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Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?


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2 hours ago, Luke39 said:

1988? That is going back a bit lol. I don't think that's realistic, or even good practice, to hope its like it was 20 years ago. I Don't think that is the expectation here. I Think the expectation is sticking to its roots, yet feeling like its a show in 2016. IT has the latter correct, the former no. 

ETA: Sorry about the UK spoiler, diddn't realize. 

As stated I simply meant that things described in this clip are what the show would have to have now for me personality to start watching it again. No where have I said it should be the same as 1988. But the bare principles of good story telling, which the current shoe does not have, never change whether it's 1988, 2016 or 2116, jk Rowling, Shakespeare or dickens. 

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3 hours ago, Bobby Forever Missed said:

Oh please god no! it's posts like this that make me stay off H&A social media

People have different opinions, some like it like it was before the Braxtons some like it better when they where there :) I think it's boring when there's no action in the show. Maybe that was ok 10-15 years ago but I don't feel that works anymore but honestly any of the previous years would be better than this year

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5 hours ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

I think the fuzzy family drama days of the show are well and truly over. The format of the show seems to be the way going forward. Neighbours is not perfect but is much more watchable.

Sadly, you are probably right. I watched that early years trailer and it reminded me how good the show used to be. Maybe a bit old-fashioned and idyllic, but it will still full of drama and controversy running alongside family stories, where usually wayward teens were given a better life, where bad behaviour was usually punished and people generally did the right thing for the right reasons. Now it's about the opposite of most of those things.

Neighbours has strayed from its core family values over the years, but always seems to come back to its roots. The same can't be said for H&A. Some people will say that the world is a different place and to get over it, but I think the underlying values that H&A started with are still about in the world today, even if they aren't reflected in the series. I am sure they could come up with a contemporary take on foster families and small town life if they really wanted to. Life isn't that different.

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There is no big reason why H&A has had to ditch its family format and become a crime show, to make people think that reflects the world today. Lots of communities have core family values still. Like Neighbours does, and I think Emmerdale and EE.

Neighbours launched Home And Away in many ways. Although it is a complete myth that H&A was created from scratch because Channel 7 regretted letting go of Neighbours once 10 turned it into a success in 1986. I did some digging and proved H&A was in development in 1985. Bevan Lee said this as did Bateman. In 1986 it was an already existing project chosen as the replacement for Neighbours and Sons & Daughters. It needed beefing up a bit to become a long running rival to Neighbours so more cast was added. H&A appears in a Channel 7 set of proof sheets of publicity and production images of upcoming and current Channel 7 shows in Sep 1985. See this link http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query="Home And Away" Decade%3A"1980-1989";querytype=;rec=2;resCount=10

Bateman said he had wanted to create a show that reflected modern Aussie life rather than how it used to be. And that is what he did with H&A, lots of community spirit and wayward teens who needed guidance due to troubled backgrounds. All that went out of the window in recent years.

 

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