Guiding Light Discussion Thread

[jfung79]

I am. I'm getting a little frustrated with it, to be honest. Mindy only interacts with the same 10 people or so (Bill, Lizzie, Rick, Billy, Jonathan, Holly, Phillip, Beth, rival Alex, Mel, Leah to an extent) all the time. She needs to interact with more of the canvas, including big couples like Josh/Reva, Otalia, and Danny/Michelle, and the Coopers. Cooper-haters will be happy to know there hasn't been a single Cooper family scene that I can recall, just brief mentions.

Edited January 16, 2010 by jfung79

[DRW50]

They need to have a Ghost of Eve Guthrie account.

[DAMfan]

Love Edmund, but my favorite GL story was the Alan and Hope on the Island of Hope and still can't believe Alan died the last week.

GUIDING LIGHT-- Stranded, part 1

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[DAMfan]

Wish Hope and AM would have been on the last week of GL or wish I could see GL when the show would have turned 73 1/25/10.

[DAMfan]

GL would have been 73 today 1/25 - celebrate 72 years we got to see the Light - in your own way.

[soapfan770]

Ok I'll say it: desk sex was hot for Fletcher and Holly, but their subsequent relationship was terribly boring.

Always love DANfan's posts keeping GL's memory alive!

[DRW50]

That relationship should have been more than it was, at least in terms of banter and comedy. The show just lost interest, other than the PSA story with Meg.

There's nothing more depressing than a once funny, quirky character who becomes serious, which is what happened to Fletcher.

Edited January 29, 2010 by CarlD2

[MichaelGL]

Alot of the relatinships on the show at that (93-95) should have been more than what we saw on screen, including Eve and Ed IMO. Of course not one single character was ever able to replace Maureen, but the thought of Ed going from the saintly Maureen to the neurotic town outcast that was Eve, with the two of them working at Cedars as well, was material that the show simply didn't explore enough for my taste.

[take_the_high_road]

I've just discovered the German opening of Guiding Light. It's quite different in comparison with the original U.S. version that was broadcasted in the early 80s. But it brings back memories...

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[EricMontreal22]

For some reason that opening makes it feel like a sitcom to me, lol. It's funny, those opening shots don't look like Peapack to me

[DRW50]

It looks kind of like the Kate & Allie theme.

Poor Rose Alaio, she never got the success she deserved on soaps.

There's something oddly touching about that theme. I don't know why. The music probably.

Edited February 12, 2010 by CarlD2

[SFK]

I'm reminded of Love, Sidney, minus the camptastic vocals of Tony Randall, Swoosie Kurtz, and Kaleena Kiff of course.

[SFK]

I'm reminded of Love, Sidney, minus the camptastic vocals of Tony Randall, Swoosie Kurtz, and Kaleena Kiff of course.

[Eric83]

If you take out how bad they screwed over history... was the Maryanne Caruthers stuff that bad of a storyline? Granted, I hadn't watched anything GL pre-1991 when I saw it, so I had no idea that they were screwing up and rewriting things. I was purely entertained, and loved the whole aspect of the woman haunting Marina, Marah, and Michelle. It did get kind of wacky once Reva and Harley took over that storyline, just like they took over everything in GL's last decade.

[DRW50]

I don't remember most of the story. I did like some of it. I was just confused as to the point.