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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 200949" data-attributes="member: 23">All being well, there’ll be more than one episode which I rewatch exactly thirty years to the day of the first time I viewed them.First up…Episode 244Originally watched: 22nd January 1990Rewatched: 22nd January 2020<img src="https://i.vgy.me/AViA0P.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />With this being the episode In Which Bobby Learns Her Mother’s Identity, I’m glad that such a serendipitous alignment of dates includes a milestone moment. It’s not a perfect episode by any means, but it’s a storyline I remember being very invested in back then and so this episode was heavily anticipated.Just for the record, the first time I watched I think I already knew the identity of Bobby’s biological parents before it was revealed in recent episodes. I certainly knew who her mother was. This came from the tie-in novelisations of the time, though I can’t remember if it was from The Bobby Simpson Story or one of the more standard translations.Taking place immediately after the wedding, we initially find characters arriving home still in their whistles. Bobby’s still wearing her wedding dress as she and Frank arrive back at the flat and uncork the champers left by Phil. There’s a gooey teen romance undercurrent, but it feels surprisingly ordinary despite it being their wedding day. They’re both conscious that they’re about to have sex, which will be their first time. At least their first times in this particular pairing:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/WzMP1p.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Anyhow, Frank assures her it’s not a problem. Not that he'd have much room to talk it if were.Scenes at the Stewarts are also fairly prosaic. They, too, are still in wedding attire and speaking whimsically about the wedding, with Celia plotzing at the fact that Tom and Pippa said it would be inappropriate for her to sing How Great Though Art to the couple.Even in these scenes, there are small flashes that allude to ongoing dramas: Roo is visibly bittersweet about Frank’s marriage, even though she keeps forcing herself to say nice things about the wedding. She also comments that she has to deal with Martin who has the hots for her, and hopes she can do so without hurting his feelings. As it turns out, she doesn’t have to do anything but show up, because Martin’s at his most sensitive:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/rIZnje.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/Rrf7Q5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Since Martin was the gentleman by taking Roo to her prom, I’ve found myself wondering if these two could actually work as a couple. With Roo’s new nice persona and Martin’s recent attempts to change, could they actually become compatible as they meet somewhere on middle ground. They look good together, certainly. And each brings out good things in one another. They’re careful with one another as though they want only the best. And I find that chemistry interesting (or at least as interesting as I can find any Martin scene).In reminders of other drama, Celia spots the present from Morag and, realising she’s been in Summer Bay wonders why she chose this day to come, and why Alf and Ailsa vehemently denied it was Morag on the seaplane.A note is pushed under the Stewarts’ door, panicking Ailsa after the recent poison pen letters (it turns out to be a flyer from Celia’s store).After Roo leaves, Alf goes to change out of his “bag of fruit”, leaving Celia preparing to trill words of praise:At this moment the phone jangles, Ailsa answers and dramatic John Carpenteresque music begins playing, cueing in the episode’s real drama:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/Vza8KD.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So lighting does strike twice. After Frank's last wedding, Frank himself fled St James's church and was involved in a dramatic crash. This time round Morag has followed in his footsteps. In every sense.continued... </blockquote>

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