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Marilyn - Home and Away - Why No Proper Storylines?
mimi123456
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Why is she just a filler? She never has any proper storylines anymore. She was with Sid and the Walkers, and then there was the child adopting/fostering thing, but since then, all she does is flounce about in the background tottering on her high heels all over the place.
I absolutely heart Marilyn, but if she is just going to bounce around doing nothing, I would rather they get rid of her.
I absolutely heart Marilyn, but if she is just going to bounce around doing nothing, I would rather they get rid of her.
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Cancer has probably gone for now. I know she mentioned it when she was helping Irene out. I did not watch it when she returned, but did read some stuff on Wiki.
Marilyn was at the forefront of the show throughout 2010 and a good deal of 2011. I'm enjoying her now because she wasn't very likable during the baby story but is back to herself now. And her and Roo make a fantastic double act
They do indeed. Some proper comedy moments. But it's like Marilyn is Roo's backing dancer. Giver her a story line too.
I agree but Emily Symons is one of Home and Away's best actresses and they should be using her more.
Well not all of them. Sid Walker is over 40 (Ruby is about 25 I assume), and he is constantly given storylines.
Woooo! Join Team Marilyn.
Don't get me wrong, I love her being really over the top and "camp" with her "woooo" and "helloooooooos" and hand and eye gestures but she is so much more than just some floozy that flounces about in the background.
I'm not a long term Home and Away fan and I don't know what happened with the cancer storyline, but why did they bring her back if she was just going to be part of the furniture?
Shes needs a good storyline though, as shes a good character.
I totally agree it is time she got a storyline but I would rather have a little Marilyn than no Marilyn at all.
Probably due to the fact as with most characters over the age of 40 in soap they are just their to support the storylines of younger characters. Australian soaps are the worst for this, the limited amount of characters over the age of 40 are seen to do nothing but pander to the youth
I thought that she didn't have cancer this time. Her friend just told her she was going to die.
She did have cancer and now is in remisson . Her mate told her the date she would die. On that day she dove into the sea to save a kid from drowning, in doing so she drowned herself. Thus died but was revived .. hence forfilling the prophercy.
Great actress.
I always got the feeling that the "Mitzi telling her she had cancer and would die" story, rather than it being doctors who told her, was TPTB's way of getting around killing her off, because they realised that she had so much potential and had been popular.
I always felt that she had been been brought back to the Bay to die, but they changed their minds. At least they didn't change their minds, let her die and bring in her identical twin/cousin/whatever!
Also, they did this years ago, with the Frank/Bobby/Roo love triangle. Floss (who used to tell the future!) foresaw that Frank would die because of Bobby, and when Roo told him at the Church that the baby wasn't his, he fled in his car. He swerved to avoid Bobby and crashed the car. He then died on the operating table and was revived, so again, the prophecy was fulfilled. I remember loving this storyline!
and in a film called Storage
She may not have been constantly there past twenty years but she's history past 20 years!