Wow! This is just so much campy goodness! I LOVE IT! Love the specially comic book style opening and the comic page scene transitions.

"To Be Continued..."?

It's coming on in my area in about 45 mins. I'll give it a chance. What the heck. SUre, I'd rather they didn't go down this road, but it's one show out of the hundreds they do a year. Kind of like the mothers day episode. We were supposed to take that as real too even though it was supernatural.

I believe the knowing "wink" was to the auidence...not that Harley now has superpowers..good lord, so much negativty.

Its sad

I was flipping channels during Passions since Endora and Tabitha weren't on, and I saw the comic pages I decided to stick around for a few minutes.

Wow... this is Guiding Light? Passions could come up with better gimmicks than this. Thought I guess its the context of the show. Its a cool idea, but GL is totally the wrong soap for it.

I watched the episode, I didn't think it was that bad. Would I watch this if it was on everyday no (If that were the case I would watch Passions) but for one episode I dealt with it. But that being said, I really wished that "The Guiding Light" had caught the blogger so we could rap up that storyline.

Comic books and soap operas DO NOT MIX

Not true. The X-Men is the ultimate soap opera.

OMG!! That was the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

Apparently everyone in Springfield is DUMB...does no one notice Harley's eyes...prolly not because Josh didn't notice Reva was wearing a wig!

How depressing!! Jeez that S@!& was bad today.......

Why are people getting their panties into such a twist about this? It's one episode. ONE! Is it going to kill you? They just decided to do a fun one-day promotion. This isn't a storyline. I've been through the big crapfast that was the Garden of Eden with Days and even ATWT had that strange Grease number with Mike & Katie a couple of years ago..I don't see why this comic idea with GL is soo horrible.

Harley is probably one of my least favourite characters on the show but I actually liked her today. The entire episode was pure camp but I was really entertained by it. LOVED the opening credits (I LOL when I saw that drawing of Frank eating a donut) and some of the text that went along with the comics.I also thought it was smart to name the superhero "The Guiding Light".

People really need to chill out. GL is perfectly capable of writing good, serious drama (and the past few weeks have proved it) but today, they just decided to try something different. Big. deal.

Apparently everyone in Springfield is DUMB...does no one notice Harley's eyes...prolly not because Josh didn't notice Reva was wearing a wig!

Well, yeah..if you look at it as a soap opera. If you looked at it as a comic or an anime show (Sailor Moon comes to mind), the fact that no one recognized "The Guiding Light" as Harley made perfect sense.

Because Spiritual, what aired today was not "The Guiding Light". This was CBS's attempt to try and copy Passions, and that show is ridiculous enough as it is at times. How it's lasted seven years is beyond me, but I don't wanna make this thread about that. Rather...

I have defended DK through pretty much every storyline decision he's taken because I believe, for the most part, his plots have been pretty good and he seems to have a general sense of the show's history.

Having said that, what aired today was dumber than the clone in many ways. Had GL explained this away as Harley's dream or a fantasy through the eyes of their kids, it would have been plausible. Instead, what aired was one hour of...

I can't think of a word to describe it, except to say it set this show back years.

CBS has gotten an e-mail from me via Barbara Bloom and I sure hope others inundated the network with complaints. Stories like this one have NO place on GL.

Soap operas are supposed to be about family. About couples. About moments between characters. This show lost me today when Harley went "whoosh" off the screen.

DK and EW, you really let daytime TV down today. This isn't as bad as, say, the decision that Maureen Bauer was no longer a viable character because you listened to one too many focus groups or that Ben Reade was a handy serial killer because he was molested as a child. Having said that, though, introducing sci-fi elements into a traditional, Procter and Gamble daytime drama is a BAD idea.

If this is what Inside the Light is going to turn into, end the experiment now and give me back the show about to celebrate its 70th anniversary.

Oh, if it was a one-day thing then its fine.

But as a continuing storyline, that would be the ultimate killer.

This could have been good -- I was a supporter of it before the episode -- but instead it was lackluster, lacking in emotion, and campy at the same time, plus didn't show enough of a range of the stories or characters. I did like the artwork openings though.

I doubt it will have been successful enough for Harley's superpowers to "come back", so the experiment ends here. Everybody calm down.

I guess I could accept it more if it were a fantasy. Santa Barbara used to do these outlandish sequences all the time, but they would always clue you in that it wasn't real. To even acknowledge that any of Wednesday could have been real... ye God.

CBS, you do not need ABC-type gimmicks to keep your ratings going. The ice storm story in Oakdale did have some good drama, but how many viewers laughed because there was an ice storm in SEPTEMBER?

I tuned in just to see how bad it would be and I wasn't disappointed. The dialogue was just atrocious as Harley/The Guiding Light used every obvious pun about electricity that you could think of.

What was up with Michael O'Leary's acting? He seemed to be trying to play camp or something, but to me, Rick just came off as a buffoon.

ITA that if this had been Zach's dream, the episode might have worked because imo it seemed like something a 9-year-old could have written.

On a positive note though, it was more entertaining than yesterday's AMC!

It was a Halloween themed episode. It was funny, it was not your normal soap opera show...which is a good thing from time to time.

Wow, still surprised at all the negative reaction. I guess I shouldn't be however.

I guess special shows do not have a place in daytime. I thought that the ATWT special was excellent, I thought GL's Election episode in 1992 was great, I thought GL's 15,000 episode was hilarious.

I guess if you can not handle fantasy/out of the box shows...maybe soaps are not for you.

This was pure fun, a break from the norm...its not the end of the world....I guess it is just something the naysayers will use against GL since it has been so good lately, they have nothing better to talk about!

And the characters were not playing THEMSELVES...they were playing themselves in the version of a comic book...Rick was not the normal "Rick" etc. Can no one read between the lines? This was not an episode that was meant to continue story...