Members Marco Dane Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 How was soaps handled after September 11th? I was in High School at the time and don't remember... <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/13NSngYY8bM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 Beyond GH (which dropped a terrorsit biotoxin plot), OLTL rewrote scenes where Blair was supposed to be in a plane crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Vixen Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 I only remember that GH dropped the biotoxin plot but I don't remember anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 Obviously all the soaps were pre-empted that week obviously due to the 9/11 coverage and picked up the following week on the 17th. Both the covers for SOD and SID CBS featured Brooke and Taylor on B&B and the covers got the attention of the mainstream press due to the nature of the cover headlines "Old enemies declare new war!" and "B&B EXPLODES!" Very bad timing indeed. As far as the immediate aftermath, I recall reading a couple soaps, I believe GH and PC had to rewrite and drop storylines they were writing featuring terrorism. Days' Christmas episode that year did a special tribute to the event and the cast decorated the tree with ornaments dedicated to lost NYPD officers and fire fighters. A year later Y&R held Victor and Nikki's wedding around the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted September 10, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 I wonder how that story was going to progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 I think AMC rewrote a plot too. But, of that I'm not exactly sure. I was in middle school at the time. But, watched ATWT/GL on tape when I got home. I cannot remember what they did. If anything. Too bad we never got to see the bio-toxin story. That would have been great. Yet, we are seeing one 11 years later. Sans Helena though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted September 10, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 Was anyone here on the board now was here during the attacks when the site first started? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skin Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 If you are talking about what I am thinking about I think you might be thinking about the Oklahoma bombing, which ABC squashed a storyline by Megan McTavish on AMC where Janet was supposed to blow up Pine Valley. That was later done in 2006 for February sweeps. This current biotoxin storyline is a re-tread anyway though. GH originally had one back in 2006/2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 You're right. Thank you so much! It was after the OKC bombing. Not 9/11. And, yeah. Monkey Virus. I wasn't watching and didn't get to see that. They hardly have any of that storyline on YT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted September 10, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 Damn that would had been a great storyline. I wonder how Janet was going to pull that off. Put bombs in the sewers or something or just a huge nuclear blast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 We all know how much Janet loves her bombs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted September 10, 2012 Members Share Posted September 10, 2012 Port Charles was in the middle of doing a terrorist plot with Ian which they had to rewrite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted September 11, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 11, 2012 LOL at your Sig!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCHistory Posted September 11, 2012 Members Share Posted September 11, 2012 The bombing was supposed to go off at Trevor and Laurel's wedding ceremony. By this point, Felcity LaFortune proably saw all the writing on the wall, tptb wanted Laurel dead: car accidents, churck bombs, comas, and finally the gunshot. How such an unfavoured actress lasted as long as she did is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted September 11, 2012 Members Share Posted September 11, 2012 ATWT and GL had special close at the end of an episode about the tragedy (with ATWT it was Don Hastings "Bob" talking and with GL it was Jerry verDorn "Ross" talking) as they both were from NYC, and other cast members were there. Port Charles had something similar...though that seemed to be taped later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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