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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 199974" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 222-227The first season has been an eventful year, and that shows no sign of stopping in this final run of episodes. There’s so much story to tell at the moment that even the recaps of the previous episode haven’t been used for a number of the late Season One episodes.For those who care to look there are reminders in these episodes of the changes that have taken place in the months since the Pilot. The smaller interactions bear witness to this incredibly well. Like the scene of Bobby, Frank and Steven’s road trip to the city. It would have been a very different car journey if the three of these were in the same situation at the beginning of the series.Likewise, there’s a gem of a scene in which Donald drops by Summer Bay House with a leaving present for Carly (a copy of Donald gets Carly George Orwell’s Down And Out In Paris And London “I thought it had a certain appropriateness.”, he quipped to a blank faced Tom and Pippa). He then offers his help with unravelling the Christmas decorations, and is evidently coming to them for company. Pippa goes as far as to ask him to come by at Christmas (Tom is briefly shaken but covers well), and Donald graciously declines the offer, saying how much he appreciates the thought. It’s a far cry from threatening the life of the family dog.In fact, it’s Donald who unwittingly sows the seed for major change within the Fletcher household during the course of his visit:This has now been put to the vote with the two remaining “official” foster children, Steven and Sally. And the decision has been taken to get the wheels moving to foster another kid.Incidentally, Donald must have been quite some time unravelling the decorations. The next episode had a title card indicating a three week time jump, and those trimmings still weren’t up.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/zOrAPn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Carly, despite her Eighteenth birthday spiel about growing up, is still assuringly self-centred. She was waved off with with music that harked back to the end of the Pilot and with only her framed family photo to ward off the evils of the big city.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/ftmStB.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/sLadKi.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I enjoyed that despite the progress she and Bobby have made this year, Bobby didn’t hold back when she realised that Carly had no intention of coming back over Christmas but had copped out of telling Tom and Pippa:Steven visits Carly’s hovel of a pad in the city and finds Carly the worse for a night out. He also meets her housemates and proves he’s not the naive kid he was:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/xyOiZO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />continued...</blockquote>

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