Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Luke39]

I think.they care less about Oscar currently lol. I think.the Braxtons just organically became widely popular. Not Cameron or anyone's fault. Its the fan.Who latched onto them. But you knoe when they say way to ruin a good thing. That's exactly what happened. But they were so popular they even got a mini spin off. Neighbours cant say.they have ever had characters popular enough to base a special event around. But point is they just over did it. To the point the characterization of the Braxtons railed the show. To the point crime and drama was constant. Like I said a show like h and a. A sleepy town near a beach. Its better when its not so crime driven. And you have doses. Charlotte was a great example. Had a balance. But any way its getting their. But end of day it was the fans who made Braxtons popular. Not anyone else.

[Gerard]

5 hours ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

Well as you know I did some research recently into the pre history of H&A and the creator spent ages researching foster children for real, so the show was deffo based around a fostering element, an element that is virtually non existent today. I even found on a Australian Media Archive website that years ago Ch7 kept archives of stills from current and future shows, and every couple of months they made a new folder, and Home And Away appears in a Aug/Sep 1985 folder of stills of Ch7 future and current productions. The creator Alan Bateman cared for his show, you could tell that when it first aired, so it says a lot about the current producers, who only care for the Braxtons or a certain clique of characters such as Kat, Charlotte, Phoebe, Ricky, Andy, Oscar or Maddy. The show may be fixed but it will take years for it to be fixed if ever it does get fixed. I think the rot begun with Cameron Welsh and it has carried on.

I always thought the foster family was a very clever set-up for a long-running serial. The fact that the younger cast could leave and be replaced naturally really was such a good idea. Back at the start almost every adult had a go at fostering, either officially or unofficially. So we had Alf & Alilsa, and Donald as well as Tom and Pippa, even Bobby, and in later years, Irene. Perhaps a bit unrealistic, but it all worked so well. I'm not sure why they felt the need to move away from that set-up. It's not like fostering has gone out of fashion or doesn't happen any more.

Nowadays apart from the set-up in Summer Bay House, we have a lot of random characters (mentioned above), mostly linked by the Braxtons for some reason. There is no natural logic behind why they are there. Then again, even the likes of Chris, Nate and Hannah feel rater disconnected.

They could easily do a clearout of certain characters and bring in some new ones who would have some sort of closer connection to the core characters.

[Luke39]

12 minutes ago, Gerard said:

I always thought the foster family was a very clever set-up for a long-running serial. The fact that the younger cast could leave and be replaced naturally really was such a good idea. Back at the start almost every adult had a go at fostering, either officially or unofficially. So we had Alf & Alilsa, and Donald as well as Tom and Pippa, even Bobby, and in later years, Irene. Perhaps a bit unrealistic, but it all worked so well. I'm not sure why they felt the need to move away from that set-up. It's not like fostering has gone out of fashion or doesn't happen any more.

Nowadays apart from the set-up in Summer Bay House, we have a lot of random characters (mentioned above), mostly linked by the Braxtons for some reason. There is no natural logic behind why they are there. Then again, even the likes of Chris, Nate and Hannah feel rater disconnected.

They could easily do a clearout of certain characters and bring in some new ones who would have some sort of closer connection to the core characters.

True. But the foster aspect has sorta returned since Maddy and Spencer were introduced. So im liking that aspect. Currently Evie, Oscar, Vj, Hunter with Alf and Leah.  A clean out sure. But would like characters like Billie, Maddy, Matt to stay on. But guess when you leave hs become adults. What else is their left in Summer Bay. But h and a has potential to break the trend of young actors leaving. I don't get developing a teen character into an adult. Then leaving. 

[Homeandawayfan.]

We do have John and Maz fostering Jett and the odd ref but usually they are few and far between. As said, the characters just are all random, they are not part of a family unit, Kyle, Andy and Josh were bought in as part of Braxtonfest and they are still around even after many of the Braxtons have left. Lucy Addario would be great producing a show like Underbelly or even a official spin off of H&A called The Braxtons. Then she can have crimes, fires, drug wars, bombings to he hearts content.

[Luke39]

23 minutes ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

We do have John and Maz fostering Jett and the odd ref but usually they are few and far between. As said, the characters just are all random, they are not part of a family unit, Kyle, Andy and Josh were bought in as part of Braxtonfest and they are still around even after many of the Braxtons have left. Lucy Addario would be great producing a show like Underbelly or even a official spin off of H&A called The Braxtons. Then she can have crimes, fires, drug wars, bombings to he hearts content.

I guess you could argue. Irene is fostering haha. Or Roo with Maddy and Matt lol. But yeah John was the only last one. Not sure Lucy deserves all the hate. If the Audiece didn't respond to the Braxtons then well thing's would hv been different. Or she should of introduced them sporadically. But alas.

[~Lynd~]

Maddy & Spencer weren't fostered.They ran away to be together and ended up with Roo but it's not the same thing at all.They weren't in need and had decent homes.What made it even more ridiculous is that they broke up not long after.

The same thing with Maddy, Matt and Roo.They're literally just housemates.Roo has no responsibility for them at all.

John and Mazz are the current foster careers but only when it suits them which is rarely.It definitely needs to be a bigger focus point.

[Skylover]

Were Maddy and Spencer a copy of Shannon and Curtis?

[~Lynd~]

I'm not sure.I know they were together but I thought they were legitimate foster kids as well which Maddy & Spencer weren't.

[Red Ranger 1]

Well, Irene has literally never fostered anyone.She just seems to grab any passing teenager and move them in with her and no-one questions it.Olivia is one of the worst frankly, running away to Irene on a whim and Irene deciding to keep her instead of telling her to grow up and go home.(They did try and add a bit more depth to it eventually but by then it was too little too late.Certainly she had a more likable responsible family member than Maddy and Spencer did.And yes, Maddy and Spencer were very like Shannon and Curtis, although they were proper foster children.)It's been the same with everyone that's lived with Irene, from Selina through to Belle through to Sasha and Spencer, so it's nothing new to have teenagers who actually have reasonably acceptable families to be "fostered".It seemed like Leah was being set up as someone who would take in waifs and strays when Matt came to live with her but that's kind of fizzled out so now she's just got her family there.

[dee123]

54 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

Were Maddy and Spencer a copy of Shannon and Curtis?

This current team copy something? Never!