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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 443643" data-attributes="member: 23">Team WorkJust as the second story of Season One involved a vehicle crashing on the outskirts of town, so, too, does this second arc. While the location was given on both occasions, it’s a little more vague here, so I’m not sure if it happened on the exact same curve. It looks different, but a character does utter “not there again”, implying it’s an accident blackspot.This time the vehicle is a minibus containing a team of students on a field trip. And because the reveal of the accident comes at the end of Part I (that is, at the very end of first of the two episodes) we’ve spent a little time getting to know some of them, with the main focus being on a  young couple, Julie and David.One half of the couple is the familiar face of the day: Oriana Panozzo, best remembered as the less annoying of the Susan Palmers. She escapes the accident herself, having already been admitted to hospital after becoming very unwell with the diabetes she has concealed, lest she miss out on the trip.When she started vomiting, I wrongly decided it may have something to do with the dead chickens on the Joneses farm. Molly had served up a chicken to Brendan after finding it dead. She assured him it was perfectly healthy, but she herself had a bowl of tomato soup for dinner.There’s a slightly bizarre suggestion that Julie may be either psychic or telepathic, with her having a nightmare about the crash at the moment it happens. For better or worse (the former, I feel) this wasn’t explored in Part II. Her pretty young boyfriend, David, is the story’s biggest casualty, dying in hospital, and causing Julie to briefly contemplate suicide-by-insulin.It’s all hands on deck at the hospital, and the beginning of Part II really transmits a sense of the frenetic preparation for this small team to deal with a larger number of casualties than they are really equipped for (there’s a driving electronic underscore that adds to the feeling of stress and anxiety).One volunteer is Simon’s visiting father, Robert Bowen, the man for whom Simon can never be good enough. It’s good to see his colleagues standing by Simon in the face of his father casually undermining his successes, and naturally there’s a little thaw by episode’s end.The dead chickens, by the way, are found to have been killed by the local bank manager’s pit bull. In investigating, Molly initially gets herself into camouflage and camps out in the coop with a shotgun. In the end, she settles for throwing pink food colouring (or is it paint) onto the beast as evidence. She makes sure she isn’t going to get her loan before letting the bank manager have the news.The latest episode I watched was the last to air before S&D began (when the next ACP episode aired, it was the same day as S&D's fifth episode).After seeing so many of the original S&D cast in ACP Season One, I'd have thought I might now start seeing people who would go on to appear shortly after in S&D. People who would show up later in S&D Season One, or Season Two.Instead, I'm noticing a new trend of seeing actors who would not show up in S&D until very late in its run: Willie Fennell, Oriana Panozzo and Norman Coburn. It's interesting to see these people associated with a Seven Network series as early as this.Yes, that's the sort of sense I remember getting from that final episode. If I remember, there was some acknowledgement of it being the end of an era, but it felt a little rushed.Well, that's piqued my interest a little more. Mind you, I'll probably be watching ACP for the next five years, so I'll probably feel I've well and truly ticked that box. If I make it to the end, that is.</blockquote>

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