Most Popular Character 2024

[hapitoby]

7 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

It's interesting to compare with the way 2021 Home and Away treated Matthew Montgomery, who seemed no worse than Kane and had no more sinister intention than wanting to get to know his daughter, but because he'd done one rape twenty years earlier (in a similar case of convincing himself he had consent when he didn't), the show seemed to assume we'd automatically see him as a monster and be fine with him being bashed to death with rather flimsy justification.

I do recall in his last scene or close to it he stated he know what he did and appeared to not be remorseful. It was veeery flimsy. It was a wasted opportunity of a potential storyline about consent and how views have changed. It's fine if they didn't want to do that but they why start the storyline of him seeming like he didn't think it wasn't consensual. He also seemed to genuinely want to be a part of Chloe's life and had been unaware of her existence. If they wanted to make him out to be a monster, the storyline should have just done that or if they wanted to make a point about consent and people unaware back then or views being different then it should have committed to that.

Edited December 13 by hapitoby

[Dan F]

Those that placed 61-79

https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/61-79/

[Zig]

So glad that Tom Fletcher made the top 70 he truly deserved to be in there and it was great he made it that high after not been on in years.

 

Also was great to see Steven and Frank in. Was very happy to see Ricky in as she was one of my first favourites when I started watching again in 2014.

 

Always knew Kyle would be the braxton and Nikau the first Parata.

Edited December 14 by Zig

[Dan F]

And now into the top 50....

https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/40-60/

[zoethomas]

6 hours ago, Dan F said:

And now into the top 50....

https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/40-60/

Rory being there is all the proof you need that some fans will just get excited by any River Boy, no matter how pointless their characters turn out to be. And I guess that's why the show keeps bringing them back.

[Zig]

Was surprised but very happy to see Ric get so highly so glad Martha got so high as well. Loved that Alf grandkids were all in one update. If only they could of all met. 

[~Lynd~]

Happy my beloved rated so highly without Me.

I'm starting to wonder if some of the current cast didn't rate at all which wasn't my initial thought but we've seen little to no representation from recent days so far.

[Red Ranger 1]

I almost said in the first update but I thought it might be a bit redundant. But yes, all of the current cast received votes. The first ones will appear in the next update!

[~Lynd~]

So long as She doesn't beat my girl Felicity I'm not gonna ask questions about how Harper rated so highly.

[SandsResort]

Since the voting was opened up to non-forum members, you almost have to look at the results as if two separate polls are going on at the same time – a ranking of current characters, and a ranking of past characters.

Looking at it like that, Ziggy, Sally, Heath, Fisher, Pippa, Bobby, Morag and Jasmine make the “Top 10 of past characters”… behind two River Boys, the only two non-current characters yet to chart.

The jump in points is massive once we get to this stage. You’ve got legends like Fisher, Pippa and Bobby on 97, 96, 93… then you’ve got Kirby on 476, and that’s before we get to the Top 20.

No offence to the actors, but when the history of Home and Away is written, I don’t think characters like Harper, Xander and Remi (yet to chart) will be remembered as 5 times more iconic than Fisher, Pippa and Bobby, as these results suggest. So, best to look at it as two polls within one.