1995 Episode Discussion

[j.laur5]

Has Ailsa ever had a bath or shower as she has been be wearing the same nightdress for the last week! 

[Skylover]

I agree with Red Ranger, I don't think Ailsa was raped, it was merely a robbery but it seems like it was the tip of the ice-berg. She's been on edge for literally months, soon after Laura died it started.

[Old H&A Fan]

Yeah........y'see......that's the trouble with things being "left to the imagination". People assume the worst when for all we know it was just a robbery, with poor Alsa having her mouth covered and grabbed from behind by that dirty, smelly grubby creature, that's all we ever get to see and hear about.

[alexx]

6 hours ago, Edward Skylover said:

I agree with Red Ranger, I don't think Ailsa was raped, it was merely a robbery but it seems like it was the tip of the ice-berg. She's been on edge for literally months, soon after Laura died it started.

I don't know, I mean you'd think that after she'd been in prison for killing her dad that just being robbed wouldn't have pushed her to such an extreme state of paranoia and post traumatic stress. When Alf found her cowering in the darkness, shivering and petrified it seemed a lot more than just being robbed it seemed like she'd been violated in a more extreme way.

Red Ranger - in episode 1705 she says to Alf 'the local police comes in (to the store) and you don't even ask him if they've caught the man who threatened to kill your wife'. Whether it was just a throw away threat or not, as far as she's concerned she thinks he's going to come back to Summer Bay to kill her. I wonder why they've left it ominous and open to interpretation. The audience don't know how that threat was delivered, don't know his tone of voice and we don't know anything about what happened once he dragged her back into the diner.

 

[beau_t]

Today Alf found the empty drugs packet by the sink, which will later be explained as old anti-depressants from when Ailsa had post natal depression. I find it interesting she would take them in the first place, it seems to indicate she knows she isn't right and is trying to fix herself. But then, why won't she see a doctor? I guess there's no point trying to find reason in the actions of someone who has lost their grip on reality.

Speaking of which - FridgeBobby to the rescue. The hand print on the fridge door earlier in the episode was genuinely creepy and something I'd forgotten.

I found it a bit annoying that "Arthur" from the department forced Donald to take Selina back because she had nowhere else to go, rather than because what Donald did was actually wrong.

[Sunny Girl]

I had also forgotten the handprint from earlier in the episode. It was genuinely creepy.

[Jeremai]

It was creepy indeed. I was 14 when this first aired and I remember feeling a bit weird for the rest of day. IIRC, even my Mum picked up on it and said it was because of Bobby

[Dan F]

2 hours ago, beau_t said:

Speaking of which - FridgeBobby to the rescue. The hand print on the fridge door earlier in the episode was genuinely creepy and something I'd forgotten.

 

2 hours ago, Sunny Girl said:

I had also forgotten the handprint from earlier in the episode. It was genuinely creepy.

See that was something I always remembered, but never saw again. With not having a full copy of that episode (only the one afterwards) to check, I started to wonder if I'd imagined it. I think asked someone on here whether I was right and it was confirmed for me.

Strangely I also remember the exact day I saw this episode - I was 9, I had a mate staying over who was a year younger, and it freaked him out somewhat. I teased him that night by quietly whispering "Ailsa...." after switching the bedroom light off.  

I think the only ones I actually remember vividly from '95 H&A are that day, and the one where I got in from school and mum said they'd changed the theme tune...

Well the next episode was one which was repeated in the UK a few years back, which gave us the revelation that ITV had actually cut it to ribbons at the time with half of Bobby's scenes removed.

[CaptainHulk]

ITV were asking for a slap they way they carried on with this show.

I was 11 myself when the ep aired first time round. 28 when they repeated it during Olympic Break 2012! 

As people said, the Robbery was the final straw as Ailsa had been fraying for a fair while even before Laura died.

Sometimes what is implied is actually scarier than what is shown.

[Homeandawayfan.]

I remember that episode where Bobby came out of the fridge and a friend of mine reckoned he knew how they made the ep. His theory was that Nicolle hid in a plasticine fridge and pushed herself out of it, through the plasticine, making it pierce open, to make it look like a ghost coming out of the fridge. We both were 13 at the time and we even occasionally smoked fags and because Bobby said "Ailsa" we kept saying "Isla" "Risla" in Bobby style when referring to the fags.

He was also pleased that Selina was reinstated at the school.