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It was one of the biggest bores in the show.

A new family would be cool... Even cooler if the family wasn't white, imagine an Asian family moving to the bay? It'd be nice to see another culture on Home and Away and please give them Asian names, I'd rather see names like Hoseok Kim, Tao Zhong or Rin Nakamoto than Western names like Karen Warner, Lynette Travers or John Smith.

Honestly, Sally could work as a returning character.

We need a main character who is Asian, an Asian family would be better. We had Jai Fernandez in 2008 - 2009 and Stevie Marlow was a guest character with various Asian characters as guests throughout the series, but I think an Asian family would be a cool move, especially if we can see some Asian culture on Home and Away.

Celia egging him on wasn't help at all...

Elspeth would have been neat in Home and Away, hell, everyone from Prisoner, barring the actor who played Ram would have been awesome.

He was hilariously thump-happy back in the early years... Always wanting to punch someone. I didn't like how he was kinda racist when it came to David (Roo's Asian boyfriend).

Alf's re-wedding to Martha just had the main cast at the time and a bunch of random extras, I had hopes to see the likes of Colleen and Celia.

Funny, I noticed the same thing, I wonder if the set was sold to Channel 7 and repurposed for Home and Away's Summer Bay High? I mean, there's only a two year break between Prisoner's end and Home and Away's beginning, besides, Home and Away commenced filming in 1987, so it is quite possible... Either that, or the same set designer worked on both shows, oddly enough, Don's office almost looks like a refurbished version of Ann Reynold's office, just without the wardrobe and the air vents.

I could see Pippa return to nursing after handing over the reigns of fostering to someone else and still living in the Summer Bay House OR living in her own little flat, still to this day even, I can even see Pippa giving advice to the likes of Bree, Xander and Harper during their careers in the hospital.

Any Royalty that resembled the people in the portraits, I know in Prisoner, in the Wentworth set, they had portraits of what I always assumed to be a Queen in the reception room. So, it could be a similar case.

Janet Andrewartha, best known for playing Reb Kean in Prisoner and Lyn Scully in Neighbours, sadly passed away on July 26, aged 72. I am quite sad that she passed away, I never watched Neighbours much at all, but I did watch Prisoner and I liked her as Reb Kean. I had hoped one day, she would grace the shores of Summer Bay with her talents.

Alf and Martha's wedding had no returnees, it was current cast members and what was possibly Alf's "friends" other than the ones we know. I don't even think Morag's passing has even been mentioned. Also, with some of the storylines we have seen in recent months, some that would benefit from stuff like "I remember when this happened to X all those years ago...". There hasn't even been any mention of the Summer Bay City Rollers, despite one of the band members being still in the show, especially with Lyrik being a thing.

Heck, you could say the revamp of the Bayside Diner was a sign of the times. I saw the episode where Ailsa dies and it didn't feel like 1988 - 1996. 2018 - now feels more like 1988 - 1996, even though the original format is long gone. It's not like 1988 - 1996, but there's a similar feeling, I can't explain it though.

IMO, I'd say 2000, Ailsa's death was the icing on the cake where the show just felt different. Fostering was on it's way out by then, especially since Pippa left. There was still fostering, but wasn't it just like how Irene, Alf and Ailsa had troubled teens living with them and not being officially fostered like Pippa and Tom/Michael did?

I had hoped they'd add a season every six months or at least every year, but alas, no... I absolutely love the current show, but it does lack that charm the Early Years had.