Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[alexx]

I've always tried to keep an open mind with the current show. and try not to judge it as I know times changes, it cant stay the same etc. Also as I no longer have enough interest to watch it every day it unfair to comment.

However I did tune in for the 2014 start about the bomb. A bomb going off is surely one of the biggest things to happen in any soap ever.

Yet I found myself utterly bored thru out the whole episode. Accompanied with an extremely dull script it just felt like another run of the mill episode. I found myself more enthralled when Lance's favourite fish died.

Listening to some of the old underscores on the internet also spells out how all the warmth had been taken out of the show. So combine that with blander characters and bland writing and what is there to interest people nowadays

Yes, all the good looking actors may be attracting younger viewers but is it enough in the longer run. In the recent few years the heart and soul of Home and Away has been ripped ott of the show leaving only a shell and a name. . The fact that this has been allowed to happen is disgusting. Isnt there anyone working in the show that loves it as a whole and cares about the history of the characters.

In the other thread there is discussion about a H&A spin off show, but to me the current show is a H&A spin off. It almost feels like there are no longer any writers/producers that have any power to make sure that the show keeps in touch with its roots as well as take it into a fresh and modern era.

Instead to me it seems like they've just taken the show into a brand new direction and forgotten about what made H&A successful for the first fifteen to twenty years, or the more likely scenario is that they don't know the show well enough to realise what is missing. But those missing elements are what makes me feel dissociated and bored by the current format.

I don't blame one group of characters because it's the entire show Imo - it's the way it's written, the tone, how characters interact, how 'Summer Bay' is depicted, the cold underscoring, lack of suspense/emotional story telling... it's just not H&A to me.

[Jacklost]

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[Homeandawayfan.]

I would say the show does feel too Braxton orientated so if I alone considered the current show a spin off then I would label it The Braxton Show, H&A spin off. When they take a much overdue backseat and the show became a team effort again then the show would return more to its roots and feel like Home And Away again.

[Jamie!]

A thought came to my mind earlier today. The rating for Home and Away changed to a PG from about 2006 onwards and as far as I know, that rating has stayed with the show ever since. I wonder what the show would be like if it went back to the G rating it used to have. I think I'd prefer this as it would be more likely to go back to the warm-hearted, family feel that the show used to have.

[sindikatas]

A thought came to my mind earlier today. The rating for Home and Away changed to a PG from about 2006 onwards and as far as I know, that rating has stayed with the show ever since. I wonder what the show would be like if it went back to the G rating it used to have. I think I'd prefer this as it would be more likely to go back to the warm-hearted, family feel that the show used to have.

Maybe, but ability to write characters consistently, not to brush storylines under the carpet and inequality in storylines certain characters get have little if no difference to whether it's G rated or not.

[Jamie!]

A thought came to my mind earlier today. The rating for Home and Away changed to a PG from about 2006 onwards and as far as I know, that rating has stayed with the show ever since. I wonder what the show would be like if it went back to the G rating it used to have. I think I'd prefer this as it would be more likely to go back to the warm-hearted, family feel that the show used to have.

Maybe, but ability to write characters consistently, not to brush storylines under the carpet and inequality in storylines certain characters get have little if no difference to whether it's G rated or not.

Yes, I agree that that needs to be addressed as well, but if/when there's a change in the writing and producing team, I personally think that it would "feel" like the Home and Away I know and love if it went back to a G rating, so there'd be less chance of all these gangs and murders, (etc). Obviously a soap needs to have deaths and dramatic plots, but not as frequently as Home and Away has over the past several years, as there needs to be a balance.

[Red Ranger 1]

Looking at the way Alf's character has gone over the last year or so, I'm drawing the conclusion that the last thing the producers should do is listen to fans who want things to be like they used to be.Not so long ago there were complaints that Alf had gone too soft and people missed the days when he used to yell at people.Well, maybe they're happy now but I'm certainly not:He's changed from a kindly elder statesman into a nasty old man, who's all right with his favourites like Marilyn or Sally but spends far too much time snarling at the teenagers in his care(or rather his daughter's care, not that that seems to stop him sticking his oar in)and threatening to throw them out onto the street whenever they answer him back or sometimes even when they don't.He's changed from the character who most embodies the spirit of the show to the character who least embodies it.Say what you like about the Braxtons but there's more of a family vibe and more of a desire to help young people who don't have anyone else coming from them than there are from what should be the show's chief household.

To me, the fans who really don't understand what the shows are about are the ones who sit around constantly asking "Why don't they kick Maddy out?"

[Jacklost]

Looking at the way Alf's character has gone over the last year or so, I'm drawing the conclusion that the last thing the producers should do is listen to fans who want things to be like they used to be.Not so long ago there were complaints that Alf had gone too soft and people missed the days when he used to yell at people.Well, maybe they're happy now but I'm certainly not:He's changed from a kindly elder statesman into a nasty old man, who's all right with his favourites like Marilyn or Sally but spends far too much time snarling at the teenagers in his care(or rather his daughter's care, not that that seems to stop him sticking his oar in)and threatening to throw them out onto the street whenever they answer him back or sometimes even when they don't.He's changed from the character who most embodies the spirit of the show to the character who least embodies it.Say what you like about the Braxtons but there's more of a family vibe and more of a desire to help young people who don't have anyone else coming from them than there are from what should be the show's chief household.

To me, the fans who really don't understand what the shows are about are the ones who sit around constantly asking "Why don't they kick Maddy out?"

I don´t think it´s nasty, a lot of old people are angry

[sindikatas]

Looking at the way Alf's character has gone over the last year or so, I'm drawing the conclusion that the last thing the producers should do is listen to fans who want things to be like they used to be.Not so long ago there were complaints that Alf had gone too soft and people missed the days when he used to yell at people.Well, maybe they're happy now but I'm certainly not:He's changed from a kindly elder statesman into a nasty old man, who's all right with his favourites like Marilyn or Sally but spends far too much time snarling at the teenagers in his care(or rather his daughter's care, not that that seems to stop him sticking his oar in)and threatening to throw them out onto the street whenever they answer him back or sometimes even when they don't.He's changed from the character who most embodies the spirit of the show to the character who least embodies it.Say what you like about the Braxtons but there's more of a family vibe and more of a desire to help young people who don't have anyone else coming from them than there are from what should be the show's chief household.

To me, the fans who really don't understand what the shows are about are the ones who sit around constantly asking "Why don't they kick Maddy out?"

I don't think Alf's been that bad. He always tend to be a jerk at first and think second. How his behaviour to Josh was different than to Rachel 22 years ago when he didn't want Blake to date a criminal's sister?

[Jacklost]

Looking at the way Alf's character has gone over the last year or so, I'm drawing the conclusion that the last thing the producers should do is listen to fans who want things to be like they used to be.Not so long ago there were complaints that Alf had gone too soft and people missed the days when he used to yell at people.Well, maybe they're happy now but I'm certainly not:He's changed from a kindly elder statesman into a nasty old man, who's all right with his favourites like Marilyn or Sally but spends far too much time snarling at the teenagers in his care(or rather his daughter's care, not that that seems to stop him sticking his oar in)and threatening to throw them out onto the street whenever they answer him back or sometimes even when they don't.He's changed from the character who most embodies the spirit of the show to the character who least embodies it.Say what you like about the Braxtons but there's more of a family vibe and more of a desire to help young people who don't have anyone else coming from them than there are from what should be the show's chief household.

To me, the fans who really don't understand what the shows are about are the ones who sit around constantly asking "Why don't they kick Maddy out?"

I don't think Alf's been that bad. He always tend to be a jerk at first and think second. How his behaviour to Josh was different than to Rachel 22 years ago when he didn't want Blake to date a criminal's sister?

Did you mean how he was? I think Alf is still a soft person, that tends to happen to people as they get older and run out of energy.