love Toadie and Sonya (it's so refreshing seeing a couple who are happy together!), but they're also so clearly desperate to be parents." Crick later praised Sonya for helping Lucas and Vanessa realise their feelings for each other, saying "thank goodness for her meddling ways!" A Newcastle Herald reporter noted that Sonya "has seen more drama than most". The character's final storyline and death episode received positive attention from critics and viewers. Conor McMullan of Digital Spy wrote a feature on the "most moving moments" from the ovarian cancer storyline. On the scene in which Sonya learned her cancer had spread, McMullan said "In frank and honest scenes, Neighbours didn't shy away in hitting Sonya, or viewers, with the tough facts – and the scene was much stronger for it. Despite being told that the cancer had spread through her body, Sonya's resolute determination to beat it broke our hearts." McMullan said the "father-daughter bond" between Sonya and Karl was "very sweet and real", and would be missed, as would her friendship with Lucas which was one of the "most memorable in recent years". After seeing Sonya's final episode, Laura-Jayne Tyler from Inside Soap wrote that Morey and Moloney's performances were "sublime, and deserve to win every award going." A campaign to secure Morey a nomination for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress began on social media shortly after the episode aired. Sonya was placed at number eleven on the Huffpost's "35 greatest Neighbours characters of all time" feature. Journalist Adam Beresford described her "one of the show’s most beloved characters of recent times." Sonya gave the show "a grounded, relatable presence" and her traumatic past experiences earned her "some hard-earned empathy." Beresford believed that Sonya and Toadie were a new generation Karl and Susan owing to her marriage and her "strong moral compass". A reporter from The Scotsman included Sony and Toadie's wedding day explosion as one of the show's top five moments from its entire history. References External links Sonya Rebecchi at the Official AU Neighbours website Sonya Rebecchi at the Official UK Neighbours website Neighbours characters Television characters introduced in 2009 Fictional gamblers Fictional alcohol abusers Fictional drug addicts Fictional mayors Fictional characters with cancer Female characters in television Fictional ghosts