Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[dee123]

4 hours ago, Luke39 said:

How does Ray get away with that? I know he is a Australian TV Legend. But are H and A happy with him publically trashing the writers? He is right, but bold. 

Few actors have that power in Australia, he is one of them. He is the face of H&A.

  

[Skylover]

He hasn't been happy with the writing of the show for about 10 years, and has publicly stated it on and off. Don't blame him.

[Homeandawayfan.]

Ray Meagher and Stefan Dennis seem to be the hugest bit of glue holding their respective soaps together. I cannot see Ray leaving any time soon. He is only 72 and could easily be in H&A when he is 80. He probably likes the fat pay cheque he has to take home in a wheelbarrow lol.

[Skylover]

While I agree that Alf is important in H&A, I think Paul Robinson has the opposite effect on Neighbours. He is the worst aspect of the show, going round in circles for years.

[KIMIF1]

Me thinks 'sour grapes' from a grumpy old man - what else does he do but moan.

[Gerard]

Ray has more acting experience than most of the cast put together, so when he speaks, he should be taken seriously. He's only saying what a lot of us have been thinking anyway, that heartland H&A went off the rails when the Braxtons came along.

Just because you're unhappy with one aspect of your job doesn't mean you're going to quit. I'm sure most people could complain about something in their jobs. Should be publicly say these things? Probably not, most people would be in trouble if they said negative things about their employer in public, even if many people would agree. Did he have permission from TPTB to speak out? I don't know. Did he need to have permission? Again, not sure.

But I think he was speaking out about one aspect of the series and not launching a personal attack on anyone. I'm sure he could leave if he was that unhappy, but we all have to tolerate some things we don't like in life, including perhaps in our jobs. I'm sure he wouldn't still be working there after 29 years if he wasn't happy.

[Dan F]

58 minutes ago, KIMIF1 said:

Me thinks 'sour grapes' from a grumpy old man - what else does he do but moan.

Hardly.

If you read the original interview it wasn't a public flogging of the writers, or the Braxtons for that matter. It was simply a follow-up from a comment he made to the writers a couple of years ago, the first time he'd spoken up, where he voiced concerns about the same thing that many viewers have also commented on - being the balance between light and dark storylines.

[c120701]

I'm going back a few pages, but I agree with the comments about Summer Bay House becoming a place to stick the long term characters, but it's not a new thing, it always seemed forced when Alf moved in with Sally - they were never that close, she was always closer to Don Fisher - Alf was second choice to give her way at her wedding to Flynn, Don was selected for her wedding to Kieran as well. At least Ric being there helped give it a more believable connection. 

I don't know why, as we know it was Alf's house originally, but it's never sat right Alf living there, probably because he's now singing the "This house has a tradition of taking people in" tune, which unless his Grandparents or He & Martha did so and we don't know about it, is the show being a bit too self-aware for my liking. It's like the photo of Sally & Pippa on the mantelpiece, a photo of Sally is believable between Alf & Leah, or even a photo of Sally & Pippa at Alf's 60th or Sally's leaving, but it's a picture of teenaged Sally with Pippa, so not the Sally that Leah knew and it has me wondering if Alf had a thing for Pippa all those years ago.

Alf is holding Summer Bay House back for me. He needs to hand it over to Leah & Zac. I actually think that now the park is down the hill they could put up a site manager's house down there and have Alf live there, still running the park. I'd happily accept that it's been on the land all along & said it was run down or something. It was said that the park was built as a business for Alf (before he lived in the house) so it's believable that some living accommodation was added.

[Blaxland 89]

I thought the same when Alf moved in. Although I do think Sally and Alf were close I don't think he would have wanted to live there permantly. Maybe just for a while after Flynn died. I think it would give him more scope to have his own set. Him and roo. 

I think Leah living there is also contrived. I hated that the just got rid of the old Nash house like that.

Also nothing was really made of the fact Alf was moving back to the place he sold in the pilot and the place he lived with his first wife. If they go used on that a bit more I may have excepted it. 

[dee123]

4 hours ago, KIMIF1 said:

Me thinks 'sour grapes' from a grumpy old man - what else does he do but moan.

I doubt he's grumpy on a reported half a million a year

3 hours ago, Gerard said:

Ray has more acting experience than most of the cast put together, so when he speaks, he should be taken seriously. He's only saying what a lot of us have been thinking anyway, that heartland H&A went off the rails when the Braxtons came along.

Just because you're unhappy with one aspect of your job doesn't mean you're going to quit. I'm sure most people could complain about something in their jobs. Should be publicly say these things? Probably not, most people would be in trouble if they said negative things about their employer in public, even if many people would agree. Did he have permission from TPTB to speak out? I don't know. Did he need to have permission? Again, not sure.

But I think he was speaking out about one aspect of the series and not launching a personal attack on anyone. I'm sure he could leave if he was that unhappy, but we all have to tolerate some things we don't like in life, including perhaps in our jobs. I'm sure he wouldn't still be working there after 29 years if he wasn't happy.

Yes but around here to some people that's just wrong and a horrible thing to say