Lynnie Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Does anybody else find it peculiar (not to mention utterly unrealistic) that Lyn Scully, who has owned that ugly white box house on Ramsay Street for years, was conveniently shoved out of the house and into Paul Robinson's two doors down when the Baby Belt deal went south, and then when her boarders, the Timmins family, had the good fortune to have the house bought for them, they didn't immediately get Lyn to move back in? Or even consider her, in any way?

Think about it for a second: Lyn housed first Stingray, and then HIS ENTIRE FAMILY (all bar two older brothers we're yet to meet) out of the goodness of her heart for months and months (possibly more than a year; I've lost track), but when Loris Beaumont/Timmins bought the damn house for Janelle and the kids, no one thought that it'd be a great opportunity to return the favour to the newly-evicted Scullys? How about even handing the house back over to Lyn as a "thank you / don't feel bad for losing your house / look what good fortune has provided for us all!" kind of thing?

But instead of the very reasonable expectation that they'd want to help Lyn's newfound homelessness, Janelle and crew simply struck any thought of Lyn and Oscar from their minds and made themselves completely at home in the house in which they had effectively been free-loading.


Lyn opened her home to the Timmins family for years ...

... but Janelle shut her out when she obtained ownership.

Of course, I know the REAL reason behind it. As reported on TV Is My Life last month, Lyn and Oscar are soon to be leaving the series. And this means that the writers had to find a way to turn the possession of the house over to the characters who would be continuing to live in it - and the quicker it could happen, the better for all concerned.

It strikes me as odd that no mention was made of having to split the house with Lyn's estranged husband Joe Scully in Bendigo, but I guess the more speedily they rush through the whole process and the less they mention these things, the more likely no one will notice and think anything odd.

BUT THINKING ANYTHING ODD IS MY 'SPECIAL GIFT'!*

This is clearly an incident of the writers needing to change certain dynamics of the characters' living arrangements, and not wanting these very real-life complications arising to distract anyone from their previously-set plot course.

This is what you call a 'plot device', people. I mean, as if the owner of the house who'd opened her home up to this bogan family of leeches wouldn't be majorly upset and 'dark' that said bogans then acquired her home when she was the one down on her luck - and they hadn't extended her the same privilege and generosity she'd been showing them for so long. And as much as the Timmins family represents everything 'uncivilized' about the worst of Australian families, I think even they would naturally have wanted Lyn and Oscar to move in free-of-charge, in return for everything the Scullys had done for them.

It's like no one's going to mention the pink elephant in the room. This all-too-convenient avoidance of the topic from everyone concerned is a little too ... well, ... convenient for my money.

So it's a good thing it's on free-to-air TV, then.


* According to my high school careers counsellor.

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