Guiding Light discussion thread

[Mitch64]

They hadn't written for Nola for at least a year, right after the Lake Elizabeth story, and she had A.J. The Haunted Cottage was a story that Nola should have been all over, investigating the cottage and dusting it up with Ms. Piper(who Nola would have been fascinated with. ) She just stood around listening and then they gave them the dumb story with that kid scientist. Lisa was sick of it and wanted out, but the Quint actor wanted to stay, and even suggested killing Nola and letting him have a Mr. Mom storyline...(luckily they just wrote both off, which is what they should have done with Josh and Reva once Kimmer left, and we would have been saved the ghost and San Crud.) Tony, Annabelle and Jim both wanted to leave, and by that time Lee Lawson wanted out as well as she was just standing around doing nothing. 

I don't think that Long understood Quint, but got Nola..and liked her I think. She was just tied to Quint who Long had just turned into a dorky uptight professor to Nola's quirkiness, so there they stood. Qula was one of the first fanatic fan bases and they would not tolerate breaking them up (I would have had Quint die in the explosion rather then Hillary, what does Nola do once her dream ends...I say go back to the scheming Nola of old.) They could have also had Quint taking Henry's spot at Spaulding and he and Van competing while Alex is interested in him...but then they had no interest in the Chamberin's at that point as Van was hog tied to the Lewis campy bandwagon.) 

I do remember an interview with Jeff Ryder, when ATWT was having its comeback as Marland just got there and they asked him if he was taking note and of course he said, "no" but he did say he asked Lisa to come back and that he promised to write for her this time but she wasn't interested. 

[P.J.]

As they hadn't written Kim out when Robert left, I don't think they would've needed to just automatically write Robert out when Kim left. 

Although, admittedly, I never really miss Josh when he exits town either. It might've been nice to see Josh in a romance that wasn't preordained to end in the other woman going nuts.

[Mitch64]

I thought Jenna and Josh (J & J ) had chemistry when they were testing them, but then he left. In writing out RN when Kim left was more about him leaving, what six months later? But I know they would just want to have a big blow out for Kim to leave...I just thought the logistics of bringing her back from the dead were messy, but they were not handled well with McTrash.