Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Luke39]

Am I the only one who likes the Drama and Crime Driven Stories? It is different, after watching Family Wholesome Drama for 20 odd years. I enjoyed the Braxtons in doses. And I have actually enjoyed the Morgans. I don't see the point in complaining about a show you claim to like and watch. IT is not the 90's anymore the world has changed. Home and Away is not a innocent, pure show anymore. That ship has sailed lol. I think some need to accept this. Home and Away is reflecting today's culture and society. 

[cadyctslover]

26 minutes ago, Luke39 said:

Am I the only one who likes the Drama and Crime Driven Stories? It is different, after watching Family Wholesome Drama for 20 odd years. I enjoyed the Braxtons in doses. And I have actually enjoyed the Morgans. I don't see the point in complaining about a show you claim to like and watch. IT is not the 90's anymore the world has changed. Home and Away is not a innocent, pure show anymore. That ship has sailed lol. I think some need to accept this. Home and Away is reflecting today's culture and society. 

Talking of broken records.

Nobody is saying they want the show to be exactly the same as it was in the 80's, or the 90's. Nobody. There is also nobody saying that they don't want any drama or crime-driven stories.

Posters are just making the valid point that it is an overused theme, and if the characters lives are in peril every 5 minutes, the dramatic effect is lost.

[alexx]

5 hours ago, Luke39 said:

Am I the only one who likes the Drama and Crime Driven Stories? It is different, after watching Family Wholesome Drama for 20 odd years. I enjoyed the Braxtons in doses. And I have actually enjoyed the Morgans. I don't see the point in complaining about a show you claim to like and watch. IT is not the 90's anymore the world has changed. Home and Away is not a innocent, pure show anymore. That ship has sailed lol. I think some need to accept this. Home and Away is reflecting today's culture and society. 

The world may have changed but people haven't changed that much. We all still have innocent, sinister, manipulative, positive and emotional responses to every single thing that happens to us and I find that interesting to watch and that's never going to change.

Home and Away wasn't actually ever really about having tender chats about family - it was pretty much just an exploration of a seaside society including a foster home, families, surfers and local business owners. It was about how they interact with each other, the good, the positive, the bad and the sad. That still goes on and happens every second of our lives so there's no excuse to stop telling those stories and drift away from it's original format as far as I'm concerned.

[~Lynd~]

Well...  

Spoiler

Apparently they're killing off Billie which is another nail in the coffin imo.Why do they insist on getting rid of the few good people they have ASAP and leaving us with bores?I've been loyal to this show my entire live but I think it's hanging by a thread.It's just not worth the terrible characters and constant  crime & violence that never really goes anywhere besides in circles which as you know never end;

Please Excuse the spoiler tags.Peace out.

[Light of the Bay]

17 hours ago, cadyctslover said:

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned and I missed it, but did anyone notice Dan Bennett announce that he has left the show again? (I know Matt did)

It was announced on the main site when he quit in December last year, and then we discussed it here when he announced he was returning in April.

I suspect Dan's material will now air up until the new year. I wonder who will replace him in this role?

This is worrying. The fact that he never seems to last long in the post tells me that he is having trouble/disagreements BTS. How much longer are they going to keep the absolute hack of a producer that is Lucy Addario? 

It makes me so sad to see what this once wonderful show has morphed into. It truly would be unwatchable if it weren't for the older characters.

[Homeandawayfan.]

Sadly Lucy has been at the helm since May 2012. I think Aussie shows keep their producers longer than UK soaps which change every 2 or 3 years, that should apply to Neighbours and H&A so they don't go stagnant. Lucy would be great producing Underbelly, she can have as many crimes as she likes. I worry that she will stay on H&A and be in charge for the 30th, in which case it will be a Brax/Barrett/Ashford fest.

[CaptainHulk]

Right someone needs to stage a Coup, Shanghai Addario and ship her to well, Shanghai... if that happens!

[Homeandawayfan.]

Well Josh and Andy being mass murderers, having killed 4 people (Pirovic, Charlotte, Oscar and Hannah) and escaping justice tonight shows how ruined the show is, and beyond repair.

[Ludub]

42 minutes ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

Well Josh and Andy being mass murderers, having killed 4 people (Pirovic, Charlotte, Oscar and Hannah) and escaping justice tonight shows how ruined the show is, and beyond repair.

They're not 'mass murderers'! Lol! Andy is a murderer, I'll absolutely accept that, but he only murdered one person. He played a part in the accidental death of two people (caused by Roo's gross negligence which everyone is bending over backwards to forgive her for) and is therefore 'apparently' guilty of manslaughter. Josh didn't 'murder' anyone. He accidentally killed Charlotte in self defense (again, manslaughter... for some reason). Whatever you feel about Andy and Josh, and it's your right to dislike them (that's absolutely fine), they are not 'mass murderers'. Also, even if Andy had actually murdered three people, those would have been his crimes and his alone. Josh's crimes are separate. Anyway, I'm angry about this entire storyline from start to finish. They could have chosen a much more sensible murderer than Josh and I think they may have originally intended to from the way it was played. I don't think the actor had the slightest clue that it was the 'blind man what did it' until a long time after, which is why there was absolutely no sense of him being guilty in how he played the character (which is now being used as proof of his complete lack of remorse). This year has been atrocious in terms of writing! Just terrible. The handling of Oscar's death being one of the worst examples, and this getaway storyline just adding insult to injury. Love or hate the Barretts, the show writers have managed to achieve a very peculiar situation in which both sides are incredibly unhappy. That takes some doing, so let's give them a little round of applause for that.

[Gerard]

1 hour ago, Homeandawayfan. said:

Well Josh and Andy being mass murderers, having killed 4 people (Pirovic, Charlotte, Oscar and Hannah) and escaping justice tonight shows how ruined the show is, and beyond repair.

H&A used to be a very moral show where the bad guys were punished, and by bad, I mean like stealing a loaf of bread, not blowing up the Diner. It's one thing to show all the criminality in action. It's quite another to show people getting away with murder (literally) and glorifying their evil actions. If I wasn't so invested in this show, I think I would switch off. More often than not, it seems to be setting an appalling example to the audience.