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...

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[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.