baybelle22 Posted August 20, 2010 Report Posted August 20, 2010 Why do you watch Home and Away? Escapism, Boredom, Procrastination, Treatment of life issues, Attachment to characters and community depicted? , Soap Opera Addict, Pure Entertainment. or what? Please give age and gender...
j.laur5 Posted August 20, 2010 Report Posted August 20, 2010 Why do you watch Home and Away? Escapism, Boredom, Procrastination, Treatment of life issues, Attachment to characters and community depicted? , Soap Opera Addict, Pure Entertainment. or what? Please give age and gender... All of the above really.
superman's girlfriend Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 More than that ... just for fun maybe the mods could answer that for you Are you asking this question for the same reasons ?
John Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 For a number of reasons: 1. It's Australian Drama and if we don't support it we'll have to put up with all overseas culture. 2. Over the years it has been remarkably brave in tackling many important issues despite its 7pm timeslot. 3. It has produced some great characters like Alf, Irene, Sally, Pippa, Belle, Marilyn, Fisher etc. played by some fine actors. 4. I am an amateur writer and I like to speculate over the storylines 5. I find it recreational. No doubt I'll think of some more. I'll be 65 this November and I'm a bloke.
jldraw Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 Why do you watch Home and Away? Escapism, Boredom, Procrastination, Treatment of life issues, Attachment to characters and community depicted? , Soap Opera Addict, Pure Entertainment. or what? Please give age and gender... I'm male but I don't give my age out online. Hope you understand. The reason I watch H&A is really two-fold. First off some of the earlier episodes allow me the chance to see actors who have had moderately successful careers in the United States in some of their earliest roles. I've always been a fan of the "teen drama" (which H&A more or less is as it doesn't compare with US soaps very much at all) and the chance to see Isla Fisher for example in this type of show is a lot of fun. The second reason is that over the past five years or so, in my opinion US television has gone straight to hell. "Dancing With The Stars", "American Idol" and every other talent competition program you can think of dominate television screens in the US. I'm aware that these shows are also heavily popular in Australia but at least you have turned out shows like "Home And Away", "Neighbours" and "Out Of The Blue" to balance them out. In the US everything that is not a talent competition show seems to be cheap second rate imitations of shows that were popular in the late 90s/early 00s such as "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The OC". So in essence I was searching for something that resembled the American televisions shows I once enjoyed so much ("The OC", the original "90210") and H&A is pretty close or a lot closer than anything on US television today.
alreetlike Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 Habit, more than anything else. During high school we all used to go back to my friend's for lunch and she always had Home & Away on. I'd seen plenty of it before at tea time but always preferred Neighbours so never watched it regularly. When I started watching H&A all the time I stopped watching Neighbours because I generally hate soaps and thought it would be sad to follow both. Anyway, after school I continued to watch it and I'm now 25 (female btw). Basically it's something regular to follow and have recorded to watch when I'm bored.
Laura Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 Because I enjoy watching it... 18 and female
Miranda Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 Escapism, getting away from the dreary English weather, I like to see the nuts and bolts of plot and character workings. I used to watch Neighbours, then started watching H&A too, then also decided watching both took too much time and chose H&A over Neighbours (better scenery and H&A was slightly 'darker' than N at that point in time).
pirate Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 I watch home and away cause I can. A teenager and female.
ldscott Posted August 21, 2010 Report Posted August 21, 2010 Home and away was what all my family used to sit and watch while eating our tea (that's me and my sister, my mum and my grandma) when i was younger and I carried on watching as I have grown up. At university I watched just about every soap going but when I finished and came home again I only really watched H&A. Since then I have carried on watching it and even taping it every day that I may miss it! I love the stories, the characters and the scenery, it is great escapism and so different from the depressing soaps we get in the UK. The only problem is that we don't get coverage by magazines over here like Australia do with TV week so I have to get my fix using the magazine scans that are so kindly scanned on this forum! I'm 25 and female.
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