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I think it can be salvaged. Get rid of deadweight characters and have better writers. Unless that happens, then it'll just continue the way it is. This year has been easily one of the worst written for the show imo.

I got a fright there and thought she won ha I am surprised she made it into the top 5 though...then again maybe she won't appear:p I'm expecting Ziggy Irene Dean Marilyn/Alf (not sure which one will win)

Agreed. I do like Tane but top 10. Anyway it'll be interesting to see how those 3 do in the next poll.

Agree with a lot of this. I'm still salty about how Jasmine left. It was terrible.

Same. Just rewatched it earlier. So beautiful and sad. Meg saying to her mum " thanks for letting me go" was so heartbreaking

11 years. Wow! Almost a third of its lifespan...wow

Same. He was such a great character. I thought it was the actor that left for so long as I don't know why they'd axe such a good character.

I think so. They just didn't know what to do after his arc so through him into the Jack and Martha drama which seemed never ending.

That's pretty much as far as he was developed. I loved him them. He had a Rambo type storyline during the Olympic cliffhanger return, then for the rest of the year was involved between Charlie, looking after Nicole as well as the tired Jack and Martha drama. Then he breaks up with Charlie cos he's still on love with Martha (even though it never seemed that deep), which goes nowhere. He spends 2009 in a very brief relationship with Leah (which I really enjoyed), then had his blind storyline (which was also great), then he went to jail in some weird contrived storyline that at least was brought back to the Olympic cliffhanger. I always thought he'd left as it felt weirdly sudden but found out over a decade later he was written out.

Yeah Roman arrived the second last week of 2007 I think. And stayed till about June 2009 so he last quite a bit more than some of the other ones.

Ric worked in the garage which was mostly off-screen after the Don stuff. It did come up every so often but was mostly off-screen. Amanda upon her return and moved into the mansion was off-screen. Before Ben set up his board shop I recall him working off-screen. I could be wrong but I do remember it. He was even meant to start a new job (can't remember if he did in the end) during Maggie's cancer storyline. He may have always been doing the boardshop but it was off-screen until he moved it to the bait shop and then the surf club.

I was thinking 48 and 52. I was pretty close ha.

Yes this. I can't remember his age but I think it was early 50s (52 I think) and he was pretending to be late 40s.

I just looked up and the only thing I could find was an article about an instagram post where he made a jokingly tweet saying "I love steriods" and then apologised for his attempt of humour when receiving backlash. I don't see that as a big deal - though some probably would. I doubt 7 would care that much (I hope anyway). It would be ridiculous thing for them to to a big deal about it as is hardly scandalous or offensive.

Angelo (if he counts as he didn't leave till 2011) returned in 2020 for a few months. Morag had brief stints in 2016 and 2017. Duncan (recast) returned for a few months in 2016. Sally and Celia both for a month or two in 2013.

Yeah I wish we knew more. Maybe she was just going to become generic. I did prefer her over Olivia but they probably had a long term plan with Olivia and Hunter. We can only speculate

Yeah it's weird but I'm guess he didn't have the need or storylines for the character the network wanted. It would be nice if he went more in depth. It seems like she was going to be another Olivia and he probably had something totally different in mind. I did like her and Tank and thought they could have explored that a lot more. Tank was great and he could have had a big redemption arc. It felt like we were going to get that and then both were just gone.

And April. He also hooked up with Henri at least once and they dated off-screen. She dated Jonah, hooked up with Kim I think and had that think with Jack but that was dropped. Kit also dated that guy James (I think) when she's was pregnant. Did she and Noah ever get together? I wasn't watching at the time.

That's interesting. I never heard any rumours but wonder do most of the cast follow each other instagram or just who they're close with? Its possible a few those he worked with didn't have instagram.

Yeah when Olivia returned in 2015, she and VJ became fast friends and there seem to be chemistry between them. VJ was clearly interested but she quickly ditched him when she met Hunter. Also, VJ is an early 2000s character but I guess its been retconned to him being aged up and Olivia aged down that he's now older than her.

I completely forgot about that storyline involving the school. Ryder's mates (Josh and Blake I think?) also appeared early 2020 in an episode playing pool against Nikau and Bella.

Yeah even tho she and Ben left mid last year I don't think we saw the school at all. Last was prob mid-late 2019 but may have been even longer. Coco and Raffy left that year and Bella dropped out that year too I think so it was just Ryder that finished but I don't think we had any school scenes with him on his own or taking exams and was just all off-screen.

Yeah Christian is a great character. One of the best in ages. I hope him and Tori don't break up any time soon.

The Braxtons in London storyline originally had Casey run into Ruby but when Rebecca Breeds couldn't make it, they invented the Linda character for Casey.