The Macklin Corporation - Peak 1989 or a wasted opportunity?

[cymbaline]

Perhaps nobody ever saw the Macklins as being a long-term thing. Sandie Lillingston was in nearly 140 episodes (1988-89) and was given plenty to do, yet she was never added to the opening credits. Rewatching years later, there's more to Brett than I had originally remembered. The scenes after Martha was born showed a different side to him. It's a pity they didn't keep him around because he had the ingredients to be more than just a bratty rich kid. I believe they brought him back briefly years later and in typical H&A fashion, trashed his character. 

[CaptainHulk]

  On 24/03/2025 at 19:47, adam436 said:

Me too. Gordon could have worked long-term as a JR Ewing/Mr Burns/Paul Robinson type villain, with Stacey perhaps as his voice of reason/moral compass. But with the lack of creativity of the writers when it came to the Macklin Corporation, it may have been best to rest it when they did. I also quite liked Brett too - he was better eye candy (for me anyway!) than most of the regular males in the 80s

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Brett Bit Wet though but in 2005, he was outright murderous!

[cymbaline]

That 2005 return is sooo Home and Away. They go to the trouble of bringing back an old character and then trash them or turn them into a psycho. Flawed and all as 1988 Brett was, I can't see him wanting to kill his own child.