Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[~Lynd~]

I'm really enjoying HAA as of late but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't concerned about what'll happen once Dan's time is done.I fear it'll go back to the same old messy state it's been in for years.

It needs someone who knows the history of the show and understands how to incorporate it into the present which shouldn't be to hard seeing most of those issues are still  relevant today, but until recently the last several years have only seen people want to change the show, and not for the better.

I guess we'll find out come August.

[Homeandawayfan.]

H&A has always been more adventurous and more teen orientated than Neighbours (Neighbours was even nicknamed Neighbores) and darker and edgier which is why I always liked it in the 1990s but back then they had the balance right, a mix of hilarious storylines and family drama, whereas now it harks much more towards the gritty, dark and destructiveness. In 2004 they made the grit more prevalent but 2005 and 2006 was Shakespeare compared to now, they still had a good balance, and it was watchable. 1988-2003 such killings and drug wars and crime stories were quite rare.

[Blaxland 89]

I know what people mean about it improving but I think the quality is incredibly poor compared to before. 

There is still an incredibly imbalance between old and young. They seem incapable of writing anything other than long lost children for anyone other 40. I personally hate this new Irene story line. It really feels like its just been pulled out of a hat. 

Spoiler

Take Brax for example. He is returning with a story line completely revolving and focused on him. But a fab actress and character like Morag returns and it all revolves around other peoples story. Could they not have come up with a big story involving her, if she is to be in it? Something we haven't seen before maybe. 

 

[Homeandawayfan.]

I concur. The show focuses on a certain clique of characters and none of them are people I would want to know in real life such as Charlotte, Kat, Tank, Maddie, Brax etc. And the gooduns such as Palmer, Roo, Jett, Alf, VJ, Irene, Leah etc get to be glorified extras. To many of us the show is broke, and it will take years for it to be fixed.

At least when I watch Emmerdale, EastEnders, Neighbours etc I get watchable telly.

[Luke39]

Hmm yeah, I dunno. I'm enjoying Home and Away at the moment. It's not got the right balance sure. But I'm really enjoying the teen group. Neighbours I think gives its older actors and characters far more screen time THEN Home and Away does. In Home and Away its the complete opposite. If anything to take from Neighbors. Home and Away needs to merge the young and old more. But I watch Neighbour's. And while I feel a more traditional connection. There is something about Home and Away at the moment that's unpredictable. But that's just me.

[Blaxland 89]

Personally I will only be satisfied when the drama will once again come from the characters history, personality and story lines within. And how all characters work well within each other. 

eg. If they randomly took one character and wrote a duologue with every other character they scenes should all be just as engaging and make sense

.Take Celia, in 1989 you could put her alone in a scene, with Pippa, Ailsa, Alf, Morag, Marilyn, Lance, Martin,Fisher, Emma, Bobby, Stacey, Sally even! They would all work well but differently as their personalities complement each other.  

I'm talking gibberish now. lol 

 

[Slade]

3 hours ago, Blaxland 89 said:

I know what people mean about it improving but I think the quality is incredibly poor compared to before. 

There is still an incredibly imbalance between old and young. They seem incapable of writing anything other than long lost children for anyone other 40. I personally hate this new Irene story line. It really feels like its just been pulled out of a hat. 

Spoiler

Take Brax for example. He is returning with a story line completely revolving and focused on him. But a fab actress and character like Morag returns and it all revolves around other peoples story. Could they not have come up with a big story involving her, if she is to be in it? Something we haven't seen before maybe. 

 

For the umpteenth time:

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[Blaxland 89]

Apologies. 

[Red Ranger 1]

Personally, I gave up on Emmerdale this week and gave up on EastEnders ten years ago.In my opinion, they're a cautionary tale of what Home and Away could become if it isn't very careful: Shows where there are no likable characters, so no viewer interest in the outcome of the storylines, so people switch off.

[cadyctslover]

17 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Personally, I gave up on Emmerdale this week and gave up on EastEnders ten years ago.In my opinion, they're a cautionary tale of what Home and Away could become if it isn't very careful: Shows where there are no likable characters, so no viewer interest in the outcome of the storylines, so people switch off.

It's probably a very different show compared to where it was in 2006, but give EastEnders another shot.

I'm not familiar with much of the history of the show, but I have been watching regularly since 2014 and it has become my favourite soap. Apparently it was in a terrible state prior to the current Series Producer taking over towards the end of 2013, and has improved dramatically since. It's a good example of what can be done through good story-telling and (largely) respectful reference to the past.