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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 196837" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><u>Episodes 154-160</u></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The circle of life has been working overtime in Summer Bay these past few episodes. <em>Home and Away’s </em>first onscreen birth and first deathbed scene practically overlapped. Indeed, people came along to visit one person only to learn another was on a nearby ward.</p><p></p><p>Naturally, Bobby discovered Pippa’s “just in case” letters hidden in Floss and Nev’s caravan, and spilt the beans to Tom who up to that point had no idea how serious things were. Only to then spill all to the rest of the Fletchers while they waited. To be fair, things did seem quite serious with Pippa for a while, but all’s well that ends well with the nicely non-glossy arrival of baby Christopher.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/nXAlzA.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Pippa’s birth is the only example I can think of where we’ve been present while a C-section was performed (albeit our eyeline was mercifully kept above the waist). It felt more progressive than I remember, and there was a simple honesty to the way it happened, right down to Pippa’s throwaway comment as the procedure was about to commence:</p><p></p><p>The surgeon’s response that he’d try to keep the cuts below the bikini line almost falls into the too much information category. Rather like Roo’s comment several episodes back that “show” was a dirty word for her at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, the list of names that are “jokingly” thrown out as suggestions by Floss - Fred, Felix, Bruno, Herbie - highlights how fashions for baby names have changed in the last thirty years. Most of them would be beyond acceptable nowadays.</p><p></p><p>Lynn returned for a two episode stint. She even got involved in Carly’s current storyline, hiding a boxful of money from Lance in bin bags and replacing it with cut up newspaper, only for the bin bags to be thrown out.</p><p></p><p>Another aside: if I heard correctly, Bobby refers to Colleen Smart’s bin bag as a “Sam sack”, but I can’t find anything to indicate this is a commonplace Aussie colloquialism for a refuse bag. This line also grabbed me when I watched in ’89.</p><p></p><p>With Bobby and Roo still bitching away at each other, Bobby invoked Christopher’s arrival to one-up the heavily pregnant Roo in the wind up stakes:</p><p></p><p></p><p>The hospital delivery scenes also tied nicely into Alan’s storyline, bringing home a degree of reality to him about his situation:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And in the space of an episode, it <em>is </em>one day:</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/e6pSS0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/OZkyEy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/hj5P2j.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/AH1Ehu.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/0Ejzqm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/DmBnMY.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/dGN6pM.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/UB1sdq.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>And Alan<em> is</em> confined to a hospital bed, comatose.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"><em>continued...</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 196837, member: 23"] [SIZE=6][U]Episodes 154-160[/U][/SIZE] The circle of life has been working overtime in Summer Bay these past few episodes. [I]Home and Away’s [/I]first onscreen birth and first deathbed scene practically overlapped. Indeed, people came along to visit one person only to learn another was on a nearby ward. Naturally, Bobby discovered Pippa’s “just in case” letters hidden in Floss and Nev’s caravan, and spilt the beans to Tom who up to that point had no idea how serious things were. Only to then spill all to the rest of the Fletchers while they waited. To be fair, things did seem quite serious with Pippa for a while, but all’s well that ends well with the nicely non-glossy arrival of baby Christopher. [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/nXAlzA.jpg[/IMG] Pippa’s birth is the only example I can think of where we’ve been present while a C-section was performed (albeit our eyeline was mercifully kept above the waist). It felt more progressive than I remember, and there was a simple honesty to the way it happened, right down to Pippa’s throwaway comment as the procedure was about to commence: The surgeon’s response that he’d try to keep the cuts below the bikini line almost falls into the too much information category. Rather like Roo’s comment several episodes back that “show” was a dirty word for her at the moment. Incidentally, the list of names that are “jokingly” thrown out as suggestions by Floss - Fred, Felix, Bruno, Herbie - highlights how fashions for baby names have changed in the last thirty years. Most of them would be beyond acceptable nowadays. Lynn returned for a two episode stint. She even got involved in Carly’s current storyline, hiding a boxful of money from Lance in bin bags and replacing it with cut up newspaper, only for the bin bags to be thrown out. Another aside: if I heard correctly, Bobby refers to Colleen Smart’s bin bag as a “Sam sack”, but I can’t find anything to indicate this is a commonplace Aussie colloquialism for a refuse bag. This line also grabbed me when I watched in ’89. With Bobby and Roo still bitching away at each other, Bobby invoked Christopher’s arrival to one-up the heavily pregnant Roo in the wind up stakes: The hospital delivery scenes also tied nicely into Alan’s storyline, bringing home a degree of reality to him about his situation: And in the space of an episode, it [I]is [/I]one day: [img]https://i.vgy.me/e6pSS0.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/OZkyEy.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/hj5P2j.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/AH1Ehu.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/0Ejzqm.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/DmBnMY.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/dGN6pM.jpg[/img][img]https://i.vgy.me/UB1sdq.jpg[/img] And Alan[I] is[/I] confined to a hospital bed, comatose. [RIGHT][I]continued...[/I][/RIGHT] [/QUOTE]
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