Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Blaxland 89]

Has anyone seen the spoilers for next year? Looks more of the same to me. 

[Luke39]

Well more of the same would be because the storylines this year are coming to a climax. So I guess it well be more of the same, before those storylines wind up. New Love, Couples Reuniting, Deaths, Brax e.t.c. Yeah Sounds like Home and Away haha

[Homeandawayfan.]

The level of crimes has certainly diminished, and gone back to how it was before 2008ish. 2004 was the year H&A started to become more OTT but with good scripts and still a lot of everyday things. 2009-2014 was the really dark era of the show. I am finding it more watchable and can sit and relax more watching H&A.

[Luke39]

I think the show has more balance now. From 2009-2014 partic in The Braxton Heavy era. It was so crime driven. When you have normal people dealing with crime on a regular basis it loses that impact. That sense of danger is lost. I remember John told Brax I think once, we don't know what's around the corner with you lot haha. I think now that their is more of a balance. Your seeing normal people who have done bad things. Being terrioizied by a deranged Women who I loved Charlotte. IT has more effect. Then just seeing a crime driven show with Brax as the head. The past few weeks I felt like I was watching 2001 home and away. At the very least 2008. It is amazing how much the show has changed, since Brax left and a new producer came on board. The Home and Away Eye for an Eye Special airs in NZ today. A bit of nostalgia, too see the Braxtons one last time. But I am glad the show has moved on from that period.

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One thing that bothered me about the promo for next season. IS it didn't feature any of who killed Charlotte? Just felt like a standard Home and Away promo, same old same old. I mean why was Skye in it? She didn't feature at all in the finalie. I Think the marketing team dropped the ball their a bit.

 

[Matt]

5 hours ago, Luke39 said:

I think the show has more balance now. From 2009-2014 partic in The Braxton Heavy era. It was so crime driven. When you have normal people dealing with crime on a regular basis it loses that impact. That sense of danger is lost. I remember John told Brax I think once, we don't know what's around the corner with you lot haha. I think now that their is more of a balance. Your seeing normal people who have done bad things. Being terrioizied by a deranged Women who I loved Charlotte. IT has more effect. Then just seeing a crime driven show with Brax as the head. The past few weeks I felt like I was watching 2001 home and away. At the very least 2008. It is amazing how much the show has changed, since Brax left and a new producer came on board. The Home and Away Eye for an Eye Special airs in NZ today. A bit of nostalgia, too see the Braxtons one last time. But I am glad the show has moved on from that period.

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One thing that bothered me about the promo for next season. IS it didn't feature any of who killed Charlotte? Just felt like a standard Home and Away promo, same old same old. I mean why was Skye in it? She didn't feature at all in the finalie. I Think the marketing team dropped the ball their a bit.

 

 

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[alexx]

I've been really pleased with the way Home and Away has changed over the last part of 2015. I'd say that from Marilyn's big storyline onward the show has improved massively and actually feels like Home and Away again... mostly.

Yes there are definitely elements that I think need to be scrapped, but overall I'd say they are on the right track with the tone shifting more towards a quite seaside town again and character focus and a greater balance of screen time shared between all characters. Irene's latest storyline hasn't been rushed and I'm really enjoying it. And not just her storyline, she's just been far more like the Irene we all know and love since September I'd say. I don't know how Lynne McGranger carried on with such a pitiful effort put into her character over the last five years or so.

I watched the first five minutes of An Eye for an Eye and turned it off. Not interested at all, it's horrible and is everything I hate about what H&A has been in recent years.

I haven't read the spoilers and I'm not going to. I still don't care enough about the show to bother, but I'm getting back into it slowly and I just hope that they build on the improvements this year and it gets better into 2016. If they give up and it goes back to the cold, boring 2011-2014 years I'll tune out, probably for good.

 

[greg098]

I was very happy with the direction the show was going towards the end of the year but I feel it was rubbished with the season final involving the braxtons yet again. I feel the show needs to move on as they had their time and the show must move forward. They keep bringing back Braxton characters to bring in the ratings or the hype but I think in the long run, its not helping the show because it leaves the rest of the show stale. They just announced books about the Braxtons and more spin off Presto shows about them... I feel its getting out of control. This show is meant to be about fostering children and the struggles of life, yet the show is becoming The braxtons, crime, murder, kidnapping, drugs etc. This is a soap, not a crime drama. They need new writers on the show. seriously

[jodlebirger]

32 minutes ago, greg098 said:

I was very happy with the direction the show was going towards the end of the year but I feel it was rubbished with the season final involving the braxtons yet again. I feel the show needs to move on as they had their time and the show must move forward. They keep bringing back Braxton characters to bring in the ratings or the hype but I think in the long run, its not helping the show because it leaves the rest of the show stale. They just announced books about the Braxtons and more spin off Presto shows about them... I feel its getting out of control. This show is meant to be about fostering children and the struggles of life, yet the show is becoming The braxtons, crime, murder, kidnapping, drugs etc. This is a soap, not a crime drama. They need new writers on the show. seriously

It shouldn't be a crime show, it is a soap. But there was too much crime in it, even before the Braxton arrived. It just became worse. And that is not good of course. 

But I think it is also  worry with the constant focus on the Braxtons, from not only channel 7, but also media down under and now also book publishers and other television companies which will lead to neglection of the current show. They refuse to move forward, because the Braxtons are good business to them. And they are feeding the fans who screams for the Braxtons and the denial of liking newer characters (and older ones). If this doesn't stop, the show will die a slow death. It needs to move on. 

There have been popular characters earlier too, and the show and media were able to move on rather quickly. But we haven't seen that this time.

But why?

Channel 7 needs to understand that hyping characters (with feeding people and media with promotion of these characters as the saviours of the bay) before they even arrive will only lead to unhealthy focus on these characters, and make only one part of the show commercial. Media and others want to earn money on such characters, and then it will be very hard to move the show forward. They should never have created the vibe around the Braxtons (by promoting them for months). And the channel feed the media, and the media has fed the channel and the fans. It has become a cycle. They have digging them selves into a hole which isn't easy to get out of.

I know they were popular characters, but they aren't the first popular characters to leave the show. It is time to look forward. For the show's sake. 

[Homeandawayfan.]

Lucy Addario is Braxton obsessed. And totally ignorant to viewers who hate the direction of the show. Since Brax's initial departure she has managed to coax him back and involve him in another revenge plot. I have seen the announcement of a novel being published and guess what, it is about Eye For An Eye and the Braxtons.

The show has improved but only by a moderate bit. It is more watchable, but is still a crime show. It can only improve once Lucy moves on to pastures new. Than again who could her successor be? Susan Bower, making us think, better the devil you know.

[~Lynd~]

I was happy  with the direction the show was taking until news of the books and other Braxton related things come out.Enough already.They aren't doing the show any favours in the long run.They can't drag it out forever.