Home and Away Romances DVD - A Review
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The Home and Away Romances DVD was launched in the October
2005 in Australia. It promised to look back at Home and Away
romances over the years. With the pilot as an extra and
hosted by Beau Brady, did it live up to expectations?
At the current moment in the UK there 6 relationships; Beth
and Tony; Jack and Martha; Kim and Rachel; Dan and Leah;
Robbie and Tasha; Ric and Belle and Cassie and Macca, and
that's just the main cast. Lucas and Matty have recently
split up as had Ric and Cassie and Irene and Barry. Sally
and Flynn were together at the beginning of the year, as
were Amanda and Graham and Hayley had just left having had
relationships with Sam, Mitch, Noah, Alex, Robbie, Aiden,
Josh, Scott and Kim during her time in the bay, that's over
one boyfriend a year!! What I'm trying to say is that there
has been a hell of a lot of relationships.
Some become incredibly popular like Angel and Shane or
Kirsty and Kane whilst some become universally unpopular,
like those of Seb and Jade or Hayley and Alex. Others over
time are complete non-events like Aiden and Hayley or Geoff
and Shannon.
It's funny I should mention those two. Watching a DVD about
Home and Away's romances I was looking for scenes from those
golden couples mentioned before. In the first part of the
DVD we are introduced to some of the most unimportant
relationships in the show history, introduced as if they
were the spine of the show.
Remember when Bruce Roberts met Naomi Watts. What about when
Sharyn Hodgson met Julian McMahon, what about when Bec
Cartwright met anybody. Three people who went on to bigger
things, three people that Home and Away tried to sell the
DVD by including.
We follow, actually we don't follow, we random leap around
like a confused kangaroo, through what would probably be
called the natural progression of a relationship. However at
no point do we see one relationship from start to finish.
We see somebody's first date, we see another couples "first
time" and we see yet another couple proposing. However, at
no point do we feel like we follow any couple through their
progression of their relationship.
The idea used was either too broad, or in choosing the
clips, the decisions not focused enough. In trying to
include everything, they produced a DVD that didn't have
enough of anything. Nice to see old clips again or for the
first time, but overall a weak effort. |
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