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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 202497" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 255-257<img src="https://i.vgy.me/VavDg1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Just as the episodes building up to Roo’s wedding were all about Morag and Roo, so the most compulsive strands in the last few episodes feature one or the other. Indeed, the strands are becoming so well entwined that most now feature both. Even if Roo doesn’t know it.For Roo, this week is the best of times and the worst of times. I particularly enjoy that it’s not a linear journey, but one with peaks and troughs. Just as things seem bad, there’s hope. At first.The first trough makes itself known when Frank confronts her over his “discovery” of the poison pen letter in Roo’s desk drawer, with no doubt in his mind:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/pS5ORk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This is where the last couple of months since Roo’s return really pay off. There have been several times when Roo has been sweet to people and I’ve commented that it’s hard to fully buy into it because of her history of screwing people over. With Frank’s confrontation, we begin to learn that others have been feeling the same way. It hasn’t taken much for Frank to about face in his seemingly complete forgiveness of Roo, and once that trust is broken, he is absolutely adamant and won’t listen to Roo’s side of the story. He warns her that he won’t tell Alf and Ailsa yet, but if any more poison pen letters are sent he’ll tell everyone. Unable to prove her innocence, Roo feels she has no choice but to allow the situation.Knowing that Roo is innocent, it’s plain to see how cruel this is. But there’s an irony, too. The girl who cried wolf for gain is about to be devoured with all her friends baying for blood to be drawn. It’s almost karmic.Most fascinating of all is to learn that, after all this time, someone having a great deal of trust issues where Roo’s concerned is Roo herself. After her quiet protests to Frank fall on deaf ears, she hops on the couch for some analysis from Dr Phil:And here we tap into character history. Very recent history, as it turns out:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/fPopQs.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I couldn’t help thinking of that scene where Brett physically dragged the exhausted Roo to the hospital to breast feed Martha. It was a brutal scenario, and from this viewer’s point of view it would be completely understandable if Roo had blocked part of this painful time from her memory. But it’s also quite exciting.What this insight into Roo’s inner feelings has done perfectly is to establish how vulnerable she is. She has support in her newly close family unit with Alf and Ailsa, but not a great deal outside of this. But there is always her aunt.With Morag’s return to Summer Bay, Roo has a new confidante. They’ve been very close and trusted each other with confidences before - their formerly shared hatred of Ailsa  and the truth about “Frank’s” baby being two such things. It’s natural that Roo would go to her aunt.Paving the way for Morag’s complete interference is that Roo initially believes that Morag is the only person with the motive to make trouble for Alf and Ailsa and the clout to have Ailsa tailed. Once Roo is convinced that Morag didn’t, in fact, know anything about it, then Morag becomes her go-to confidante.There’s more irony here. Because Morag didn’t have any knowledge of the person behind the letters until Roo said enough for Morag to realise it was Nick and summon him to demand an explanation:But it’s only a matter of hours before Morag decides to use the situation for her own gain. And screw the hurt it will cause.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/iYyVlA.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/M5GRIp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />...continued</blockquote>

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