Wah, wah, wah, wah...
I said last week that I've always liked Rachel, and I think there may have even been an ounce of understatement there. When she and Zeke first appeared in Ramsay Street, they were two of my absolute favourite characters. Their social inexperience gave them a detached, intellectual approach to life that made them a really interesting pair. At the moment, however, Rachel is nothing more than a paper-thin caricature of a whiny, lovestruck teenage girl. She keeps having these stupid conversations in which she becomes inexplicably convinced that the other person is suddenly okay with the idea of her being with Angus from now on. No, Rachel! Stop being an idiot. And then she cries and now she's run away... Honestly, did I miss a week somewhere in which the girl had a full-frontal lobotomy? I miss old Rachel, and as a consequence, this whole Rachel-Angus saga is tough to watch.
Elsewhere in Erinsborough: Elle has taken on the mantle of Robinson Scumbag, happy to exploit the Rachel situation for her own journalistic gains. Neighbours showed it has a different take on rapists to Home and Away when Rebecca, Oliver and Declan practically celebrated Richard's death in an actually quite-touching moment. Janae acted like a complete idiot and told Ben and Mickey about the whole Darren kiss situation. What the hell is going on with her? Total shell of herself nowadays.
Things were a little more frantic in Home and Away this week...
° Sally and Cassie announced their plans to leave Summer Bay to go travelling, and all I can think is, "IS THIS IT?!!?!?!". This isn't Sally's exit story surely? I mean, I don't want her to die or anything, but this is so sudden and so vague; it doesn't seem worthy at all.
Well it's true that they love one another...apparently
° Tony and Rachel finally slept together and I was totally behind it until they completely ruined it by exchanging "I love you"s. Am I alone there? I'm honestly not sure I am, and I have to say I get a kick out of the idea that society - and therefore soap's representation of it - has moved to a point at which the romance of a sex scene within a committed relationship can be completely ruined by someone saying "I love you".
° The Bayside Diner just randomly started falling apart, so I can only assume a lush new set is on order. I hope it looks good, because I thought the current diner was fine, to be honest. The idea of a Drop-In Centre/Diner does seem slightly insane though. Does Leah not remember all the trouble that happened around the last one?
Elsewhere in Summer Bay: Still trying to evade suspicion in very suspicious ways, Sam paid someone to beat the hell out of her. Cassie had a brilliant freak-out when her head was cut open by the falling Diner debris. Geoff asked Britney - pretty, popular, bitchy airhead type - to go to Church with him as a first date. Hahahaha. Miles neutralised the Aden factor on his first day of teaching at Summer Bay High. Roman revealed to Martha that he has a teenage daughter, and it looked to me like she’s the blind Timmins girl from Neighbours. Expect an appearance.
Oh, and as a quick bonus, unrelated type thing....
The Hemsworths: Luke, Chris (Kim Hyde) and Liam (Wheelchair Josh)
For weeks my brother and I have been saying that Josh, Bridget's wheelchair-bound friend on Neighbours, is the spitting image of Kim Hyde from Home and Away. The physical resemblance was there a bit, we thought, but what stunned us were all the shared mannerisms. The voice was similar but the speech patterns were practically identical. It was uncanny, we thought. Apparently, though...not so much. While looking for pictures with which to enshrine them as the third in my Soap Doppelgangers series, I found that they're actually brothers in real life. Oops. For someone who writes about these shows every week you'd think I'd watch the credits occasionally. Silly me.
I blame my brother.
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