What things never made sense to you on Home and Away?

[CaptainHulk]

2 hours ago, nenehcherry2 said:

Always found it funny that you don't invert Luke's name instead of Dave, Will! Seeing as Dave appeared three years before "Luke". Shouldn't your 93 episode guides have instead read "A new teacher arrives in Summer Bay looking suspiciously like Dave but Alsa, Baby Sally, Samantha and the others insist on calling him "Luke" "?

You'll never change habit of the lifetime!

 

[cymbaline]

I assume Luke's luscious locks swayed everything?

[Old H&A Fan]

Luke sounds remarkably like "Dave"

[nenehcherry2]

15 hours ago, Old H&A Fan said:

Luke sounds remarkably like "Dave"

You mean that "Luke" sounds remarkably like Dave

[cymbaline]

It's the hair 

[Homeandawayfan.]

On 14/07/2023 at 19:33, Sally Keating said:

It's a totally different thing because stronger focus on characters like Sophie or Carly did not change the entire tone of the show. However, with the introduction of the Braxtons, the entire town no longer felt like Summer Bay.

Shame that H&A has totally deviated from its roots and never looked back. I doubt the old style of the show will ever return now.

[cymbaline]

No. Both it and society have moved on. Last night I randomly watched a few episodes which centred around Jack's continuous lies and a lot of sausages. If you tried to explain that to a modern-day fan, they'd laugh and ask was everything OK at home

[Old H&A Fan]

12 hours ago, nenehcherry2 said:

You mean that "Luke" sounds remarkably like Dave

Same diff

 

33 minutes ago, cymbaline said:

No. Both it and society have moved on. Last night I randomly watched a few episodes which centred around Jack's continuous lies and a lot of sausages. If you tried to explain that to a modern-day fan, they'd laugh and ask was everything OK at home

Society has moved on alright. Right down the plughole

[Homeandawayfan.]

1 hour ago, cymbaline said:

No. Both it and society have moved on. Last night I randomly watched a few episodes which centred around Jack's continuous lies and a lot of sausages. If you tried to explain that to a modern-day fan, they'd laugh and ask was everything OK at home

And alienating many long term fans who preferred it in the Tom and Pippa, Michael and Pippa, Bobby, Shane and Angel, and Gypsy and Will era. I know H&A has to have changed a bit to survive but it has totally deviated and no trace of 1988-2004 H&A remains apart from Alf and the bay. The format and basis has changed from a modern show about troubled teens to a sinister crime/thriller/medical show.

[nenehcherry2]

12 hours ago, Old H&A Fan said:

Same diff

 

Society has moved on alright. Right down the plughole

Very subjective opinion of a complex phenomena really. Many of us feel that "society" has changed for the better, in certain ways at least. There are certainly some things that I personally miss from 1994 (music, TV shows, (UK) Woolworths, the list goes on!) but, to be equally subjective, my own life chances are significantly better:-

1) Without giving too much of my personal life away here, I'd be (literally) dead by 1994 if I'd been born 20 years before but had the same life experiences. Thanks to the work of virologists and medical research teams, I'm very much alive. Same with at least 50 million other people across the globe, many of whom still do not have access to those privileges which benefit many of us. 

2) I'm far, far less likely to experience prejudice because of two natural characteristics that I cannot change. Whether that's institutionally led or inter-individual. And I'm not just minimising that said discrimination to name calling or eggs on my windows but to life chances, employment prospects, law enforcement experiences etc. 

So it's difficult for me to relate to your overall sentiment. That said, not in any way disagreeing with the legitimacy of others' personal views; everyone has a different life experience so can compare today versus X point in the past from a divergent viewpoint. And that's healthy because everyone is fundamentally different in a planet of 8 billion+ folks. But I think sometimes we need to acknowledge that whilst some things are unanimously "worse" to the consensus, many things are better now from the majority's interpretation. And that there are different perspectives of what a "plughole" is. 

Edited July 19, 2023 by nenehcherry2