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In 2021 Irene was telling Marlyn she was going to Sydney to visit Finlay and Marlyn said it’s good you getting away for bit even if is just too city as you can’t travel too far at moment .

I was thinking that too at least H&A did once very vaguely mentioned COVID pandemic unlike Neighbours that never mentioned it all.

I really don’t know what the point was in Colleen having a long lost daughter as it did not lead anywhere and Maureen left soon afterwards and never to be mentioned again. It almost felt like they felt the need to give Colleen are one yearly storyline . Mind you she did have a big breast cancer storyline later that year . I always thought Colleen didn’t have many storyline’s but now that I think off it she did have far few with gamble addiction and book storyline with Max and couple failed romances and later finding out she was Stewart .

Got to say the last episodes since he's been back have been better but it’s plot convenience on how characters act at times expressing in last 7 years or so.

In last few years more characters have seem to have stayed longer and obviously pandemic was hugely factor on why actors wanted to stay longer but however pandemic long over now and we got Tane and Mackenzie both are not past four years and we haven’t had regular character leave in over year and we only had three new regulars in last years . Dean/Jasmine/Tori/Ryder/Ziggy all past stayed past four years. I think Colby and Willow would stayed longer if there storyline’s went in different direction. Personally I prefer more coming and goings as keeps show fresh with new characters and both Dean and Ziggy were very stale by time they left and same with Ryder and Jasmine. I got to say i really am starting to feel lot characters starting to get stale Mackenzie/Tane/Cash/Rose. You thoughts ?.

I got to say Rose has done pretty well as she is two years in and has stayed pretty clean as cop but still not going to bet she won’t crossed line at one stage down track .

I thought it was a shame they did not make the Paratas a nuclear family by making Gemma a regular with Tane being younger so he could be Genma's son and Ari being older so he be old enough to be Tane dad and husband to Gemma.

Alf also runs the bait shop and gets money from renting vans to people. So therefore I don’t think Alf would get a pension. Wasn’t Roo meant to be a well off business woman?.

She bit more gossipy in current show at times but by no means as bad as Colleen or Celia .

I wonder if Colleen was brought in to replace Marilyn as a comedy relief character even though they were not near the same age. However they both were characters that brought in comedy and Marilyn was bit gossip and perhaps not as bad as Colleen or Celia. Eventually Irene kind of replaced both Ailsa and Pippa with Irene eventually becoming the owner of the Diner and becoming the voice of reason giving advice to her customers. Also acting as the central Foster mother as Natalie and Shelley had their own kids with a few Foster kids on side with Natalie looking after Justine and Peta and Jesse daughter and Shelley looked after Brodie and her and Rhys nephew Max and Irene even took over Pippa job as school secretary for while.