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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 201481" data-attributes="member: 23">Episode 248  (...continued)With Morag at rock bottom, there’s a slightly different approach to the head-butting going on between she and Alf. Not that things are much improved:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/zwwz9a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It’s a terrific scene that shows Morag at her most vulnerable while also gently exploring the strained relationship between the Stewart siblings. It’s also perhaps symbolic of a journey taken by many a misunderstood soap character: redemptive suffering. Seeing Morag broken allows us to take pity and empathise with her. Wherever she’s going from here, it’s not back to where she was. A new beginning awaits, and that’s a journey that may involve the viewer going along with Morag.Donald can’t help but return again. Which is risky considering (a) he’s already bumped into Alf on his previous visit, and (b) anything he says to Morag will be met with negativity.Coming for his second visit, I like the way the staging and direction of the scenes echo those in his previous episode where he arrived to ask if it was him. But this time he finds Morag sitting upright and in as complete a battle mode as her present condition allows. She is visibly struggling physically, but as she’s involved in a phone call, she is doing what she can to mask the extent of her vulnerability while she speaks to someone - presumably someone she is connected with through her law career - in an attempt to minimise the devastation coming her way:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/an9U6N.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://i.vgy.me/iNVZ31.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Donald has returned ostensibly to tell Morag he’s decided not to reveal to Bobby he’s her father. But really it’s about Donald processing his newfound knowledge. He has no-one else in whom he can confide, after all. With her life in shatters, it’s little wonder that Morag wryly sneers at how Donald’s decision lets him neatly off the hook. Adding insult to injury, she goes on to express relief that she won’t have to publicly admit to her tryst with Donald. Undeterred, Donald continues to think out loud:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/YXELok.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/Vw6Tmb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And just like that, Donald joins Morag on a journey to who knows where. And won’t it be fun to find out.*The abbreviation “P&C” was new to me. Even though it was fairly self-explanatory given the context, I couldn’t resist looking it up. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_and_citizens" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_and_citizens</a>I like it. The term PTA always sounds dreadfully American to me, and I wince slightly when I hear it used in the UK (putting it in the same category as "baby shower", "movie" and "can I get..."). Aussies seem much better at resisting Americanisation in some areas while wholeheartedly embracing them in others.Speaking of schools, the new term has begun and there’s also been the unheralded debut of the new-look Summer Bay High uniform. Season Two’s Alison Patterson is Vicki Baxter who has established herself by bitching at Carly about being moved back to her year group and then calling an uncomfortable truce after Martin threatened to punch her in the face. Perhaps the most notable thing about her is that she’s played by Norman Coburn’s daughter Nana. So far so good.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/r3TmWc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />There’s still the suggestion of Carly having feelings for Martin (yawn), but there’s already a spanner in the works there.Following Terry Robinson, another frizzy haired ex-Ramsay Street blonde is hanging round Martin and Lance. This time it’s wicked Wendy Gibson who played Danny and Scott off against one another in the early days of Neighbours. Played by Kylie Foster, Leanne Dunn is a character who grated on me back in 1990, just as she had in Neighbours before it (and whenever I’ve rewatched since). Her squeaky ickle girl voice and the slutty ingenue thing she has going on are going to test my tolerance of Lance and Martin scenes like never before, and as I recall she sticks around for a while. Her use of the word “perceptic” to describe Martin’s potential ESP did make me smile, so it’s not all bad news. But frankly it’s a small consolation.By the time this episode aired in Oz, Home and Away was midway through its second week in the UK, where the Fletchers were contending with Eric the barking dog. Word of this must have reached Summer Bay: Tom’s just asked if the Fletchers would like to go and live in London.</blockquote>

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