j.laur5

I have to say Marilyn having a daughter just for the sake of five minutes of drama. However I have noticed in the last few years storylines have got bit a over killed at times . I like Colleen being a Stewart as it gave us the funniest episode ever with the town thinking Alf and Colleen were getting married .

Did we ever hear about Martin Parents ?.

Because I feel there was not much more they could taken character due to show direction focus on teenagers. But do think could keep her around until early 1990 and coming to some even level with Bobby.

I still think they should have kept Morag around till 1990 and at least let her be a regular for one year.

I have to say I Preferred Dean more as bad boy and when was more villian and outcast to bay as his character to started to become bland. Dean character really become very stale in his last couple of years once Colby and Willow were gone and I felt he and Ziggy stayed for too long. Dean never really had any independent storyline’s that did not involve his love interest or do with his frineds . I really felt writers were wishing washing with his character towards end there was times when he edging towards his boy boy side then other times he was staying on straight and narrow and being self righteous towards ones who weren’t.

I actually enjoyed H&A early years more in 1988-1989 becouse we had more older characters like Neville and Floss and Celia and Morag and I understand why writers wanted to concentrate on younger characters given that’s how they felt they get more viewers but just felt more like stronger soap opera when they had wider range of characters. But do think Neville and Floss were limited to stories as Celia and Morag were more well rounded characters. It’s shame Morag and Bobby never gotten to some level of truce and not saying they should become into loving Mother and Daughter relationship overnight but at least grow to understand each other more.

Why didn’t Irene ever buy Bobby's share of the Diner and become business partners with Alisa? I understand her not wanting do to it back in 1993 when Irene first started becoming are reformed person but once she had been off drink for over a few years you would think Alisa would realize Irene had fully reformed and could be trusted as business partner.

Willow really went down in my books after her betrayal of Colby and then having the nerve to have go at Ziggy for hooking up with Tane. I loved it when Ziggy said you betrayed our friend, I didn’t betray our friend despite how much I said I hated what Colby did. I did not buy Bella forgiving Willow despite it appearing that way. I personally think it would had be better if Willow had stayed gone when she left at the end of 2020 . When Willow first betrayed Colby I thought Angelo had something over Willow to do with her past. Then I thought Willow might have had a plan to help Colby, but neither was right. I know Colby lost the plot at the end but Willow was the one that kept telling Colby to fight off Angelo by encouraging Colby to he digging into his past and there was times when Willow seemed to take Colby side more then Dean when Colby and Dean were fighting. Also I think Willow was scared off going to jail herself and so also did it too save her neck .

I love how much Alf spoke with such hate towards Barlow after he saw Barlow knock his daughter out. Alf really gave it to him about him being dog meat in prison. The scene really showed that Alf Stewart is not someone to get on the wrong side of.

I think could kept Billie around for few more months and have VJ and Billie leave together . Hunter and Olivia I think they could left together since they left close together. I know they weren’t couple and they were siblings but thought was shame Colby and Bella didit leave together after everything they went through and had circumstances being different in there’s characters storyline’s it’s likely would happened. But writers never seemed to give Colby and Bella break from problems they were having to face and witch normally cause conflict between them and I get they need drama but most times characters get break from drama for period but with Colby and Bella they never seemed get break from situation they had to face witch normal meant conflict between them. Matt leaving with his wife and sister was my favourite exit storyline ever as shown great character growth from bad boy high school bully into kind responsible young man and now husband and legal guardian to his younger sister Ellie as was hinted right from beginning Matt and Evie becoming couple and did not happed until much later and even when Matt was bad boy he still took care of his sister and knew it was best for her to live with there aunt until he got his life sorted out and eventually he did and Ellie returned to him.

So if Vanessa Downing had stayed we likely would have never gotten Dale storyline . Personally I am alright older adult characters be more like supporting characters as it makes them feel more realistic.

In way Celia could really be written out then in 1989 as she really did not do much at all after she return from lengthy absence other then cleaning out Morag house and hot dog stand and she wasn’t even really much of comically character or busybody by then as she seemed to mellowed by then with her gossip and getting into comical situations. I could be wrong but I think Fiona might already let producers know she was going to leave at end of her contact and Fiona said interview that she left H&A because she wanted back to Melbourne and Fiona thought show was only going last couple of years.

I was under impression that it was possible that they were going to become regulars but changed in show direction might changed plans.

Also I really enjoyed Stewart siblings relationships as there love/hate relationship between them and I enjoyed when Alf and Barbara had screens as was like they were two most normal siblings as Celia and Morag were two eccentric siblings. Alf used quite often talk down to Morag and Celia in early years but didit with Barbara and Alisa once said to Alf Barbara most normal one of you sisters .

Even though I prefer Tom and Vanessa,Pippa but do feel Micheal and Debra ,Pippa did bring more natural presence on screen due to being married in real life marriage as it made them feel like such believable couple even though Michael and Debra ,Pippa were more harsh at times then Tom and Vanessa ,Pippa. I can very easy imagine Tom and Debra,Pippa together but I have more trouble imagining Vanessa ,Pippa and Michael together.

Well we saw Vanessa's Pippa in a bikini once . I guess Natalie when she arrived was the same age as Pippa was in the pilot . I thought middle aged women like Judith and Gina both seemed realistic as principals even though Donald thought Judith was too young. But I guess Judith was about 10-15 years younger then Donald . I wish Judith had stayed longer but I guess the producers felt she did not have much more purpose left since only had one child who already left and they had Donald to return as principal.

It turns out both actors who played Rhys and Shelley were only in there 30s when they started and they seemed more like in there mid 40s.

I think Phoebe lot more mature then both Flick and Eden as Phoebe just said no when did not want get married to Kyle.

I agree I haven’t very happy with storyline’s in last five years as so many characters have be ruined expressing one’s regarding there character exit or history rewriting like Alf wife being alive after all and Marilyn having long lost daughter and also there way they write justice system is terrible.

Mackenzie really has bounced back from going off the rails a year ago and has become the down to earth, wise, likeable and strong willed character she once was. I can understand why she did go through a rough patch given she has lost so many people in such a small space of time. At first she had to hopelessly watch Colby, a man she once loved and still good friends with after they broken up go on a downward spiral to prison. Then had Ari harshly dumped her for Mia. Then found out she was pregnant with Ari's baby. Then she lost the baby, then Ari was sent to prison and later died. Then she had friends leave her in a short space of time. Bella/Jasmine/Ryder etc and Logan left her pretty much soon as he found out she was hitting rock bottom and recently terminally sick Gabe left her harshly without goodbye and later found out he died.

Matt was not only my all time favourite character but he also had the best character journey developing from bad boy bully with a chip on his shoulder to becoming the nicest and most responsible young guy in town. He changed over time gradually and I think that made his development so endearing to watch as his character was never boring to watch . I know I have said in the past he was in the background a lot towards the end of his time however I have grown to realise that was part of his character development to become a more natural character living a more realistic life in Summer Bay then some of their other characters in town and having more realistic storyline’s like taking care of his sister Eloise and slowing getting together with his best friend Evie and I think that’s how we totally meant to feel about his character journey and development. But I do think he definitely left at right time and definitely left at his natural end. So I am greatly appreciated and forever thankful they gave my all time favourite character happy ending .

I really don’t think the actor Nicolas Cartwright who plays Cash suits the good cop role. I think he would be more suited to playing a bad boy or bad cop!. It almost feels like the wrong actors were cast in the wrong roles. I think Tim Franklin suited playing a good cop more and Nicolas suited playing a bad cop more. Tim just had that heroic chemistry about him when he was being a good cop and taking down bad guys. Tim just had that good guy face about him whereas Nicolas just looks a bit more rough around the edges as a cop and seems more suited to playing bad cop. I know obviously you can’t change casting now but personally I think Nicolas should played Colby instead and Tim should played Cash.

Colby and Mackenzie.

But if Tim Franklin was not leaving show at that point they could easily have changed it that Colby wasn’t sentenced to jail or at least released after a month or so. I think they made a mistake with doing Colby backstory the way they did it and killing Ross as it just made his character too predictable on how his exit was going to be. I just think Tim Franklin suited playing good guy more and Colby was more believable as a good guy. I think if they did Colby backstory differently and not had Colby kill Ross then I think Colby could be quite a likeable character even though I always found him likeable because here’s one my favourite characters ever because he was such complex character and could understand where he was coming from. But having said that I by no means in anyway calling Tim are bad actor and he played Colby very well as Complex character and when Colby went on darker path. But I think I just would preferred it if he had more lighter character arc.

No i believe it was not same cult or any relation to each other.