Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Slade]

  On 01/03/2016 at 17:36, 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. 

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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. 

 

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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]

  On 02/03/2016 at 00:35, 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.

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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.

[j.laur5]

  On 27/02/2016 at 14:44, ~Lynd~ said:

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.

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What's happening in August?.

[Luke39]

  On 02/03/2016 at 20:58, j.laur5 said:

What's happening in August?.

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Is that when a new producer is announced? Not sure.

[Dan F]

  On 02/03/2016 at 20:58, j.laur5 said:

What's happening in August?.

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  On 02/03/2016 at 21:30, Luke39 said:

Is that when a new producer is announced? Not sure.

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It's when the new Script Exec's material will start airing following Dan Bennett's tenure.

[Red Ranger 1]

  On 02/03/2016 at 18:22, cadyctslover said:

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.

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Really? Looking at comments online it seems it's subject to just as many "The current producer is ruining the show!" comments from fans as Home and Away is, with a popular opinion being that he's trampled over the show's history, retconning important details and ruining long-term characters and families, is entirely dependent on shock tactics to keep interest and introduces storylines that drag on for years with no resolution in sight...

[Homeandawayfan.]

H&A does not seem to trample over its history like Neighbours does. With a long running show there are going to be continuity errors such as in 1988 when Celia said Roo was her only niece and yet Rebecca magically was created, Celia's sister's daughter by Flathead. But unlike other soaps H&A does not rewrite its history to suit current plots. It seems to remain intact. Neighbours and EE are guilty of rewriting history, such as the Ramsay Retcon and casting Ally Fowler as another character rather than Zoe Davis. That would be like Danni Minogue returning to H&A as John Palmer's sister or something. Corrie, Emmerdale, Shortland Street, Hollyoaks, and H&A seem to leave the past in the past which is good.

 

 

[Dan F]

  On 04/03/2016 at 14:46, Homeandawayfan. said:

But unlike other soaps H&A does not rewrite its history to suit current plots. Neighbours and EE are guilty of rewriting history, such as the Ramsay Retcon and casting Ally Fowler as another character rather than Zoe Davis. That would be like Danni Minogue returning to H&A as John Palmer's sister or something.

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I wouldn't speak too soon, we've already had former main cast member Andrew/Charlton Hill return as a one-ep guest a couple of years back, and we'll also be seeing another former regular returning as a (presumably) different character later this year:

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