#as grace said when i told her this: seb would be a great Bond with his cockiness and jokes and confidence etc etc

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Jenny’s Belated Live Blogging - 7th November 2018

- this is very late today. Busy day at work so I’m doing this now having read a few opinions on the episode.

- I do agree that this episode, from a robron perspective was a bit clunkier than the previous two. However, Sam did have a lot to get through. They had to be off with each other with Aaron still sort of blaming himself to then Robert being upset with Aaron to then Robert seeking Aaron out and Aaron opening up more to them understanding each other but then not at all because Aaron wants another baby. Cue Robert’s shocked face. So I don’t know that anyone would have been able to make that run smoothly.

- And I can see where the story cogs were turning, particularly with having Paddy seemingly wander over to the Mill for no reason so that he could tell Robert this crucial piece of information about Aaron visiting Grace’s grave and then he just happened to magically be there and then they had their chat.

- That said, I did like the Paddy/Robert scene a lot even if I have no idea why he went over there. But Paddy being nice to a vulnerable Robert in service of Aaron. That I love.

- I really didn’t expect the surrogacy thing to be a cliffhanger ending though. I’ve really been thrown off by every aspect of this story each episode. I guess that partly comes from thinking we know what’s happening from eastie spoilers and then being kind of wrong. I really don’t have a clue where they’re going with it at this point. Or when it will be resolved.

- I don’t know that I like the current direction but I am enjoying the angst and the drama more than I thought I would and it’s really nice for them to finally be the A plot for a change so I’ll take it. Screen time is always a good thing. (Usually)

- I’ve seen a whole lot of talk about the ‘my son’ comment and here’s my thing. My journey with the words ‘my son’ goes in three stages. First of all, I never really had the fear, especially post reunion that Robert would ever use those words or Seb or Aaron’s relationship to him as a weapon. I mean I know there’s easy drama there and that other people had that fear but it wasn’t one I had so that part of it didn’t raise my hackles or anything. But anyway, pre crash after Seb was born when Robert would say ‘my son’ it made me crazy because it just didn’t feel genuine at all because they hadn’t put any work into that bond and it just felt forced and not something he would say. And it was usually accompanied by ‘my boy’ which for me was worse. I hated it with a passion. Post crash/post reunion, when he would say it, it just sort of gave me war flashbacks to the pre crash stuff so it bothered me for that reason. But also it was usually used at very plotty moments to remind people of why Robert was involved in the plot. For example, after the carbon monoxide poison stuff when he was all ‘my son could have died’ it bugged me a bit because it was just hilighting the Rebecca link to justify his place in the Lachlan plot and it tied in to my overall hatred of that whole Rebecca dynamic and everything feeling one or two steps removed. Like even though he had almost died, it was more important for the plot that Seb could have been there which connected to Rebecca and then to Lachlan. Like he couldn’t just be in the Lachlan plot for himself as someone who had history with Lachlan. This was also pre proposal when I felt like they started integrating Seb into the family more so then it all bothered me way less. So now we get to this moment where him saying ‘my son’ didn’t bother me at all because it doesn’t feel forced anymore. I genuinely feel sad for him losing access to his son in a way I didn’t pre crash. And while it was kind of plotty to perhaps lead to the surrogacy idea for Aaron, I liked that Aaron was able to call him out on it. They’d established by this point that he was their son and not just Robert’s and so it felt more like just a slip up (albeit a purposeful one in terms of the plot) in anger rather than something Robert actually feels and since he walked it back immediately and explained, it didn’t bother me at all. I barely even registered it. Is this a further conversation that they could and should have tomorrow or in the future, yeah probably but if they don’t I’m satisfied with the way it was handled today.

- But moving on...I did like the little bit of Jessie/Roblivion interaction outside of the Mill we got at the beginning. Long overdue.

- I also love when they talk about their own growth so I did love when Aaron was all like ‘wow if you’d told me we’d be married and settled like this I wouldn’t have believed you but now it feels natural and right’. Because...true. We all feel that all the time. Welcome to the fandom Aaron! Haha

- I liked flustered Robert at the cafe. And Nicola telling Jimmy he should be more of a go getter. I assume that also leads into week 47 stuff.

- April and Ellis continue to be a joy together. I love them.

- Charity continues to be great this week. I’ve missed her mocking Jimmy. I get so much of that in the 2012/2013 stuff I’m watching. Good times.

- That cat viewing with the candles...that was a thing. Hahaha. Is that normal??

- Overall I thought it was a decent episode. I have no idea what to expect tomorrow except to be permanently scarred by the ‘beefcake’ Bob is going to have to put on display in the pub. In the words of the late Finn Barton ‘where’s the brain bleach’.

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