I have just finished watching today's episode of Neighbours and am shaking my head in laughter.
The soap opera ends next week. The big concluding storyline is focused on Ramsay Street's potential demise at the hands of developers, who are looking to build a freeway on the land.
It's a reasonable story to end the series because it allows all of the residents to work together. I suppose we won't know whether they're successful or not until the last-ever episode (if it were me, I'd leave it open-ended!).
Anyway, the reason why I shook my head after today's instalment is because of a couple of plot twists that occurred.
First, Shane Ramsay returned and - during a meeting with the residents - showed them his plans to move everyone to a new area. Then, right at the end of the episode, Paul Robinson showed some of his family members an idea he had: a high rise development in which everybody could move to.
I found the plot twists funny, especially the Shane Ramsay one, because - when he returned for the final few episodes in the previous incarnation of Neighbours - I thought he would use the billions he had gained from the crypto markets by buying all the residents' homes because, in that final week, all of the houses on Ramsay Street were put up for sale for a plethora of reasons.
My guess didn't happen. Ramsay ended up purchasing Lassiter's, though.
The latest story is in a similar ballpark to mine... but it's a bigger field than a usual baseball ground!
If my calculations are correct, there are now only four episodes of Neighbours remaining. Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday and a double episode on Thursday.
I hope they end on a cliff-hanger to leave it open for the audience to reach their own conclusion as to whether the highway is developed or not. It would be fitting, considering it's a soap opera, but I wouldn't bet on the writers doing that out of respect to the fans.
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