2018 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[pembie]

32 minutes ago, [email protected] said:

No Beckett Reid was his name after being a federal cop 

Really but Beckett Reid was a highly wanted Crimmal hitman I thought 

[Dan F]

5 minutes ago, pembie said:

Really but Beckett Reid was a highly wanted Crimmal hitman I thought 

Beckett Reid never existed, it was a fake identity cooked up by the feds so that Robbo could go undercover as a ‘notorious criminal’.

[H&Alover]

That was a lovely wedding and although we didn't see much of them at least John & Marilyn turned up.  I'm of the same mind as you Red Raffy doesn't know that Coco knew about Ryder telling her about Ty.  Ryder, I don't think, has told Ty he told Coco. A secret just between them.  Certainly not your traditional Wedding dress but then Ziggy isn't that much into traditional. Long time since we've had a wedding on the cliff top so even though there wasn't an actual aisle Ben did get to walk Ziggy down the path. Ziggy and Brody did look so happy and laughed at Ziggy's promise to always eat Brody's food  even if some of it was weird. Maggie did look lovely and her 'wig' looked natural. Any doubts Ziggy had vanished the moment Brody sent her that text.  Tad awkward moment with Hunter sitting between Olivia and his 'date' Rhea.  Ben needn't have worried about stepping on Ziggy's toes as it was the other way round, I did wonder if she could waltz.  Nice speech by Justin, another move from convention, but said it all about how the Morgan's had come through all their troubles and it was time to look forward. I'm guessing the nights away at the house boat is from all the Morgan's  and I like the car. Sad it ended the way it did with Maggie collapsing. 

Yes, we have been here before with Hunter and Olivia but at least this time it sounded like they meant it. Maybe as Olivia said that last time was what they both needed - fingers crossed.

Going back a bit re Ebony/Lisa just strolling around the hospital helping herself to drugs, which btw  should have been in  a locked unit, they have CCTV at ND's that's how they caught the guy who injected Nate, has no-one thought of checking it? It's going to be discovered they are short of that particular drug.

[Helena]

If I remember correctly I think that the last wedding on the cliff top in home and away was Ricky and nates although they are now divorced and Ricky has gotten back together with brax and Ricky brax and nate have left the bay

[Little bean]

So.......Jake Ryan plays Ryan Shaw who went under cover as Beckett Reid but lost his memory and called himself Robbo, got his memory back and decided to keep “Robbo” (did he ever pick a surname or is he like Madonna, Beyoncé etc and can just stick with the one name?) Got it! Thanks.   

[D.B]

5 hours ago, Little bean said:

But I thought his real name was Beckett Reid? Or was that just his made up undercover name? I’m so confused now!  Probably easier just to stick with Robbo!   

We thought his name was Beckett Reid, but however when he met the feds and Lance revealed the true story, we learned that it was just an undercover name for him to stop Novak.

[Dan F]

1 hour ago, Little bean said:

So.......Jake Ryan plays Ryan Shaw who went under cover as Beckett Reid but lost his memory and called himself Robbo, got his memory back and decided to keep “Robbo” (did he ever pick a surname or is he like Madonna, Beyoncé etc and can just stick with the one name?) Got it! Thanks.   

Yup.

Though he was nicknamed Robbo after Robinson Crusoe, so if you did want to give him a full name....

[H&Alover]

15 hours ago, Dan F said:

Yup.

Though he was nicknamed Robbo after Robinson Crusoe, so if you did want to give him a full name....  

I did wonder how he managed to get a driving licence when he was just known as Robbo?   I take it any official documents he now has are in the name of Ryan Shaw.

[Slade]

When I heard Lance tell Robbo about Ebony's past I realised at that point she was beyond reform and after attempting to kill Colby that's the icing on the cake (I would like to know more about these people she's connected to).  I see missed opportunities now that's she's left the bay.  She never slept with Colby which I wanted to see, just to annoy Jasmine.  She didn't make people like Justin/Tori etc. suffer as much as they should have considering that she lost her brother.  But still she actually killed Hazel.  Shame nothing happened with Robbo as I felt there was mutual attraction there.  Agreed with the previous comments about McCarthy's unprofessionalism towards him.

I really liked the part of the bucks night with the stripper.  It was really funny seeing Ben's reaction, especially after Brody threw up on him.  Whilst you can argue that the wedding was a nice affair, I still believe Ziggy and Brody are getting married for the wrong reasons.  This wouldn't be happening if Maggie wasn't ill and there's still the fact that Brody is a drug addict and IMO should not be getting hitched whilst he's been clean for a relatively short period of time.  I am surprised Justin or Ben haven't considered this.  Although I guess it's more understandable with Ben because of Maggie

Wasn't happy about Hunter and Olivia sleeping together but was quite pleased when we had the usual out of shape expression from Olivia upon seeing someone she immediately took exception to i.e. H,unter's wedding date.  Let's do hope they have now found closure and can both move on.

There was a scene between Dean and Willow which gave me a wry smile.

Dean (Sarcastically): "Well, this is fun"

Willow: "You didn't have to come"

But I guess I read too much into these things...

[Red Ranger 1]

22 hours ago, Dan F said:

Though he was nicknamed Robbo after Robinson Crusoe, so if you did want to give him a full name....

I really wanted that to come up when Ebony asked him what Robbo was short for!

Ben came across well again, stating his opinion, handling things with Coco but not putting Maggie under any pressure. I started off accepting Coco's anger at being kept in the dark as understandable, but then she went into full-on brat mode, going on and on and making it all about her again. It's not her decision whether Maggie carries on pumping herself full of poison without any effect, neither is it her place to contact Ziggy when I think Maggie was quite right and she was better off enjoying her honeymoon than coming back just so she can sit around a hospital and worry.Not that she's doing a particularly good job of enjoying her honeymoon, having stranded herself and Brody out at sea in a rather childish manner.

I feel this episode really needed a physical presence from Raffy and Ty rather than them being noises off.And it continues to annoy me that it doesn't seem to cross Marilyn's mind that Raffy might actually be happy with her family.(We don't even have the excuse of Hazel still being out there and even Ebony seems to be gone.)Still, what we saw was okay.It was easy for John and Marilyn to be supportive in the hospital, but now Ty's back home and they have to handle his problems with coming out as an on-going concern and, while good-intentioned, they're out of their depth.Leaving him on his own all the time isn't a particularly good policy (which is why we really needed him in the episode, rather than a constant refrain of "He's in his room"), and you're not going to learn everything off the internet because real life isn't like that and Ty doesn't know his part of the script, but at least they're trying and know they have to do something.