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Guiding Light Discussion Thread

I get it-they did this with Gossip Girl where they tried to spend over a season showing why both Chuck/Blair and Dan/Serena were toxic only to turn it around suddenly to go into the final season to make sure you know well into future they’re married.
I wasn’t so much saying there’s something wrong with an ending so much as having to have resolution on all potential romantic pairings-it just goes counter to what has come before.

By GL95 · 21 minutes ago21 min
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

It's funny, the sitcom Soap, which was a parody of soap operas, had an ending like that, too. The heroine Jessica was facing a firing squad and you heard shots fired, the end. And that was a comedy. They weren't given much notice they were being canceled so they just said screw it and ended it on the season cliff hanger they were planning. (Everyone adored Jessica, though, so no one was celebrating, LOL).
As someone who has watched telenovelas for eons, I don't mind giving stories an ending. My problem is having characters who lived through years of toxicity being the symbol of hope and happily ever after.
I felt the same about Sex and the City, I felt the same about Friends. I totally LOATHED those endings. It was enough that Carrie broke up with the Russian and went back to her true loves, her friends. It was enough that Monica and Chandler finally got their kids and the group as a whole was moving on to the next stage of adulthood.
I feel the same about the Four Musketeers reunion and the implication they would all get together with their erstwhile partners. 25 years (more in soap years) and you couldn't get it together before this? Come on. This might upset a few people here, but I feel the same about Vanessa and Billy getting married, too.
You didn't need weddings. You didn't need to pair up everyone. Good grief, they even paired up Blake and Frank. WHY? WHO CARES?
Alan's death could have brought everyone together to talk about the past and remember the highlights of the show's history. While leaving most things open-ended. It would have been enough. Better than that sappy drive past the lighthouse. Because you knew Josh and Reva would get divorced again. Just like I'm certain somewhere in sitcomland Ross and Rachel are divorced.

By DeeVee · 37 minutes ago37 min
DAYS: Actor already exiting!

But, I'm sure they'll write endless more episodes of Kristen, Leo, etc...

By 1974mdp · 1 hour ago1 hr
DAYS: February 2026 Discussion Thread

I think Suzanne tries slightly more than Deidre or at least fakes it better. It was less icy the other day, but both actresses were focused on SSH most of the time. The way Deidre and Suzanne were sitting though had them both facing SSH which was probably intentional lol. Must be awkward for SSH lol.
At this point it clearly is what it is. I don't think it's going to change. It's too bad because those scenes and the dialogue were quite nice.

By carolineg · 1 hour ago1 hr
GH: Classic Thread

Thanks so much, @DRW50. I always fear that I'm going on and on and on about Laurelton, but it's occupying, like, three-fourths of the show as a whole at this point in 1986 and it's just an endless array of kitsch. Well, not even kitsch -- it's just plain bad.
I've once again gotten my viewing done early, taking me up through Terry & Kevin's wedding, Jennifer and her goons pressuring Sarah to shut up, and Kevin finding out about Terry & Patrick's failed sexual encounter. I'll give my own commentary a little later, but I like your mentioning DL, who hasn't come up even once during my viewing. I think the show wants to pretend that he never existed, even though that would/should be a logical beat to play. For that matter, I have no real sense of Terry's late mother.
For all I know, Jessie's time off screen includes matchmaking for various GH staffers and/or patients.
The Jake & Bobbie stuff is especially sweet, although I'm now certain that he won't find out about her past until all the way in 1987.

By Franko · 3 hours ago3 hr
The Guiding Light 1953

Thank you once again for sharing these!
So this was the first full year on TV, right? Was the show still going in parallel on the radio or did radio stop as soon the move to TV was complete?
I feel like the focus was already moved from Meta (and I guess also slightly from the Bauers) to Kathy, no? Most of the storylines were about her.
With Ray and Charlotte leaving the show at this point, I suppose that makes it everyone from the radio era is gone now? Were they actually in the show still by this point or were they just mentioned to be leaving? I am asking because in the records that I have from earlier, I had both Ray and Charlotte on the show by 1951, which is clearly wrong :D

By Manny · 3 hours ago3 hr
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

I feel like doing a prime time drama type family on a soap is a mistake as daytime is created to have this sort of infinite story feeling for better or worse. We complain about these story loops, but really for many that’s life. We fall into patterns and even if we move past them we backslide.
There really should be a life continues on sort of feel to a soap finale rather than a resolution, as some of the joy of watching soaps is watching for years and there being no easy resolution because the story didn’t end after 100 episodes.

By GL95 · 4 hours ago4 hr
Primetime Soaps

It cracks me up that Central Park West rips are still largely those I did in the early 2000s. I need to get a better tv ripper and crack this open:

By te. · 6 hours ago6 hr
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By Cat · 7 hours ago7 hr
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