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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 408581" data-attributes="member: 673">I’ve watched the first three episodes of Echo Point (the most I’ve ever seen of the show) and it’s clear why it floundered so spectacularly. The production values are no different to what H&amp;A and Neighbours had at the time, the casting is no different and the storylines are no different. And that’s the problem. It’s a cookie cutter soap, in the same mould as what it was competing against. It offered nothing new, so while H&amp;A may have been on its arse, I know as a viewer, I would’ve preferred to stick with established characters that I knew, playing out mediocre storylines rather than a group of new, in some cases annoying, characters that I didn’t know, playing out mediocre storylines. It was essentially H&amp;A without the beach (there may be a beach but I’ve yet to see it).Another issue is that it’s exposition central. Which isn’t unusual in the opening episodes of any new show but the entire mysterious past of the recently returned Daniel Blake was revealed almost immediately in a clunky exchange between two characters. Also, characters keep making reference to what a bad boy Zack Brennan (Martin Henderson) is, rather cringingly in some cases, yet he just seems like any of the other teens.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 408581, member: 673"] I’ve watched the first three episodes of [I]Echo Point[/I] (the most I’ve ever seen of the show) and it’s clear why it floundered so spectacularly. The production values are no different to what [I]H&A[/I] and [I]Neighbours [/I]had at the time, the casting is no different and the storylines are no different. And that’s the problem. It’s a cookie cutter soap, in the same mould as what it was competing against. It offered nothing new, so while [I]H&A[/I] may have been on its arse, I know as a viewer, I would’ve preferred to stick with established characters that I knew, playing out mediocre storylines rather than a group of new, in some cases annoying, characters that I didn’t know, playing out mediocre storylines. It was essentially [I]H&A[/I] without the beach (there may be a beach but I’ve yet to see it). Another issue is that it’s exposition central. Which isn’t unusual in the opening episodes of any new show but the entire mysterious past of the recently returned Daniel Blake was revealed almost immediately in a clunky exchange between two characters. Also, characters keep making reference to what a bad boy Zack Brennan (Martin Henderson) is, rather cringingly in some cases, yet he just seems like any of the other teens. [/QUOTE]

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