Rewatching The Early Years

[adam436]

10 hours ago, CaptainHulk said:

I just found Peta vanilla until they paired her with Edward (who was anything BUT) . No spark in her little thing with Will.

I'd agree it was the Edward pairing that made her memorable. But she still had a good dynamic with the Nash family, especially Gypsy.

[Luigi Severus Fletcher]

Just watched Episodes 27 and 28...

I forgot how nasty and vindictive Roo was...

Celia being told she has a mouth like Luna Park and Alf going off at her for blabbing about the stake out at the Pappas' farm...

And that letter sent by the "Nutter" to Ailsa... Nasty.

[Homeandawayfan.]

Also I will not forget how in those first few months, vice principal Donald Fisher started off as a local JR Ewing type figure who would use underhand tactics against people he did not like such as Bobby and Nico, and even encourage others to commit perjury, but once he became more established he mellowed again, but his inner JR did occasionally surface from time to time.

[Bobby Forever Missed]

I find it very hard to believe Celia was only 40 in 1990, more like 41-4

[Luigi Severus Fletcher]

Like when I rewatched Prisoner in 2017 - 2018 with Meg Morris and Reb Kean, Ailsa's becoming a character I am liking more the second time I'm watching Home and Away.

[Homeandawayfan.]

1 hour ago, Bobby Forever Missed said:

I find it very hard to believe Celia was only 40 in 1990, more like 41-4

Ailsa was only supposed to be about 38, yes 38, in 1988 but looked about 52. I think she had her 50th birthday in 2000.

And to think Jeff Truman was only 30 in 1988 when he played Sam Barlow who looked about the same age as Tom, Alf and Don.

[CaptainHulk]

18 hours ago, Bobby Forever Missed said:

I find it very hard to believe Celia was only 40 in 1990, more like 41-4

She was just old before her time.

17 hours ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

Ailsa was only supposed to be about 38, yes 38, in 1988 but looked about 52. I think she had her 50th birthday in 2000.

And to think Jeff Truman was only 30 in 1988 when he played Sam Barlow who looked about the same age as Tom, Alf and Don.

With Barlow. It was the build, the tache and the crew cut. It's like pro wrestlers Ray Taylor and John Tenta (better known as Big Bossman and Earthquake, respectively) who were only their mid 20s at the start of their careers but their facial hair and weight really aged them.

And with Ailsa, she did time when time meant time, so there's that plus her trauma (Shauna's conception)

Edited March 29 by CaptainHulk

[adam436]

5 hours ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

Ailsa was only supposed to be about 38, yes 38, in 1988 but looked about 52. I think she had her 50th birthday in 2000.

And to think Jeff Truman was only 30 in 1988 when he played Sam Barlow who looked about the same age as Tom, Alf and Don.

Vanessa Downing too! She was only 29 when the series began. I know Carol Willisee was much closer in age to what Pippa would have been though, so that was a last minute swap. If I recall correctly, Pippa and Ailsa were meant to be the same age. 

[cymbaline]

They got away with the Pippa thing - twice! Pippa is a character who seems older than her years. The dowdy clothes and having her as a full-time housewife/mum went a long way towards disguising how young both actresses were. In real life, both of them were only a decade or so older than their foster kids. That makes for some interesting mathematics when you start working backwards and think about how old Tom was and when they got married etc. 

[Bobby Forever Missed]

8 hours ago, cymbaline said:

They got away with the Pippa thing - twice! Pippa is a character who seems older than her years. The dowdy clothes and having her as a full-time housewife/mum went a long way towards disguising how young both actresses were. In real life, both of them were only a decade or so older than their foster kids. That makes for some interesting mathematics when you start working backwards and think about how old Tom was and when they got married etc. 

Tom said he was around 5 years older than Pippa in a very early episode I’m sure of it, she was definitely over 21 when they married though because he went away to Vietnam and came back around the time of her 21st