OLTL Tribute Thread

[Vee]

I don't think they knew what they were doing that early on in '91 re: Sloan, tbh. Or what they were even going to do with Joey or the character who became Billy. Sloan wouldn't be on til maybe February-April of '92. And while he was extremely polarizing re: the triangle with Viki and Clint I definitely found him a much more layered and nuanced character than Natalia. I think the William backstory was for Andrew and they were seeding him dealing with those family issues through his father. What became of Billy was also a product of the times, in terms of LGBT characters and how much story they could get. But I still think it's a very affecting, powerful and wonderful story. YMMV.

Edited yesterday at 04:30 AM by Vee

[chrisml]

I just can't see OLTL doing anything with Joey as a gay man. They barely did anything with him as a straight man after a certain point. I think we would have gotten what we always got with gay storylines on soaps: the gay would sleep with a woman and because gay characters always have magical sperm, the woman would get pregnant. I'd rather have nothing than that. 

[Vee]

Funny seeing Rafe for exactly one scene with Bo at the end of September '91.

[Marco Dane]

Do you have a link to the video?

[Franko]

I always forget how much longer Rafe is around. When did Bo switch from the Banner to the Llanview police?

[DRW50]

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"Men you can't resist." Well, Karen resisted one of them...

Edited yesterday at 08:07 PM by DRW50

[Jagger1966]

 

Clint Ritchie thought it was out of character for Clint Buchanan as well.  I remember an interview he did in Digest where he said the one story he didn't like was when the show made Clint a homophobe.  He felt Clint would have stood up to bigotry, not be a part of it.  I had a lot of respect for him for making that statement.

[Khan]

I agree!

I would say that someone from Joe Riley's side of the family would've needed to be there in order to provide some conflict to the (hypothetical) Joey coming out storyline, except, given what I know about Eileen and Julie, I can't see them being homophobic either.

[Soaplovers]

Clint was a hothead, but he wouldn't have been homophobic based on the character we saw at play since he came on in the late 70s.  I could have seen Asa having some issues, but never Clint.

I do recall seeing a NYE episode in 1992/1993 where Vicki seemed committed to Clint and reviving their marriage so I do agree that the end game was going to be Vicki and Clint working on their marriage.. and Sloan would be just a passing infatuation/friendship.   

The only time I could have seen Vicki wavering would have been doing the Roger Gordon era, but the actor they picked to play Roger didn't have chemistry with Vicki.

 

[Khan]

IIRC, they even attempted a triangle (of sorts) among Viki, Clint and Tom Dennison, but it was clear that wasn't going anywhere either.  Lee Patterson and Erika Slezak still had chemistry, but Viki never would've hooked up with Joe's twin brother, lol.