"Todd"/Marty was utterly stomach-turning, explicit and drawn out, but it was also almost 20 years ago. I was pretty disgusted re: Lulu and Cassius as well, but I do think there's a huge difference in how GH and the network approached that brief detour recently vs. Todd/Marty (or stuff like the Connie DID rape mess in 2012) simply because this time it was offscreen and then pretty much came and went.
That is interesting about Laura. But what I think is also notable is that IIRC they let Ava be romanced by Ryan around the same time, not knowing who he was. I assume they went to bed more than once, I wasn't watching for a lot of that period. Ava is a darker character with a very ugly history. But they did play the beats when she learned the truth.
(As a side note, to this day I wonder what happened at OLTL. Susan Haskell was vocally against Todd/Marty for many years and has never spoken too much since about the story as it unfolded after the fact in '08. There were rumors in 2011 that they initially tried to secure Roger Howarth in 2008, which would've possibly been a typical Ron Carlivati twist mid-story, proving TSJ's "Todd" to not be Marty's original rapist after all and a pawn himself, not that I find that much more palatable given the situation with the bedridden and amnesiac Marty. We know Susan left the show the final time unhappy with other story a couple years later in '11. Did both Ron and Frank really have any plan for the fallout after '08? Because it didn't show onscreen; it was abhorrent and destroyed what was left of Todd's character, and nothing fixed any of it in any small way until Roger Howarth returned.)
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