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

That's true, never let a plot be spoiled by glaring inconsistencies!
Am amazed someone else has a Steven thing, I convinced myself that was too left-field but now have to consider that I may actually be more normal than I thought
I agree that Miles turning up was rubbish, especially Milko = Miles. No, no it doesn't, not when a small childmis saying it. Spelling it maybe, on a beach, decades later....

I'd forgotten Rev Elijah too! Didn't he go off and marry some random woman so her sick child could get treatment in Australia? Was that what Leah was upset about? All a bit of a blur!

Remember when Miles was off screen for a couple of weeks and came back having cut and dyed his hair and grown a beard - took me a few episodes to be sure it wasn't a totally different actor (like when they replaced Haley with someone who looked like Kit and totally confused me!)

Whoops, missed a few posts there, TheOnlyLivingBoy already posted about the two Hayleys, sorry!

Oh, and Steven was definitely hot in a sort of skinny, slightly vulnerable way. Bit like Robbie and Dexter.

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross going through Leah's love life definitely sends you down the rabbit hole btw I recently saw a poster called TheOnlyLivingMumInNewCross which really confused me! I lived in New Cross when I was a student, so your name always stands out to me

I had totally forgotten about the 2 Hayleys! I just googled it to remind myself why and apparently she had her first baby in the 3 months of other Hayley, so that must be why she left. It is baffling that they couldn't even have the stand in Hayley dye her hair blonde for some tiny nod to continuity

There’s an OnlyLivingMumInNewCross? Well that’s just rude!

I have never been to New Cross, but the song is one of my favourite songs ever. Always takes me back to university and that feeling of heady freedom after a somewhat sheltered upbringing

New Hayley was such a shock, not many spoilers/no H&A magazine goss in the U.K. either so no warning at all! Did she end up leaving with Scott Hunter? That was all the Dani/Will/Gypsy/Josh mk I/Kim/Kit days eh.

Must admit I was a giant ‘Wypsy’ shipper back in the day (when shipping didn’t exist in public, and one sadly sat alone skipping uni lectures in pyjamas watching H&A bellowing ‘Nooooooo!’ Like Darth Vadar when Will got together with Dani). Was devvo’d when they came back and Will ended up being a murderer or something?! And went to jail and divorced Gypsy?? Does anyone remember this a few years ago or was I on drugs?!

Leah must’ve also been off her tits as she actually dumped lovely curly Miles for Rev Elijah! Then he dumped her to look after that woman and child. Don’t remember all the details as anything Leah+Love instantly = narcoleptic coma for me.

Present day: Am I really awful for laughing at how short Dean is every time he’s on screen trying to be menacing? I’m not generally heightist and quite like short chubster men, but they’re not usually trying to intimidate the local copper/muscly mechanics/anything bigger than a teacup Yorkshire terrier. He’s like an eight year old capering around their knees! Blood n Sandpit more like.

Onlylivingboy my fave Carter song... let’s hear it for the greebos, the crusties and the goths!

Dean...

Dean looks exactly like the one on the right!

You have taken me back.... am now both playing Carter AND remembering student days in New Cross!

Dean has short man syndrome. And probably short.....

As I came into the Robbo story a bit late can anyone fill in the gaps. I don't get what his crime was? I don't understand why he was in prison in the first place or why everyone thinks he is such a risk? A serving police officer seemed to be in the wrong by releasing him from custody. Also, Kat was driving the car and not him - why can Ash say he killed his baby?

So he was a stow away on an island, nearly attacked Alf, Justin and his gf. Ended up in hospital with Tori ninistering to him. Total memory loss. Got friendly with Kat whilst she was with Asj, lots of I'm hot for you looks. Ash and Kat split and Kat and Robbo fell hopelessly in love.

In amongst this a baddie turned up, recognised Robbo and revealed he was also a notorious baddie called Beckett Reid. Robbo relaised this and kled aforementioned baddy to hide the truth.

So there's prior murder for money and murder of baddie.

Kat was in the car taking Robbo away when they crashed and died. If she hadn't been springing Robbo from jail she wouldn't have died so Ash blames him because it was Ash's baby she was pregnant with.

Because he had amnesia apparently he needs to be free on tag not in jail rven though he didn't have it when he killed the baddie

Crumbs, thanks Sleeping. So a double murderer basically.

Ah, there’ll be more to it than that, though. He’s clearly being established as one of the good guys. I’d say the Beckett Reid thing will turn out to be a set-up. And the killing of Novak was off-screen, I bet we’ll eventually find out there was a struggle for the gun and it went off.

Yes - in the middle of his memory coming back, he remembered his name was something different to Beckett Reid ( but they don't seem to have told the police this?) - which is probably going to be an undercover name for a hero cop who sacrificed his life for the force to try to get the bad guys! Wait for someone to recognise him...

How ridiculous that Robbo is out on tag! At the very least surely he should be remanded on a psych prison wing, he doesn’t even know who he is and he’s admitted to killing someone, plus is a proven flight risk! But no, he’ll be tucking in to Leah’s moussaka down the diner by the afternoon. Heh. Love H&A.

Is anyone else shocked at how dispassionate everyone is being about Kat’s extremely tragic and untimely death? Ziggy and Brody jumping for joy at the prospect of living in her flat, Maggie and Ben chucking all her stuff away whilst reflecting on their own situation... even Robbo’s forgotten her in favour of his other deadies! And Palmer (I think) commenting on how it’s good to have Officer Pouty around now, high time we had a real policeman around here etc etc... I think I care more that she’s dead than anyone in Summer Bay!

My theory is that Robbo will turn out to have been deep undercover (hence not turning up on the system when Kat checked his prints). That’s the only way I can see of them redeeming him enough to keep him in the Bay.

Fair point about the Bay grieving for Kat, although I was never a fan.

Whatever it is with Robbo I wish they would get on with it. They're clearly setting him up to be Tori's next (failed) love interest. Do you think she's the new Leah? She just never gets as far as marrying them so they don't need to kill them off.

For that matter, has anyone ever got divorced on H&A?

Oh yeah whilst Justin was taking him off somewhere secret, they inadvertently stole Robbo's old car that must hair between there for MONTHS scans no one effect mentioned before. Out popped a photo of Robbo with women and kids. He remembered it was his wise and children then remembered they died in a traffic car crash. His name wasn't Beckett Reid.

So theoryMN is he knew something he hasn't yet remembered, his family were killed because of that secret, so he went deep undercover to infiltrate it with lots of murders assigned to him to make him notorious to dig out the real baddies? That persona was Beckett. Then he lost his memory, loved Kat blah blah, remembered only his latest persona, had a gun battle with baddie where baddie had gun and inadvertently shot himself. Tori will help uncover it all and love him but he'll want someone unconnected. Jasmine maybe or ooohhhh Leah

Leah and Zac got divorced or did they never get married ..?

I think they were married - do you remember her mahousive engagement ring that would have been about 5 carats and 100k if real?

Yeah they did divorce

Maybe it's a bit like Henry VIII, she's going for a mix

Zach and Leah did get married. It was at their wedding when Hunter's mum went mental and the got shot and fell in the sea water swimming pool. And then the big whoddunnit and it turned out to be Josh Barret who was blind at the time.

Don't really recall anything about a divorce. He went off to teach in Thailand and then Evie and Matt and his little sister went after him. Never to be heard of or mentioned again. And airbrushed once Hunter found out he wasn't really his dad after all.

Hahaha, love that idea. Vinnie was definitely Ann Boleyn, the fun one. Zack can be whoever the most boring one was.