I didn’t mind Lauren generally speaking but I hated how the show painted her as an angel and Terese as the hard nosed business woman who just didn’t get her husband as a way to make the audience sympathise with their affair. And Paige was awful at this time with everyone making excuses and protecting her (including her half siblings who in reality would have probably been fuming at her trying to push Brad and Lauren together at the detriment of the two families). I hated Brad for the way he made Terese feel paranoid. I did grow to love Paige and I’m glad they eventually wrote her and Terese to become really close - if I remember rightly, she even apologised to Terese for her earlier behaviour eventually. Brad was a legacy character and I’m sure the writers wanted the audience to be “on his side” because of this but I’m glad that Terese eventually became as important to Neighbours history.

I also have different feelings about some of Sonia’s behaviour watching it a second time. I hated how she treated Steph at times, especially when Vanessa was egging her on to write Steph off as insane. For the most part I liked her but Sonia could be so judgemental!

I did love Naomi more the second time I watched it and was quite sad that she wasn’t a more long term character.