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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 200926" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 241-243  (...continued)Appropriately, our first sight of Cornelia Frances on Morag’s triumphant return to the series appears in a dissolve from a shot of Bobby with her stylish new pageboy cut. We find Morag and her pruning shears giving the plants short shrift in some kind of courtyard (I assume it’s meant to be outdoors, but it feels very much indoors). And equally appropriately, given the current series trend, the first lines we hear Morag spit are part of a flashback set presumably a couple of months earlier, as her mind wanders back to the day Alf confronted her in the same courtyard with his knowledge about Bobby:There have been a number of Alf/Morag clashes in these episodes.There’s no mistaking they’ve both inherited the same stubborn Stewart genes. Each takes turns to drill their eyes into the back of the other’s head. Or to pull themselves up to tower over the other, chest puffed, nostrils flaring. Sometimes they’re even in sync.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/gS4gxj.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/CgK2Bk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The fake-looking courtyard setting, the revelations, the crisp dialogue, the raised voices and assertive delivery make it feel very upmarket play-like. Part Private Lives, part The Norman Conquests, part EastEnders two-hander.Morag's disdain for her offspring paired with Alf's disgust towards Morag's detached coldness also evokes early Sons and Daughters, where Patricia learnt that Scott was the son she'd abandoned in exchange for security with a rich husband. In fact this whole storyline  is the most Sons and Daughters-ish Home and Away has been. I thought so thirty years ago and if anything I feel it even more today. If Patricia had already been married to Gordon when David got her pregnant, this is what we may well have got.And here we get to meet the rich husband, Richard. An agreeable kind of chap with whom Morag doesn’t seem to agree on very much at all.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/8oP5jU.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Morag’s daughter-who-doesn’t-know-she’s-her-daughter, meanwhile, is in a good place. I don’t know if it’s the approaching wedding or the haircut, but she seems impossible to upset these days. The Bobby of old - or very recently - would have had a few things to say about Celia Stewart bringing her a King James Bible. But not Bobby ‘89:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/kEkxtu.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />She even gives Celia a peck on the cheek. She’s grace itself.Carly, too, is greeted with the same sunny disposition when, after looking at Bobby’s wedding dress (I love that these former enemies are sharing these moments), she has an attack of the drama queens:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/mJFaAJ.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The words aren’t dissimilar to what Bobby would have said to Carly a while back, but this time there’s an absence of anger or blame or victim status. She calmly and smilingly floats out the words and lets Carly absorb them. And it works. There’s a bit of kick-arse in there when she forces Carly to change out of the salmon dressing gown in which she’s spent the last ten episodes (a relief for us all). But there’s humour, too. There’s a cracking scene in which they both try to claim the dining table for their own purposes, with a back and forth of several “rack off”s. Then they both end up laughing, which is incredibly endearing.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/qjBSZz.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And it ends with an invitation:We’ll never see Narelle again, but I’ll take a name check or two. There’s even a secondhand story about the three of them getting chucked out of a male strip joint for being too noisy.continued...</blockquote>

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