Thankies!

Sorry it took so long this time, Becks. I had to tape it, and it took ages before I could watch it. Drawback of living with Non-Fans...

Episode 131

Paula's tattoo-removal scar has gone. Paula is happy! Paula whirls and twirls and grins like a maniac, until Gobby comes in and makes her miserable again. Why are the members of the SBPD so stupid?! She's a psycho-maniac who wants to make you miserable, Paula... Anyway, Paula mopes off to her mother to get cheered up, then slopes off to Thickardo to start having sex with him again. Thickardo doesn't seem very happy about it, which is odd given the number of times he's tried to initiate this very plotline himself over the last few months. Maybe the the Macho Competition with Eddie earlier on in the Waffleless Waffle Shop has tired him out too much. Poor dear.

Meanwhile, life is happy in Surf Central. Mark is given the go ahead to rent out Rae/Alex's room to Gobby, and Michael is going to move into Casey's room whilst Bungalow is off scouring the world for Magic Mother Medicine, so that Vixen Virgina can have his apartment. Bubblewrap mopes and looks wistful, as she alone can see that Vixen Virgina fancies Michael, but since this new arrangement stops them from sleeping together in the same room, you'd think she'd be happy about it. Casey phones up from Oslo with positive news about Alex, and Mark skips off to tell Gobby about her new room - and her new job at the The Deep. Gobby is almost too busy scheming to be happy, though, and rubs her hands together with glee at some new plot to involve poor Eddie in her Paula Bashing. "Paula must know about me and Ricardo! Paula must suffer! Paula must die!" Yeah, whatever Gobby. Just go take a lie down.

And Caitlin and Cole. Oh dear. Cole has taken to heart Caitlin's admiration of his once allegedly dangerous lifestyle. I really am not buying the fact that his lifestyle was ever dangerous. He sucks at buckle swashing. But anyway. He sets up a secret "romantic" dinner in the wine cellar of The Deep, and when she manages to get in there without anybody seeing her, declares her a super graduate of the Cole St John School Of Cat Burglars. Huh? She snuck past Mark. Mark. Whilst he was looking in the opposite direction. If that's what it takes to be a master cat burglar, no wonder Cole The World's Noisiest Thief is considered such an expert. And if this is the sort of "danger" that Cole's life used to involve, then that explains a lot. Quick! Quick! Mark might find us eating in the wine cellar! What peril! Anyway, they talk about how much more fun it is to be married and settled down than to be travelling the world seeing beautiful sights and being a jewel thief. Yeah, okay Cole. You go on believing that. You know, it bugs me that this doesn't bug me. I hate it whenever Remington Steele talks about settling down with Laura, and not being a jewel thief anymore, and I growl at the mere suggestion that Max settles down with Salma Hayek at the end of After The Sunset, and gives up being a jewel thief. (Anyone with a brain would take Salma Hayek and the jewels. Why choose?!) But in this case, the sooner Cole settles down with Caitlin, the better off we'll all be. This is either because he's a crap thief and his jewel related plots are awful, or because I just subconsciously want Pierce Brosnan to be an outlaw... And I'm not going to analyse that any more. Anyway, Cole and Caitlin talk lots. And it's all very sweet, I'm sure.

Thanks, Micks. I'm sure it's sweet, too.

Wait. Wait. Wait. The anti-social Mickey lives with people?!

Episode 132

Cole and Caitlin finish their creepy dinner at The Deep, and talk about jewel robberies. Caitlin is all doe-eyed with how exciting it all must be, so Cole agrees to hide his briefcase (why does he have a briefcase?!) in her parent's bedroom for her to steal. She gets all bouncy at the very idea of it, and starts getting hot under the collar planning her reward for success. Back at Casa Richards, in a bit of plot that in no way makes the denouement of Caitlin's robbery dare seem obvious, Olivia has just taken delivery of her legacy from Dead Boy Del - the Deschanel Jewels. She sticks them under her bed, as you do, and needless to say Caitlin walks off with them. Greggie finds Cole's briefcase, and thinking he's being all responsible, and helping Olivia by hiding her jewels away safely, he put them in the safe. The World's Flimsiest Safe. It's sweet the big show he makes of unlocking the thing, when it's quite clear he just needs to breathe on it to make the door fold in half. Meanwhile, Cailtin and Cole discover she's half-inched the jewels, and goggle at them in confusion. It's more than their poor little brains can comprehend.

Thickardo and Paula are attempting to have sex. Again. Ever since Gobby arrived on the show they've been trying and failing to have sex. Most people don't find it this difficult. The trick, Paula, is to ignore the annoying younger sister phoning you up halfway through and demanding to speak to you. Anyway, Gobby has decided that today is the day when Paula will find out about the night she was abducted - in other words, that Gobby and Thickardo were together that night. Together in the loosest sense, that is, since nothing happened bar some rather pained chatting. Eddie lurks in a corner of The Deep, illustrating theories on The Psyche Of Gobby with some cherries and olives on sticks. He winds up eating Paula. Not sure if that ties in at all with Gobby's theory the other week on Meg not being allowed to nibble Ben anymore. I had no idea there was so much cannibalism involved in relationships. Anyway, Gobby has everything planned carefully. She makes a big song and dance out of telling Paula that she has found a job at The Deep and won't be working at the police station anymore, then runs off. Such is the drama he has just witnessed (but not heard), that Eddie believes Gobby has told Paula about her non-existent fling with Thickardo. So he goes over and tries to make Paula feel better about it. Oh Eddie. Can we say "Hook, line and sinker"?!

And over at The Deep, Meg turns up to clean out her locker. Yep, she wants to avoid Ben, so she goes to his workplace, in work hours... never mind. Ben has clearly been busy brooding in his office, but he comes out to make a hopeless attempt to mend bridges with Smeg. They wind up in his office, where Ben tries to ask her to stay working for him, but fails spectactularly, and ends up just giving her her final pay cheque instead. They hum and haw, and Ben tries to speak and fails, and Smeg gets annoyed with him for not being chatty. He's Ben, Meg. Just put up with him the way he is, okay? Quit trying to change him. Anyway, horrified at the thought of Ben and Meg being alone together (no more so than I am), Annie bursts in demanding hugs from Ben. She has heard that Olivia now has the Deschanel Jewels, and she needs consoling. Meg walks out in a huff, and Ben hugs Annie for a while, then sighs sorrowfully to himself. Meanwhile Meg goes home to read more of Maria's diary. Why, if you don't want anything more to do with Ben? Just put the bloody thing back! Scary stalker woman... Anyway, the diary talks of Ben being mad and bad and thoroughly dangerous, and Meg worries and squeaks and fantasises about it all. Then she falls asleep and has one of Ben's Drowning Maria Nightmares. Aw. How sweet. They're catching. Back at The Deep, Ben stares moodily at a newspaper cutting about Maria's death, which he apparently keeps with him at all times. Okay... That's not at all weird... "Nobody will ever know what happened that night," he growls to himself. Yep, he's going all batty again, bless him. It must be a month with a vowel in it...

omg u wrote all of that. i am well in2 e.r. it is the best and i never miss it........... by the way...... wot is it about ?????

OMG!! No, it was some imaginary beast that typed that all out on mickeys computer...

Hello you two. Been a while since you came this way.

Hey. I don't come on this thread. Just needed to post one thing.

Us two? I'm no troll.

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It must be a month with a vowel in it...

I went through all the months just to check that one out, y'know.

Thanks for the update Micks!

D'you like rugby?

Does anybody like rugby?!

Gaz, I didn't mean to infer that you were a troll, and I know you don't come by this thread. I meant the board, really. I hadn't seen your name on the forum recently. Although admittedly I don't tend to look through it like I used to.

Oh, must be that you didn't look or something, i'm here frequently.

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Originally posted by Mickey:
Does anybody like rugby?!

It was another of my random questions. I'm supposed to be at rugby match, right about now...

You poor soul. Why on earth would anybody want to be at a rugby match?! Not sure even why rugby players would want to be present at a rugby match. There's rugby going on there, for goodness sakes! Avoid! Avoid!

Episode 133

Eddie finishes accidentally spouting out the Ballad Of Thickardo and Gobby, and Paula gets in a tiff. Thickardo arrives, and tells her that it was all perfectly innocent, and that nothing happened, and that it was all perfectly innocent, and that nothing happened. Yeah, we know. Not only were we there at the time, but we've all had to live through endless flashbacks. Trust me on this Thickardo - we know it was all innocent. And Paula just doesn't care. She runs off, and Thickardo sits and broods for a while. Eddie warns Gobby to stop her machinations as it will only lead to heartbreak - her own. Gobby isn't interested. She departs to spout more boring lies at Paula, to make sure that Paula takes the word of the weird half-sister she's only known for five minutes, over the love of her life who's been nothing but nice to her for months on end. Paula, honey, you're a moron. Thickardo and Eddie brood together. There's something brood-inducing in the air at The Deep, there must be. Something to which Mark alone is immune. Eventually Thickardo goes home and finds Paula packing to leave. Apparently it's all over. *Shrug*. Who cares?! Well, except Thickardo and Paula, obviously.

Cole and Caitlin, meanwhile, decide that they have to put the Deschanel Jewels back in the World's Flimsiest Safe. Which is an odd turn up for the books, given how much air time was given to Cole trying to steal the bloody things in the first place. He's changed his mind, apparently. He breaks into the house whilst Caitlin tries to keep her parents distracted downstairs. She's foiled by several things, only one of which is related to her complete uselessness and lack of brain. Greggie has his secret holiday plans to spring on Olivia, for which they have to pack; and Annie has turned up, demanding to see the jewels. Olivia turns into a thoroughly nasty school bully type whenever she's on screen with Annie, but Annie gets her own back with a brilliant Olivia impersonation, which I'm still laughing about now, several hours after the event. Good old Annie. Eventually the holiday plans win out over Greggie's flirting with Annie, and Greggie and Olivia go upstairs, with Caitlin chasing after in her continuing useless attempts to prevent them discovering Cole. Although quite frankly he deserves to be caught. He opened the safe ages ago, and it's taken him practically the entire episode to take one briefcase out and put the other one in. Needless to say Greggie finds him, just about to make his escape. The World's Most Useless Thief fails again. Twit.

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Originally posted by Mickey:
You poor soul. Why on earth would anybody want to be at a rugby match?!

I got invited to one... And seemed slightly more enthusiastic than I should have been. I didn't go, though. (Partly because it wasn't just one match; it was several...I don't mind watching it, though. It's alright, really. No worse than hours of Biology homework, I guess.

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The World's Most Useless Thief fails again. Twit.

Thanks for the update!

Episode 134

Meg's nightmares send her scurrying to the kitchen in search of things to drink. Poor girl, she's all confused, caught up in her little timewarp. Everywhere else on the beach is still enjoying the early evening, but to her it's the middle of the night. Possibly this is the reason for her confusion, and possibly the journal is. She squeaks at it some more, and reads some more tales of Ben's brooding darkness. Mark tells her to stop before it's too late, and she looks all woeful. Didn't she go to bed with a different haircut? Whatever. And why is she wearing Tim's football shirt as a nightshirt? So much for being over him and moved on. Did I mention that Meg was weird? She mumbles to herself about Ben, and secrets, and Maria and the journal and nightmares, then decides to burn the journal for the sake of her sanity. Oh, I don't know, Meg. You could always return it, instead of destroying somebody else's property. As soon as she tries to burn it, a gust of wind blows out the flame, and she gapes in shock at the curtains. Also preoccupied with curtains is Vixen Virginia, who keeps peering through them in an attempt to watch Michael necking with Bubblewrap. Virginia has been turning down offers of apartments to rent, so that she can carry on living with Michael, and Bubblewrap is getting suspicious. Mind you, given the amount of clearly deranged staring that Virginia has been doing just recently, it's about time that somebody got suspicious. Even if only mildly.

Elsewhere, Cole and Caitlin manage to convinced Greggie that there is nothing sinister in Cole's having broken into the house. They explain their merry tale of games of cat burglary, and Greggie growls and menaces. Eventually he gives up and leaves on his holiday with Olivia, giving us a quick glimpse of Spawn on his way out of the house. Has Spawn grown since he's been away? And yet again Tiff is "out for a walk". Own up, Spawn. You've murdered her and hidden the body in the attic. Cole and Caitlin then depart to spend the rest of the episode making love in slow motion to a ghastly backing track, which somehow manages to transmit itself to Greggie and Olivia's car, and to The Deep, making Ben daydream of dancing with Meg. Yuck. Still, not as yuck as Cole and Caitlin, who are still at it half an hour later, with the music and the kissing and the ick. Go away, the pair of you.

And The Deep. Annie is crowing about having demanded the jewels back from Olivia, and tries to get Ben to help her in her legal campaign to contest the will. Ben doesn't want to go up against Greggie though, as they have recently gone back into business together. Annie is immediately suspicious as to why Ben would go into business with somebody he doesn't trust, but Ben is all International Man Of Mystery again, and smiles and broods and wanders away into the shadows. Annie watches him, and daydreams about the pair of them finally getting together - but this time it isn't Meg who ruins her dreams, it's Maria, lurking in the background in her floaty white dress and making Ben run off after her. Annie decides to go back to Maria's studio to look for clues as to what is going on with Ben. She's decided that he's hiding Big Secrets about the night Maria died, and mumbles to herself about Maria's Lasting Mark On Ben not being one of love, but being about dangerous secrets, etc and so forth. Pretty much Annie, yes. Now spare yourself some time and just look at Ben's family documents... The puzzle's name is Derek. Flopping on Maria's bed (what's left of it, after the fire) Annie wonders and ponders and mopes and mutters, and then gasps as the curtains blow at her. Yep, there's a rash of ghostly curtains in Sunset Beach this evening (or tonight, if you're Meg). It's all nicely atmospheric, anyway, even if it is somewhat inexplicable. Unless there's other ghosts around, that is. All the wives that Ben actually did murder, perhaps.

Nice update. Thankyou.

*Becky smiles and then realises that perhaps she shouldn't have eaten that piece of chocolate seasoned bread...*

Episode 135

Paula is doing a Lost Sheep Act at her mother's house, with Eddie trying to convince her that everything is Gobby's fault. Gobby, meanwhile, tries to worm her way into everybody's affections as the wounded party in the whole affair. No one really seems to believe her, but it can be a bit difficult to get the gist of the storyline when your thumb keeps creeping for the fast forward button whenever she starts her whining. Anyway, Elaine at least isn't a pushover. Gobby glowers at her, but later grins her manic delight out at the world from beneath the pier, muttering about how she's going to get everything that's coming to her. We can only hope. The poor girl had to kiss Antonio quite a lot, so I suppose she did suffer for her misdeeds eventually. Meanwhile Paula goes back to Thickardo's house, and they gaze mournfully at each other. There might be a bit of plot development coming up here, but they don't really stop the woeful gazing long enough to find out. Maybe next week.

Over at Surf Central, Meg is back having nightmares. Her little time warp is still in effect, only instead of being several hours ahead of the rest of Sunset Beach, as she was yesterday, she's now running several hours behind. When Tim drops by she asks him what he's doing there so early in the morning, but apparently he's come to take her to lunch. Buy a clock, Meg. Tim wants to take her somewhere that Ben never took her, and Meg admits that Ben never took her anywhere. Gee, Meg. Could that be because you were never actually dating?! They talk about nightmares, and Ben, and the journal, and Ben, and lunch, and Ben, and then they talk about not talking about Ben anymore. Meg thinks about her dream, and about how in it she saw Ben pushing Maria off his boat. Except that in the dream it was Meg. In the floaty white dress. Yes, well anybody who goes sailing in that dress deserves to get blown overboard. Or pushed overboard. Or whatever. Tim leafs through the journal, reading aloud bits from the front page that were practically at the end of the book when Meg read them. And yes, I do know that it's mean to point out things like that. Eventually they head off out for lunch, whatever time of the morning it is or it isn't. They're going to Grenadines, which is part of yet another Tim and Annie plan. Jolly good.

And Ben. Ben is on the phone to Greggie about mysterious businesses, and then to a strange business associate about mysterious shipments, and then to somebody from the JavaWeb, which isn't especially mysterious, but should be. Annie keeps trying to get him to go out to lunch with her, but he's busy having disturbing dreams about Meg, and eventually disappears on mysterious business errands. Back at her own house, Annie growls about her mobile phone having been cut off by the phone company, and about having no money, and Bette tries to persuade her to get a job. Little sparks start flying out of Annie's eyes as she sees how she can get everything she wants in one swell foop. She starts pestering Ben about lunch again, and they wind up going to Grenadines. Annie asks him for a job as his personal assistant, since he seems so rushed off his feet just lately, and as they chatter happily, and share a laugh or two, in walk Tim and Meg as planned. Meg sees Ben and Annie enjoying themselves at lunch, and gapes in misery. Aw, poor Meg. I feel so sorry for her.

No, not really.

Surely having to kiss Gobby was much worse than having to kiss father fit (oh yes he was!)

Her chin got on my nerves

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Surely having to kiss Gobby was much worse than having to kiss father fit (oh yes he was!)

Yeah, but it was Gobby I was talking about. She didn't have to kiss herself.

That I remember.

I hate Gobby. I always did, but I hate her even more now. She's so annoying!

First of all, I read "over at surf central" as "over at smurf central". Hmmm. I think my subconcious is telling me something... I'm obsessed with smurfs. And people who talk about them.

Alas, I'm waffling again. Thankies for the update!

Gobby = Bleuch!