I feel guilty.
I’m starting to favour Home & Away over Neighbours.
Neighbours has ALWAYS been my favourite soap. But lately. It’s just doing nothing for me.
If there’s one thing I learnt from my university course, it’s that you can’t make you characters do things, because you say so. They need motive and reason etc.
I remember, during my final major project, that when we were writing our script, we would add twists, dialogue and actions, because they made for an exciting story. But when we were in meetings with our tutors, they could quite easily pick up on the “strange” additions, without seeing why we put them there.
And I’m starting to see this in Neighbours.
Convenient phone calls we don’t get to see, to end scenes, because they can’t end them naturally. Character’s doing things they wouldn’t necessarily do, because their wouldn’t be a story without it.
It’s a shame.
Their actors aren’t the same any more, either. Or maybe I just didn’t pay much attention a few years ago.
And what happened to every other scene being some kind of all-male topless swimming pool scene?
Home and Away have their beach, where one or more of the cast are always only wearing the bare essentials with sea water dripping from their washboard abs…
Romeo, The Braxton brothers and Angelo are no match for Toadie, Karl and Lucas (Although, they do have Mark.. For now)
Anyway where was I?
Written by idlebacon
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