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The pictures in the Fletcher Household
cymbaline replied to Early90sobsessee's topic in The Bayside Diner
Searching for a screenshot of anything along that wall certainly gave me an insight into camera angles in that house! I think they were just generic paintings the art department picked up somewhere. I don't know the first thing about set design but I reckon they put those portraits on the wall so that they'd contrast with the landscape painting of Summer Bay that's just beside them. They were also a bit old-fashioned, as was the house. So as you said, a nice touch. -
Home and Away The Early Years Reunion Photos!
cymbaline replied to Summer's Bay's topic in The Bayside Diner
Sharon, I assume? https://youtu.be/mqpxGAlxLZ8?si=_GOMT_HkpaWqq6HF&t=631 -
The pictures in the Fletcher Household
cymbaline replied to Early90sobsessee's topic in The Bayside Diner
Shots of that wall are pretty elusive when you're in search of a screenshot, aren't they? I don't remember anybody ever mentioning them - they just seem to have always been there. It's the photos which seemed to get the attention. Did Pippa or Tom come from families who were wealthy enough to have portraits painted? -
Home and Away The Early Years Reunion Photos!
cymbaline replied to Summer's Bay's topic in The Bayside Diner
I never thought I'd see Eileen Derbyshire and Nicolle Bell quoted in the same paragraph, let along the same universe. -
Home and Away The Early Years Reunion Photos!
cymbaline replied to Summer's Bay's topic in The Bayside Diner
Ironically, she's the one who has changed the least. Apart from the inevitable wrinkles, she doesn't look any different than she did 30 years ago. That's a mixed blessing I'm sure. -
What storyline would you like to watch again?
cymbaline replied to project90's topic in General Discussion
Pippa and Ian's romance. I'd stopped watching H&A by then so all I've seen are random snippets on YouTube. Her chemistry with Michael jumped off the screen so I'm curious to know what she and Ian were like. -
Home and Away The Early Years Reunion Photos!
cymbaline replied to Summer's Bay's topic in The Bayside Diner
She'll probably set it to Private after this! It's lovely to see them all again and I think we'd all love to see pics from more of these meet-ups. -
Those old episodes are unlikely to see the light of day anytime soon, so they're the equivalent of the tree falling in the forest with nobody to hear it. It's very easy to make things unhappen. If they were to bring Chris back they'd need to get a move on. He's starting to get on a bit now - he'd be 36 now. Perhaps he might oust Alf et. al from his old house
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When did they stop using Mike Perjanik's underscores?
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When Debra Lawrance was answering (yet again) that question about Pippa coming back, she said they could bring Christopher back. In theory, he's 36 now but you know how consistent H&A's writers are when it comes to such things. I doubt they'll bring him back because they're not mad about LGBT characters. Besides, Chris would have to be insane to return to the town of doom. While he was there his father died, his next dad died, his baby brother died, his foster sister died, the town got hit by bushfires, earthquakes, cyclones... He's only alive and well because even Pippa decided it was time to go.
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Did Michael adopt Christopher?
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It never made it into the charts on the other side of the world though. Angry's dirge did
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Also, to get the most out of the teenage "gangs" that became part of the formula for several years, it made sense to distribute them amongst the adults. Eventually, we had people with the Fletchers/Rosses, the Stewarts, Fisher and the Beach House.
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Rebecca is a curious one. They reintroduced her briefly in 1994 (different actress) before sending her on her way again. It wasn't until 1996 that they brought Rebecca back again, with Belinda Emmett this time. They might have decided to have non-relatives such as Viv move in with Fisher rather than his own daughter. She was somebody who could be introduced at any time, so they waited.
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I had never thought about that but I think you could be right. Gus had the potential to be a good ongoing character and it felt a bit rushed when they sent him back home. We'd seen Donna resume her relationship with Andrew - something she'd have advised other people not to even think about. Then we had her dad more or less telling her "Here's your bratty kid brother. You, with all your fancy qualifications, let's see if you can fix him." Then there are a couple of guesties who arrived with expiry dates already over their heads - the most obvious examples being Alan and Meg. Alan is somebody I would've liked to have seen more of and he had plenty of potential. Meg I'm not so sure about. She's mostly remembered now for her doomed romance with Blake, and perhaps for the tragic life imitating art aspect of Cathy Godbold's story. Would Meg have been interesting enough to keep around if she wasn't terminally ill?
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I don't think Bill was a "Testie Guestie" (love that phrase, by the way!). He added some depth and poignancy to Luke's story but they were never going to keep somebody with an intellectual disability around for long. Wheelchairs are as far as they go in Summer Bay. Wes Patten who played Kevin was at the start of his professional rugby league playing career. Would he have tossed that aside for a role in a soap?
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What was the story with Damian? He was in one or maybe two episodes in 1991 but wasn't seen again for months.
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Some of the other characters continued to mention him after the vanishing, as if they were trying to say "No, Rob didn't do a "Matt". He isn't trapped in a cupboard in the diner"
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1995 benefitted from the shake-up of the previous year. That was when they moved on the likes of Luke, Sarah, Finlay and Adam and replaced them with these newer actors. Shannon and Curtis didn't arrive until September and that put in place the final pieces of the next teenage gang. They were also lucky with the two returning old faces. Steven and Marilyn slotted back in easily but that isn't always the case with returnees.
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Yes, it certainly sounded like a bit of a scramble. By then, they'd been bringing Pippa back almost every year so bringing Debra in was a safe bet. She knew the ropes and people were used to Pippa being everybody's mum. Really though, would anybody have noticed or cared if there hadn't been an adult in the Beach House? They could've winged it and acted as normal.
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He seems to be a troubled individual, to put it mildly. I was thinking he had been in trouble before and sure enough, I was right.
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Neighbours was subsidized to the eyeballs and everybody seems to have genuinely thought it was gone. Time will tell whether Amazon continues to prop it up or not. I hope it survives but who can tell. Every soap evolves, so I don't get the logic of comparing old and new Neighbours. You could say the very same thing about every other long-running soap.
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Which approach has worked better? Neighbours has been cancelled twice and it looked like it was gone forever until Amazon stepped in.
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Home and Away's lack of Returnee Characters
cymbaline replied to Martin Dibble?'s topic in The Bayside Diner
All of the characters you've mentioned are well in their forties or older. If they were brought back for an anniversary special, most of today's viewers would scratch their heads and wonder who the geriatrics were. Home and Away is the ultimate shape-shifting soap, which pivots based on what will keep its audience. If they thought that pivoting back to Braxton-esque gang violence was the way to go, they'd do it in a heartbeat. -
Yes, it is an interesting interview. Lee talks way too much though and can overpower some of his guests. Even though Debra over-estimates her acting talent, I like how pragmatic she is about her profession. I wonder did they ever ask her again after that last appearance, or was it understood by everyone that Pippa was done? At least she was wily enough to up her fee for the return