Hello! I'm new here and would like some help with some unanswered questions :)

[harrietjames]

On 12/19/2017 at 23:53, Homeandawayfan. said:

Is Summer Bay a distant suburb of Sydney or a isolated town? I know Palm Beach is a Sydney suburb but casting aside real life, in James Oram's 1989 H&A book it said that Summer Bay is meant to be on the edge of the urban sprawl, but no exact info as to which urban sprawl. They always say "the city" and I always thought they meant Sydney as they did occasionally film in the Sydney central areas and you could recognise famous Sydney locations.

It is a small country town, rather than a suburb but the geography is somewhat fluid. When they film driving  on say "yabbie creek rd"  they usually drive thru bush or farms, rather than suburban streets. But when they show the beach and with the houses behind, there are far too many houses for the apparent no of residents. The residents know each other's business too much to be a suburb.

The distance from "the city" varies - sometimes folks have to stay over night when they go other times they can be there and back in a day.  Sometimes "the City" seems more like a large regional town rather than Sydney, but sometimes we see the Bridge.

[CaptainHulk]

^ I liked how in that 1993 ep near the end of Season how Yabbie Creek RD was shaped like a 'Y' in an Aerial shot (Damo/Nathan meet Michael at that Junction) ?

[Summer's Bay]

Bobby/Frank/Roo was the first love triangle in Home and Away, I sure there have been others, what are some storylines that resemble the original? 

[j.laur5]

16 hours ago, harrietjames said:

It is a small country town, rather than a suburb but the geography is somewhat fluid. When they film driving  on say "yabbie creek rd"  they usually drive thru bush or farms, rather than suburban streets. But when they show the beach and with the houses behind, there are far too many houses for the apparent no of residents. The residents know each other's business too much to be a suburb.

The distance from "the city" varies - sometimes folks have to stay over night when they go other times they can be there and back in a day.  Sometimes "the City" seems more like a large regional town rather than Sydney, but sometimes we see the Bridge.

No , the city is 100% Sydney. 

They even mentioned Sydney instead of City by characters in last couple of years. 

[CaptainHulk]

Cynthia Ross was the first to give the game away in 1991 by referring to it as "Sydney"

[harrietjames]

9 hours ago, j.laur5 said:

No , the city is 100% Sydney. 

They even mentioned Sydney instead of City by characters in last couple of years. 

More recently yes, but not so much historically. They used "the city"  originally to make it more "any town"

19 minutes ago, CaptainHulk said:

Cynthia Ross was the first to give the game away in 1991 by referring to it as "Sydney"

Did she refer to it as both the City and sydney? Or such as way that Sydney could be a separate place from "the city"?

[Summer's Bay]

Who are the other foster kids who got together? 

[CaptainHulk]

Ric Dalby and Cassie Turner.

Sally and Jack Wilson. Michael did his nut and then some!

Curtis and Shannon were adoptive siblings who were a thing from age 12-15 (they shortly broke up within their first few months of being in the bay) They never really did more than kiss.

 

58 minutes ago, harrietjames said:

More recently yes, but not so much historically. They used "the city"  originally to make it more "any town"

Did she refer to it as both the City and sydney? Or such as way that Sydney could be a separate place from "the city"?

Considering SB is in NSW near enough to Sydney, I doubt she meant anywhere else.

[harrietjames]

3 minutes ago, CaptainHulk said:

Considering SB is in NSW near enough to Sydney, I doubt she meant anywhere else.

You're applying logic that is not always a given with our writers. And the distance from the City varies in the context.

Shane and Angel went on a date via train but the City is too far for people to commute for work.

[CaptainHulk]

True ?

Often if someone was going to the City in the early years, they'd pack a bag!