That would certainly give them time and be more than appropriate.
Making my way around Threads and other online corners seeing the reactions to his death has been very interesting. I had no clue Luke was so popular with the Black audience of GH. It’s another sad reminder how invested that audience has been in soaps and how little the actual show has included Black characters as leads at GH. Even Viola Davis commented about him on a post I saw from Marlon Wayans.
The GH of that time still commands mainstream pop culture attention that other soaps just don’t enjoy. It shows how vast that audience was and how the nostalgia of it hits close for people of a certain age. I felt the same way when Jackie Zeman died- I saw it everywhere for days, media and fan tributes, same with Tristan, Leslie, and a couple of years ago, Stuart Damon.
Soaps have had deep roots in melodrama way before Monty took control at GH. Even when rooted in more realistic stories, they were often overwrought.
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