The minorities?! How many one-legged lesbians actually watch Sunset Beach?! Sorry.

Thursday 10/2

Olivia sits in her bathroom waiting to take the pregnancy test, but is interrupted before she can begin by Greggie, who wants her to come downstairs and join in with his cocktail party. Not feeling that she has much choice, she goes along, and is greeted by most of the rest of those cast members featuring in today's episode. Which makes recapping easier. They mill, they chat, they exchange hastily concocted memories of the last time they met. Eventually Cruella nips off upstairs to take the test, then calmly waits with typical reserve for the results. Or alternatively she goes bananas waiting. Whichever. For reasons that will never be entirely clear, she decides to go away and leave the test whilst it processes itself - and for reasons that will also never be entirely clear, Greggie has bought a pair of earrings for Smurf, which he has left for her in the bathroom. Well, that's certainly the traditional place for leaving gifts. Hence the Christmas Basin tradition I suppose... Anyway, cue misunderstandings, and not seeing of the obvious, and Cruella nearly putting her foot in everything going. Caitlin doesn't see the test. Cruella still doesn't know if she's pregnant (Hint:- she is). Downstairs, Alex goes all wobbly and covers when Michael sees, and everybody else talks to each other. In a cocktail partily way.

And so to Ben, who sits alone in The Deep and drinks himself steadily into a stupor, having his flashbacks and thinking of the past. You know, Ben, all this would be a lot easier if you had the special superpowers in this that you have in Starhunter. Anyway, the woman looming in the doorway, that he thought was Maria, turns out of course to be Smeg. She comes in, annoying the hell of him with her fussing, and he sends her packing in a fit of semi-drunken brooding. The demons chase her out the door, and she winds up back at Surf Central talking to Tim. He sows seeds in her mind with a devious little grin, and so off she goes to TGO's house, to wander once again around the Locked Room. She reads some more of Maria's diary, and finds the dress that Maria is wearing in the self-portrait downstairs. Meg being the interfering nutcase disaster waiting to happen that she is, can't resist, and dresses up. Meanwhile Tim has told one of Ben's employees that there's a woman in Ben's house, so off Steve the never-before-named barman races to interrupt the Broodly One's brooding. TGO goes home, half drunk and thoroughly bedecked with demons, heading upstairs to the open door of the No Longer Locked Room. And the music pre-empts his approaching breakdown once again...

Does ne1 know why my post has been deleted form last night.....it didnt say anything offensive in it....

neways, Mickey arent u as heartbroken as i am about this axing!!!!!?!!!!!!! im gutted....

A lot of posts got deleted, GVL, including my response to yours! There have been glitches here in the last twelve hours or so. It wasn't that you wrote anything offensive. Anyway, my response to you was along the lines of there being no point in anger - that I'm just disappointed. C5 were always the most accessible, cheery channel, who listened to their viewers and didn't care so much about ratings. But times have changed it seems. Come join us at the SB forum at http://www.sunset-beach.co.uk if you want to talk more about the show, and see what's being done to try to persuade C5 to keep showing it!

Harrass them politely though!

The announcer today was the one who likes the show, though. He's been really positive about it all along, like a would-be John Darvall. He might just be as hopeful as we are.

Friday 11/2

Olivia is trying to get the results of her pregnancy test. She pops into the bathroom, she pops out of the bathroom, she pops back in again. Greggie chases her out, she leaps back in... he thinks she's drinking again. I don't what's taking her so long, as she distinctly said it only took five minutes to process the results, and it's been a lot more than five minutes since she took it. But clearly it's not ready yet. Downstairs, Dimples and Smurf worry over Greggie's motives in his earrings gift to Caitlin, and Dimples eventually decides to talk things through with Greggie. Which causes more complications over checking the pregnancy test. Greggie refuses to talk to Cole, and won't leave Cruella alone in the bathroom in case she drinks the contents of her perfume bottles or something, so back they all go to the party. Alex is still trying to stop people from guessing that she's ill, and Michael is trying to get Bubblewrap to leave early so that they can go back to her place for some privacy. Hooray! They've worked out that they can use her place as well! Well done, it's only taken two months. Eventually Olivia manages to sneak away back upstairs, and stares at the pregnancy test. We don't get to see the result. However, since we already know it, that doesn't really matter. You might want to starting knitting in blue, Cruella.

Annie and Tim are holed up in Annie's house, ready for the explosions to start over at Ben's place next door. They flirt. They argue. They wind up kissing. Annie's having fun, and Tim is trying to remain monogamous for his hoped-for imminent reunion with Smeg. Annie doesn't care; she just want Tight Pants Smoochies. Meanwhile everything is so quiet next door, they begin to worry that their plan might come to nothing...

Outside the door of the Not Currently Locked Room, Ben hesitates. His demons egg him on, and his other demons hold him back, but eventually they band together and he goes in. He doesn't see Meg, who's dodged behind a screen, and instead he wanders around the room listening to Maria talk inside his head. He looks at her sketch pads and reminisces, then turns around - and comes face to face with Smeg dressed in Maria's favourite dress. And he flips. She tries to explain herself by insisting that he shouldn't have shut her out and that she has every right to try to find out more about Maria, but unsurprisingly he doesn't understand why this means breaking into the Locked Room, going through Maria's things, and dressing up in her clothes. Meg squeaks and whimpers, but eventually he practically drags her downstairs, takes away her keys, and then throws her out of the house. Hooray! She runs around, trying to get in through the side doors and the beach doors, but he beats her to all of them, and locks her out. Hearing the noises, Annie and Tim sneak out to grin and gloat, and think about phase ninety-three, or whichever the next step will be, but inside Ben is going into meltdown. The psychological fireworks are bursting into all kinds of pretty colours, and his brain has finally tipped over the edge. In Ultimate Brood Mode, he goes back upstairs to the Locked Room, and locks himself inside. Then pouring paint thinner all over the bed, he lights a match and stares into the flame. All the pretty burning segments of his fractured psyche go up in one almighty conflagration. Which is presumably what's also about to happen to the bed. But that's where we have to leave TGO, and all his many demons, until Channel 5 changes its mind. Which is a shame, because that match is going to be burning Ben's fingers if he holds it much longer.

Save Ben's fingers! Ambush Channel 5! Politely!

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Don't be a stranger, MJH. We may be needing the thread again one day, so it'd be a shame to let it die away completely!

Yeah. Thankyou Micks. We didn't even get to see Derek, though. They could have at least aired it 'til then...

Yeah. And Dippy Di The Mad Mortician. For some reason all the best storylines involve terrible things happening to Ben. Sorry Ben!

All hope is not yet lost, though, Becks.

I'd almost forgotten about the Mad Mortician, then. Wow. Hope come back!

Im having withdrawal symptoms

Yeah. We should have been having a great episode tomorrow.

Argh. Tell me what would have happened? Please?!

I'm working on it. I'm sure I can find somebody somewhere to give me the highlights. All I remember for sure is that Ricardo rescued Ben from the fire. Presumably because he doesn't want "Evans" to die until he spills the truth about what he knows.

when is it that Annie appears at the deep dressed as Maria? Or did I just dream this up?

Erm... Meg turned up at the Deep looking like she was dressed up as Maria, on the eve of the anniversary. I don't remember Annie doing it. Mind you, I don't remember much about this storyline. It's all too long ago!

On the whole, Annie seemed much more sensitive to Ben's feelings than Meg was, probably because she missed Maria so much too. I'd be surprised if she dressed up as Maria, but I could well be wrong!

I seem to remember it happened on the anniversary of her death and there were loads of people at the deep. Then suddenly, in comes this person who everyone thinks is maria but then I think turns out to be Annie.

Withdrawal symptoms ......................

Mickey why dya think that guy said sunset beach was 'taking a break' ? was he jus tryin to let the viewers down gently or sumthin? Gotta say am soooooo disappointed, more than i thought i would be...

At least last time there was a long time to get use to the idea since England was so far behind the US. But this time I only had 3 days

Keep writing to Channel 5! There's hope yet. Even if it just gets a late night slot, it's better than nothing.

A late night slot would be even better than the previous slot. I never really sleep so I might be able to actually watch it rather than tape it.

Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch

sorry I couldnt help myself

(I know Im terribly annoying)
Mwahahahahaha

You started a new page, so you're forgiven.

Ack! Problemo! Where's Ben when you need him to save us from the attack of the scary web-page?!

Ben's staying with me.

Click here my little friends. But don't hold your breath!