I'm just a casual observer here...don't usually post at all. However, I must say that I've watched soaps since the harding lemay years on another world. this show is great right now. yes, i stopped watching, however, i tuned back in during the past month or so and I simply love it. i understand the limited budget with the sets...and frankly, i love the outdoor scenes. i find it very hard to switch back to "regular" soaps after watching guiding light lately. and yes, the writing is vastly improved and even entertaining. i'm puzzled by the high amount of negativity....even when it's greatly improved imo. everyone has their own right to feel the way they do, however, i just wanted to ask are people actually watching the same show i am for the past month or so? if not...please tune in. don't base so much on a 30 second ad....this show needs our support right now...and I feel that they are finally putting out a product worthy of my time. the outdoor scenes on traditional shows look so stupid now...i think guiding light may be on to something...as long as the writing stays good.

also...do alan and beth really have many friends in town to attend a wedding? i mean who would really go. i think an empty church testifies to alan's craziness...to go through with a big wedding and all the trappings to embarass beth whom he saw cheating on him this week. to me, it looks like the scene was based out of character...not not wanting to pay extras or actors.

also...do alan and beth really have many friends in town to attend a wedding? i mean who would really go. i think an empty church testifies to alan's craziness...to go through with a big wedding and all the trappings to embarass beth whom he saw cheating on him this week. to me, it looks like the scene was based out of character...not not wanting to pay extras or actors.

Agreed. I don't know anyone in SF who would attend the wedding besides Lillian and maybe Alex. If Alan wanted a big production, he could "hire" guests. I think it would be wrong to have a big wedding with a lot of guests. I also agree with your previous post that the show is really good right now. I can't wait to get home each day and see the show and I haven't felt that way in a LONG time.

phoenix....lol....good to hear! sometimes i feel like i'm losing my mind when i read some of things people have said...it just does not match what's on the tv currently....a year ago, perhaps, but not what's airing the last couple of months.....to me, it's just not that bad...and in some aspects very good.

Glad there are others who feel the show is good these days! Please consider posting in the GL January Discussion thread, it's pretty lonely there (not even complainers).

I kinda understand why the church would be empty, I mean it is Alan and Beth who are getting married. Those two don't have many friends you know, esp. Alan.

Promo looks good. I was wondering today that GL really needs to prove itself with this production model, and I thought they could do it with a great explosion.

I just hope the show remembers that Dinah and Phillip are cousins this time around. Hell I hope they remember Phillip is a Marler. I know I'm asking way too much though from this writing team.

Edited January 30, 200916 yr by MichaelGL

I just hope the show remembers that Dinah and Phillip are cousins this time around. Hell I hope they remember Phillip is a Marler. I know I'm asking way too much though from this writing team.

I think they definitely remember, but whether they reference it depends on whether they want to re-open the emotional wounds of Phillip being indirectly responsible for Ross's death because Ross was looking for him.

Beth marrying Alan deserves to have no one there but Lujack's ghost haunting her!

I think they definitely remember, but whether they reference it depends on whether they want to re-open the emotional wounds of Phillip being indirectly responsible for Ross's death because Ross was looking for him.

It's such a shame Ron Carlivati is content writing for Jerry verDorn. I think OLTL should write him out. I just can't take him seriously as Clint after so many years of watching him as Ross.

EDIT: That's a perfect way to give the show some kind of patriarch. Why not bring back Justin? PERFECT! Get on that Wheeler.

Edited January 30, 200916 yr by Dan

Just visited a dvd website and a Grant Aleksander(Philip) promo popped up on my screen.

Didn't know where else to post this, but here's TV Guide's "Up Close" interview with Grant Aleksander and Beth Chamberlin.

I like they they used some clips from Phillip and Beth's 1991 wedding, it's one of the first GL episodes I vividly remember watching. For years, I wanted a wedding with the same format, if I ever got married. LOL! It was such a classic themed wedding.

Crap, it won't allow me to embed the video, but you can see it on this blog: http://www.welovesoaps.blogspot.com/

Edited February 9, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner