With all this talk of the writers strike that Tomlin went FiCore for OLTL during, it got me thinking about what stories happened during writers strikes in the past and what changes were made to existing stories/characters.

I remember hearing that Jesse Hubbard being killed on AMC was one story that happened during a writers strike.

What others do you remember?

Yeah. I enjoyed it

That was an EXCELLENT episode. That was the last time the show still visually looked great. Except when it's night time in Salem now.

Edited February 3, 201411 yr by Antoyne

On GH in 08, the had the hospital bomber. I don't think there was a point to that storyline, but it was a good one.

I liked Garin Wolf in 2008.

On GH in 08, the had the hospital bomber. I don't think there was a point to that storyline, but it was a good one.

I liked Garin Wolf in 2008.

GW was head writing during the toxic ball story? I always assumed guza wrote that.

GW was head writing during the toxic ball story? I always assumed guza wrote that.

That was 2009

Days had one of their most exciting episodes of the last decade with the plane crash during the last writers strike. Tho that was much thanks to the directing.

I think that may have been the best episode of a soap I have ever seen. It was unlike any other and a rare episode where the director was more important than the writer or actor.

That was 2009

So many years of so many bad storylines kind of make the past few years a blur lol

I remember i stopped watching that year. They just killed cooper and had made it their mission to destroy the one pairing i didnt dislike sonny in, namely Skate 1.0. Throwing kate down the claudia/olivia bus was just too much for me to bare.

But that was mainly due to the fact that the old regime was back than becuz of what the strike writer did

Edited February 3, 201411 yr by cuzIsaySo

On GH I thought Logan was supposed to be the killer, because Guza turned him psychotic and had him killed not long after when the strike was anyway.

What a waste of a group of characters. Georgie, Cooper, Logan, Maxie, Lulu, Dillon and Spinelli were a great group of post teen characters! Wasted and with killing off Emily in that same era it was a waste of what could have been the future of the show, and people we as viewers were invested with. Ugh!!

Alan, Emily and Georgie being killed off in the same year was total overkill

Georgie could be so boring. So could Emily.

Georgie or Emily was a good choice. Both was bad.

I think it was shortsighted to kill off Georgie but I was not sad to see Emily go.

Oh I'm not a fan of the final Emily. But killing her off was a much worse decision than resting and recasting or moving her into a new story would have been. Plus it was another nail in the Q coffin. I miss them.

I remember GL's Sonni/Solita/Wil story. It actually got interesting when Michelle Forbes was allowed to play crazy bitch. But, yeah, it was strange. Josh's "good wife" Sonni was supposedly "evil twin" Solita having taken Sonni's place but then it turned out Solita had killed herself as a teenager after finding Sonni in bed with her boyfriend, Wil (aka Guillermo) and then being brutally beaten by her father who thought she was the trashy sister. So Sonni was really Sonni after all, having had some psychotic break thinking she was Solita playing Sonni. Somewhere on tape I think I still have those flashback scenes, Sonni finding Solita hanging in the closet, Wil cutting the rope bridge so, of course, Reva has to save her rival.

Edited February 6, 201411 yr by applcin

I remember it differently but sonni/solita will go down as one of my favorite GL stories ever!! (but yes it got confusing lol)