Guiding Light discussion thread

[P.J.]

I'm not sure Tony/Annabelle even get a send off. I just saw an episode where they've just decided to go on a world trip for summer vacation. Quint and Nola get a rushed goodbye which is just insulting. And Jim Reardon just kind of disappeared. 

I have wondered over the years if the story of Billy's parentage hadn't originally been planned for Josh, and just got switched when Robert Newman left. Josh not being a full Lewis (either from HB's philandering or an affair of Martha's) would've explained the initial conflict between HB/Josh.

[Mitch64]

I don't think they did get a send off..Jim just vanished but I believe it was because he was supposed to come back but the actor had another gig and Kobe let him off (she invented the "friends of" way before JFP) The way Nola and Quint left was truly stupid. It was rushed and all the characters including Bea and Henry, made Nola feel quilty for wanting to stay in SF and run her business (as dumb as Nolaaerobics was)  while Quint went off..I can't believe that in 1985 they were still, "You need to be by your husband's side" ) The did do a scene where Henry told Nola she could have time to write and she says, "Oh yea, maybe the adventures of Nola" which would have been a great way to bring her back in 95, she is an author if potboiler romance/adventures (under another name) who resented being force to move for her husband all those years ago and comes back triumphant and rich to spar with Vanessa and whomever else..(much better then the sad mopey Nola whose husband cheated on her.) It would have been funny if they had her write a roman e clef on Springfield, with her heroine having a bitchy, stuck up sister in law and a brother in law is a multiple adulterer...(and a mousy nurse who has an affair with him...)

That trial clip really does show how boring and weird the show was becoming...the Lewis in the center bugging their eyes, Maeve in bed...(for god sakes she spends the better part of the year laying in bed being boring..) India chasing after Simon..with his dumb magic show...faux Ed showing he has no charm..I can't believe the execs thought this was an improvement.