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As much as I hated what Ellen Wheeler did to this show...

posted 14 years ago by alanjobe
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... I have to give her props for focusing on some of the vets when the show was ending.

Reva, Josh, Billy, Vanessa, Phillip, Beth, Rick, Mindy, Lillian, Alan, Ed, Holly, and others at least got to have a part in the ending of the show.

ATWT on the other hand is going along like nothing is ending. Only bringing back one or two favorites. Only a few weeks to go, and the show still focuses on all the new, uninteresting characters that have taken over the show and caused it to fizzle out.

Wasn't a fan of EW, but at least she did give us long-time viewers some closure before the show ended.

Al - Alicia
An - Andrew
Jo - Joseph
Be - Benjamin

[–] TMC-4 (20490) 7 years ago

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/15085158-guiding-light

Those years with Barbara Estenton and James Harmon Brown headwriting the show really was the beginning of the end. Megan McTavish really took the show into some ludicrous depths, but B&J did alot of damage the show could never recover from: rewriting Amanda's parentage, introducing the Santoses and San Cristobal set, the clone story, and all the women - once GL's pride - were rewritten as neurotic hysterical messes: on top of Annie's super villany, Dinah went psycho and murdered Hart; Holly went psycho and became a stalker and kidnapper; Nola stalked an amnesiac Buzz; Beth returned to town a bitchy slut; Blake was reduced to a horny frustrated housewife; even Vanessa was contemplating a face lift to keep her younger husband. And the Zaslow fiasco occurred under their watch with the added insult of an inferior recast to an iconic role. It was a step back for a once great self-respecting soap and it just continued to get worse and worse.

—Anonymous

reply 298 03/26/2015

[–] modica (4169) 6 years ago

Amen, it was the beginning of the end.