastEnders[/I] a run for its money. To get from being the series’ key example of triumph over adversity to Alf delivering the above line to his wife in the heat of yet another argument is quite a feat. It may have started out with them simply being in different camps over The Macklin Group’s Sands Resort (something which it’s implied Roo orchestrated with Brett as part of an elaborate revenge plan), but it’s spiralled into something far more serious. Old ghosts have returned. Ailsa’s ulterior motive in her hasty marriage to Alf has all but been forgotten. Until the throes of yet another argument cause a slip of the tongue: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/tUIVLL.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/Z1hbXS.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/ryeb2N.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/DwSwgq.jpg[/IMG] Roo’s motives remain less than perfectly clear in this. Is she still the sulky, selfish daughter who has become better at concealing her true self from everyone but Ailsa? Or does she genuinely believe she’s protecting her father’s interests? And after the argument over Bobby: She persuades her father to talk to Ailsa - cradling her baby bump and telling him she sees things differently now - because she knows that tempers will flare up again. And she revels in Ailsa’s pain. Left alone with Ailsa, Roo goads her stepmother into [I]almost[/I] slapping her. Then uses it against her. [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/p99xeT.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/J8taTL.jpg[/IMG] And she was involved in a delightfully soapy interval involving a letter. Left by Ailsa for Alf. Discovered and concealed by Roo. [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/L1TE6s.jpg[/IMG] Miscommunication on top of miscommunication. Better still, is the sense of permanence. The damage done is serious and irrevocable. Ailsa has made life-changing decisions about her marriage, her store and her residence in Summer Bay. [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/gOX1Dk.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/TEtOl0.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/dYlbkE.jpg[/IMG] With the store on the market and an Averyesque tears-behind-the-wheel departure, it seems there is no going back. [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/J2mhwK.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/h6cUu9.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/DeRlAD.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/J8qUWA.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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