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Welcome to this week’s Gays of Our Lives. Tyler and Iolo finally have their wedding on People of the Valley but will they survive it when there’s a tragic accident? Plus, Finn visits the life of the man he saved on Emmerdale. But why? And on Hollyoaks, James and John Paul’s on again off again relationship continues. Where do they stand this week? All this, and more!
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A Place To Call Home (Australia)
So…. who’s going to kill Richard? Lots of suspects being set up.
I figured Regina would get addicted to morphine and blackmail Henry into being her supplier. This can’t end well.
James and Harry have such delicious chemistry. As much as I like Henry I really want to see them explore the relationship they were afraid to the first time around. And it would be hot.
Not surprised Olivia decided to leave the baby with James, but I suspect she won’t be leaving Ash Park anytime soon. I think she’s going to find out that Lloyd is cheating on her. And with her talking about being jealous about James and Henry having careers, I think she’s probably going to look into finding herself a job of some sort.
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Hmmm…. Charlie and Matteusz’s relationship is moving awfully quickly. They’ve only had a few scenes (none really about their relationship until this past week) and they are already in love and moving in together? Look, I’m just gonna keep it real. I expect Matteusz to be killed off by the end of the season.
I’m sure people will scream that they’re ‘killing off the queers’, but significant others and boyfriends and girlfriends never last on these shows. They offed Ram’s girlfriend in the first episode. With death surrounding these people, it’s bound to strike very close to home. He’s cannon fodder to some insidious evil. Charlie will mourn, fans will write nasty letters, but he’ll love again next season (if there is one). I’m sure of it.
As for this past week, it was creepy and weird and emotional. Really very well done. And I like Ram and April getting together. Wonder how Tanya will feel about it. Ram was right when he said that he and Tanya are closer than he is with the other kids in the group. Will Ram and April dating affect his friendship with Tanya? It would be very real if it did.
Not much to say as this is the start of the story arc. Buzz has it things will climax around Christmas time so I guess we’ll see Ben progressing forward in his plans to help Phil. Personally I don’t think Phil deserves it and we all know he’ll be drinking with that new liver in a year or so and telling Ben to f*ck off. That’s as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow.
Chas being okay with Aaron marrying Robert seems unrealistic given their ugly history. Robert murdered her best friend! I think she should always be suspicious of/not care for Robert. She should have the same stance Paddy does. She doesn’t like or trust him, but keeps the peace for Aaron’s sake.
I did enjoy the reveal of Rebecca and Robert’s affair though. It was fun as hell. These people always have their stuff aired in the middle of the pub, don’t they? LOL…
How long before it’s revealed that Emma killed James? Probably a while, unfortunately.
I need a story for Finn. Please. I’m willing to beg. Now would be a good time with his father having just died and his mother having killed James. Finn will probably figure it out, but I want more than that. Why can’t he have a messy, complicated romance like Robert and Aaron?
I really want Lawrence and Ronnie to get together. Come on show, make it happen!
I like Robert the most when he’s being an asshole, like in those scenes with Chrissie. That’s why his soppy relationship with Aaron doesn’t sit well with me. But Robert can’t be who he really is with Aaron without Aaron nagging. I know the fangirls like what’s going on with Robert and Aaron, but I just don’t. I miss that bad boy who stirred things up.
I think I’m going to enjoy the sister rivalry between Chrissie and Rebecca. It’s fun, classic soap drama.
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The network took the Youtube channel down, unfortunately, but you can get the clips here (with English subtitles): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2fUjgXqU1aKY2xScWM1QTJWTFE
Mark sorry its late, Thank you!
The clips seem to be very inconsistent in posting. I tried to check out the last few, but there seems to be gaps in what’s available. It’s really hard for me to cover a show when that is the case.
I’m sad you’re not covering Skam. The show is quite good. The boys were making out and then decided to get together, before Even got cold feet. It might have something to do with what Isak said about his mom having a mental illness.
The thing with Aaron is he will do pretty dangerous things if he feels they are morally right. It’s not that far off from Robert’s worldview. Robert can be nasty and petty, but the worst things he does are in the guise of thinking he’s in the right. The only time that isn’t true is when they have absolute garbage like the cheap Kim Tate ripoff where he left Lawrence for dead. That made no sense.
I see three options: 1) Robert can give up his scheming ways and become boring, 2) Aaron can embrace the scheming and become a different character, or 3) they both stay the same and Aaron accepts with little (doormat) or minor (nagging) resistance. The show has to address the tension between their moralities somehow.
Aaron only has to be a nag and a doormat if the show makes him that way. He wasn’t for the best years of the character. He also hasn’t been this year.
Robert was loathed by many viewers last year, because the show never tried to give him sympathy the way they did with Ross or even Charity. He was there to try to kill people, and was repeatedly treated as a vile abuser. I genuinely don’t believe he would still be on the show if they hadn’t wanted to keep him with Aaron. I wish they had never done what they did last year, but they did, and it will always follow the character.
Robert would be fine without Aaron. He’s pretty similar to Ross or Charity in how they push the boundary while having enough charm to bring the audience back to him once it’s over. It helps a lot that he tends to own his scoundrel nature.
A problem is that Aaron and Robert aren’t that well suited. Even ignoring the events of 2015 (which should have had Aaron mark Robert as permanently undateable), there is a mismatch between their temperaments. Robert is a schemer by nature. When he sees an opportunity to advance his interests through underhanded means, his instinct is to pursue it. Meanwhile, Aaron will get his hands dirty if the situation gets desperate, but he’s not going to be looking for trouble or try to screw someone over just because he can. This means that either Robert has to give up the scheming that makes him interesting or Aaron has to become a nag and a doormat as he tries to get Robert to change.
I’d like to see more Aaron and Finn scenes as well. They’re connected through Adam and through Victoria/Robert, so it’s a bit odd that they don’t spend more time interacting as friends of friends at the least. It would also help fix the lack of Aaron and Adam scenes.
This link seems to work for A Place to Call Home:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zud7h_james-x-henry-16_tv
If he wasn’t with Aaron he would just be a one-note panto villain who would be killed off within a year. He was boring with the Whites and mostly just stood in the background when he wasn’t listening to Chrissie yell. The only reason they keep him around is likely because of the relationship with Aaron. The scenes with Chrissie were mostly cheap camp that couldn’t sustain if they were the entirety of him. Similar to that awful, awful attempt at ripping off Kim Tate when he left Lawrence for dead.
I’m not even that interested in his relationship with Aaron, but we’ve repeatedly seen a darker side to him this year without Aaron nagging him. It’s not that rare.
A Place to Call home: So Harry promissed to everyone he wouldn’t want to be with James, but when James went to talk to him, he had a sexy pose, a sexy smile and was playing with the cigar as he was hinting James how much he wanted to taste his dick.
I think Henry will break up with James because the blackmailed. The relashionship is too dangerous for him. And then James will go to Harry’s sexy arms. I hope James and Henry end up together, because I don’t see how Harry and James could work long term. I just want they have sex.
You hit the nail on the head about Robert. He’s a more interesting character without Aaron. The Chrissie/Rebecca story is spiced up by the fact that Chrissie is not Lawrence’s biological daughter – and that they all know it. I kind of like that it was Lachlan who blurted out the Robert/Rebecca secret in the pub.
So Aaron & Finn are going to have a scene together? I’d forgotten they even knew each other, much less hooked up. I hope it’s not a one-off because they should be friends.
I had to watch the scene of Iolo & Tyler at the suit shop twice. On the first viewing, I got distracted hoping for an up-kilt shot of Iolo and didn’t pay attention to any of the dialog. My impression is that Gwyneth is attracted to Sion’s status and relative affluence in the community as well as the nice house, and she objects to his plumbing aspirations because it doesn’t fit her image. Is it too much to hope that she dies at the wedding disaster – especially if she is the cause of it? If not her, maybe Sheryl just because she’s so annoying. Fingers crossed.
I feel somewhat better about Finn’s storyline now that I know Kasim is in a coma. I was worried that Finn was having his entire love interest storyline happen offscreen. At least now I know that they haven’t skipped over any dialogue between the two.
Hi Anthony the video of James Nov1 seem not to be working!!