Home and Away (TV Series) Episode #1.5230 (2011) User Reviews

Not just chemicals going down the drain

[MarkLynnIreland1294 · 3/10 · 23 January 2022]

I either hate or don't care about the unlikeable selfish Ruby with Romeo storylines! Same with Leah on some date with humorous Robertson (despite he wrongly arrested Alf Stewart for Penn's murder) while she still obsessively missing boring Elijah who she broke up relationship with because of his missionary work thing in Africa. Even when he returns with bombshell, she should've moved away with Robertson.

Only interested with the whole dangerous chemical incident with Xavier and April. They should've moved away from the harmful fumes after the chemicals reacted badly in the sink, instead putting them both unconscious. Gina is unlikeable doubting Xavier thinking he's responsible for stealing toxic chemicals (sulfuric acid and phenol, whatever they are) from the school.

"I haven't got time to worry about teen angst"

[skteosk · 26 February 2011]

It's curious that, after a year where Ruby was mostly unlikable, they give her a plot line that seems designed to make her unlikable...and, actually, she's coming across fairly well.She hasn't actually done anything to split Romeo and Indi up, unless getting Dex to upset them further was deliberate and that's not the way it comes across.The couple seem to be causing the troubles all by themselves and, despite their apology at the end, they do basically come across as doomed.

Xavier has a decent episode but falters at the last hurdle.He's pretty smart in working out Ruby likes Romeo and rightly tells April that her plan is completely insane, especially since she doesn't actually seem to have a plan.But the cliffhanger is ridiculous in the extreme.It's hard to shake the feeling that the reason we don't see Xavier and April collapse is because no-one could work out a way for it to happen:They must have stood in the middle of a cloud of toxic fumes for several minutes and made no attempt to move away from them in order to be lying where they are.The whole "We never told the students what the chemicals were" thing is a bit daft too, since it doesn't seem to occur to Gina until long after she knows Xavier's been looking them up.

There's something about Leah and Robertson as well but I just ended up scratching my head and wondering why they were still getting screen time and why Robertson is being offered a promotion for sitting around while other people solved his case.