And Sheri Anderson, who deserves a lot of the credit/blame depending on how you view it. She was on the team under PFS when the prototype supercouple formula was developed with Luke & Laura on GH, and IIRC was one of the ones that quit and went with PFS to DAYS when she got fed up with Gloria Monty and the sci-fi storytelling. DAYS cemented that formula though!
Like @Khansaid, GH had some of the biggest supercouples of the era, but they were more ensconced in the action/caper storytelling. And virtually every character on DAYS in the 80’s under 45 was put through the formula, even less popular ones like Pete/Melissa took their turns.
Monty also seemed to learn her lesson about using rape as a storytelling device to keep a major couple apart, she never told another story like Laura’s again. There were things like Monica/Alan’s marital rape, but it wasn’t played like the supercouple formula as an obstacle for the couple to overcome (which was as gross back then as it is now).
She noticeably grows up in that period when they were broken up because she panicked about still being married to Scotty when they got attention for Frank Smith. She’s more independent, lives on her own, does a terrible job as Edward’s secretary, and gets herself into the Ice Princess story several times. She’s even holding people at gunpoint at the climax with Robert. It’s much closer to the women later on on GH. But they play the trauma of her experiences with Stavros when she comes back in 1983. Genie plays a lot of it very fearful, uncomfortable, and sad. It was so easy to wedge Nikolas into that story because of her behavior onscreen, Lesley’s death soon after, Laura’s own history of having an off switch when she is traumatized, and how weird she was just wandering around looking at Luke but not going right to him or her family. It’s kind of disappointing in 1995 when Labine pushes her right back into the little lady scared of danger. It made sense with her having a family, but it was also not very Laura to me.
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