Best/Worst character exits

[Revealed]

I've been going through the 1992 episodes again to see where Adam mentions Matt. Up to April and the nearest he's come is telling Nick and Lucinda there's a spare room at his place.

What I've discovered from skimming through these episodes is that these great ideas he has that go wrong is literally all he does. Once they end in disaster he'll disappear for a few episodes and as soon as he's back he's onto the next one.

On a side note the first episode in 1992 where we see one of the regulars in a bikini is 985 where we see Fin in one.

[cymbaline]

On 07/07/2025 at 21:37, Sb boy said:

 Adam was a character I really didn’t like. He felt by 1990 like a poor man’s.  Dibble   Even. Though  Marty. Was on his way out. It was a mistake to make such. A lothsome. Character. The get rich. Quick.  Role  Matt was just pointless really    Unlike lance who was.  A very Nieve and fun. Character  and the conscience  to Marty. Matt stevans was  a good actor  I just hated. His character. I would put. Adam. At  the top of my most hated character list. Along with. Jack Wilson 

I never liked Lance or Martin and feel they should've been written out long before they did. But hey, it'd be a very dull world if we all thought the same! They quickly ran out of ideas for Matt and Adam as well. I think staying on Home and Away for so long put the brakes on Mat Stevenson's acting career. I mostly remember Adam for the scruffy clothes and stupid scams now. When he was given something to do, you could see that Mat was a good actor. 

Jack wasn't the most likeable of characters, but I like that he never totally reformed. Unlike most of the other teens who were fostered in those years, he desperately wanted to go home and continued to be hurt by his family's rejection of him. Even though he matured and became a nicer person, causing trouble was never off the cards. Interestingly, when he came back for Sally's wedding a few years later, he apologised to Pippa for being such a pain in the you know whats. 

[adam436]

1 hour ago, cymbaline said:

I never liked Lance or Martin and feel they should've been written out long before they did. 

Martin had potential as an individual character (when you consider characters like Vinnie and Martin succeeded him), but the producers really weren't keen on breaking them up, even when Marilyn came along. I was never that keen on Lance though. I feel like they took his dim-wittedness to unrealistic levels at times.

When you look at the rubbish they were given in 1989/1990 like the fish funeral, the hotdog stand and the band story, it did felt like they belonged more in a sitcom rather than a soap. You could argue that with some of the 1988 stuff like Santa Never Stops in Summer Bay.