I'm sure LW thought about this long and hard, and in the end, she had to make the best decision for her business. The FB comments were not very kind (a few), and her husband stepped in and asked for positive posts. She had to know that some would see this as a betrayal, but in the end, it's simply too irrational. LW has to think beyond GH. She loves wine and GH, but only one of those passions has a chance at survival.

ANDREA

You think? I doubt LW gave it a second thought. She had a chance to publicize her vinegar factory and she jumped on it. The part about her husband stepping in does not make me feel good about either him or her. If they want to get in the ring, they better learn to take some punches.

You know what kills me about this, I'm not a Laura Wright fan but this is a woman who's entire career has been soaps. Obviously unlike certain actors and fans, she knows the end is near and is preparing for a new income source but she's been devoted to this genre for years. So what exactly would anyone here have done I'd like to know who was starting a business and had the chance to promote it on a national ABC show. Turn it down based on principle. bullshit. Sometimes I wonder what kind of fairytale soap fans live in.

You know what kills me about this, I'm not a Laura Wright fan but this is a woman who's entire career has been soaps. Obviously unlike certain actors and fans, she knows the end is near and is preparing for a new income source but she's been devoted to this genre for years. So what exactly would anyone here have done I'd like to know who was starting a business and had the chance to promote it on a national ABC show. Turn it down based on principle. bullshit. Sometimes I wonder what kind of fairytale soap fans live in.

You might want to read some of our posts before you lump us all together. I don't think she should have turned it down because that would have been stupid, although I understand RS' feelings about it.

You might want to read some of our posts before you lump us all together. I don't think she should have turned it down because that would have been stupid, although I understand RS' feelings about it.

I'm not necessarily referring to comments here but across the board. And honestly it's mostly stemmed by some sort of continued bitterness about OLTL. Time for folks to move on. Every other fan base have seemed to move on including AMC fans. I don't see any outrage when soap actors including ABC actors appear on the Talk.

You know what kills me about this, I'm not a Laura Wright fan but this is a woman who's entire career has been soaps. Obviously unlike certain actors and fans, she knows the end is near and is preparing for a new income source but she's been devoted to this genre for years. So what exactly would anyone here have done I'd like to know who was starting a business and had the chance to promote it on a national ABC show. Turn it down based on principle. bullshit. Sometimes I wonder what kind of fairytale soap fans live in.

Agreed. Laura Wright has done nothing wrong. She's supporting her current show and she's planning for the future. She's a smart woman. She knew the writing on the wall for GL, hence her 2005 jump from GL to GH, and now she's ready to jump into her next line of work when the inevitable day comes that General Hospital is pronounced dead. She is betraying nobody.

Until the day comes that Helen Wagner crawls out of her grave and joins twitter to bitch about Texas Battle and John McCook appearing on The Talk, Strasser needs to just STFU.

I'm not necessarily referring to comments here but across the board. And honestly it's mostly stemmed by some sort of continued bitterness about OLTL. Time for folks to move on. Every other fan base have seemed to move on including AMC fans. I don't see any outrage when soap actors including ABC actors appear on the Talk.

I agree. I don't know what it's about. It's bad enough that GH viewers have to deal with the OL immigrants, but the sense of entitlement from the OL fans is pretty hard to deal with.

Until the day comes that Helen Wagner crawls out of her grave and joins twitter to bitch about Texas Battle and John McCook appearing on The Talk, Strasser needs to just STFU.

You're just begging for some angry fan to create a DeadHelenWagner Twitter account.

The decision to end soaps was not LW's, but she's decided to do what may be in the best interest of her business.

Especially since her current employer wouldn't think twice in putting her out to pasture if she looked at them cross-eyed. While I love RS too much to shít on her, I'm not about to slam LW for being smart enough to think about herself instead of blindly serving ABCD.

Edited June 1, 201213 yr by VirginiaHamilton

I have to say that I am very pleased at the mature attitude that most ABC soap viewers at SON have. That being said, there are still way too many anti-ABC crazies out there, as illustrated by bitchy Robin Strasser's latest comments.

If people claimed that their only goal was to save AMC and/or OLTL (and also stated that they could care less about fans of other cancelled soaps), I would have a lot less problem with this type of activity. Instead, it appears as if many are masking their true intentions (about saving the Nixon soaps and damaging ABC) under the guises of "saving the genre" and "fighting corporate greed." Of course, if these slogans really represented their primary mission, then all of these folks would have been up in arms when CBS cancelled GL and ATWT and replaced them with cheaper programming. Furthermore, these folks wouldn't have pledged their everlasting loyalty to Hoover, given that the company replaced manufacturing jobs in Ohio with those in Mexico.

I was recently reading an article about the ratings performance of each of the network daytime talk shows (see the below link):

http://www.tvmediain...aytime-talk-11/

One of the comments, written by "Camille," was particulary telling as to how these anti-ABC crazies think:

Thank you Marc for this update… Two things I want to say Firstly I can’t wait for the day that The Talk becomes Number 1 over the View for that would be another Victory for the soap fans indirectly, and secondly no surprise that The Chews rating are going downward continuously for how many times can they tell us how to boil an egg. The Chew will continue to show ABC that their judgement in cancelling the soaps was wrong…

Thus, Camille--who apparently is all about the soap genre--is publicly hoping for The Talk (a show that replaced a longer-running soap than either AMC or OLTL) to overtake The View (a show that did not replace a soap) in the Neilsen Ratings. Zealots like Camille are so hung up in their self-centered desire to save THEIR soaps that they see ABC as the sole enemy, and fail to realize that ABC just followed the lead set forth by the other networks. (I wouldn't even be surprised if Camille was unaware that The Talk was the replacement for ATWT, given how little she seems to care about the matter.)

In short, everytime crazies like Robin Strasser or Camille cloud the save AMC/OLTL campaign under false pretenses, it feels as if they are spitting on the faces of fans of all the other soaps that got cancelled. (I guess those who disagree with me might say I'm "disgruntled," but you also cannot deny that such a label applies to the likes of Robin Strasser.)

Edited June 1, 201213 yr by Max

Some may proclaim that Strasser has every right to label Wright "wrong" in this matter, and of course it's true. Strasser should be able to voice her opinion, unfettered. But of course, when the idea that the other person is "wrong" is a merely subjective, personal opinion unsupported by any actual facts, but rather motivated by personal disappointment, ire and/or bitterness, it's at least important to measure one's words in public, to avoid sounding petulant. No one adores Strasser more than I do, but measuring one's words is important.

Staying off twitter would go a long way toward doing that, vetsoapfan.

Thus, Camille--who apparently is all about the soap genre--is publicly hoping for The Talk (a show that replaced a longer-running soap than either AMC or OLTL) to overtake The View (a show that did not replace a soap) in the Neilsen Ratings. Zealots like Camille are so hung up in their self-centered desire to save THEIR soaps that they see ABC as the sole enemy, and fail to realize that ABC just followed the lead set forth by the other networks. (I wouldn't even be surprised if Camille was unaware that The Talk was the replacement for ATWT, given how little she seems to care about the matter.)

In short, everytime crazies like Robin Strasser or Camille cloud the save AMC/OLTL campaign under false pretenses, it feels as if they are spitting on the faces of fans of all the other soaps that got cancelled. (I guess those who disagree with me might say I'm "disgruntled," but you also cannot deny that such a label applies to the likes of Robin Strasser.)

Wow, what a dumbass. Camille lacks any sense of logic.

LOL at Strasser being concerned about the 800 jobs lost when OLTL was cancelled. Where was her concern for those stagehands, camera people when she went off on them if they messed up a camera angle or made a sound in the background and she had to reshoot a scene? It is well known that lots of people cheered when she left OLTL in 87 and 2000. And notice how last year when she had to leave OLTL early, they even let her go earlier than she wanted. That says alot. She is the epitome of a diva who shoots off her mouth and usually only tells 1/2 the story.

LW has been know to diva with the best of them so I see them as being quite comparable.

I still think LW would have been dumb to pass up an opportunity like that for free advertising on a national venue. That's the kind of thing that when it drops in your lap, you jump on it.

I'm probably old-fashioned, but I can't imagine why people go on twitter with this sort of thing. I know people who developed an intense dislike for LW, CH and NLG because of their tweets.

Strasser expressed her opinion, which is NOT bashing anyone at all. ALL actors are business people. Strasser's point is well taken - why would you stand up for a situation where networks ditch hundreds of people's jobs - not because the shows were not making money - THEY WERE. Anyone who thinks not does not understand how things work. If the profits are not high enough, you chop the budget. THEY DID, and the show went on. OLTL's demographic was excellent. It had over 3M viewrs (at least) through TV and a few million more online. That is significant.

In the end, it IS all about greed, and Wright did not think things through. One thing to appear on the show - another to stand up and say "isn't this great." I do not know Wright's motives. Certainly to try and promote GH is great. But praising the existance of these new cheapie shows is NOT. Certainly when considering how they are coming about and why. More people need to stand up and speak as Strasser does, but few have the guts. Bravo Robin.

Well Said!!!