Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[dee123]

On 28/05/2016 at 11:58 AM, pembie said:

The Michael Keaton Batman movies are my favourite so I have always thought Jack Nicholson was always the best craziest Joker in a movie.Heath Ledger was good but he never played Joker as a fun clownish character I didn't think just as a crazy insane person I guess he made the character more scary in a way But since playing the Arkham games Mark Hamill is the best Joker.. I know this is totally off topic

Completely agree. He's the only one who knows how to switch from funny to deadly in a split second and when is the right time to do it.

[Homeandawayfan.]

I know some of us may find the "Neighbours is closer to H&A than H&A is" a bit wearing but I think it is true. It is like H&A has died and lives on in Neighbours. While Neighbours has stunts it has mainly many light hearted family scenes and local events, relaxing garden scenes, school corridor and classroom scenes with the usual typical teens getting into pranks, and a Colleen Smart busybody in Sheila Canning. And the local cop mucks up but always means well, Brennan is that man. Light hearted tones mixed with the odd bit of action. Everything that H&A used to be. And harsh background music is rare in Neighbours.

All the classroom scenes in H&A seem to have a huge explosion or psycho kids. Any rare everyday scenes in H&A seem to end with a gunshot or explosion. The local cop seems to have many enemies and dark secrets. So I think the "Neighbours is closer to H&A than H&A is" does have a lot of merit. So yes, the current producers are ruining H&A, suffocating the show.

[Red Ranger 1]

Frankly, I'm struggling to remember the last time we had a classroom scene in either show, which is ironic given that both of them took characters who should be leaving school in a few months and stuck them in the year below with little or no explanation.Neighbours' teens seem more likely to steal stuff than attend classes and the show has just as much of a problem with characters' actions failing to have consequences as Home and Away.Go on a Neighbours discussion and you'll see just as many complaints about characters constantly getting away with crimes.Home and Away's local cop also mucks up but always means well(I don't really know where this "many enemies and dark secrets" thing comes from), Neighbours' Brennan is considered as big a joke and would have been fired years ago in real life.Both shows suffer the same problem that whereas once they were set in a close-knit community where everyone interacted on a regular basis, now they are divided up into little cliques of characters who struggle to cross over.But perhaps that's merely an indication of society, where even 25 years ago it was admitted that the soap standard of streets where everyone knows each other bore little relation to reality.I wouldn't have said gunshots or explosions were any more common in Home and Away than Neighbours.(Okay, maybe gunshots.But I'm struggling to remember there ever being an explosion in a classroom in Home and Away, and I don't think the school's suffered a major disaster since the 90s, whereas Neighbours burned down its school just last year.)Indeed, the spoilers for the UK have both shows this coming week having the solution to a long-standing murder mystery.And if Home and Away has got rid of the loathsome woman that most of the audience want to strangle while Neighbours still insists on ramming them down our throats, I know who gets my tick of approval.

[c120701]

1 hour ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Frankly, I'm struggling to remember the last time we had a classroom scene in either show, which is ironic given that both of them took characters who should be leaving school in a few months and stuck them in the year below with little or no explanation.Neighbours' teens seem more likely to steal stuff than attend classes and the show has just as much of a problem with characters' actions failing to have consequences as Home and Away.Go on a Neighbours discussion and you'll see just as many complaints about characters constantly getting away with crimes.Home and Away's local cop also mucks up but always means well(I don't really know where this "many enemies and dark secrets" thing comes from), Neighbours' Brennan is considered as big a joke and would have been fired years ago in real life.Both shows suffer the same problem that whereas once they were set in a close-knit community where everyone interacted on a regular basis, now they are divided up into little cliques of characters who struggle to crossover.But perhaps that's merely an indication of society, where even 25 years it was admitted that the soap standard of streets where everyone knows each other bore little relation to reality.I wouldn't have said gunshots or explosions were any more common in Home and Away than Neighbours.(Okay, maybe gunshots.But I'm struggling to remember there ever being an explosion in a classroom in Home and Away, and I don't think the school's suffered a major disaster since the 90s, whereas Neighbours burned down its school just last year.)Indeed, the spoilers for the UK have both shows this coming week having the solution to a long-standing murder mystery.And if Home and Away has got rid of the loathsome woman that most of the audience want to strangle while Neighbours still insists on ramming them down our throats, I know who gets my tick of approval.

Didn't the Summer Bay High roof fall in during Gina's reign due to a storm?

[Red Ranger 1]

10 hours ago, c120701 said:

Didn't the Summer Bay High roof fall in during Gina's reign due to a storm?

Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that, I've an odd feeling I'd got it mixed up with a similar storyline the following year but maybe I imagined that too!

[c120701]

2 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that, I've an odd feeling I'd got it mixed up with a similar storyline the following year but maybe I imagined that too!

No, there was definitely something very similar and I think the roof collapse was blamed on damage from the previous year, but I can't remember exactly as it was a period where I was only half watching the show to see what the characters I still cared about were doing.

[Red Ranger 1]

I remembered there was a storyline about the Department trying to close the school and everyone campaigning to keep it open, and that it was partly because of some off screen damage, but thinking about it I think the damage from the storm was what finished it off.

[cadyctslover]

Didn't they spout some nonsense about damage from a hurricane in 2006.. that never happened?

[Matt]

2 hours ago, cadyctslover said:

Didn't they spout some nonsense about damage from a hurricane in 2006.. that never happened?

There was structural damage from the cyclone at the very beginning of 2006 (Eps 4101/4102/4103) which was further exacerbated by "The Great Storm" in September 2011.

Not as far fetched as the Beachside Diner's structural damage that resulted in its closure in 2008 from aftershocks subsequent to the 1996 earthquake (4 years prior to the Beachside Diner's first appearance)  

[Red Ranger 1]

I seem to remember there were references to "that earthquake last year" (or words to that effect) which had us all going "What earthquake?"

But then I've been wrong once already.