Adam's Glib

Oh ho ho, that's a terrible pun title, and not particularly even that relevant, but well done! Tres fromagey indeed! So new recruit Adam was obviously focussed last night, in that it was his and Pepper's first date. He's a pretty top bloke so far, all up front and honest and not in a BB-'I call a spade a spade' way, more just tells Pepper to settle down when he wants to, and doesn't pretend to be anything he's not. On the other hand, he seems pretty slimey, and I don't care how buffed his labourer tattooed arms are, he really should put on a shirt sometimes like a normal person. I think though that the negative parts are just due to the actor and wardrobe, and in all tests of his character so far, he's come up shining.



The date was to "some place special", so Pepp dressed up all purty and was very "Tell me where we're going, tell me tell me tell me" and eventually he relented, as he announced they were going to his place. Oo-er! But nothing untoward, he was just cooking a BBQ (chops and 3 veg) and serving wine (in promo jamjar glasses, possibly Spongebob), and his backyard was one of those very spare-tyres-and-bike-parts-everywhere deals, and there was even a special camera montage of different houses in suburbia to kind of show us where he lived, but I have no idea where, it's just not in Ramsay St, and possibly not even in Erinsborough! That was exciting, I just wish I knew more about where he was! So dinner was very simple and not at all flash, and dessert was ice cream with no-name topping, and, if I got this right, Pepper didn't get home til the next day, but that wasn't really made clear, so more on that to come I would suspect. Either way, she rang Rosie the next morning to say it was "The best date ever", so hooray.


Now, the reason Pepper had to ring Rosie instead of just sitting on the couch, playing with her hair and nattering on was that Rosie had gone after Frazer, who you will remember, pissed off at the end of Friday's show to sort out his paraplegic problems. Rosie didn't like that though, so she decided to follow her man, who had left no clues at all to where he was going. And she did it. How? The old early '90s trick of pressing "Redial" on the home phone, which reached the Royal Pines or some out of town resort. Excellent work Rosie. Dunno why Frazer wouldn't have used his mobile to book the room, but maybe he was near the end of his cap or something. It's a neat little trick from Rosie anyway, and after Toadie's impressive detective work chasing down details about Terrance, further evidence that Tim Collins Lawyers is going to change into Tim Collins Private Investigators, and fill the Seriously Ten gap that Veronaica Mars has left. Nifty work.

Pepp tried to talk her out of going, sayign Frazer just needs some time to himself, but ol Meditteranean-when-it-suits Rosie was hotheaded about it, and screamed off in the car to find him. She found him, he said "Hello but no thanks", she said "How long?", he said "Dunno", she said "Well don't expect me to wait" and handed the wedding ring back to him. What the frick? That's crazy, don't go Rosie, you're the best couple ever, don't do it!!! But she did, and walked off (just to rub it in), and cried in the car, and then drove off! Oh noes! But wait, what's that? Why, it's Frazer, hooning at 100mph in his wheelchair, "ROSIIEEEEE! WAAAAAAIIIT!!!" and just before she'd left the car park, he'd caught her, wheels sparking and his hands surely bleeding, he gave the ring back, and asked her to stay. YESS! They've done the mini 1-ad-break break-up with Rosie and Frazer 20 times before, and they'll do it a billion times more until they're K&S's age and K&S are H&L's age, because they can, and you want them to be together more than anything, cos they're just so great, so I can handle it. If this one-again-off-again shit was with anyone else, it'd feel more manipulative, or no, just more tedious and annoying, but with these guys it's like you can watch them get together over and over again, ahhhh.

So Rosie's staying at this Pines place with Frazer, and they're having a talk about it all, trying to work out why his legs are all *flump* instead of all *tippety-tap*, and running through what it might be. First up was Pepp's theory that he might be afraid of losing Rosie if he can walk again, cos they only got together straight after the accident, but he's all "Yeah good one lolz" at that, so count that out. Then Rosie's "What about your childhood" and he's "Mmm, nah, most uneventful childhood ever", and then they kinda don't know what it is, well this bush resort didn't do any good, let's hit the road back home. I forgot at this stage that Frazer's got a car fitted out for Norman Nolegs, and can brake, accelerate etc with his hands, so that's pretty rad, like playing Simpsons Hit And Run but for real. But halfway home he pulled up, Rosie behind him, and said that he thinks just down the road is the cemetary his grandparents are buried in, and he hasn't been here since their funeral when he was a kid. They stopped in, had a lovely conversation remembering about grandparents while they were strolling around looking for the graves, and finally found them. Frazer was saying it was just like his parents that they'd never come back here since they were buried, and Rosie said "Oh well, someone's been here recently" and picked up some flowers off an attached grave. And there's the big twist:

Here Lies

PAUL BROWN

Beloved son of Graham and Prudence

BORN 7 November 1984
DIED 25 December 1985 (13 months)


"I've got a dead brother, and I never knew he existed."

Wow, bit of a shock right there for sure. I'm pretty proud I remembered all that too (although I did go back after and pause the screen to soak up all the details). So let's look at this in more detail.

First of all, best of all, and the reason I went back to double check the grave, is that the fourth Brown boy known to us, after John (Johnny), George (Frazer) and Ringo, is Paul. I would have been nigh on devastated if they'd let the Beatles thing slip there. Second of all, this raises the question as to how old Frazer is. If you were having 4 boys named after the Beatles, surely you'd go for the classic order: John, Paul, George and the drummer, and true to this, Johnny is Frazer's older brother, Ringo his younger one, but if George (Frazer) was born after Paul, that would make him younger than 22. Yeah, no way there. I would have said Frazer's around the 27 mark, and oh yeah, just recently he said he was counting cards with "Dr" Charlotte Stone over 7 years ago, so he's at least 25. Which means he was young, but probably 3 or 4 by the time Paul was born. So why doesn't he remember it? Then there's the date of death, 25 December. Was there some tragic Xmas accident, a new pool, a new bike, a new toy, soemthing that killed Paul, and was Frazer involved somehow? Is that why he doesn't remember - he's blocked it out, his parents never spoke to him about it, and it might explain why they don't get along, and could even be the cause of his psychosomatic no-walking... Man, I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, and I don't normally like projecting too far what plots could happen, cos it's more fun to just let the writers do what they do best and surprise, but this gravestone raises so many questions. I really wanna re-meet the whole Brown family now. Mark this one down as a potentially really interesting storyline.

In other matters, in an apparent satirical look at local council's inefficiency in the wake of Qld's Amalgamation issues, Steph has cracked the shits about the council for beingso damn beaurocratic. They won't let her do the Stinger tribute mural on the side of the soon-to-be refurbished Scarlet Bar, because it contravenes several neighbourhood aesthetic rules, and the graffiti nature of some of the design would attract further vandalism. Also, she has to pay to test if her new neon signs are too bright. LIKE HELL I DO roared Steph in her ockerest accent, and after a few unsuccessful attempts to get the decisoins overturned, she's done what any firey idiot would do in that situation and is gonna run for council herself. I'm not sure when the next elections are, but you'll have to assume they'll be conveniently soon. It would be more realistic for some hotheaded small business owner to rage and scream how the system doesn't work and they're going to run for council and fix everything, and then discover the elections are 2 years away and completely forget about it by then, but Steph's sure to have a campaign to run soon, and to be honest, it could be an excellent plot for her. Toadie's against it, cos he thinks she's too hotheaded "...and honest" to be a councillor, and he's right, but I hope she has a decent crack at it. I also hope Lou gets in her camp, being, I think, a former Erinsborough Mayor, if memory serves, and local politics could be just the right campaign to get his devious schemey side back up and active. Fingers crossed.

Finally, there was some shit with Caleb, the heart receiptient, but I'm finding this pretty boring. We found out he was drink driving when he had his car accident, not his first time, he's got real problems with alcohol, and killed his best mate, so now his friends and family want nothing to do with him, but Sky's not like that, are you Sky? "No, I'm not" she realises, even though Sky Mangel, original character would have been exactly like that, only more so, and wouldn't have taken pity on a serial drink driver. But oh, he's got Stinger's heart now, so la-di-da-da. I can't remember what else with these 2, they hung out, Boyd tried to talk to her, my attention was distracted by dinner cooking, and I stopped listening. Ixnay on the Alebcay please.

Cheers.