GH: Classic Thread

[Planet Soap]

They should have never made Luke rape Laura if they felt there was some chemistry between them. I suppose the writers figured because L&L had a prior acquaintanship, that would make the relationship marginally passible compared to a random stranger attack. 

Edited October 6, 2021 by ironlion

[AbcNbc247]

I’ve asked that question for years: why did it have to be rape? They could’ve just as easily had consensual sex at the disco that night.

My only guess is that Gloria Monty and Pat Falken Smith thought that the controversy would bring in high ratings. 

[amybrickwallace]

My thoughts exactly. 

[BetterForgotten]

Maybe they had no intention initially of making Luke & Laura a couple? But had to backtrack when they unexpectedly caught on? 

[amybrickwallace]

Doug Marland explicitly said that he wanted Laura with Scotty. Gloria Monty wanted her with Luke. He left, and then Pat Falken Smith wrote everything from the rape to the summer on the run.

[lophil87]

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First time poster! I just stumbled onto this behind the scenes video from 1974!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6QJuCXML4w

I wish that we could hear it! The woman seemed really sweet, especially when she was crying at the end!

Can anyone identify all the actors, apart from what appear to be the woman's two children? I recognize Valerie Starrett, Emily McLaughlin, John Beradino, Denise Alexander and Craig Huebing.

Edited October 6, 2021 by lophil87

[Dion]

Oh thanks for this!

You know, this is probably the first time I've seen what the Pre-Monty GH set looks like in color.

 

[amybrickwallace]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing the link.

[titan1978]

Monty learned her lesson- I don’t think there was ever another rape on the show in either of her tenures.  She didn’t do a lot of damsel in distress type stuff either.  Alan and Monica have some questionable scenes, but I don’t recall if Monica ever vocalized herself as being raped by Alan.

Genie said later that it was date/acquaintance rape before that term was commonly know or used and that the show certainly didn’t handle it properly.

That was so cool.  I guess I don’t think I have seen much of that set in color either.  I didn’t remember it being so blue.

Cool to see all those older actors- and kind of shocking/sad.  Poor Emily aged a lot from this video to 1978.  

[amybrickwallace]

That's good to know that Monty never pulled that kind of stunt again. I've always wondered if playing out that rape turned grand romance in a small way affected the drug problems Genie later admitted to having in the early 1980s. 

[Vee]

Genie has pretty much blamed the GH set and Monty for her drug problem, and IMO she's right.

[titan1978]

I can’t imagine how thrilling and hard it was to be that young, be given that pivotal a role on a soap opera, have no peers your age on the show and then to become an actual pop culture icon.  The fact that she survived is pretty incredible all things considered.

 

It’s pretty awful when you compare what was happening on GH to it’s closest clone in those days, which IMO was Days of Our Lives.  Nearly every major female character was raped, and most disgustingly, it often was used as a super couple obstacle.  On GH, until Karen’s storyline they just did not do stories like that after Laura was raped.  I’m not saying stories of sexual violence don’t belong on soaps, they do.  It’s just on DAYS rarely were they as impactful beyond a plot point instead of being a story centered on they character assaulted.

[amybrickwallace]

It really is. Jonathan Jackson said in at least one interview that Genie took him under her wing from the start, because she knew what being a kid/teen on a soap was like.

[victoria foxton]

 

  

[amybrickwallace]

I HATED that story, especially because Felicia "reminded" Luke of Laura.

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