Rewatching The Early Years

[j.laur5]

I think if Pippa had stayed I think we wouldn’t have had Joel and Natalie and Tom and Gypsy would just have been brought in as new foster children for Pippa.

I think Pippa would not tolerate the Colleen and Gypsy feud or Colleen's interference so I think it could have been interesting seeing how Pippa would deal with Colleen had Pippa been around when Colleen returned and move into Lance mobile home. 

I could definitely see Pippa taking on Shelley Sutherland's storyline’s such as running the drop-in centre.

With Christopher Fletcher being at high school age by 2000 and I say Christopher could be  played by Christopher Egan and would had Nick Smith storyline’s instead .

I say Irene would remain working at Diner if Pippa still stayed working at school  and become part owner with Alf after Ailsa dies  or maybe when Diner  revamped Ailsa decides to become business partners with Irene then as after all by then Ailsa should know Irene would be reliable business partner . 
 

I understand Ailsa not wanting to become business partners with Irene at first since she was only started to recover from her  alcoholism problem but after being sober  for years by then it show you should be trust worthy enough to be business partner with. 

[adam436]

On 27/01/2025 at 01:20, Homeandawayfan. said:

The Tug, Damo, Sarah, Shane and Angel teen group was brilliant. I guess they would be a hard act to follow with their successors such as Tiegen, Liam, Aaron and Joey. Curtis, Jack, Shannon and Selina were the nearest we had to Tug, Damo, Shane, Angel and Sarah.

I honestly think being a hard act to follow was part of the reason why so many of those teen characters are considered flops. Liam, Aaron and Casey for example, offered nothing new in terms of characterisation. I certainly didn't dislike any of them, but they were all just quite boring. Their predecessors were just so incredibly popular that I think viewers may have been overly critical. If they were replacing characters of equal value, I think they would been given more of a fair go. 

It's also possible the producers opted for such characters, rather than trying to create the magic of those teen groups. Joey, Tiegan, Gypsy and later Gypsy were all great characters that emerged from that era though. 

[nenehcherry2]

20 hours ago, j.laur5 said:

I think if Pippa had stayed I think we wouldn’t have had Joel and Natalie and Tom and Gypsy would just have been brought in as new foster children for Pippa.

I think Pippa would not tolerate the Colleen and Gypsy feud or Colleen's interference so I think it could have been interesting seeing how Pippa would deal with Colleen had Pippa been around when Colleen returned and move into Lance mobile home. 

I could definitely see Pippa taking on Shelley Sutherland's storyline’s such as running the drop-in centre.

With Christopher Fletcher being at high school age by 2000 and I say Christopher could be  played by Christopher Egan and would had Nick Smith storyline’s instead .

I say Irene would remain working at Diner if Pippa still stayed working at school  and become part owner with Alf after Ailsa dies  or maybe when Diner  revamped Ailsa decides to become business partners with Irene then as after all by then Ailsa should know Irene would be reliable business partner . 
 

I understand Ailsa not wanting to become business partners with Irene at first since she was only started to recover from her  alcoholism problem but after being sober  for years by then it show you should be trust worthy enough to be business partner with. 

I believe that Pippa, being permanently immensely busy with tea towel folding, cooking, ironing and henpecking, wouldn't have given much thought to Colleen and Gypsy's feud.