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“Welcome to Summer Bay”: Rewatching the early years.
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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 200253" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><u><span style="font-size: 22px">Episodes 229-232</span></u> (...continued)</p><p></p><p></p><p>With a number of characters leaving school at the end of Season One, we haven’t yet returned to Summer Bay High. But the ghost of the HSC hovers over the show, which is only right since we spent so much time with the characters as they took them. Now we have the results coming through. And Bobby is so pleased with hers she goes out of her way to thank the person she credits:</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/Vaesqk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/pOox8j.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And Donald has a present for her:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/6EeC0W.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The scene is significant in showing the continuing fascinating relationship between Donald and Bobby. And equally significantly it runs alongside Bobby’s quest to find her parents. This has proved to be the highlight of the season so far. And it introduces a new method of telling a story.</p><p></p><p>Determined to piece things together, Bobby does some sleuthing with Ailsa’s help</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Bobby is caught in the house by Celia who confiscates the key, and so decides to break and enter with Frank under cover of darkness. They eventually find the all-important 1970 diary and as Bobby begins reading relevant passages, the scene dissolves to bleached sepia as the stories of two decades earlier come to life onscreen:</p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/v8LKba.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/dHMUUJ.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/Z79YIO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/ong90z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/pqDvwc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Just as flashbacks which hold the key to a present mystery were the hallmark of <em>Knots Landing’s</em> Eighth Season a couple of years before this, so these flashbacks bring an exciting new dynamic to the new season here. It’s worth noting that these <em>Home and Away </em>episodes aired in the UK some six months before the <em>Knots</em> flashbacks had their British debut. Another reason, perhaps, why these Summer Bay flashbacks seem so fresh and innovative. <em>Sons and Daughters</em>, of course, had begun with flashbacks (as did <em>Home and Away </em>itself). But those were linear, while these are fragmented and interspersed with the present, which is a far more contemporary way of doing it. Then there's the darkly mysterious "B" who Martha has helped cover for. Who is she? Even though I know, she still feels quite captivating. Didn’t <em>Pretty Little Liars</em> get a whole series out of a mystery person known only by a single initial?</p><p></p><p>The past informs the present, as Bobby reacts to what she’s just “read”:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.vgy.me/mn1G5a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"><em>...continued</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 200253, member: 23"] [U][SIZE=6]Episodes 229-232[/SIZE][/U] (...continued) With a number of characters leaving school at the end of Season One, we haven’t yet returned to Summer Bay High. But the ghost of the HSC hovers over the show, which is only right since we spent so much time with the characters as they took them. Now we have the results coming through. And Bobby is so pleased with hers she goes out of her way to thank the person she credits: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/Vaesqk.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/pOox8j.jpg[/IMG] And Donald has a present for her: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/6EeC0W.jpg[/IMG] The scene is significant in showing the continuing fascinating relationship between Donald and Bobby. And equally significantly it runs alongside Bobby’s quest to find her parents. This has proved to be the highlight of the season so far. And it introduces a new method of telling a story. Determined to piece things together, Bobby does some sleuthing with Ailsa’s help Bobby is caught in the house by Celia who confiscates the key, and so decides to break and enter with Frank under cover of darkness. They eventually find the all-important 1970 diary and as Bobby begins reading relevant passages, the scene dissolves to bleached sepia as the stories of two decades earlier come to life onscreen: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/v8LKba.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/dHMUUJ.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/Z79YIO.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://i.vgy.me/ong90z.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/pqDvwc.jpg[/IMG] Just as flashbacks which hold the key to a present mystery were the hallmark of [I]Knots Landing’s[/I] Eighth Season a couple of years before this, so these flashbacks bring an exciting new dynamic to the new season here. It’s worth noting that these [I]Home and Away [/I]episodes aired in the UK some six months before the [I]Knots[/I] flashbacks had their British debut. Another reason, perhaps, why these Summer Bay flashbacks seem so fresh and innovative. [I]Sons and Daughters[/I], of course, had begun with flashbacks (as did [I]Home and Away [/I]itself). But those were linear, while these are fragmented and interspersed with the present, which is a far more contemporary way of doing it. Then there's the darkly mysterious "B" who Martha has helped cover for. Who is she? Even though I know, she still feels quite captivating. Didn’t [I]Pretty Little Liars[/I] get a whole series out of a mystery person known only by a single initial? The past informs the present, as Bobby reacts to what she’s just “read”: [IMG]https://i.vgy.me/mn1G5a.jpg[/IMG] [RIGHT][I]...continued[/I][/RIGHT] [/QUOTE]
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