Members Maxim Posted April 7 Members Share Posted April 7 Welcome, welcome! Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 7 Members Share Posted April 7 Welcome. Nice to have new people here, especially those who enjoy the vintage soaps. We have a good group of GL posters here, which helps. Beyond that I do credit Youtube. I don't think I would have gone back to GL for its last year if not for Youtube, where I got to see a lot of stuff I'd never seen via the ClassicGL channel and was reminded of the show I'd loved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alwaysAMC Posted April 7 Members Share Posted April 7 (edited) Aww, this is very sweet to hear, thank you! I'm happy you enjoy reading my thoughts, just like I enjoy yours over on the AMC thread! And you're so right, I find that I like many things that others didn't and vice versa - that's what makes the world go round Please register in order to view this content Welcome - happy you're here!! LOL at your mom's viewing habits, sounds like my younger grandma back in the day haha. Edited April 7 by alwaysAMC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted April 7 Members Share Posted April 7 Welcome. I always list the soaps I have not seen because that's a shorter list. Then, of course, you have people like me who name ConWest as the absolute worst of the worst. Have you ever tried to track down Weston's "writing" before this? And, of course, I knew the first soap journo to interview her & say that she didn't even know how to "act" like a writer. Then, we know what her ideas were for characters. Add in that they did the whole Carruthers storyline to give a friend a job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 I have some fuzzy memory of it, I don't know how, I should've been in school, lol. Rita Lloyd scared the crap out of me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 (edited) Hormones never dictated which shows my mother watched. In fact, I'm not even sure she HAD hormones anymore after she had me. The truth is, Mama Khan's more the "It blowed up real good!" type. The more explosions, and the more women creating those explosions in order to kick some doofus guy's ass, the better. Edited April 8 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 That's one of those things that you didn't realize would change so fundamentally. As much as I complain, I watched GL through the '90's. Admittedly, being able to skip through (or over) episodes is really nice, but even if I couldn't, it wouldn't be as horrible as trying to watch soaps now live. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 I tried. I really tried. But I threw in the towel, twice: once, in '95; and the second, in '98 or '99. After that, I'd still watch, but sporadically, and never for any substantial amount of time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 LOL...there's a Christmas episode where everyone is at the same church---the WASP Chamberlains, Catholic Reardons, probably Lutheran Bauers---and it's just funny. Like, people, please---couldn't they have gathered at the hospital chapel? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 LOL...I am delighted !! You know I love me some bitchy Vanessa!! I hadn't seen this in English. And as much as I love seeing the German episodes, there is NOTHING like Maeve's voice dripping in sarcasm. Vanessa and Trish were friends---but it feels like we're missing some key explanation why. All I've ever really gathered from what's up is that they were sorority sisters. (It seems like that was a popular way to bring anyone rich to Springfield--"oh, they know Vanessa" for a while.) Their relationship seems less one-sided once Billy comes to town. Spaulding really got gutted after Diane's murder, that's for sure. It's not that I dislike Jennifer---but geez, is she dull. I never figured out why Mark married her. Wouldn't marrying Amanda made more sense to his revenge plot? well, the mid-late 90's were a challenge, both for GL and ATWT. My interest waned after '00, and while San Cristobal/Santoses didn't exactly break me, I think Maryanne Carruthers did. Those last 4-5 years were just sad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 @DRW50 whoopee! look what I found! One of my favorite Vanessa eppys. Now, please God, let them have the next eppy. This is around mid-May, around when Mindy and Billy show up. Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 The aftermath of OJ. Then again, both shows were not in a good place creatively in June 1994. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gatecrashers Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 Like Pam Long did when she created Reva and completely reinvented the show? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 Ugh...ATWT's Stern and Black era. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chrisml Posted April 8 Members Share Posted April 8 Kim Zimmer wrote this about Ellen Wheeler: "She wanted to be the white knight who saved Guiding Light, but why reinvent the wheel, trying to turn the show into something it was never meant to be? In my opinion, it was a losing proposition to buck the formula that had been successful." I did not. I just wanted to point this out in case people get confused. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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