Reasons for Watching Home and Away?

[Lesley Bee]

Because i grew up watching it and i really enjoy it

34 and female.

[HighwayUnicorn]

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[cadyctslover]

i used to watch Home and Away when i was much younger around 1999 never really getting into it. like others here i can only deal with one soap at a time, and i began to catch up with H&A after i got a bit angry with Neighbours in 2007. and since then i've really fallen for it, you've got to really like a show to join an online forum to discuss it with others and find out what's going on behind the scenes!

but for my reasons why:

i've really got into Australian drama, and try to support it by watching as much as possible in the hope that more will be produced (if anyone hasn't seen Underbelly go for it). i also love to watch the amazing views of beautiful Palm Beach, it is pure escapism! i have also convinced myself that it is a drama rather than a soap opera, just because the acting and much of the writing is of such a high level, and i love the theme tune if only they would play it. also it's fun to watch it because my housemates hate it

I'm 21 and male.

[Nate]

I watch it for the smalltown family aspect of it..seems to drifting away from that these days tho.

24, m.

[ter06]

I even remember how I started watching it :/ Silly story really. I was reading a soap magazine & I flicked through & came across a page which had a variety of soaps on it, rating the violence, language and comedy (something like that) & I looked at them all and for Home & Away (the magazine was printed at the time Joey was raped) & there was a picture of Aden & I instantly fell in love.

I watched it when I went home & got really into it. But because it was the time of Belle's drug storyline & obviously not getting used to her charcater, I disliked it. Then, I realised that you could get old episodes over the internet & accidently came across the first episode of Aden & Belle being together. I loved it. I loved Belle, Aden & Adelle instantly after that episode & have become addicted to Home & Away.

My mum knows some of the older characters in it, like Irene & Alf but I never grew up with it really. I was never into it but I love it because of Adelle (or loved it because of them at least), it's Australian & it makes for great daytime television when I am off ill or on my holidays. Oh, & it makes me very jealous when the English weather is horrible & raining & then I tune into Home & Away & the sun is shining & it's hot.

& I'm female, 17

I remember that article from Inside Soap, it said if Alf replaced flamin with another f word then he would be the most foul mouthed man on TV!! It also said H&A showed horrific violence that week!

[stephen!]

i watched it since it started and it's embedded in my system-like religeon! lol

i like the whole coastal town thing going on-it's not like other shows. it used to have a 60's feel to it but thats long gone.

[Bahorel]

Great topic. I get this question a lot.

I'm female, 30, and Norwegian, and hardly anyone I know watches H&A - they laugh at me for doing to, good-heartedly, but I've sometimes wondered myself what keeps me addicted.

I started watching at 14, and had a really long break at 18; I started my 'mature' watching about five years or so ago. In the beginning I watched it for convenience. I had my lunch hour and was able to home at the same time as it ran, and it was a great alternative to the show '7th Heaven' and the likes that ran daytime. At first convenience was sided with drama-addiction - we all know how crazy some of the storylines get, and you just ~have to know what happened to Dani and Kane, etc... so I started downloading the episodes I missed during the day.

About a year ago, though, the show changed for me a bit. I think it sometimes goes too crazy with kidnappings and the like, but from about episode 4,500 I've truly enjoyed almost every storyline. It's developed into much more than convenience / boredom: Now I used it as escapism, and it works very well because of all the high drama. I've just finished with Aden's coming to terms about his granddad, and it's heartbreaking stuff, very good for escapism. But I also watch it for laughs and for actual interest - I am deeply impressed with some of the actors. I think Belle, Aden and his father, Miles, Kirsty and Jai, Mr. Copeland to some extent, Roman, Ruby, and probably a few I forget, are amazing actors. I watch the show because of the storylines - first of all because the drama is good for escapism, but also because the show is brave. It deals with child molestation, Christian insanity, rape, abortion, death and loss on a pretty... maybe not realistic, but sympathetic, level. You dive into these characters, and some of them are very believable, Aden above all imo.

I do get annoyed with actors / storylines I find totally unrealistic or not well acted. I used to love Jack/Martha, but after they got back together it's gone a bit downhill for me. Martha used to act to well, but lately she's seemed only half into it, same with Jack. I miss being into them. I also think Annie's storylines are boring, because imo, she can't act. Anyway - my two cents

[callyha]

I watch Home and Away because (for me) its SO MUCH BETTER than the soaps the British have done.

Emmerdale, Corrie & Eastenders I find boring and very repetitive. And some of the storylines are just stupid.

Home and Away has everything going for it; Hotties and Babes, great storylines, great couples, amazing actors/actresses, and the storylines are BELIEVABLE

H&A is my favorite soap and I love all the characters that are currently on screen (H&A level as England are on a summer break)

20 and Female

[CougarCat]

In one word, habit.

Okay, addiction too.

I started watching regularly about 6 years ago or whenever it was the Sutherlands where the main focus. I'm not sure why I started watching other than my health was poor at the time and I was watching quite a bit of TV to distract myself. I stopped watching it for a few months when Scott Hunter rode in on a horse and swept Dani off her feet, which I just found nauseatingly stupid. But started watching again when Kit came along because I had a friend going through very similar troubles to her. I've watched it regularly ever since.

I also watched it on and off from the late 80s but never regularly; not very often at all. But a bit more in the late 90s.

There have been quite a few storylines I've enjoyed but not so much this year, so I would have to say it's habit, and addiction stemming from habit. I'm compelled to know what happens next, even when I don't particularly like many of the characters. I tend to use this forum to complain about what I don't like, so if I can get over my addiction to what happens next, I'll probably eventually stop watching unless they introduce a particularly hot guy or amazing storyline. H&A has gone down hill over the past couple years, particularly this year - too much cast turn over and substandard acting.

Anyhow, I'm female and was born in 1979 (you do the maths). So understandably I'm getting over the teen focus.

Sad, huh? Hehe.

[Lollyblast]

I started watching H&A cause of the Charlie/Ruby storyline, i caught the end of the epiosde where Charlie told Ruby and was fasinated by how they were going to do this storyline as i have seen it done before on english soaps. So i tuned in the next day and became hooked on the show.

I think i enjoy watching so much because its so different from the english soaps. I find the storylines addictive and the characters so believeable plus its nice to see some nice weather everynow and then. Overall i find it a fun show to watch and not as depressing as English soaps

19 and Female