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meggie · Senior Member

The full Emmy tribute

JoelC · Senior Member

Wow, thanks for finding and posting that, meggie! I had read that Frank D was upset that they had cut a lot from what was originally planned and now I see what he meant. This is what SHOULD have been shown.......a perfect blend of the old & the new GL. Really a disgrace that the CW had to edit it the way they did, but thats what happens when you have a network that doesn't even have soaps try & put something like this together.

Amanda · Senior Member

While I was very annoyed to discover that they cut the tribute down (I mean, is 4 minutes really too much to ask for 73 years of programming?), I must say that I thought the 4 minute version could have been done better. The transitions were wonky and too much of that 4 minutes was wasted on intro stuff when show clips would have been better. For example, I'm glad they included the "There is a destiny that makes us brothers" bit, but it should have been played over show clips and not that stupid hand thing.

So, I think Guiding Light deserved AT LEAST 4 minutes of tribute (and I actually think 7 or so would have been more reasonable), but every second of the tribute should have packed a punch, and unfortunately, I don't think it did. THAT may actually be the reason it was shortened.