Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[KIMIF1]

I am sure  'I was distracted'  wouldn't be accepted as an excuse over here for killing someone on the road,  but still I am not surprised by the responses  just wonder what the reaction would have been if that was a Braxton driving.  No wonder Sophie felt like getting rid of him, he was saying he loved her and that they would get back together,  whilst all the time he was chasing  Hannah  and wittering on to Ricky  about her - don't blame her.  Am just waiting  to my favourite character have a happy departure, then like many others am finished with the bay -  shame have watched for a long time and really enjoyed it,  but its just not worth the effort now

[Red Ranger 1]

5 hours ago, emmasi said:

I think I would abandon the person who tried to set me on fire too.

Yes but it was just utterly ridiculous.One minute he's desperate to get her back to the hospital, to the point of putting other people's lives at risk, the next he just walks away from her with a cold and dismissive "Stay there", as if he's completely forgotten how vulnerable and unstable she is.

3 hours ago, Luke39 said:

Are the current producers ruining Home and Away? I would say they were, but they are attempting to Rectify things.

I thought they were last year but now it's obvious that they don't have a clue what the show should be or what the long-term audience wants.

[Jacklost]

9 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Nate did badly screw up in that situation: It's easy to say in retrospect what he should have done but he made a massively bad call by going to see Sophie on his own, nearly getting himself killed and ultimately getting someone else killed.And he did seem to have time to stop the car rather than just ploughing on regardless.(The fact that he promptly abandons Sophie after the crash made his actions even more ridiculous.)It did seem like he should be held more accountable than he was.But I think we forget about it because it was a single isolated incident, whereas for characters with the surname Braxton and others that's pretty much their permanent lifestyle, causing death and havoc and then walking away unscathed.

I think it made it better, he left her to check on the hurt and damaged. That's what any real doctor would do

 

1 hour ago, KIMIF1 said:

I am sure  'I was distracted'  wouldn't be accepted as an excuse over here for killing someone on the road,  but still I am not surprised by the responses  just wonder what the reaction would have been if that was a Braxton driving.  No wonder Sophie felt like getting rid of him, he was saying he loved her and that they would get back together,  whilst all the time he was chasing  Hannah  and wittering on to Ricky  about her - don't blame her.  Am just waiting  to my favourite character have a happy departure, then like many others am finished with the bay -  shame have watched for a long time and really enjoyed it,  but its just not worth the effort now

Sophie was insane long before, trying to drive on him before

[KIMIF1]

Nate admitted he had cheated on her long before they came to the bay which was partly the cause of her being unbalanced, plus how did she get hold of the prescription drugs she was supposed to have taken.  I don't see how  him letting her take the blame for the accident helped her at all, she was not in control of the vehicle he was and you don't need to be a brain surgeon to know how to use a brake - yes she did need help but he gave her far more problems  than help.

 

  

[Homeandawayfan.]

3 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

I thought they were last year but now it's obvious that they don't have a clue what the show should be or what the long-term audience wants.

In what way would you say they are ruining the show again?

[Red Ranger 1]

On ‎22‎/‎07‎/‎2016 at 0:14 PM, Homeandawayfan. said:

In what way would you say they are ruining the show again?

Every single departure this year has been appalling. The show only seems to exist to character assassinate people while glorifying characters who are utterly abhorrent. The show's habit of letting characters get away with serious crimes and thinking the audience want that has plummeted to new depths.When the most upbeat exit this year is Maddy going off to rehab after losing an arm, I'm not sure why we should bother investing in characters when the show is completely incapable of telling their story is a satisfying manner.

[Homeandawayfan.]

27 minutes ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Every single departure this year has been appalling. The show only seems to exist to character assassinate people while glorifying characters who are utterly abhorrent. The show's habit of letting characters get away with serious crimes and thinking the audience want that has plummeted to new depths.When the most upbeat exit this year is Maddy going off to rehab after losing an arm, I'm not sure why we should bother investing in characters when the show is completely incapable of telling their story is a satisfying manner.

Andy Barrett has plenty of blood on his hands yet he walks around like nothing has happened. He must be the secret son of Paul Robinson from Neighbours, whose many crimes have gone unpunished. Barrett killed Jake Pirovic. Also others do drugs and never get caught for it.

And yes, serious crimes is the Braxtons all over, and they walk around unpunished.

[Blaxland 89]

35 minutes ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Every single departure this year has been appalling. The show only seems to exist to character assassinate people while glorifying characters who are utterly abhorrent. The show's habit of letting characters get away with serious crimes and thinking the audience want that has plummeted to new depths.When the most upbeat exit this year is Maddy going off to rehab after losing an arm, I'm not sure why we should bother investing in characters when the show is completely incapable of telling their story is a satisfying manner.

So well put

[Blaxland 89]

It's funny that when you look back you realise how bad it has got. I remember complaining about 2010 being bad but recently watched an episode and it looks superb next to a 2016 episode. 

[jodlebirger]

I don't think the departures this year will beat the bad departures in 2010. Never.... because those were so bad as they could be, they tried really hard to destroy a lot of character development and good characters just to make the remaining look good. And they messed with sensitive topics. I think people is looking at the past with rose tinted glasses... or some got tired of all terrible writing, from 2010 and onwards and this year's departures are the final straw. 

Spoiler

Andy and Josh on the run... Well, being on the run isn't exactly a happy ending. Kirsty and Kane are a good example of that. ;-) But it just sound like a really lazy ending to me, it's like the writers couldn't come up with something better and then chose this. And in comparison; Martha and Hugo ran away from the police in 2010.... Martha - Alf's granddaughter ran away with a people smuggler who had killed tonnes of lives. Martha was actually innocent - but she "loved" him. How on earth can Andy and Josh running away being a worse character ending than that?? 

And Oscar dying in an explosion - well, completely unnecessary, but not completely terrible either. At least they killed him off before they did further damage to his character.... 

I haven't seen it all, but just read about them enough to understand what was going on, and I know I will just feel that the storylines are rubbish, but not as bad as in 2010.

But to me, I want to watch the explosion when it finally airs here. It doesn't sound all that bad, and probably provide some good scenes from Evie, Roo and others. I know that I will be annoyed how everything will be over too quickly (including Evie's grief for Oscar), but still doesn't sound that bad. And I know there are some coming storylines after that, which will make me still want to watch this show even if I have problems with characters like Ash, Phoebe, Hunter and a few more. 

In my opinion 2016, the first month has been rubbish, but not more rubbish than some storylines in 2011-13, and most of 2014 and 2015. But they need to be more loyal to the fans when they write the characters, and I mean all the characters. Because not only a few are popular. Also those non-hunks have several fans, and the older ones... and so on.