Homeandawayfan. Posted July 10, 2016 Report Posted July 10, 2016 H&A is more watchable and bearable than 2 years ago. I am more used to the current format a bit I suppose, it has toned down moderately. Still has a lot of flaws but nice to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Luke39 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Posted July 11, 2016 I have to say alot of the new characters are not appealing me all that much atm. I really like Billie the most. But their always a recycle of characters, and new ones coming in. Funny prob disliked the characters 3 years ago, now I miss them haha. Spoiler Prob in minority but really miss Maddy. I think people who have watched for years, were used to the format, when that changed, obviousley their perception of the show skewed a bit. 2015 was a really good year. 2016 is watchable, and with all the Braxtons, now the Barretts gone. Seems to going to back to where it was even in 2008.
Gerard Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 On 10/07/2016 at 11:36 PM, Homeandawayfan. said: H&A is more watchable and bearable than 2 years ago. I am more used to the current format a bit I suppose, it has toned down moderately. Still has a lot of flaws but nice to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. I would have agreed with you up until recently, they did seem to be toning down the crime and bringing back the family aspect, but we seem (at UK pace) now to just be served up on a daily basis a lot of random relationship storylines, which are in no way interesting, We have the unbelievable Ricky/Nate scenario, who seemed to get married out of nowhere and 5 minutes later it looks like the marriage is on the rocks already. Ash and Kat - are another relationship I find hard to believe. As for the teens, who knows who's going out with who any more. I think not having Marilyn, Alf or Irene about is not helping either.. is Alf Home or Away (excuse the pun) at the moment? He seems unfortunately a bit of a spare part these days, so he could be there and I haven't noticed. OK so the crime has been toned down a bit for now, but they don't seem to have anything interesting to put in its place, now that the Charlottte mystery has pretty much been wrapped up. I guess H&A is in a bit of a transitional phase right now. Hopefully it will settle down again soon. But I think the best years of the series are far behind it, as we approach the 30th Anniversary. That might be a good point to stop watching if things don't improve somewhat.
Homeandawayfan. Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 2004 was probably the last good year. Even though The Stalker storyline happened, it was a good year overall. After that common opinion is the show hit a slow decline.
c120701 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 4 hours ago, Homeandawayfan. said: 2004 was probably the last good year. Even though The Stalker storyline happened, it was a good year overall. After that common opinion is the show hit a slow decline. With the exception of the first quarter, maybe even first half of 2008, I don't think the show has had a truly great period since.
jodlebirger Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 On 12. juli 2016 at 9:46 PM, c120701 said: With the exception of the first quarter, maybe even first half of 2008, I don't think the show has had a truly great period since. In general first quarter of 2008 was good and had some excellent storylines, but it also had some less good and bad ones too, in my opinion. Some storylines were over the top and not good for example Johnny stabbing Sally (which was a recycled storyline) and especially Sam storyline and the pastor Hall storyline. But I have always thought the second quarter was better. It was good until the Olympic Cliffhanger, then it went over the top, but it still had some good parts in it. But I liked Sally's final week and I loved "Colleen finding out she was a Stewart" storyline. And I liked Annie, Geoff and Adens storylines. I started to watch H&A regularly again in the last half of 2007, it became much better around the time when Annie/Geoff were introduced. I think that 2008 was a good year overall, and 2009 wasn't that bad as many said. It had some bad ones, but still had good and well developed storylines and characters. I feel the show lacks emotions - something that has been missing since late 2009, early 2010. And when we get something sad or happy storylines, they have very soon been over and we have been back to stalker, triangles and monotone storylines. I want more emotions, more character development, and family and friends troubles. I want to know the characters before they are getting in a relationship, and I want the characters to know each other. I miss more natural development of things and happenings.
Gerard Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 1 hour ago, jodlebirger said: I feel the show lacks emotions - something that has been missing since late 2009, early 2010. And when we something sad or happy storylines, they have very soon been over and we have been back to stalker, triangles and monotone storylines. I want more emotions, more character development, and love troubles. I want to know the characters before they are getting in a relationship, and I want the characters to know each other. I miss more natural development of things and happenings. Exactly. H&A used to develop the characters so well, so that even if they were out of line or doing bad deeds, you could empathise with them. Characters came first and the plots naturally followed, and even if they were a bit OTT, that was OK. At one time, relationships were meaningful and believable. You can just imagine the storyliners playing "spin the bottle" once a month to mix up all the relationships. Now everything is plot driven, going from one crisis to the next, and characters are just parachuted into storylines at random. Then these storylines reach a dramatic climax, and the fallout lasts a couple of episodes, then it's back to business as usual.
Luke39 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Posted July 12, 2016 I don't know i thought 2008 was great. Your definition of a great periord can vary. 2004 is a bit exagerrated. I mean i thought 2011 was a great year, but that is just me. I Thought last year was the best year, in a while. You had that balance back, with normal people feeling danger in their lifes with Charlotte. Felt like The Summerbay kids all over again, with Ed Sherran e.t.c. But then lately its become very crime driven again. Spoiler I mean with The Morgans in Witness Protection, they feel just kinda like Braxtons 2.0 to me. That is gonna bring alot more crime into the show imo. It is like with Matt annd Maddy, i agree very plot driven. I feel their were signs in 2014, they were gonna become an item. But example is put in random storylines, then climax. Then Matt is back to buisness per usual, like nothing happened. That is the same with all storylines and characters. Needs to be more focus on the characters driving the plots I agree, instead of the other way around. It just feels like they are all placeholders, and don't hold any real value.
CaptainHulk Posted July 13, 2016 Report Posted July 13, 2016 It's been a year (Give or Take) since Bennett took over with his s*** shovel; Has there been any REAL improvement?
Blaxland 89 Posted July 13, 2016 Report Posted July 13, 2016 The show just needs everything described here and a bit more to make it worth watching again for me.
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