Another World

[Soaplovers]

I understood the original plan to go with Josie/Matt...she was the daughter of a Frame and he was the son of the two people that were involved in the death/downfall of a Frame.

It was set up as the late 80s version of Romeo and Juliet during the strike and post strike.  

However, Josie lit up as a character when she was around Ruben and it's a shame that P & G was too skittish to go forward with it because of one segment of the audience.

AW was lower rated so what did they have to lose by moving forward with the coupling.  But P & G was more skittish and risk adverse in general compared to ABC so any blow back from an audience standpoint and they backed off.

It's why I kind of enjoyed their 1988 writer strike episodes...some great male and female conversations were happening.  And those episodes really helped give Ronnie and Lisa some good dimensions/layers that neither really got during non strike episodes.