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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 210594" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes 365-374The Fletchers are right back at the heart of the series and it has proved a very good thing. As I look back over the screen caps I’ve taken from the past ten episodes, I’m boggling at how much has happened even just within the family unit. But I’m also in awe that character hasn’t been lost. In fact there have been times when the story has been put aside to give the characters room to breathe and to simply be.From the vantage point of Episode 374, I look back and can see three defined parts to the conclusion of the Cuckoo In The Nest storyline. And each of those parts has a number of acts within that have involved a satisfying amount of conflict and resolution.Part I shines a light on the enmity between Dodge and Sally which goes back to Dodge’s very first scene back in #287. Things have been bubbling away for the entire duration of Dodge’s time at Summer Bay House and are brought to a head in the first couple of these ten episodes:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/fEjuJ6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Pippa, increasingly feeling that her decision to bring Dodge into the house was the wrong one, is unable to be objective and comes down firmly on Sally’s side:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/1kqpTm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/FLK6Ec.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/KtG9yq.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/RDXKdO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sally later sneaks downstairs and overhears Tom and Pippa talking:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/ThhwB3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Now, we know Dodge is a thug and a stirrer. And the family don’t know the half of it. But there’s no black and white here, and the way this plays out increases my sympathy towards him. There’s no mistaking the favouritism going on. Ironically, a couple of episodes before, it had been said that Sally was a little spoilt from getting things her own way. And while Tom and especially Pippa seem to have forgotten that (or more to the point, they’re feeling guilty for their viewpoint and are now overcompensating) the way these scenes are played implicitly suggest that they were right. Sally may be young, but I appreciate that she is written and played with flaws just like the older characters. There is, I would say, a degree of manipulation going on from her here. Sally is aware of Tom and Pippa’s guilt and she’s using it to keep the ball firmly in her court. Kate Richie seems to get that and, impressively, plays it with subtlety. Sally now knows Tom and Pippa are on side with her rather than Dodge. So when Tom wavers Sally plays her trump card:At the meeting, the schisms within the family continue to become apparent:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/XsuEtL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sally flips out and walks out when everyone starts to get angry. When she returns she blanks Tom, which immediately panics him:And Tom acts on Carly’s suggestion. Instantly.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/NS4evi.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/gbmn5t.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So Sally gets everything she’s dreamt of. And one could almost believe that she made it happen all by herself.continued...</blockquote>

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