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Because Carly lacks friends on the show, so they force stuff like her scenes with Sam about Sonny's infidelity, with zero regard for each characters history.

Ah yes, the good ole days!

Guiding Light....where do I start? Between 93-95 there were quite a few stories that looked good on paper, but were poorly executed. Roger/Jenna storyline seemed to be dragged out too long. Alan's return, with him and Alan-Michael being interested in the same woman (Tangie) looked good on paper perhaps, but played out as dull as dishwater, with nobody caring about the woman "caught" in the middle nor caring about Ron Raine's incarnation of Alan Spaulding. The story was convoluted and penned to prop one of JFP's pets. Vanessa falling for a younger man (Matt Reardon), just didn't seal the deal for me with how it was executed on screen. The Brent Lawrence story, had some legs, but spiraled out of control in the end.

Thanks, clearly whoever authored this page was incorrect, because even my gut instinct couldn't believe she was on that long. https://ultimatesoapfan.fandom.com/wiki/Sarah_Brown

Off topic, but I was unaware that Sarah Brown was on ATWT for almost 6 years. WTH that is almost the same length as her original stint on GH, and her character on ATWT feels as if it was pretty forgettable.

You'd think they'd give Drew a storyline similar to Dante's when he returned, dealing with the affects of being held captive so long. But nope, he's the town therapist.. You'd think they'd give Drew a storyline similar to Dante's when he returned, dealing with the affects of being held captive so long. But nope, he's the town therapist.. You'd think they'd give Drew a storyline similar to Dante's when he returned, dealing with the affects of being held captive so long. But nope, he's the town therapist..

Charity and Ryan...what a let down, which has been the current regime's entire stint. If not a blast from the past, I wouldn't be against an entirely new family relocating to Emmerdale and running the pub.

The current regime writes both Carly and Michael being in the right, %99.99 of the time. Carly should have been written in the wrong during the fake marriage with Jason, using the marriage of convenience as a wedge to drive Jason and Britt further apart, but the show actually played it with Jason dropping Britt like a hot a potato and actually falling for Carly.

I remember the show trying to turn Paul into sort of a action hero like his father, and I approved of this.

All I remember from 2008, before the switch in the production model was everything took place either in a hotel room, Main Street, or Ellen Wheeler's actual office posing as a set🤣. Things were bare bones before the switch, and they didn't get any better after the switch either; instead it got worse.

Guiding Light 1975: No longer titled "The Guiding Light", Allen Potter and the Dobsons take over the show, and transform the show with more contemporary storytelling. 1983/1984: Kobe/Long/Culliton revive the show with the Four Musketeers, introduction of Reva, India, and Alexandra. These stories would help to set the focus of the show for remainder of the 80s, and it was very much different from the show it was at the start of the 80s under Marland. 1989: The return of Roger Thorpe, Blake's transformation into a vixen in the Phillip/Beth story, Josh and Reva wed, reveal of Dylan being Reva's son, Billy and Vanessa on and off again until Nadine enters the picture. Behind the scenes, Robert Calhoun becomes EP. So much transpired in this year, it helped to set up the shows last golden era until 93. 1993: Maureen's death. Beverlee McKinsey's departure as Alex. Kimberly Simms's departure. Justin Dea's arrival as Buzz Cooper. So much transpired this particular year for GL, and much of it not for the better, and its ripple effects would be felt for the rest of the show's run. 1997: The first time since 1993, that the show appeared to be firing on all four cylinders, and then everything went south with the clone, the mob, San Cristobel, etc. The show had consistent energy, reached several highs, and then could never recover after E&B's/Paul Rauch's missteps. 2002: Again the show appeared to still have some life in it, with Taggart and Cullition tapping into the show's history and bringing the storytelling back down to earth. Rauch seemed to whip the show into shape his final year which coincided with the shows 50th Anniversary on television. Production values improved, the day to day writing was good, and I was shocked that actors like Maeve Kinkead and Peter Simon came back to the show. 2004: Wheeler and Kreizman assume the reigns of the show; Roger Thorpe is killed off, introduction of Jonathan Randall in the form of Tom Pelphrey, Gina Tognoni cast as Dinah/Dinah's return. A transformational year for the show; where some decisions helped keep the show on air for a few more years.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4954636/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl Per IMDB This show was a Primetime episode. Victoria calls Cole. Victor arrives at the ranch. He wants to talk to his daughter. Jack and Hope discuss Victor and Victoria's relationship. Hope wants to go to the ranch and talk to Victoria. Nathan has vanished with little Nate. Thanks to Lynne, Neil gets Nayhan's address. He goes to Nathan's place, soon followed by Olivia and Drucilla. Nathan is adamant; he wants little Nate to stay with him. Olivia collapses. Robert calls Heather, tells her that April doesn't want him to see her and asks her if there a way for her to meet him out of school. Heather says she'll find a way. April wants to leave Paul's apartment. Paul calls Chris. He would like her to come and tell April that going back to New-York would be the biggest mistake of her life.

It'll be interesting to see her chemistry with Dante and Drew.

Even if the above speculation is true; we really needed Harmony on contract for that? I'm still not over that casting decision, and it will never make sense to me.

Exactly, that is what I fear the most. Her death under Ron is not going to have long lasting effects, I bet we won't even get an appearance from JJ at her funeral (or even see him mourn for his big sister at all). I probably would be a bit more accepting of Abby's death if it was under a different writer, but Ron? No way.

Definitely agree. 80-82, that period between Marland and Long/Culliton was a off period, and then things picked up for GL from 83 til perhaps early 85 (I'm being generous by including 85 at all 😂) The show really wouldn't pick up again until 89.

Someone said one of their favorites not topping many of these lists, Guiding Light, because it was too erratic, and I would agree sadly. And the decades GL would probably top, was before my time. 1990s: Honestly if we're going by consistently good, All My Children, Bold and the Beautiful, and Young and the Restless. Runner up General Hospital. 2000s: Very mixed bag here but I'm going to go with Bold and the Beautiful. Runner up being OLTL, and GH (GH for production and day to day writing). 2010s: DAYS with GH as runner up.

Under Ron, killing off Abigail is only going to be a short term plot that's forgotten after a month.

^This! All of this. It was until those missteps Griffith had at DAYS is when I started having serious issues with his writing. However his Y&R is atrocious. Storylines are started, and then suddenly stop at the drop of a hat. His tenure on this show lacks any drama, any follow through, and there are very little or zero stakes. He's supposed to be penning a soap opera, but Y&R in it's current incarnation is anything but that. And I am so annoyed that so much is either based on what transpired off screen.

Tripp is still basically a blank slate, we know very little about the folks that raised him and what his childhood was like.

^Took them long enough.

Looks like it.

I think the show missed the boat with Holly's family, in later years. There was so much potential. You also had the fact that Andy had a past with Trish Lewis; he could've ruffled some feathers within that family as well.

I liked Cosgrove and Alfonso too, and I echo that it's a shame that they ruined such a relationship. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I actually liked Hope and Giles Marini's character Ted Laurent. I liked the contrast of commissioner/cop Hope Brady getting involved with a character who had questionable morals but on the rare occasion did the right thing (similar to Jack Devereaux).

Didn't RC have a story planned for Hope where she falls for a Navy SEAL? If Hope is going to be recast, I assume RC is just desperate to tell this story of his (possibly recycle old scripts from his OLTL days involving Brody).