Neighbours: Toad's evaluating his life choices after a dark night of the soul in the desert, but what happens to the kids, once he remembers them? Will there be a reunion for Paul and Terese, or are they going to stay good friends? NO SPOILERS

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Nice new thread for when the old one wears out.

I've just caught up on the last couple of weeks and will admit to crying a bit when Karl and Susan said goodbye to Toadie BUT.....if Ryan wanted to do a mental health related exit they could have done it so much better. They should have given him a near death experience triggering CPTSD considering he's had at least 2 previous near death experiences and seen 2 wives die (including Dee even though she didn't actually die). Instead what we actually got wasn't a mental health issue at all, it was a grown man who couldn't face up to the mistakes he's made in the last few years and now his kids have to suffer for his actions again. It made Karl and Susan's goodbye a bit hollow - it would have been true if they had been saying it a year ago, but not now!

Why has no one questioned why Wendy didn’t use her phone? Or Quinn? I know it’s not nice being cut out of your family because you don’t want to study medicine but the way everyone is talking about Quinn is like a loved one has been tortured and murdered in front of him, including the police.

Also the other day when Karl was talking to Holly I think he said something that referred to her going through one incident recently but in the last year she’s been through multiple, more than anyone else on the street. And now all the lawyers are gone, Byron is the local legal representative 😂

I wondered why Byron was hanging around at first, had forgotten he’d studied law. Thought it was so random that he was at the station with the Kennedys 😂
The Quinn storyline is ridiculous. Maybe a rushed story to enable Wendy actress to have maternity leave?

Completely agree with this - I hadn't realised it was even meant to be a mental health storyline until reading these threads & the Neighbours FB page!

There was a door open at the back. That’s how Aaron got out isn’t it? And how Felix got in? Why didn’t Wendy and Quinn just leave the same way?

Yes it’s got to involve her going somewhere for some time apart. Because it’s such crap!

Will they be replacing Haz, Mackenzie, Toadie,Nell and Hugo do you think? Thats quite a lot of characters to go in one go. Felix is obviously one but do you think there'll be any more?

Gino? And presumably Melanie's new love interest.

I thought Gino too but that's such a boring character imo.

Ooh yes I wonder who this love interest is, I wonder if Krista knows him?

It does very much seem like "didn't want to renew initial one-year contract," I hope this won't happen every September.

I was thinking Amira and Nicolette could have more mileage.

@EBearhug I thought Amirah would stay aswell. Never know she may come back?

Do we know if the closing of Freevee will affect Neighbours in any way?

If they send Holly to prison they could bring Andrea back and whoever else was in there 😆

Why is Jayne becoming so mean, she seems to be at a loose end most of the time

I can't abide the Nicolette, Jayne and Aaron story. J and A have treated Nicolette abysmally. I've ended up fast forwarding through their scenes.

I don't know why Jane Harris has become so mean, although she did used to be quite a sort of goody-two-shoes right back in the day, didn't she, because of her grandmother, the dreaded Nell Mangel? (Ooh, I've just thought, Toadie's daughter wasn't named after her, was she?)

Yes just disgusting

Wouldn't Jane have been mortified that Nicolette had to take her granddaughter to work and got hurt

What's happening to Freevee?

Apparently Amazon are getting rid of it and are currently moving stuff across to Prime. I know Neighbours at the moment can be watched via Freevee app or Prime TV

dreaded Nell Mangel? (Ooh, I've just thought, Toadie's daughter wasn't named after her, was she?)

Yes Nell was named after Nell Mangel.

@Starburst8 Do you know when this will happen? And if it does, where else can we watch it?

To my knowledge prime will be showing it. I don't know if that means Amazon will be purchasing future episodes - I've not heard anything about it ending so that's a bonus I guess. So I assume it's just a platform change 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks @Starburst8 Hoping you're right!

I couldn't find anything about Freevee disappearing other than discounted rumours from February. Where's the latest news coming from?

I found it on Google dated August 2024 when I was googling why they randomly removed a program I was currently watching.
It makes sense because Amazon has started moving neighbours over to the Prime side which is available now for all.

Thank you! I missed quite a few years of episodes on and off, so I'm not that familiar with a lot of Toadie's life. I'm wondering why Nell would have been named after Mrs Mangel, though - she wasn't related to either Toadie or Sonia, was she?