Most Popular Character 2012: 21-30

So, for those that are in the twenties.

	21. Martha MacKenzie (26 points) Roo’s long lost daughter once made our top five which meant she got the honour of having a whole page to herself. Now she has to share it with ten others. However, she does get to share it with her beloved Jack, one of Home and Away’s marmite pairings.
	21= Sasha Bezmel (26 points) Sid’s long lost daughter who arrived in Summer Bay like a cyclone last year with several massive stories, including all that business with Stu Henderson. However, like most storms, she appears to have blown herself out recently
	21= Casey Braxton (26 points) The second of the Braxton brothers to appear. I wonder if Brax will make the list and complete the set? Also the first Casey to make the list. Will Miss Mitchell make the list and complete the set? Casey is very much in the troubled teen bracket, but one suspects his family aren’t quite the same role model as...
	21= Pippa Fletcher/Ross I think it’s quite common in American soaps to have characters that marry six times and have so many different surnames it’s difficult to remember in just what order they were married. They also tended to have highly volatile marriages which would to dramatic poses just before the credits rolled. However, Pippa just had a lot of husbands because they tended to die on her.
	25. Kirsty Sutherland/Phillips (25 points) Unsurprisingly the highest of her family, as she always has been, and managing to keep her popularity a bit better than Kane did. Mind you, her appearances in 2008 and 2009 would probably have helped garner support from fans of Miles.
	26. Jack Holden (24 points) Pretty rubbish police officer from the past decade, who seemed incapable of following any directive and seemed intent on waving his gun about, crashing half the forces fleet of cars and getting as much sick leave as possible, so much so that he could almost reserve a room at the local hospital. Amongst his final words to Martha, was the soap equivalent of “nothing can go wrong now”. “We can do it later” in soap language for “I’m about to die”. Perhaps he’s in witness protection though.
	26= Bianca Scott (24 points) One of the pitfalls of writing 110 blurbs is occasionally you come across where you feel that you have nothing particularly interesting to say. My favourite Bianca plot, where she was marrying what appeared to be a fake Prince from a fake region of Italy, ended with an episode that produced more cheese than a herd of lactating Friesians.
	28. Sophie Simpson (20 points) Rebekah can take home the Elmaloglou trophy, for being the highest character in her family. Tiny star that was big at the start of the nineties, then made numerous appearances ten years where she got together with Blake. That’s Blake who I believed was her lost love from the early years, but was actually a 50 episode romance that is already over.
	28= Chloe Richards (20 points) One thing that becomes quite noticeable as we get towards the higher end of this list is that the female of the species is more popular than the male, and whilst it’s no doubt that there’s been some really popular characters like Vinnie and Aden, who you don’t have to Msytic Meg to predict will appear, a lot of girls still are very popular. The characters were either well written or the forum has a lot of hormone crazy men.
	28= Leah Poulos/Patterson-Baker (20 points) And finally Leah, who it feels like is on a rollercoaster in these polls. If I remember correctly she did quite badly in the first poll, which took part in one of her depressive stints, but then gained as they tried to give her more stories, many which felt like a copy of what she had done a couple of years. That’s probably part of the problem. Ada has spent 12 years on the show, but her male counterparts only ever stay a couple.

So, just the top 20 to come. Can you guess who they are? Can a character finish 11th in 2010 and then failure to score a single point in 2012? Find out tomorrow, or if you’re reading this later than the reveal date, you can do it right now.

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