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Saw a couple of posts on Twitter and some on Facebook commenting on the change. I haven't been able to see Athena's first scene due to the archive being taken down, so I can't confirm how clear the show was that she was Joy Diaz.
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** Joy Diaz was played by Saya Kraetzer in the 2021 season before being replaced by Athena Matthews at the start of 2022. Athena bears little resemblance to Saya, so some viewers were left wondering who she was at first and whether or not she was meant to be the same Joy from the previous year.
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* FakeNationality: Several examples over the years.
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* FakeNationality: Several examples characters over the years.years, usually Kiwis pretending to be other nationalities, such as Shanti Kumari (Indian), 3/4 of the Mckays (Australian), Li Mei Chen (Chinese), or Madonna Diaz (Filipina), portrayed by Kiwis Nisha Madhan, Lee Donoghue, Kim Crossman, Lucy Wigmore, Li Ming Hu and Marianne Infante, respectively.
* HideYourPregnancy: Rebekah Randell was leaving to have a baby, so the show would film her from the chest upward or conveniently cover her midsection with something. It got more and more blatant before she left.
* KilledByRequest: Renato Bartolomei got sick of starring on the show after one too many encounters with thirsty fans and a lack of privacy and asked for Craig to be killed off. He got his wish in September 2008.
* HideYourPregnancy: Rebekah Randell was leaving to have a baby, so the show would film her from the chest upward or conveniently cover her midsection with something. It got more and more blatant before she left.
* KilledByRequest: Renato Bartolomei got sick of starring on the show after one too many encounters with thirsty fans and a lack of privacy and asked for Craig to be killed off. He got his wish in September 2008.
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** The writer responsible for the widely panned storyline in which Nicole married herself has admitted that it wasn't one of her finest ideas.
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Not sure where Ford came from.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jennifer Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022. Sara Wiseman, who played sapphic doctor Francesca Telford, identifies as part of the LGBTQ community.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jennifer Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford Mills (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022. Sara Wiseman, who played sapphic doctor Francesca Telford, identifies as part of the LGBTQ community.
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* CreatorBacklash: Danielle Cormack spoke out numerous times about her disdain for the show. Paolo Rotondo didn't rubbish the show entirely, but also stated that he disliked the character he played, Andrew Solomon and asked to leave because he felt he couldn't do anything to make Andrew interesting. Martyn Sanderson and Ken Blackburn both echoed the same sentiment about their characters Noel Sturgess and Sir Bruce Warner respectively, in that they found both characters toxic, abrasive and difficult to play.
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** Natalie Dennis was cast as Shelley Crombie in 1997 after first appearing in 1992 as a school acquaintance of Nick's.
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* TVNZ nixed a storyline where Rangi cheated on his girlfriend Ellen with her daughter Minnie believing it to be too shocking.
* Lionel Skeggins was penciled in to return in a cameo for the show's 20th anniversary. Producers decided not to but he returned in the 25th and 30th anniversaries instead.
* Lionel Skeggins was penciled in to return in a cameo for the show's 20th anniversary. Producers decided not to but he returned in the 25th and 30th anniversaries instead.
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** Subverted with Ben Mitchell - TK nearly died after the shooting and Chris did say that his heart stopped, leading fans to wonder if Shortland Street was actually about to kill off its second-longest-running character. At the very last second, TK made a miraculous but still partial recovery, which ended up being the exit plot for Mitchell and Nicole Whippy (who played TK's wife Cece).
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** Inverted with Theresa Healey, who played series regular Carmen Roberts in the '90s and was then recast for a guest arc as Maeve Mullens's mother Rosalyn in 2020.
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*** Daniel Potts was played for his first 3 years by Jarred Blakiston. When the character returned as a full member of the cast in 2009, he was turned into a "heartthrob" and so was recast with Ido Drent in the role instead.
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You're hardly a cast member if you only show up every now and then. Ben Porter meets the criteria for Dawson Casting, and the show potentially ending is some important trivia. The show has had a rather large range of characters and actors outside of a small handful after all.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Angela Bloomfield and Renato Bartolomei are notable examples over the years of directing while being cast members.
** Amanda Tito is an example as well, although she only has a small part (as Maeve's ex Saskia).
** Amanda Tito is an example as well, although she only has a small part (as Maeve's ex Saskia).
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** Ben Porter is 21 going on 22 playing the 16 year old Milo Cross. Especially evident when he stopped shaving to make Milo look more disheveled during his shooting rampage.
* DirectedByCastMember: Angela Bloomfield and Renato Bartolomei are notable examples over the years of directing while being castmembers.
** Amanda Tito is an example as well, although she only has a small part (as Maeve's ex Saskia).members.
* DirectedByCastMember: Angela Bloomfield and Renato Bartolomei are notable examples over the years of directing while being cast
** Amanda Tito is an example as well, although she only has a small part (as Maeve's ex Saskia).
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022. Sara Wiseman, who played sapphic doctor Francesca Telford, identifies as part of the LGBTQ community.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Jennifer Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022. Sara Wiseman, who played sapphic doctor Francesca Telford, identifies as part of the LGBTQ community.
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** The producers were considering ending the show not long after the Warners left in 1996, but the ratings and funding they kept getting convinced them not to.
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** This was Lampshaded when Wilder was recast as Darby McKessar, with Nicole telling Pele right before the new Wilder arrived that Wilder "is a teenager now, so he might be different."
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** This was Lampshaded when Wilder was recast as Darby McKessar, Mckessar, with Nicole telling Pele right before the new Wilder arrived that Wilder "is a teenager now, so he might be different."
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022. Sara Wiseman, who played sapphic doctor Francesca Telford, identifies as part of the LGBTQ community.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayers (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayers and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayers Sayer (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayers Sayer and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022.
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** This was Lampshaded when Wilder was recast as Darby McKessar, with Nicole telling Pele right before the new Wilder arrived that Wilder "is a teenager now, so he might be different."
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayers (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne) and (Leanne), Clementine Ford (Quinn Cox).Cox), and Amanda Tito (Saskia). Sayers and Tito, who played exes on the show, were dating as of 2022.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayers (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as is Clementine Ford who plays Quinn Cox.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jess Sayers (who plays LipstickLesbian Maeve Mullens) is openly lesbian herself, as is are Jenny Ludlam (Leanne) and Clementine Ford who plays Quinn Cox.(Quinn Cox).
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** Amanda Tito is an example as well, although she only has a small part (as Maeve's ex Saskia).
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* TVNZ nixed a storyline where Rangi cheated on his girlfriend Ellen with her daughter Minnie believing it to be too shocking.
* Lionel Skeggins was penciled in to return in a cameo for the show's 20th anniversary. Producers decided not to but he returned in the 25th and 30th anniversaries instead.
* Lionel Skeggins was penciled in to return in a cameo for the show's 20th anniversary. Producers decided not to but he returned in the 25th and 30th anniversaries instead.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Bound to happen for a long-runner, but there are have been some pretty interesting examples:
** In late 1992, the hospital introduces Acorn Computers, which itself dates the episodes. But Hone and Meredith complain about having to learn to use basic word processing software, which would be second nature to any doctor nowadays.
** In 1999, Shorty ran a storyline where a bunch of Apple Computers got infected with viruses. The computers in question were Apple's colourful, translucent computers which fell out of fashion early in the 00's.
** A lot of plots during the Ferndale Strangler era were based around things like pxting and text messaging, which aren't used as widely anymore with the rise of Facebook Messenger.
** In late 1992, the hospital introduces Acorn Computers, which itself dates the episodes. But Hone and Meredith complain about having to learn to use basic word processing software, which would be second nature to any doctor nowadays.
** In 1999, Shorty ran a storyline where a bunch of Apple Computers got infected with viruses. The computers in question were Apple's colourful, translucent computers which fell out of fashion early in the 00's.
** A lot of plots during the Ferndale Strangler era were based around things like pxting and text messaging, which aren't used as widely anymore with the rise of Facebook Messenger.
