2024 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[CaptainHulk]

15 hours ago, pembie said:

Bree is a awful character in my opinion but in saying that I could see her turning into a psychopath doctor I would enjoy that 

Not if you were a patient

14 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

 

I don't think Alf's really helping things by providing Leah with a convenient bolthole to avoid her problems in.

It's part of the dogged "This joint's your home for as long as you need, love." mantra of Summer Bay House and the Beach House, to a degree.

[H&Alover]

Tane hadn't a good relationship with the cops in the past so I can understand why he's ansty and  wanting to be protective of Perri.  He did admit to John, he'd taken his eye off the ball with him, but Carl was a sneaky type creeping around when no-one else was there.  

Michelle was a good character and came to realise  Cash was holding onto Felicity by keeping her around.  It was a sad goodbye but  she urged Cash to  move on with his life like she has to with hers by going home.   His decision to go back to work was a positive sign but sadly for Eden him moving on didn't include her.   At least he wasn't ignoring her or biting her head off. 

I'm with Justin too - OK he made  a huge error by not telling Leah about his ferrying Claudia around but he's held his hands up now and Claudia has also told her Justin did nothing wrong, it was all on her.  Maybe this will spur Claudia into leaving Eric, as that is one toxic relationship.  

 I'd forgotten Zac had cheated on her but she can't  hold that against every man.  How long as she known Justin, he may do some dumb things but a cheat!   What if that had been the other way round, Leah was 'seeing' someone and their wife had told Justin Leah  was having an affair with them.  I like to think he'd  wouldn't believe it as readily as Leah did and ask her about it and listen. It certainly took the wind out of her sails when he walked out.  Pity Theo is tied up looking after Perri or he could put his two pennth into it.  He was there when Eric rocked up.

I have said before, Alf was pretty out of it when he had his heart attack, the last thing he would have remembered was Bree standing there, then later when he came round others were fussing round him.  Maz had done well keeping her counsel but then had to fill Alf in.   Levi, like a lot of doctors in the past, must have  had doubts about reporting a colleague to the Medical Board, especially as Bree has been a very good doctor until now although they have had their clashes, but he did the right thing.  He was very circumspect when he was talking to Mac about it. It was Bree herself who revealed it was her who Levi had reported her by announcing it in Salt for all to hear.  We did see in the trailer Bree was grilling Dana about what she was going to say. 

Before that Mac looking into getting  a loan to buy Cash out and Levi  saying he'd lend her the money and her saying no.  That could be read two ways, she knows he'll be having to pay Imogen something, paying her for his half of their house so money would be tight?   The other thought which occurred to me is OK he lends her the money, what  happens if they split - yes I'm being pessimistic  or cynical  -  would he want the money back right away.  She may feel awkward suggesting they get it writing and done legally implying they won't last for whatever reason.  

 

[Slade]

There is a part of me that thinks Eden was trying to punish Cash however I'm now wondering if she was trying to get Michelle away from Cash because she wants Cash all to herself.  She didn't wait very long before subtly asking if there was a way for them to get back together.

I was sorry to see Michelle go because I actually quite liked her.  Hopefully Cash will able to get over her departure without too many problems, although Bree emphasised what I was thinking in that, what transpired with Cash is exactly why the communications were kept anonymous.

The scene with Bree staring at Levi at Salt...wow, if looks could kill.  I actually don't blame Levi for reporting her and think he did the right thing but as someone who really likes Bree (I guess I'm the only one here) it was frustrating to see other characters such as Marilyn looking down her nose at her and Mackenzie throw Bree out of the restaurant even though you can't really argue that they are wrong and judging by the preview, it looks like it's going to get worse.

I'm glad Justin gave Leah a taste of her own medicine.

 

[Red Ranger 1]

So following on from three episodes of Leah being up herself, we get three episodes of Bree doing the same.They really are spoiling us with this first week back.She seemed to be on a quest to treat everyone as badly as possible here, using Remi as a convenient punchbag while trying to manipulate Levi and Dana and then turning on them when they wouldn't play ball. It's all right her saying medicine is her life, but people's actual lives were at risk.

Meanwhile, Abigail is in the running to take the obnoxious prize away from her.I felt a bit of empathy for her when she was chatting with Levi about her counselling but she's soon taking liberties and sniping at Kirby and Remi over manufactured grudges.Mali really needs to pull her into line.

How on earth did Xander end up being the one apologising to Mackenzie? Mackenzie was in the wrong for going behind his back and cutting him out of the deal. I guess he's decided he's not interested in Salt anymore so that's okay, but Mackenzie doesn't even seem to have acknowledged she did the dirty on him. Meanwhile, the more Dana whines about how much trouble Perri's causing poor ickle Harper, the more I want someone to shut her up. Is she seriously moralising about hiding from the police? (Okay, Dana was hiding from people a lot more threatening than Rose, but she didn't know that at first.)

[CaptainHulk]

Bree and Abi need a good hard slap of reality to bring them down from whatever planets they're on.

[H&Alover]

Guess we know now why Alf has left the bay after finding out what really nearly happened to him.   OK as Levi pointed out to Bree all doctors can make mistakes and Alf's sudden deterioration  was very sudden so any doc would have been caught on the hop, but  most would have snapped back and got on with saving him.  What would have Bree done if it had been the other way around? No doctor wants to report a colleague/friend but their loyalty and duty is to their patients.  I like Bree and until now she has been a very good, caring doctor, it's only since she  feels she 'lost' Felicity, she's been over cautious. 

I can't remember if it was Michelle suggesting the meetup with Cash or the other way round and yes it may not always be a good thing, but at other times it really helps the donor's families to know the recipient is doing well with their life which they may not have had without the transplant. 

Maz like anyone else would have been seeing it as any  layman/woman would, imagine if it had been Roo? She wouldn't have let it rest.  Maz had, to be fair, kept the truth from Alf about how bad he was. The board, I'm guessing,  will want to question anyone who was there and what happened when Alf collapsed and Bree fleeing.  Dana wasn't there when it happened, but she had seen previous incidents where Bree had been distracted.  

What is this term 'ickle'?   Harper is a grown woman.  But as Rose said the longer Perri stays in hiding the worse it will look for him. When will Leah start noticing food is missing?

It is only Remi and Kirby Abigail has a problem with as she feels they took Eden away from her to leave her looking after her mum after the dad left,  she was just a kid.   Mali she gets on well with  but he does need to  tell her to pull her neck in.   OK group therapy sessions don't work for everyone so maybe an one to one therapist will work.  

[Slade]

I'm assuming Abigail fancies Mali but I'm wondering if he gave her the job to genuinely help her or because the feeling is reciprocated.  I recall a slight improvement in her before the break but the way she was sniping at Remi and acting towards Kirby when Kirby brought her the uniform and asked her to go back to work, I'm not sure she's up to doing the job and I still think there's still an element of being an unlikeable waster.  I do admit though Xander and Mackenzie's faces during the entire interaction at Salt and Kirby being literally gobsmacked when Abigail revealed her issue with Kirby was that Kirby ruined her birthday were amusing.

Bree was out of line to Remi.  He's the one person who's not against her at the moment.  Again I can't disagree with Levi.  He was absolutely right.  Bree definitely needs help.  And it's worrying how she can't see what's she's done wrong.  The scene with Dana wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  Although in a funny sort of way I do admire Bree for even having the front to go up to Dana and ask her, basically her arch enemy, because I don't think I would.  It shows how important being a doctor is to her.  One thing I will say about Dana and the conversation with Xander, I'm surprised he and her were acting like she's a victim being pressurised.  From Dana's perspective, it's really quite incredible actually given that Dana has done this herself to Rose, Banjo, Irene and she even got Bree to put her job on the line so she could access Bronte's medical records.

[Red Ranger 1]

Alf's episode count:Four.And it seems that's the last we'll see of him for a while!

So, despite Tane repeatedly claiming that he'd tell the police the moment he knew where Perri was...he didn't. I can understand him not wanting to have Perri dragged to the police station against his will, but he took a heck of a risk just leaving him alone like that.Theo did what he had to do to break the impasse.It didn't go as well as they'd all hoped and things might have gone better if Perri had managed to tell his story before the evidence came back.The police are being rather picky here: Do they really expect Perri to have gone rushing to Carl's side when he was likely in shock and when there was a good chance Carl would have attacked him again if he'd had the chance?

Harper continues to alternate between annoying and bland. I can only assume her high showing in the poll was because fans of the even higher placed Tane are fans of her by default, given she's pretty much just a plot device to give him a family these days.

Fair play to Abigail, she did seem to be being polite to Kirby until forced to confront her grudges.It's to be hoped that Mali's word had some effect.I assume that Abigail's recount of events was a simplification, given that Kirby and Remi knew Levi when he turned up so must have already known Eden when the family split up.

[pembie]

I think the problem that I have with Perri is that’s he is only a guest so I can’t bring myself to care 

Dana saying she doesn’t really trust Bree right Yeah prefect time to turn Bree into a killer doctor 

 

Edited January 12 by pembie

[H&Alover]

I think Abigail may fancy Mali as he isn't judgemental of her and taking her at face value.  They liked similar things even though she's not into surfing.  His words did have the right effect as she said she'll be civil to Kirby while on duty but it'll be a different matter off duty.  Did  at the look on her face when John handed over his do's and dont's  instruction book.   Liked Mali's comment about if anyone liked to cross his 't's and dot his 'i's it's  John. 

Theo did the right thing by telling Tane  that he knew where Perri was,  seeing as he found out it would  look worse for him if he  kept away.  Tane made a good point when Ruby kept asking was he sure Perri wasn't hiding at the Parata's Tane, as he pointed out a cop also lives here. Tane, luckily got it right, by letting Perri decide what sort of man he wanted to be in the future, though he did take a chance.   The cops didn't know what sort of guy Carl was so yeh Carl could have easily attacked Perri again. As Perri pointed out Carl ignored his AVO and they didn't do anything about it, but they couldn't be everywhere, not exactly as if there were posters up warning people to keep an eye out for him and he was pretty devious when making his appearances.  Hopefully the police will let Perri give his side of it.  

Bree, as people always do, always lash out at their nearest and dearest when in times of crisis this time it falling on Remi.    As we have learnt over time in the bay  people can't be forced to accept they need  help when it's offered, they have to acknowledge it  first   The old phrase "Physician  heal thyself" comes to mind.  When Dana and Bree started to work together again they were supposed to be BB's weren't they - the dream team. 

I'm guessing Remi and Kirby and maybe even Bob first got to know  Eden then by default Levi?  Abigail was just a kid so it was simple in her mind, Kirby and Remi did take Eden away when she needed her.  But Eden was  also at fault too by ducking out of the situation and leaving Abigail to it.