The River Boys are back in town...

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

@SleepingStandingUp, @CurbsideProphet et al - we filled up a Home and Away thread. This is unheard of. So here’s shiny new one - I know there are only a few of us, but keep the faith.

#bloodandsand

I want to know the spoilers too.

He doesn't need to go spoiling that chest with wax. If he wants to grow his own vest that's fine by me.

So someone decides to not wait for a man but have ivf and the donor is dating someone else. All current cast members

Ooh: let’s all throw our guesses into the ring.

Woman - Roo?
Man - ewww, it’s all too icky. Can’t think of anyone who is close enough to Roo to offer that service...

Oooooh, I just googled it!

Ooooh Ive just read some good stuff on Back to the Bay!

V excited about the romance between 2 certain folk!

If that romance relates to my spoiler couple I think it's a weird mix

I'm guessing Leah (with her current angst about being dissatisfied with her life, VJ and Luc gone, she decides a baby is the answer)

Donor though, hmm... Pa Aastoni's job doesn't work out and he's short on cash...? Surely not!

OMG!! Just googled it

So we can discuss this now right????

I googled it.

How has this happened?! How?!

I had the woman wanting IVF right away, then realised the person I thought she'd be asking to donate was a relative, so then the man was obvious because he was the last man left that wasn't married, related, or Alf.

But how did he end up in a relationship with the other woman when she's better suited to at least two and possibly three other men (well boy-men really but all of the boy-men seem to be a better match for her).

IVF woman and possible donor man are surely better suited to each other but this is a very complicated way of getting them together.

I assumed, given IVF woman’s dating history, that she would end up with donor man anyway.

Surely they’d just shag and be done with it!

Ooohni i missed the ivf one?!

Who who who?!

Surely they’d just shag and be done with it!

Quite! They're all shagging each other and getting pregnant all the time time anyway, what's one more shag?!

PQ I PM'd you.

Yeah, although she can be a bit... uptight...

But yeah, it seems soap inevitable they'd end up together, and his actual match is odd, they're both so opposite to who you'd see them with. Maybe we get to see more of her depth as it goes on

Not googled this IVF business yet.
Been away so binge-watched the last five episodes this weekend.
Thoughts: Dean has a brain, Ash tries some acting, Olivia is silly, Ebony is oh so bad, that little dude from Alf's family whose name escapes me is much better suited to Raffy (and she him) than Coco.

Dean has a brain and a heart
Ash is so pretty
Olivia is silly and annoying
Ebony is oh so annoying
Ryder and Raffy will def snog at some point

Have you noticed that H&A loves a bad boy who never does anything completely unforgiveable so he can come good in the end? Although actually, it turns out that in H&A world, even rapists can be redeemed (remember Kane? - and Mick never really got his comeuppance for raping Billie) so nothing is unforgiveable for a bloke. The Braxtons, the Barretts, Ash, Robbo...

A bad woman, on the other hand, is bad to the bone. Think of how many irredeemable female characters they’ve had who have done quite terrible things. I can’t remember any of their names, though! But they like bringing in a short-term female character who is just despised by the Bay. Hunter’s mum was the latest, I think, before this Ebony person.

Yeah if that had been Hunters Dad in the same character he'd have sorted his relationship with Hunter, and be remembered tragically

I notice Willow is developing a gambling addiction, she needs Brody to get her over it

I googled the IVF storyline too - didn't expect any of those characters.

There are too many annoying characters being introduced at the moment, while existing characters like Irene, Leah and Brody never seem to have anything to do other than hang around in the Diner.

H&A needs an Emmerdale style plane crash. I would cull:
Jasmine - worst actress ever
Colby
Mason
Olivia
Willow
The entire Astoni family. Although I would possibly just maim Ben so that Leah could have a storyline nursing him back to health.

We can't kill Willow. James Stewart would need a new gf

Good point. We'll have to wait until a new co-star catches his eye. Shouldn't be long.

No point just maiming Ben Astoni. If he gets with Leah he’s gonna end up dead eventually anyway. Just put him out of his misery.

I'm losing the plot with H+A at the moment. Ebony will cause some inconveniences and crossed wires, someone will suspect her of foul play and won't be believed, blah blah blah, her true colours will be revealed and she'll be carted off by Colby.

I must google the IVF storyline for some light relief!

Do men ever get cancer in Summer Bay? I can think of numerous women who've had it a high enough percentage that the authorities should look into it but no men.