Guiding Light discussion thread

[Contessa Donatella]

Wow! When you decide to say a thing, you don't mess around. You really say it. I tip my hat to you, especially liking your Big House analogy. Roger Newcomb said something about GL's end that I have long been fond of,

Roger Newcomb: Crystal Chappell proved on GUIDING LIGHT in its last two years that it doesn't have to matter what sized set you're using, what type of camera you're using, how good the lighting is, how much time you have to prepare or any of that stuff. She made every single scene work. She gave some individual performances that rank right up with the very best daytime has ever seen.

I happen to agree about SOME that we all know was garbage. San Crapoblah, I am looking at you. 

However on the end times, I can only say I respect you & your opinion, even as I disagree. For just one example, I firmly believe that GL deserved the Emmy for Tammy's death.

[chrisml]

It was perfectly obvious to me that P&G made a concerted effort to kill AW so it's not a stretch to think they did the same for GL. MY GL viewing is spotty at best when it comes to post-Ellen Parker's firing. It always felt that when the show would get back on track that the EP or the hw would then be fired. I have said this before, but on an episode by episode basis, Conboy and Weston's GL could be extremely compelling. They could create fantastic episodes. In context to the show's history, the stories just didn't make sense and could be insulting (Ben Reade for ex.). I'm not going to deny that the Ben Reade episodes were not fantastic and that Bomer was robbed of an Emmy nomination. 

Edited 2 hours ago by chrisml

[Contessa Donatella]

Have you ever read his blow-by-blow beat by beat explanation of his "storyline"? To be as succinct as possible it makes soaps, and their fans, appear moronic.

 

[DRW50]

The only time I think that was the case for GL in the years I've seen was, possibly, Millee Taggart at the end of 2002/early 2003, although I'm not a big fan of her spring or summer work with the show. I think P&G veered between letting people go too early because they weren't getting ratings up enough or letting people stay too long - JFP stayed at least two years too long, Rauch stayed two years too long.  

I think P&G slowly strangled their shows rather than actively killing them. They still felt some use for them but they no longer tried to step in the way they did up to the mid '90s. It was only by the late '00s that they moved out of the daytime market, so when CBS also wanted rid of GL and ATWT, they didn't care. 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

This is not what I was looking for but it gets the idea across.

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