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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 197129" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 161-166With the death of his son, Donald Fisher is the series’ richest character for me at the moment. Just as Carly, Roo and Bobby have recently suffered relapses to default behaviours familiar to viewers of early episodes, so has his son’s death meant that Donald's public and private behaviours have become further distinct and his character as a whole even more complex and unpredictable. In public, we haven’t quite reverted to the man who asked the Fletchers to bend the truth - and the law - to get rid of Bobby. But there’s no doubting that his immediate return to school saw any sign of soft edges or humanity well and truly gone as he doled out detentions and double detentions within a minute of setting foot into the classroom.It’s not just his critics who get it. Those who support him are dealt with as harshly:Bobby’s former intrusion into Donald’s private grief has taken their relationship of respect and conflict to a whole new level.It’s proved a leveller, too, for Bobby’s other major antagonistic relationship. The one she has with Roo:There’s nothing like tragedy paired with mutual enemies to bring people together and, to that end, this run of episodes has seen Alison Patterson going into overdrive as Summer Bay’s troll.andThe latter comment set the ball rolling for a delightful series of ironies. First, it was Bobby who defended Fisher by getting into a St Trinians-esque catfight with Alison (complete with navy knickers being flashed). Then, to spare his feelings, she wouldn’t tell Fisher the reason she’d clocked Alison, leading him to come down more hard on her than ever:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/uEYXmM.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Then, it’s Roo who gets Bobby off the hook by telling Alf the real reason for the fight:All of which leads Donald to take Bobby - and Barbara - by complete surprise when he approaches her outside the venue for Alan’s funeral:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/jR8hNK.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It’s a beautiful moment. Simple but truthful. And with the rough road to this point over the last two episodes it felt very cathartic to watch as a viewer.continued…</blockquote>

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