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  1. I'd agree it was the Edward pairing that made her memorable. But she still had a good dynamic with the Nash family, especially Gypsy.
  2. Travis just seemed like a rather forgettable character to me. If he hadn't have married Rebecca, I don't think he'd be that remembered at all. I feel like Joel was a more complex character, perhaps because of his job and his relationships with Tom and Gypsy. I think Gypsy is definitely the most popular member of the Nash family, but Joel will always be my favourite.
  3. I'd love to know what the rationale was/is behind the move to being an entirely adult cast. As far as I know, the producers have never spoken about the change in the show. There was never really an official rebranding or revamp, the teenagers just sort of dwindled away with Ryder, Raffy, Bella etc, and then I assume Maggie was written out because there was no school for her to be principal for. I understand that demographics and viewing habits change, so it's probably a case of the audience being the same age as the majority of characters, but surely there people in their 30s or 40s with teenagers or pre-teens that could relate to their storylines. I would have thought enough for the show to invest a token 2 or 3. I remember when the 20somethings and early 30somethings used to be the minority group in Summer Bay with the bulk of the cast being teenagers or 35+ I'd be down for that. Maybe not Alf or Marilyn, but a serial killer would certainly generate some hype for the show, especially if we didn't know it was except it was someone in the regular cast. British soaps (Hollyoaks at least!) has had it's share of serial killers, but I don't think it's been done on an Australian soap before.
  4. I didn't have anything against Kelly. She was a nothing character for me. She wasnt around have any long-term impact or interesting enough to be well remembered, but I didn't hate the character either.
  5. The Nashes suffered from poor planning on the writers' part and weren't really given a chance. They didn't move into Summer Bay House until a year into their run, and even then, they were pretty much house guests of Travis and Rebecca. By the time they had the house to themselves, they were pretty much on their way out. The producers clearly had high hopes for them because they decided to recast Natalie rather than write her out (given she was recast in the middle of the Robert Perez story, the timing fit to kill her off!), but I think it was just an unfortunate timing for the family since there were clearly big changes happening in the show in 2000 when they were just settling into their groove at Summer Bay House. Tom was just another cookie-cutter teen, but Joel, Gypsy, Peta and Justine were all great characters, so it's a shame that dynamic didn't continue for a few more years. They weren't like the Fletchers it that they didn't seem to have the same warmth, but the show as a whole didn't feel as warm or light as it did in Tom and Pippa's day. I feel like the producers tried that with Zac and Leah and it didn't really work. When they moved in there, they had five children between them (Evie, Oscar, VJ, Hunter and Matt) and Alf living with them seemed like an odd set-up. The timing didn't help tho since most of them had moved on pretty quickly, but it would have worked better without Alf there in my opinion. It's hard to see how we would ever get a large or foster family back into Summer Bay House while Alf is still around, unless they married off Roo again, which has already been done with Harvey/Maddie/Spencer, or introduce a recast Duncan with a new wife, Bryce and some stepchildren/foster children. Duncan would be close to 40 now going on his SORASed age in 2016, so he could easily head up a brand new family on the show.
  6. Same. Though I probably would skip most of the early - mid 1990s. I'd be keen to rewatch 1995 - 2000 again, but I don't much interest in re-watching 1990 - 1994ish. Other than a few highlights like Sophie's pregnancy, Bobby's death and Dale's cot death, those years seemed pretty boring in my opinion. The pace didn't really pick up again until 1995. Having said that, I'd probably still watch them if I had to wait for 1995 onward to be uploaded. For me, it's 2001-2006 in which Alf felt like a spare part. He lost his home and then his entire family (Ailsa, Duncan, Mitch and Shauna) in quick succession, so he pretty much just lived on his own in a flat above the diner during that time. Seb moved in after Fisher left, but that felt like it was because the writers needed somewhere for Seb to stay, rather than utilising the family connection.
  7. Nola was played by Denise Roberts, who went on to become known for her roles in GP and Always Greener. She always played an unnamed customer in Ailsa's store in 1988, who in theory could have been Nola too
  8. Do we think Lynn was misused or underused by the writers? I can see why they axed her - she got sidelined storyline-wise by the older female characters (Carly, Bobby and Roo), and was definitely the least developed of the main Fletcher children. Other than running away early on, she was very much a supporting character for her whole stint. Lynn was meant to be in Steven's year, but they never really seemed that close or used that other than Lynn playing matchmaker between Steven and Sandra. I feel like her and Sally's closeness/backstory got lost too. Less than a year after she left, we were introduced to Viv who had a strict religious upbringing. Might have just been a coincidence though.
  9. I'm curious to see how/if the revisiting of the 1988 season in Australia and the UK will affect their year's Most Popular Character poll. Will the likes of Tom, Pippa, Bobby and Fisher see a surge in points?
  10. The show clearly wanted them to be the central family by shifting them into Summer Bay House. I think the problem was that by the time the producers got around to pairing up Zac and Leah and moving them in, it was too late.
  11. Marilyn was also around during both Dodge's stints too, but I can't recall if they had any scenes together. She certainly hasn't close enough to the story to make anything work though. The writers would probably make Vinnie's son a psycho and wants twisted revenge on Leah for moving on from Vinnie and not waiting for him, rather than creating a new relative for her. It's an interesting thought, but at the time VJ was around, any subsequent child of Vinnie's would realistically be 10-12 years at most. I wouldn't mind seeing such a character now if it were done with the purpose of creating a character that could a genuine connection with Leah over Vinnie, but I wouldn't want to see another twisted psycho relative story like we had with Heather, Kieran, Mick etc.
  12. Definitely by 2002 when it was supposedly in the works, anyway. The show was very light on long-term characters at that point. We had Sally, Alf and Fisher (who left a few months into 2003 anyway!), and the newly-returned Jesse who had a lengthy stint in the 1990s, but most other characters only had a few years under their better. Leah and Colleen were still relatively new. It's hard to imagine justifying axing a character of 10 years under those circumstances, whomever it was. It would have left the show without a "dedicated" foster parent, which would have felt weird - this was Sally's pre-foster parents days and Alf and Fisher were generally only getting relatives like Sam and Seb by this point.
  13. I'd say Alan's death was the turning point for him that made him "human". Prior to that he just came across as a two-dimensional tyrant/villain. Norman Coburn is the greatest actor H&A has ever had and he brought so much depth and emotion to the character that a lesser actor may not have.
  14. The problem with having windows was that it would have been too hard to show a view when it's a studio set, but it didn't make it feel inviting. I'm not sure if you remember Echo Point, but that had a cafe with beachfront views and it looked incredibly fake (and still!). It's no doubt easy and probably relatively cheap to do in 2024, but I imagine back in the 90s it wouldn't If you look at Summer Bay House, they got around the problem by having bushes by the window and Irene's house had that annex/alcove by the door.
  15. I'm not sure how I feel about the diner set. I didn't like the exterior of the building at first, and I didn't particularly like inside. I know the windows were set up that way because it was a studio set, but I feel like the appeal of such a diner location would be the view It's also hard to imagine the building exterior and the final version of the diner to be the same place It's obviously an iconic set, but I feel like they could have found a nicer building for it.
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