RIP: Guiding Light

Despite my adamant refusal to watch the show and to be sucked into the Otalia ship I do feel a bit bad for fans of said ship when I read that Guiding Light has been canceled. The cynic in me said that the lesbian storyline would somehow end up with badness because lets face it, nothing is ever totally happy and perfect in soaps thus causing fans to bitch about something, but I didn't expect the show to get canceled. Then again, maybe I should have. Days Of Our Lives is rumored to be on the chopping block, it barely got renewed this year as it is and similar things have been said about my precious All My Children. I wish they would cancel the pit of dreck that is General Hospital already.

Then there's this bit of gossip that has Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia being offered parts on All My Children. Since they play both halves of Otalia the suspicion is to somehow transfer the Olivia and Natalia characters from Guiding Light over to the All My Children universe. Which... okay, I get people love them and that's great and if this happens I'll watch because I watch AMC constantly no matter what but honestly part of my refusal to get into the ship is my lack of interest in the characters.

I'll be slightly peeved if they magically import lesbian characters from another soap into AMC and give them better writing than Bianca has gotten since she came out in 2000. That's almost a slap in the face to Eden and all her work on the show. But most likely if they did get imported AMC would just fuck them up like they fuck up Bianca's storylines soooo... hahaha. But it would be funny to see people who disdained AMC over the quality of GL then look to AMC to save their almighty better written lesbian couple.

Either way I love One Life To Live the most these days. It's made of awesome.