@ BIB - Pfft, you're no fun are you?! Where's your sense of adventure?!!!

I now share your profound dislike of Paul and I solemnly swear not to feel sorry for him next time he's on his uppers and giving the puppy-dog eyes. I may have to report to you for counselling when the need arises.

This has annoyed me more than anything else. I am not a Catholic but I do think that the old priest who died had faith in Jack and it is not on that he and Paige have done the deed. There are all sorts of reasons why Jack should not have gone near Paige, even before the "shedding" but (just my opinion of course!) this was a new low.

You are right. It confused me too when Piper said that as I couldn't work out how she then ended up in the water. Maybe Fr Jack found her unconscious and dunked her so he could then derobe her.


Trees have more life in them than Brad..... Even dead ones.

Interestingly however Brad is more wooden than Trees

The tree bit confused me as well, she was definitely over a large area of water when she jumped, and really wasn't that high.

And strange today to see a few more staff members today at the hospital, I thought Karl did everything himself

I think part of the reason Paige jumped was to lighten the load. There was a comment made earlier about what she weighed. Now chucking Elly out of the basket wouldn't have made any difference as she weighs nowt.

I'm hoping Paige is pregnant and it turns out to be Tyler's. Then Jack can bugger off to his priestly future and Tyler and Piper's relationship won't work because she is way too young to deal with him being the father of her sister's baby. I still find the silly, impulsive schoolgirl and the dopey adult to be icky.

I didn't know characters of the show do vlogs on youtube, watched Pipe Up just now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Bj9redshQ Mavournee Hazel really is a great actress.

Just watching that youtube video I posted, she said the trees broke their fall, not Paige's, so that's probably what she said in the show.

So from the moment she arrived, all of Paige's plotting and scheming and dreaming of her parents getting back together, it has finally happened and now they are about to get married. Of all the people to be supporting and celebrating this event, would it not be Paige?

Yet at her mothers hen night she has to be the centre of attention with her boring dramas involving Father Jack and a flying nuns costume. And of all the people to be organising a wedding gift for Lauren its the daughter of the woman who was betrayed by their very affair.

To top it off when Jack ran off to find Paige wasn't Lauren still in quite a bad way? She looked to be slipping in and out of consciousness. The emergency services hadn't arrived at that point. So how could she have sex with the guy not fully knowing how her mother was? And after what she had been through how the hell did she have the energy?!! Those script writers really do enjoy making her character look bad lol

It looks like Jacka's going to hate himself for Regan being one of those involved in the balloon crash. What was Karl supposed to do, let Regan die at the crash site? Okay, so she died later on, but that could have just been because of something going wrong in surgery that the surgeon wasn't able to put right. If Karl had been slightly intoxicated while in the hospital and treating patients or even performing surgery when 100% sober surgeons were available, okay. Karl was there and Regan urgently needed pressure in her head to be relieved. Karl is a doctor and was the best option at that time. So finally Jack's realised that he needs to be with Paige. I doubt he could have managed to block Paige from his mind, especially with him being not that far from her. I'm interested to find out what Ned was going to say to Brad in the video streaming call. The residents will be pretty stunned when they find out that Steph had a motorbike crash.

So David has free rein at the hospital now?

How long until Paige discovers she's pregnant?

That makes more sense. My mistake


She had to warm her blood back up somehow I guess.

It is a shame they made Paige so insufferable because I loved Paige to start with, and Olympia seems nice in RL too. It would be nice to see a different side to her character instead of the self absorbed madam all the time.

So who died?

Regan

So the cop out option as I expected

Yes. It's so stupid the way they make a big deal out of someone dying when they kill off someone we don't know or give a toss about. Let's face it as soon as Regan showed up in the episode we all knew she was a gonner. They just end up making themselves look silly trying to make out there is a big dramatic death when there really isn't.

At least it was someone who had actually appeared in the show and had lines and everything. Instead of "tram driver we got a brief glimpse of flying through the air".

On the episode though, she definitely said to Tyler (about Paige) "apparently a tree broke her fall".

Maybe "tree" is a euphemism for "Jack".

True but it still has no impact whatsoever. The promos indicated that it would be one of Paige, Piper, Lauren or Elly. Oh, how I was wishing it would be Elly

I demand my money back

I agree. I am a not-very-good Catholic, but I find it offensive that faith has been treated so lightly. So what's Jack going to do now? Hand in his notice? Go down the job centre?

Paoge has been ruined by all this - the mother she tried so hard to find was injured and she didn't even ask how she was!

It wasn't so much that Paige jumped out of the basket, it was that she didn't even say goodbye, good luck, I love you or sweet fanny adams!! She just stood up and jumped out.

I agree.

I'm not Catholic, and although Anglican by birth (as in i was baptised as a baby) I have never been a regular church goer, not even as a child. So it is not that i am affronted at the treatment of something important to me.

But, I do think the flippant way they have treated something so sacred to millions, if not billions of people, virtually from the start to be quite offensive on principle.

I'm sure that we are supposed to have been rooting for Paige through all this, that is so cruel and stupid that she can't be with Jack because of stupid religious rules so have been cheering as 'true love' triumphened and probably a lot of viewers did but just as many, if not more, have found the whole thing horrible to watch and pretty much character destroying for Paige who was already borderline for me following her machinations to break up Brad and Terese and get him back with Lauren.

ETA. I imagine we're meant to believe that Jack told Paige Lauren and Piper were okay off screen (he did see they were both still alive and seemingly not serious injured though he couldn't know for sure as there could have been a head injury) but they should have shown it to stop Paige coming across as utterly self absorbed. Even with that, it doesn't get round her showing no concern for their emotional turmoil as they spent time looking for her, thinking she was probably dead when Jack could have just gone back to tell them she was alive.

Paige has been ruined since the Brad and Lauren affair reveal, maybe before. The writing for her has been alwful and i feel soz for Olympia for putting up with it.

I think most of us agree that Jack should have stayed in the preisthood but moved away. I agree with you it was offensive that faith was treated badly for a peice of sensationlism. Like people said had it been the old priest who saved her, no way would they go down this route. Whilst it was interesting to see a young priest battle temptation, i wish he would have remained strong. At least had the sense to toss the collar before they did the deed. Intersting to see what he does now.

I actually think that they would.

In a show like Neighbours, where physical attractiveness is so important to the show's image and a major part of why actors are cast (at least the younger cast), there is often a clause in their contract about having to get prior agreement for things like hair style changes. It's certainly the case with US Soaps and dates (the behind the scenes Dallas books talk about it) back to Mia Farrow getting her hair severely chopped when in Peyton Place which, believe it or not, caused an outcry as they didn't feel it suited the character she played personality.

So, i don't know for sure, but i'd be surprised if they didn't have some control over these things and they should have said for her either to get it cur a few days before they filmed the explosion or for it to have been left for a couple of weeks afterwards.

If she did do it without their knowledge, they should have had it tied up for a while.