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As The World Turns Discussion Thread

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2 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

It was during the writer's strike so listing the 'scab' would have been a kiss of death for their career. I'm not sure if any script writers on ATWT were working as scabs during the strike or not.

One of Marland's many trademarks was his love of writing gothic stories. The one's he wrote for GL were pretty good (seamlessly picking up where the Dobson's left off and creating his own), but I didn't think he successfully infused ATWT with that gothic sensibility. The closest he came was the Doug Cummings mystery and Lilith, but one was more of a mystery while the other bordered on camp.

Was it because ATWT didn't seem to lend itself to gothic storytelling like other soaps of the era like AMC or GL?

I didn't think of it being the scabs writing---that makes sense.

I just don't think gothic fit on ATWT. I think part of the reason was it's long standing sensibility and stability. Marland grafted Duncan/Shannon/and the McKechnie castle into Oakdale, but it was kind of contained to "the island". Even though other characters were woven into the plots, it always seemed isolated. And then the castle was converted into the Earl Mitchell Center

On GL, you've got an ever changing run of regimes and cast purges. Marland only wrote about a year and a half of Quint/Nola, and I daresay the more gothic elements probably would've disappeared once he resolved the Quint/Silas story. Long's southern gothic vibe stayed around as long as she had Reva.

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