Neighbours Thread - At this rate Mark will be in love with Sheila by Easter

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Does the man never talk to a woman without falling in love?

Still holding out hope for RealDee, but hopes fading fast...

As far as I can tell, assuming that they don't retrospectively change known "facts", the closest relation they could be to Jasmine is cousins, but like James they'd have no actual Udagawa blood & would be no threat to her.

If they do change what was said back then, I suppose they could claim that "Brad" was pretending to be the father for a payout to hide Hiro's "indiscretion", thus making them proper Udagawas & dangerous to Jasmine's position.

I've drawn family trees, including vague years of birth from what I can find online! I'd never even heard of their alleged mother before tonight - I wasn't born until after she'd left!

for all your efforts, AGnu!

Please post your family trees on the thread (unless that would be a spoiler, if so please PM me!).

And me please

I'm confused about where their great grandmother fits in though - the pictures I can find are all really bad quality, plus I'm looking on my phone so I can be sure but it doesn't look like their alleged mother, or her parents, were at all Japanese. Maybe they're going to insist that their biological great grandmother died while her child was still young & her DH remarried a Japanese lady who raised the DC as her own & it's just a coincidence that the twins' father was also Japanese... My head hurts!

Hopefully the thumbnail will be too small to accidentally see anything that may be a spoiler... 2 family trees with one possible way they could intersect, based on historical facts, but that wouldn't explain their ethnicity!

Did no one see the very odd spoiler i saw

The old lady that died was Japanese wasn't she?

So what was her name on your trees?

Omg if my google is true that will be good

She didn't occur to me until after I'd taken the picture! For her to have been their biological great grandmother & in their life she'd have had to have been their mum's grandmother. Both their alleged mum's parents have previously been in Neighbours but I can't find any info on their ethnicities. The mum may have been Japanese, or half Japanese but as far as I can tell, there was no mention of her mum while she was around previously.

I don't think I've ever been so obsessed with anyone's ethnicities before. I'm going to step away from Google & get some sleep now!

Oh jakers, the thought that Brad could be the father!

I've been explaining the Toadie/BaDee/Sonya/Mark storyline to DH. He thinks I've been on the absinthe.

I don't think the answer will be overly complicated as it's neighbours.

Is Bradley Satchwell an anagram of anybody? 😂

Sorry to butt in a bit off the current topic, but Katz, when you talk about rewriting history "like they did with Brad and Lauren", what do you mean, please? I'm fairly sure I was watching Neighbours when the first Brad was on the street, and I remember thinking when new Brad turned up relatively recently, when on earth was he going out with Lauren? I assumed I must just have missed the whole thing as I wasn't a regular watcher, it just coincided with my periods of unemployment!
Mind you, I was also convinced it was the twins' grandmother, not great-grandmother, who died recently, so what do I know!

Brad was definitely with Lauren back in the day. It was one of those love triangle things they used to do all the time. Will it be Brad and Beth, or Brad and Lauren. Lauren was after Brad but he was with Beth. Think they had a fling. He finally decided to stick with Beth (filanderer even back then) and Lauren ran off back to the country to go horse riding again. Clearly whilst up the duff.

Brad and Beth should've lasted the distance though. Would have been much more believable than them splitting up so soon and him ending up with Terese. (Who should be with PAUL btw).

Clearly they knew they couldn't get Natalie Imbrugliagliaiagliaruglia to come back in the show they could have done another head swap though surely

Anyway, so I'm not convinced they rewrote any history with the Brad and Lauren storyline to be honest? Katz what did you mean about that? Have I forgotten something (or rewritten my memory too!)

I don't remember much of Neighbours that long ago but I think the timings would've been suspicious in that Brad would've had to have cheated on Beth after their wedding for Paige to have been born when she was, or Lauren would've been nearly in labour by the time she left, or something.

Surely one of the Tanaka parents must be Japanese?

I don't think this is classed as a spoiler as it's just discussing what's already been written above..
But yes it looks like neighbours have totally rewritten an old character's ethnicity .
I've seen photos of the twins mum from when she visits in a few episodes time and she is definitely Japanese.
However when that character was in the soap in 1985 she was white, as were her two parents (I didn't watch it then - I was only 1!) but there are photos of them on the perfect blend site.
Weird

That is what I thought too

The old lady was Japanese but can't remember if she was supposed to be from mum or dad

I guess one of the parents could be Japanese and one not but one of them must be IMHO, the one from the old lady

I think the real reason that Japanese characters are in neighbours is the same as having aboriginal characters in it

it is positive discrimination

To fill quotas

Hence why I think there is an aboriginal character in the school with the hat on last week to fill quota thingy

Same as here having black or Asian actors in Eastenders etc (I don't watch British soap operas apart from doctors)

Looked back for my previous posts about this - this is why i think they've rewritten history re Brad and Lauren and Paige

Brad and Beth got married dec 1993.

Paige was born 30 June 1994.

Meaning Brad had to have cheated on Beth end of Sept/beginning of October 1993 - which was never shown or alluded to at the time.

Lauren leaves in episode 2098 on the 2/3/94. which meant she was around 6 months pregnant - again she didn't show or suspect.

It meant that Brad fathered 4 children by 3 women in just over 2 years!
Imogen and Josh born 21st May 1996
Paige born 30 June 1994
Ned born October/November/December 1994

and Lauren had 2 children in under 9 months!
Mason's birthday is 15 February 1995

Mason has to have been born prem, as even if Lauren met Matt just after Paige's birth its unlikely she conceived for at least 4 weeks after that!

oh and Mason was really born in 1999 off screen - they aged him when thy reintroduced the lauren

Thanks, Katz, I see what you mean - shame their own continuity/archivist isn't as accurate as you are! Although, you're right, they probably knew what they were doing and decided to rewrite history to suit the new storylines!

according to the spoiler I've seen its the same actress who is playing the mum as the original character - so was always japanese but her on screen parents originally were not - not sure how they explained that originally, unless her dad wasn't her biodad.

link to mum

Maybe Brad isn't the sperm crop duster we think he is then as he kept most of his sperm scattering with in a certain period. Maybe he's retired them.

What is it with Ramsey street men and kids all over the place? Maybe the problem is there sex Ed is coming from Karl and he is a fellow scatterer.

The actress who played the twins mum's mum has been in neighbours twice! Maureen Edwards

and the Dad once Bruce Kerr

I've used the actors names