Joe? Joe who?

Ok... so you divorce your wife and have moved onto a farm with some relatives of yours...

You'd think you'd still want to visit your baby son once in a while....

You'd think you might want to know about your soon-to-be-born grandson.

You'd think you'd want to be there when your daughter is ON THE VERGE OF DEATH. At the very least you'd probably like to be told!!!

But no, Joe Scully remains blissfully unaware of everything and just stays up on his farm, having no contact with his family, as do the Scully offspring, with Jack, Flick and Michelle having seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet.

Have the Neighbours writers just forgotten them? Well possibly the children, but not Joe. Susan and Lyn mentioned him when they were chatting in today's episode... yet they way they mentioned him made it sound like he was dead! Do they just think we won't notice!?!?!?!

Location, Location, Location

Has anyone noticed how the school no longer features as a location in Neighbours?

The replacement location is the university where most of the cast suddenly seem to go. Mind you, it's about time they had somewhere new to film!

Also, whilst the school had only one corridor and one classroom, the uni has one common room and one radio station! I love how they spare no expense with their sets!!!

Peg-Leg's Shoe Fetish

Did anyone see Paul (on Monday I think) manically shining his shoes? He had about three pairs in front of him and was scrubbing them frantically. Me thinks that the "writers" confused agoraphobia with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Or maybe Paul wanted really shiny shoes to compensate for that fact that he only has one good foot... or in fact, one real foot. Although actually, does he really want to be drawing attention to the fact that he only has one leg?!

The "writers" really don't think these things through!

Also, sod university! I'm going to open a hot dog stand and make thousands just like Dylan did! That's realistic!

And how about Toadie? I think that the reason that his only storylines involve him being yelled at for being bad at relationships is so that they can bring Dee back and have him screw things up with her (cos nobody is ever happy in Neighbours.)

Well those are my only observations for now. Toodles all!

He's BAAAAaaaack!

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Oscar is the best one out of the whole of Neighbours... he's just brilliant... I'm going to steal him one day.

Anyways, you know a show's going to be good when it starts with "Mum, Mum! Help, I'm being committed!"... ah, good times.

But ignoring the ludicrous Steph-being-committed storyline, let's talk about the ludicrous Harold-disappearing storyline.

For anyone who has missed it (shame on you!) Harold went all evil and tried to kill Paul because he wanted revenge for Paul killing his son (which technically wasn't Paul's fault... but if it means that Paul will die then I'm prepared to go along with it!) Then Harold had some weird moment of clarity when he realised that actually killing Paul was stupid and not the right thing to do (he's right of course.... Izzy should be the one to be killed!!! Surely, one day someone will listen to my pleas...)

So off he goes, disappearing cos he's feeling all guilty... and presumably cos he can't be trusted around Paul. So he disappears... and then no-one seems to notice... Connor knows Harold left because Harold left him a note asking him to look after the General Store... but Connor wasn't worried. Sky, who is now completely abandoned, has barely said a word about it. We presume she is just living on her own now... And nobody just seemed the slight bit bothered until Lou got back and Lou put two and two together and realised that Harold might have tried to kill Paul (how on earth he reached that conclusion I don't know.) Suddenly Connor, Toadie and Lou were trying to hide the fact that Harold had disappeared from the police (namely Stuart... I have a theory about Stuarty actually. I think the reason why he suddenly found his calling to be in the police force was simply cos they needed a police officer in some of the stories... why bother with new cast members when some of the existing ones can be recycled!!!)

Anyways, it's all ridiculous. That's why we love it though.

My final thoughts are that Neighbours is in danger of becoming "The Timmins Show." Kill some of them off... preferably Janelle, Kim and Janae. They're the worst ones.

Ciao!

Has anyone noticed that Janae, looks suspiciously like Reese Witherspoon??

See:

http://movies.themoviebox.net/images/justlikeheaven/main.jpg

and

http://mirrorman-caps.com/janae/gallery050826/050826-02dissing04.JPG

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Death, death and more death. The Neighbours "writers" seem to get annoyed with the characters just as much as we do cos they're killing them off like there's no tomorrow! (Although if that was true then they'd have got rid of Izzy a long, long, LONG time ago... and Ned, who always seems to wear the same T-shirt, and the Timminses.... and most of the characters really...)

So another one bites the dust! Alex Kinsky has gone! He's dead, a goner, kicked the bucket, sleeping with the worms etc etc... Do we care? Not really... It's shut Zeke up for one thing.

On the other hand Susan (who gets skinnier by the episode) is all vulernable to Karl's advances... although they're not so much advances as... well a shoulder to cry on... but we all know where it'll lead! I can only assume it will end in tears... as if anyone's ever happy in Neighbours (not unless death is just around the corner.)

On a lighter note, the Timminses are continuing to be annoying. The whole "Team Timmins" thing they've got going on, them all sticking together and stuff...well, hello! Two of Janelle and Kim's offspring aren't even around!!! They're God knows where!!! We've only heard them mentioned in one episode! And Kim advising Janae to get Boyd a four-leaf clover for Christmas... way to break them up Kim! "I need a perfect present for my boyfriend!" "I know, give him a leaf!" Yeah... nothing says "I love you" like a leaf...

And it's coming... that's right Psycho-Harold is on the way! For those of you who missed it, last week we got the first taste of the "creepy Harold" music, complete with Harold staring evily into the distance. In todays episode it was there again, though this time without the music. Seriously, what's with Neighbours? As if we're meant to believe that in the past 5 years Harold would have a stroke, turn dodgy, go back to his good ol' self and then turn into a psychopath. I'm sensing a recylcled storyline here.

Speaking of recycled storylines, does this sound familiar: Lyn married to Joe, Joe leaves to go and work on a farm, they split up. It should sound familiar because that too has happened twice... this time in the past 2 years. And not only that, but Ned has trouble reading, Connor had trouble reading... is it some equal opportunites thing where they have to have one character who's illiterate and now that Connor's learnt to read and stuff they have to fill his shoes?

Let's just hope the recycle the storyline of Susan slipping on spilt milk and then waking up with some form of amnesia thing where she thought she was 16. Ah, I remember how she ran away from Karl screaming... I imagine most people have that reaction to him when they first see him though.

Well that's all. Happy Neighbours watching!