Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[~Lynd~]

Sarah Lewis was great.She's one of the best baddies they've ever had and one of the reasons she worked so well is because they used to have those sort of characters very rarely unlike in recent times where there seems to have been one every  other week until recently.None of them have been as good as Sarah though except Johnny..He was awesome.

[emmasi]

Sarah Lewis was great.She's one of the best baddies they've ever had and one of the reasons she worked so well is because they used to have those sort of characters very rarely unlike in recent times where there seems to have been one every  other week until recently.None of them have been as good as Sarah though except Johnny..He was awesome.

​Wash your mouth out, missy! I will not hear a word against my beautifully psychotic Corey!! 

[~Lynd~]

Well Yes.And Corey lol.Not sure how I forgot him though to be fair my love for Johnny has long been established.That I can see past the fact that Sarah killed my beloved Noah shows you what an awesome character she was to.Really I think Sarah, Johnny and Corey should have had their own spin off.We would have been in heaven, haha.They're all better then what we get these days baddies or otherwise.

[emmasi]

That's better

[Blaxland 89]

Was Dan Bennet the one in charge when Don Fishers character was assassinated in 2007?

 

[Dan F]

Was Dan Bennet the one in charge when Don Fishers character was assassinated in 2007?

 

​No, it was Sarah Walker in the chair at that time.

[Blaxland 89]

Oh thank heavens for that. 

[kmp1963]

For the last few years the show has managed to enrage me and bore me stupid. often both  at the same time. 

The last couple of weeks the anger quotient has managed to reduce slightly, at least other than the ridiculously hole ridden plot that was Braxs exit.

However I still find 90% of the show boring. Where once I was entertained, amused and most of all truly engaged with the characters, I now find myself not giving a rats what happens to any of them.

Even the few remaining characters that I once loved, now seem like shallow imitations of their former selves.

 

I so wanted to start watching and enjoying the show again but I am struggling. It all just seems so blah.

I suspect that is the biggest inditement of how much damage Lucy and Louise did. They sacrificed the entire show to promote one character, and now he's gone they and the viewers are left with little more than the ashes.

Good luck with saving the show Mr Bennett, but from what I've seen in the last two weeks. Its beyond it. And as I am bored beyond belief at the moment, I will leave you all to it.

From where I'm sitting, Lucy, Louise and the Braxtons managed to destroy Home and Away beyond saving. 

 

[emmasi]

I gotta say, I don't think the Braxtons ruined the show. It was Casey's death that actually made me start properly paying attention again. That scene was just brilliant all-round. Brax, Heath and Casey were all fine characters portrayed by fine actors. The mistake was keeping them stuck in the criminal vendetta rut, which completely changed the tone of the show. Instead of introducing bad-boy characters who changed to become a part of the bay, the entire bay was changed to match the bad-boy characters. The whole tone of the show was lowered, but it's not specifically the fault of the characters, it's the way they were handled and the complete failure to integrate them properly. 

[~Lynd~]

I gotta say, I don't think the Braxtons ruined the show. It was Casey's death that actually made me start properly paying attention again. That scene was just brilliant all-round. Brax, Heath and Casey were all fine characters portrayed by fine actors. The mistake was keeping them stuck in the criminal vendetta rut, which completely changed the tone of the show. Instead of introducing bad-boy characters who changed to become a part of the bay, the entire bay was changed to match the bad-boy characters. The whole tone of the show was lowered, but it's not specifically the fault of the characters, it's the way they were handled and the complete failure to integrate them properly. 

​This!My love for Johnny, Sarah and Corey make it clear that I'm not opposed to a baddie but I am opposed to the whole bay changing for them which is the problem I had with the Braxtons.I originally really enjoyed them but that wore thin when they were treated like saints of the bay while doing little to deserve it while the 3 I mentioned were treated like the awful people they were which made them wonderful characters imo.The fact that they were so overused while other characters were next to ignored doesn't help matters.

I do think some people are being a little hard on Dan B and expecting to much.It's gonna take him more then 5 minutes to fix this mess.

I have to admit though that the fact that the atrocity that is Ash and Phoebe is still currently being filmed doesn't fill me with a lot of hope.I'm willing to see if something else lessens my anger over them ruining someone I've loved since his arrival though.RIP Ash.You're still pretty.