Guiding Light discussion thread

[Mitch64]

Infinity rode off of the fumes of the last year of Long/Kobe, which I will say was really good. Everyone was in play and most of it was as grounded as a soap could be in 1984. And what you said is true..all those temp characters...(Suzanne Saxton,,, that David whatshisface...Jackson Fremont...) running around...anytime you see a record company on  a soap you know its gonna suck...everyone ran around with big hair and shoulder pads as "Sampson Industiries " was added to a medium sized midwestern town...it was all really stupid...(and what was it that Infinity wanted exactly....and who the hell was Largo...) and Mindy and Kurt's wedding, while beautiful...led to nothing for them or anyone else. 

[Reverend Ruthledge]

Agnes seems to have stopped writing after November 1966. At least, that's when the scripts from her GL collection stop. 

Irna wrote from December 1967 to May 24, 1968. During this period she co-wrote with John Boruff. Robin died in October 1967 so, no, Irna didn't pen that story. 

If I can speak for the poster, they mean 1966 is when Ed came back on the show after having been gone for many years. Mike was already gone as he left GL in 1965. Mike didn't come back until 1968 and that was the first time he and Ed, who was still on the show, shared air time as adults. Ed, when he was Billy, was strangely never seen much. He was always kind of around but not seen. He didn't become a prominent character until 1966 when he came back as Ed. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Reverend Ruthledge

[P.J.]

ugh...I count Miss Sally, Kyle, Kurt, Maeve, even Lujack among the temp characters cluttering up the canvas. I don't know if it was ever explained why Sampson Industries/Kyle were targeted by Infinity, other than he was KYLE SAMPSON, the be all/end all. RME.

I really wish we got the tea on how/why Mindy's wedding was this blowout extravaganza. They could've had a sufficiently "big" wedding for November sweeps without a location shoot that involving carriages and horses.

[Reverend Ruthledge]

Who knows why writers make these decisions. I would imagine that both characters may have been written into a corner. Even though I loved the character, I wish they would have kept Bill dead after 1969. Faking his own death was way out of character for Bill. He had already left Bert to be with Gloria so I don't see why he would feel the need to fake his death to be with Simone. Plus, he would never let his family think he was dead. And the most egregious thing about it is that there was no need to bring him back as he wasn't even around long before he just faded away. The ONLY thing his back from the dead storyline accomplished was to give Bert a storyline and to introduce Hillary. And then his second and final death was just nothing but an insult to the character. A character who had been around, off and on, for over 30 years, mind you.