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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 205941" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><u><span style="font-size: 22px">Episodes 296-312</span></u></p><p></p><p></p><p>There’s been a whole lot of change in Summer Bay over the course of these seventeen episodes. Several departures - including two funerals; some new arrivals; an abundance of backstory; a proposal; a new family member; house moves galore; bonding and blackmail.</p><p></p><p>Once upon a time, Summer Bay was a fairly harmonious place to live, barring a troublemaker or two. It doesn’t feel that way at the moment. Righteous anger is to be found almost everywhere you look. Embodying this more than most have been three of the male characters.</p><p></p><p>Take Frank, whose pride makes him balk at the idea of goodwill, whether it’s Lance and Martin’s whip round or Donald’s invitation to dine with him:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Having been on the receiving end of such an RSVP, Donald was more than a little surprised when Bobby showed up for dinner anyway:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The simple father/daughter dinner oozed with warmth. I liked the vision of their comfortably spending time together, and the simplicity of their meal - eating from plates on their laps in the lounge, without so much as a tray or a side salad - somehow reflected the no-frills simplicity that their relationship is moving towards.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Bobby and petulant Frank moved temporarily into Floss and Neville’s caravan (a feat achieved, so far as I noticed, without a single mention of either Floss or Nev), until Bobby could persuade him to move in with Donald - something she achieved by asking Alf and Ailsa to donate enough furniture and white goods to make the caravan even more claustrophobic.</p><p></p><p>Believe it or not, the pair aren’t the only ones to have made the transition from reasonably comfortable tenant to temporary lodgings in a caravan to staying with Donald. Andrew was shaken up when his dying father showed up and persuaded Carly to trick Andrew into seeing him. When Andrew gets all righteously angry, Andrew Sr. tells Carly that her boyfriend could still be a wealthy man:</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/lSwzZc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>When his father sends yet another cheque to support the youth centre, Andrew has had enough of Morag’s influence:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Moving into a caravan, Andrew then takes the complete opposite tack to Frank by asking for handout after handout. He asks Ailsa if he can rent her room for next to nothing. Then he asks if she’d allow him to paint it. Then he asks if she could give him some paint. I swear, it wouldn’t surprise me if she ended up painting it for him, while paying him to use her room.</p><p></p><p>I can’t decide how I feel about Peter Bensley. At times I’ve found him interesting to watch because he does unexpected things with his delivery and I sense he ad libs a fair bit, which brings a naturalism of sorts. But the more screen time he has the more I’ve started to think he’s a bit of a ham. He’s certainly a very mannered actor. And high energy to the point of attention deficit. He’s always doing weird stuff like touching his face, smelling his fingers, having pauses in quirky places, waving his arms about or looking everywhere but at the person who is speaking. Now Andrew has joined Frank in righteous anger, his repertoire has grown to include contorting his face a lot and looking angrily into his screen father’s eyes while raising his voice:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/94meFl.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>This has turned out to be the last conversation the two Andrews had. And Andrew Sr’s death pushed him into pure obnoxiousness as he’s pushed people away. I appreciate Bensley’s willingness to go even more ugly and unlikeable. But really, Andrew telling recently bereaved Steven to grow up was a bit much, wasn’t it?</p><p></p><p>It’s only after attending his father’s funeral - convinced not by Carly, but Stacey Macklin - that Andrew starts to understand his father’s true feelings. He reads a letter (while touching himself, of course):</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/MYmZEL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/G9jeVN.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">continued...</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 205941, member: 23"] [U][SIZE=6]Episodes 296-312[/SIZE][/U] There’s been a whole lot of change in Summer Bay over the course of these seventeen episodes. Several departures - including two funerals; some new arrivals; an abundance of backstory; a proposal; a new family member; house moves galore; bonding and blackmail. Once upon a time, Summer Bay was a fairly harmonious place to live, barring a troublemaker or two. It doesn’t feel that way at the moment. Righteous anger is to be found almost everywhere you look. Embodying this more than most have been three of the male characters. Take Frank, whose pride makes him balk at the idea of goodwill, whether it’s Lance and Martin’s whip round or Donald’s invitation to dine with him: Having been on the receiving end of such an RSVP, Donald was more than a little surprised when Bobby showed up for dinner anyway: The simple father/daughter dinner oozed with warmth. I liked the vision of their comfortably spending time together, and the simplicity of their meal - eating from plates on their laps in the lounge, without so much as a tray or a side salad - somehow reflected the no-frills simplicity that their relationship is moving towards. Bobby and petulant Frank moved temporarily into Floss and Neville’s caravan (a feat achieved, so far as I noticed, without a single mention of either Floss or Nev), until Bobby could persuade him to move in with Donald - something she achieved by asking Alf and Ailsa to donate enough furniture and white goods to make the caravan even more claustrophobic. Believe it or not, the pair aren’t the only ones to have made the transition from reasonably comfortable tenant to temporary lodgings in a caravan to staying with Donald. Andrew was shaken up when his dying father showed up and persuaded Carly to trick Andrew into seeing him. When Andrew gets all righteously angry, Andrew Sr. tells Carly that her boyfriend could still be a wealthy man: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/lSwzZc.jpg[/IMG] When his father sends yet another cheque to support the youth centre, Andrew has had enough of Morag’s influence: Moving into a caravan, Andrew then takes the complete opposite tack to Frank by asking for handout after handout. He asks Ailsa if he can rent her room for next to nothing. Then he asks if she’d allow him to paint it. Then he asks if she could give him some paint. I swear, it wouldn’t surprise me if she ended up painting it for him, while paying him to use her room. I can’t decide how I feel about Peter Bensley. At times I’ve found him interesting to watch because he does unexpected things with his delivery and I sense he ad libs a fair bit, which brings a naturalism of sorts. But the more screen time he has the more I’ve started to think he’s a bit of a ham. He’s certainly a very mannered actor. And high energy to the point of attention deficit. He’s always doing weird stuff like touching his face, smelling his fingers, having pauses in quirky places, waving his arms about or looking everywhere but at the person who is speaking. Now Andrew has joined Frank in righteous anger, his repertoire has grown to include contorting his face a lot and looking angrily into his screen father’s eyes while raising his voice: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/94meFl.jpg[/IMG] This has turned out to be the last conversation the two Andrews had. And Andrew Sr’s death pushed him into pure obnoxiousness as he’s pushed people away. I appreciate Bensley’s willingness to go even more ugly and unlikeable. But really, Andrew telling recently bereaved Steven to grow up was a bit much, wasn’t it? It’s only after attending his father’s funeral - convinced not by Carly, but Stacey Macklin - that Andrew starts to understand his father’s true feelings. He reads a letter (while touching himself, of course): [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/MYmZEL.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/G9jeVN.jpg[/IMG] [FONT=Courier New] [/FONT] [RIGHT][I][FONT=Georgia]continued...[/FONT][/I][/RIGHT] [/QUOTE]
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