2024 Season - UK Episode Discussion

[atrus]

Really not ideal to have Theo missing in the second consecutive episode that's heavily concerned with his responsibility for a car crash - we haven't even had a reaction from him yet. Still, I guess there was plenty of other drama going on. Good to see Eden and Levi collaborating to rescue and then support Abi, I suppose, given that the last time I paid attention to their relationship she was punching him in the face.

at Marilyn's antennae twitching at Tane and Harper's baby news. #SwiperNoSwiping

[Red Ranger 1]

Alf's episode count this week:Three, and he was credited on Friday for no appearance.Rose didn't appear.

So, I guess the idea was to have Abigail go through something awful so the audience would feel sympathy for her? Not that anything actually happened to her (she didn't even have to change her clothes!), but I guess it's the fear of what could have happened.And judging by the ending and the promo, the worst could be to come.Levi deciding it was definitely the right street but maybe the wrong number didn't have much logic to it but it worked out in the end. It is, I guess, good that Levi and Eden can work together, with the thaw that started at at the engagement party seemingly complete and, in many ways, Abigail being the catalyst for all of it.Have they really taken her all the way back to Summer Bay (with Eden apparently going to the city and back again to get some clothes!)? Do they not have motels in the city?

Marilyn is definitely as big a gossip as John, especially with ringing him for updates later, but with Tane blurting the news out to every vague acquaintance he meets, that's not really necessary.While some things are up in the air, it feels like Dana could probably have spared them awkwardness by clearing John up on a couple of points.Then again, maybe Harper's liking people wondering if she and Tane are a couple...

Justin's plan continues to have merit: You can call it a bribe or you can call it an out of court settlement, although there is the issue of him trying to keep Theo out of trouble. Mali blows up at Kirby again and this time it wasn't even deserved, but John's words seemed to have an effect.

Edited October 18 by Red Ranger 1

[CaptainHulk]

Based on what Kirby in Thursday what said, Some characters *really* need to take a vow of silence!

[pembie]

Even though Levi and Abby didn’t really exist and they seem to have wandered their way into Edens life I think they work well together 

I was quite interested in the Justin and Theo car stuff as well 

Its good not to have Tane in it a lot for a week I think 

Mali though my word his very bland I find 

[H&Alover]

Forgot to post this Friday.

Leah may not be a mechanic but this Claudia person could have been lying about that it was the brakes that failed, people do tend to do that,  as they don't know her from Eve.  It was hardly kosher for Justin to have 'borrowed' the car to check it over first before the proper people looked at it.  Theo didn't need supervising now he's a qualified mechanic or have Justin check the work he'd done.  Anyway it does seem Theo did miss something, Justin did explain it to Leah but it went right over my head like it did hers, but something he didn't do caused  a knock on effect which caused the brakes to fail.  Now Justin will have to break it to Theo.  Justin's 'deal' could cause him a lot of trouble down the line. 

Valerie and I'm not making excuses for her, wasn't into heroin, hers were medicinal weren't they?    Double edged sword with Levi giving Abi   money to buy the drugs, his argument being she would likely get it by thieving, getting nabbed by the  cops, ending up in a cop shop somewhere or his worse thought she'd end up in the situation she was in.  This 'nice' friend of her had a solution to how she could pay him back - but and some credit to her she's not gone that far down the slippery  slope just yet.   Btw wasn't she supposed to be saying with mum, hasn't stopped her going out and scoring has it?  I'm supposing Levi hadn't told Mac to 'protect' her , but it affects him so would affect her.  Did make me wonder if he had still been with Imogen would he be having this argument with her? 

One good thing, if you can  call it that, Eden and Levi have joined forces to find Abi. 

I'm not as sure as Mac is about Cash getting too hands on with Salt.  I was with Mac and Xander I kept expecting Flick to bounce or flounce in depending on her mood.   

Kirby went into nagging mode again, but finally wore Mali down enough to check his emails and  he found he was in the Finals!   I loved their  .  Good try Kirby a paid day off. Maybe just me but I see a romance  Lovely idea that he'd send his mum to Hawaii as she's always wanted to go there.  Alf was puzzled as to why he didn't tell his family he'd got to the Finals but I feel they would expect him to win and if he doesn't he'd feel he'd let them down. 

Today's

Levi and Eden made a good team hunting down Abi.   I'm supposing they wanted to get Abi as far away as possible from Dom. What was Eden going to be telling their mum about why she was picking up clothes for Abi?  It did bring Abi up short what she could have got herself into.  Gutsy really her deciding to opt for going cold turkey, and no you can't force someone into rehab.   Eden did hold back on why she couldn't tell Cash but then had to tell Levi they had broken up, besides what could he do about it, Dom was in the city.  From what we saw Levi is helping himself to hospital  equipment to aid Abi through her coming off heroin  and got caught by Bree. 

Was rather  a wry moment Maz 'accusing' John of being  a gossip when she's right up there with him.  I guess she was more miffed that she didn't know about Harper and Tane, not that is a secret any longer.   Leah didn't know either. 

Kirby came in more flak from Mali again, but this time she was innocent as John was the guilty party.   He just wants to 'show off' one of the Surf Club's people being in a Art Competitions Final.  I'm  still of a mind Mali doesn't want it publicised as he would feel he'd failed everyone if he doesn't win. At least he apologised to Kirby.   Btw can people stop picking on Mali, he went to the dark side  which wasn't popular so why shouldn't he be a normal, everyday, average guy? 

Not sure about Justin deciding not to tell Theo about the brakes failure being his fault to 'protect' (that word again) him.  It will hit Theo hard but Justin  covering for him is not good practice and this way it will make him more careful which is a good thing.  I may be naive as I know diddly about the way garages work and what is expected of them apart from the very important fact the cars have to be road worthy of course.  I'm even less sure about him doing a deal with Claudia, what she may be expecting from him in the future which could be dodgy, she'll have this hold over him.   

Edited October 20 by H&Alover

[Foellfan]

I guess although Theo's qualified, he's not vastly experienced, a bit like a probationer midwife is qualified but they are still supervised for experience, Justin probably should've kept an eye so's to speak.

[atrus]

Does Dana have a crush on Bree or something? She seemed to be acting like she does today, but maybe that's something that's been building for while or a running joke and I haven't been paying attention? (Likely.) Anyway, I initially thought that something Bree had seen had made her think Claudia was a scammer, but it seems not only that she thinks her injuries are genuine but that they might be more serious than originally thought, which wasn't the direction I was expecting. I'm still not particularly trusting of Claudia, though, being a guest character; and I was confused as to why she accepted the courtesy car despite having just explained that she couldn't drive.

The Abigail cold turkey scenes were pretty well done. Is Bree expecting Levi to account for/explain all those meds further down the line, or is she literally just letting him steal them? Also wondering whether Dana is going to fall under suspicion from other hospital staff once it's discovered that they're missing, given her history.

Edited October 21 by atrus

[Red Ranger 1]

Despite Dana's camaraderie with Bree, the latter seemed to be colder and colder towards her as the episode went on, eventually slipping into full-on "rude doctor" mode. Claudia seemed fairly reasonable, if quick to blame everything on Justin when it went wrong again. I guess she thought it's better to have a car she can't drive than no car at all, although I'm not sure why that seemed to be the clincher.Theo finally finds out what happened and, despite Justin trying to downplay it the next day, seemed mortified.

It was a bit puzzling the way Bree just let Levi walk out on an underexplained home visit: I remember Nate getting into trouble for pulling a stunt like that back in the day. Still a bit of tension between Levi and Eden over the former's terrible track record over honesty, but the thaw seems to continue with Abigail being more ready to join in as well.

[H&Alover]

Justin is playing it so badly, pandering to Claudia and it is so going to blow up in his face. Is Justin going to pay for a driver as well as the courtesy car?  She dismissed Leah as if she was a nobody. That is going to be far more expensive than paying out if he'd gone the proper route/legal route.  Now the person - Theo - he wanted to 'protect' has found out what he did and is fuming.  Yes it would have been a knock to Theo's confidence but having Justin lie to him will have been a insult. As Justin tried to explain it could have happened to anyone, any garage can make a mistake, innocently fit a faulty part which can cause an accident, injuring the driver.   Claudia does appear to be up herself, she's a busy business woman don't you know, so needs a car. Going back to her getting a courtesy car wouldn't the garage's insurance paid for that anyway plus driver if needed?

Bree's suddenly second guessing herself because she blames herself for not saving Felicity  but no-one could have, her, she is only a 'humble' doctor, the surgeons.  It was just  cruel twist of nature, but she's fretting that maybe she missed something, the fact Flick was a friend making it worse.  That is why she wanted a second CT scan done on that guy, even asking Dana and no disrespect to her is only a  nurse so wouldn't know what she was supposed to see.   Now her insistence that Claudia  may have incurred further injuries in the crash - whiplash - which isn't uncommon - so wants to check it out which will of course inadvertently  cause Justin more problems. Dana was only asking if more tests were needed as Bree had asked her opinion earlier. 

 I'm also surmising that is why Bree let Levi off with taking the medical stuff, the saline to rehydrate Abi, the drip etc.  she was distracted. I remember ages back Jasmine - am I allowed to 'say' her name(?) did that when Dean was withdrawing from his sleeping pills addiction.   That was a  motel room. 

Why did Levi lie to Mac, does he think she needs 'protecting' from what is going on with Abi - honestly these people are adults.  I think she'd be glad he's helping his sister.  He doesn't help himself in that regard.   Eden did reveal about why Cash dumped her and like most of us thought he was being an idiot about it.   Abi having ago at both of them about them not bothering about what she had been doing the last few years. Eden had been with the band and travelling all over and Levi doing his doctoring.  I'm surmising Abi hasn't been on heroin that long, months rather than years which is why she was seemingly coming out of it fairly quickly. I'm wondering if Levi's wanting to help so much is down to guilt as he took his dad's side when their parents marriage broke down and it could be why Abi got into drugs?

They did have a few good memories recalling their childhood, even Abi chipping in when she had been rehydrated. 

[Red Ranger 1]

I feel I have more sympathy for Claudia than some people do, and I'm sure if it was someone like Leah or Mackenzie in this situation then she wouldn't be condemned quite so much. I actually think Leah was out of line here, or at least completely unhelpful. Claudia could have taken Theo's apology with more grace, but she's been injured through no fault of her own, she's facing days/weeks of inconvenience as a result, and she's just had Bree scaring the living daylights out of her because of her own issues, so she obviously needed someone to take her frustrations out on, and while Leah going Momma Bear on her was entirely in character, I don't think it helped the situation at all.I think once she's had the opportunity to say her piece, Claudia has actually been pretty reasonable with Justin and recognised that he's trying to make up for the garage's mistakes.I guess Justin decided to keep quiet about his latest offer so as to avoid a further argument with Leah  but it didn't really help.

Bree is coming across as a pretty cold fish, and given Claudia's attitude, she's lucky she didn't end up on the receiving end of a complaint. She did seem to soften up a bit when she was back with Remi, see how long that lasts.

I'm not sure what deal Dana thinks she has with John: Last we saw, she was refusing to tell him anything at all, so it's not surprising he decided to go to the horse's mouth.All that questioning obviously hit a sore point with Harper: Despite Tane's vague promises about her being his priority, he doesn't really seem to have a clue what to do with her.