Home and Away thread: everyone to Salt for one of Ryder's cocktails

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

New thread here so that we can continue discussing everything important in the Bay: who is hotter - new police officer or potential new doctor? Will new doctor BE new doctor or was that brief superhero moment all we get?

Will Tori and Christian ever get married and by now, how many of us really care? And what next for the Tane/Ziggy/Dean triangle?

Grab a seat, place your cocktail orders, hope that Annoying Chloe doesn't show up, and get chatting!

Was the storyline that Marilyn was going on holiday?

Who’s ada?

How come they do so much Maori stuff, rather than native Australians? Is H&A big in NZ? Not that I'm complaining, it just seems a bit odd to me.

I was also wondering about Maz - she went off “to get her head straight” after all the Logan stuff (I missed why she seems to have had a personality transplant), but I think Alf Roo etc should have told her about Ari - she’ll be devastated to only find out so long after the fact

Ada is the Leah actress who I think IS on holiday in Greece … she takes off every now and then. Remember when she got kidnapped by that loon as a reason why she wasn’t in the show?!

@SleepingStandingUp off to South Africa - first trip since pre-pandemic so feel a bit out of practice! The added Covid dynamic doesn’t help - and I’m going to miss the cat

I wondered if with all Aus's heave lockdown if this was people's first proper chance for holiday as such and if Ada had gone back to Greece. She's in Cyprus with Ash doing rude things really 😂😂

Maz had a reaction to the toxic fumes which affected her personality and she's gone for some kind of inpatient rehab I think? Again, wondering if the actress is on a really nice holiday somewhere. Like very lucky @AiryFairy1 who's going to have an amazing time!!

I think they were due proper annual leave and had to shoehorn that into a storyline somehow 😀

That's a really good point @EBearhug Maybe H&A is the main soap for youngsters in NZ...

@EBearhug

How come they do so much Maori stuff, rather than native Australians? Is H&A big in NZ? Not that I'm complaining, it just seems a bit odd to me.

I think h&a got a bit of flack for their diversity casting, they managed to show horn in a gay native Aus lad for Palmers to foster short term but really, there isn't much of any.

Maori culture is treated as an equal in NZ, whereas indigenous Australians haven’t been in Australia?’
I’ve been to both countries and I’d noticed a difference.

Where is Gemma?? Surely they could have paid the actress to film a few scenes. Noway would she not have come back for her boyd

But they are taking the body to NZ and it's done quite quickly so could she have physically got back to Australia before having to fly back to NZ?

Ah OK I saw them outside the house with the. Coffin, I missed they're returning home. OK, so in my head she'll meet them there. That's OK.

I did wonder about Mia not going to NZ

Yes, as his wife, surely she should be there???

I'm watching Friday's episode. Normally in soaps someone dies and next episode there's a clip of a funeral, then it's over. Hopefully people familiar with Maori traditions feel it's been portrayed appropriately, as I'm finding it very moving 😔

I wonder if the men traditionally take the male deceased to their final resting place?

I could cry! I've been saving this week up to watch in one go - and Tuesday's episode is no longer on Sky!

Anyone else have this or any ideas how to find it?

@Luckingfovely have you checked channel 5's on demand service?

Managed to find it on an iPad, thank you.

Have now caught up and have wept all of the tears! What superb acting from the whole Parata clan.

It's still so sad for the Parratas 😔

Mia's dream about Ari 😭😭

Just watched the funeral episode from last week, so sad. Some great acting, they've done a really good job with this.

Yeah, Mia emotes really well

Tane breaking down after the Haka too

Chloe pretend crying in the bathroom so Bella would stay with her was exceptionally creepy. Really don't know where they're going with this...

Yes I couldn’t tell if the mirror crying was real
then I noticed her smile when she hugged Bella.

I don't like the direction of travel for Chloe's character, it is not a good look for the H & A writers.