2024 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[CaptainHulk]

  On 06/02/2025 at 19:15, c120701 said:

I find it really odd seeing characters like Remi at Summer Bay House, there was a time when almost everyone went there fairly frequently, but now it’s so disconcerting, almost like Remi had gone through a portal to a parallel universe. 

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In an alt reality, he'd probably living there but he'd have to adhere to Irene's no-booze rule.

[H&Alover]

  On 07/02/2025 at 11:08, CaptainHulk said:

In an alt reality, he'd probably living there but he'd have to adhere to Irene's no-booze rule.

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You're thinking of the Beach House which is where Irene lives.   Summer bay House is where, Roo, Alf and Mariiyn live. 

We did find out Bree had been for a mental assessment away from ND's which would be totally understandable. No doctor/nurse would get something like that done in the hospital they worked in.  It appeared that Remi went to collect her  which was why she was on the back of his bike. Now she knows what the problem is - OCD - which  a  lot of us, including me, said it was and how to  recognise the triggers which set it off.   I'm supposing she will let her superiors know if not her colleagues.  If it was someone else you'd always look at them differently. Not as if she was  an alcoholic or using drugs, it is a mental problem.     To be fair, she has only just got diagnosed and getting her own head round it,  so being  verbally assaulted by Roo wouldn't help.   I didn't believe Roo's 'promise' to Alf about not saying anything to the hospital at all.    She did chivy him into apologising to Marilyn though. 

Mali finally admitted to Mac he does  like Abi/Abby but can't go there as for one thing he knows she is still vulnerable and  the second thing he is her boss.  

John can be his own worst enemy as can Dana.  If as Dana claimed John allows all the other life savers to drive the buggy and not her just because she's female is wrong and definitely sexist.   But yep she could have played it  a lot better, does it say in the rule book a woman can't drive the buggy, if not she could have calmly asked him why she can't, she's been there a while now so not  a newbie.   He can be the passenger while she takes  a tootle around the beach to see how she handles it.  I bet he has no problem with her cleaning it.   

 

 

[Foellfan]

I get that Bree doesn't want to tell but I also get Roo's point of view too; yes, Bree has the tool but, as we all know, mental health doesn't run like a phsyical illness, she has every chance of having another meltdown, equally not but then again, any patient has the right to trust their doctor as much as possible, so the patients probably should have the right if they would want someone with those kinds of issues to treat them as the patient's consequnce would likely as not be more dire than the doctor's.

Oh Dana, you silly girl, I believe the teen's say 'check yourself before you wreck yourself' and she should've done that. Her 'aw John, I've said sorry' is typical of 'I can hurt your feelings but you're not allowed to hurt mine 'cause I can't cope' attitude you see alot these days. John cut her shifts because she asked, why would he give her more responsibility at the moment anyways?

I thought the tai'aha scene was good, a nice sign of the ancestry being passed on, I know we don't know if Perri has any uncles but Tane doing it is fair enough, as I think it's only done by men traditionally but equally the contrast of Kaia's convo with Harper, the two sides of Perri's side in one moment.

I loved the goodbye scene too, with the sweetness of the shared kinship in the hongi but the ultra brotherly tussle, just perfect for them and awww to Perri leaving the basketball for Baby.  

 

[Red Ranger 1]

Alf's episode count this week:Three.

Well, things definitely moved fast between Perri and Kaia there, but I guess being faced with the prospect of Kaia disappearing forever forced Perri to confront what he actually wanted.I get that Kaia's way of handling things meant leaving Perri in danger, but he'd potentially have been in even more danger if she'd stayed or taken him with her.At least this way they've both made it through to the other side, and Carl's taken the life they both wanted away from them for too many years already.So yeah, maybe they deserve this.

Of course, they couldn't leave it there and you could just smell the desperation on Tane when he made a move on Harper.(Let's face it, he has to be desperate to make a move on her.)With Perri gone, she and the baby are all he's got left in the Bay and he's throwing himself at them even though he'd never view her in that light if she wasn't pregnant.

John probably could have explained things better to Dana before they got to this point but yeah, there was no need for her to go on the attack like that (and she promptly tries to blame it on Xander, who fortunately took it on the chin).People forget John's got feelings sometimes and her words obviously hurt him, but I do hope they get over it quickly.

Not sure what to make of Leah's deception with Justin. I do think his ego's fragile enough that he'd have been anything less than pleased at her finding the rings, so it was ever so slightly patronising of Leah to make him out to be the hero. Marilyn certainly didn't seem too happy about it.

I wasn't remotely surprised that Alf apologised to Bree for Roo (especially given Roo's not in the episode to defend herself, I'd forgotten she tends to be in less episodes than most of the mainstays), but I was disappointed in him all the same. There's still the feeling that Bree's doing the bare minimum to handle the situation, giving an evasive "I wish I could tell you", when she actually could tell people, and she only isn't out of selfishness.

[Posy]

It was nice to leave the ball for the baby, but how come it looked brand new rather than years old and used? Also for someone who struggled with reading and writing just a few episodes ago, why was the note left with it (and the I’m sorry note recently) so well written?

[Red Ranger 1]

  On 07/02/2025 at 19:12, Posy said:

Also for someone who struggled with reading and writing just a few episodes ago, why was the note left with it (and the I’m sorry note recently) so well written?

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I did think of that, but to be fair, he wasn't meant to be completely illiterate, so I think he could manage a note with two simple words on it. (And the "I'm sorry" note in particular was badly punctuated, with no apostrophe and a capital S.)

[pembie]

That was a crap week I thought far too much Bree is she going back to the hospital or she going to keep hiding and staying on leave so she doesn’t get fired? Who knows who cares?
The stuff with John and Dana seemed very random and very out of character for Dana 

I think the ending for Perri was very silly he didn’t really sort anything out with his mom before leaving and she was giving up again on him after being there for three days he should have stayed with Tane really I don’t think he should trust his mom this quickly 

Mali does feel abit old for Abby really 

Leah losing her rings I was on tender hooks thank goodness she found them 

Edited February 8 by pembie

[pembie]

Oh and to follow on my dislike of Bree since when has she been so in love with Remi s mortorbike? 

[CaptainHulk]

Me seeing Tane/Harper; 

"That's HOW you got into this mess ffs!"

*realises blunder on his last post, backs through hedge ala Homer*

[Foellfan]

You have excellent taste in blunder movement!