Talk about Guiding light episodes belong here thank you.

Gus Aitoro has been one BUSY dead man. Since his death, he's:

revived Olivia with his heart
been discovered to be a dirty cop
been a barrier to Harley and Cyrus
left a stash of cash in an old jacket
saved Alan when he fell down the stairs

For God's sake, he has more active storyline than most of the LIVING characters on Guiding Light. Using a character's death to kick-start some new storylines would be fine, but please give the actors something to talk about other than a character who's not even on the show anymore.

I have noticed that the past about 2 weeks of GL has really really improved in terms of filming style and techniques. Is it just me?

The camera has calmed down, there are far fewer distance shots or random shots. It looks so much more like the "old" GL with different, but good, lighting. It looks wayyyy better than it did even 1 month ago. Anyone else agree???

Yeah the filming is definately improving....now if we could just get some storylines to make us care, it would really be something.

They might have finally figured out how to make the show look less like a student film project. They haven't figured out how to make the scripts look like Kreizman didn't write them on the subway en route to work in the morning.

Gina Tognoni needs to go for Lead Actress next year!

Well, we've got 1 battle out of 2 solved. God, if only Hogan Sheffer had come to GL!

They need to realize: the show has CBS' commitment for AT LEAST another 1.5 years. MINIMUM! There's lots of opportunity to tell some big, sweeping stories! Come on!

If they can solve the filming problem so easily, it should be a snap to fire Kreizman and hire a writer who would respect the show's history like RC does on OLTL, you would think.

The filming has gotten better, but better storylines are definitely needed. I'm hoping things will improve with the Jeffrey shooting storyline and the Josh/Reva material. So far, the best thing that GL could submit for next year's Emmys would be the beginning of the year when Buzz dropped out of the mayor race and possibly some material dealing with the Alan holding everyone in the church at gunpoint.

I agree with rrussaw. They don't have their Emmy reels for next year yet, to be sure. But Jeffrey's shooting may be just the thing to stir the whole pot up. Zimmer should have some great stuff.

Regarding the musical selection used during the final moments of today's episode, aka the extended main title theme, all I can say is a little of that goes a VERY long way. It would've made for a more emotional moment if maybe the music had been a bit softer, rather than those banshee wailings.

Latest Rating-1.6! What the heck is going on here? Can't Barbara Bloom step in and clean house...??? This show sucks right now and that takes alot for me to say as I have been watching over 25 years. Never, ever, has it been this bad. No direction and terrible writing. It seems as if the actors just show up and they are given some sort of shoddy script in which they have to improvise. Utterly, inexplicably awful.

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I have always been a staunch supporter of GL, but it's getting really bad and that 1.6 just verifies that. Since CBS has renewed the show, the time is NOW to step in to save it, by hiring a new writer, pronto. The show is barely watchable.

If there are any surprises come Emmy night, something tells me that a win for Nicole Forester may be the big one.

Okay giving a small amount of credit where credit is due. Friday's last scene was priceless.

After Cassie is confronted by Grady, Josh comes home and Cassie confesses to him that it was Cyrus who she slept with. Josh blows up and leaves. Reva stops by the farmhouse and Cassie is sitting there in tears. She looks up at Reva and says "I think Josh left me."

The look on Kim Zimmer's face was priceless. She spoke more volumes in that one reaction than Bree Williamson played in 2 days worth of brilliant dialouge over at OLTL.

In Zimmers reaction as Reva there was pain for her sister, grief for what she must be going through, speculation on what the hell happened, a moment of "he finally wised up," and a glimmer of hope for her bud to come back to her. NF was also great throughout this eppy, but it was that final moment that just made me smile.

Also a very classy fade to black follwed by a quick tribute to Robert Calhoun.

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Originally posted by glfan:
Okay giving a small amount of credit where credit is due. Friday's last scene was priceless.

After Cassie is confronted by Grady, Josh comes home and Cassie confesses to him that it was Cyrus who she slept with. Josh blows up and leaves. Reva stops by the farmhouse and Cassie is sitting there in tears. She looks up at Reva and says "I think Josh left me."

The look on Kim Zimmer's face was priceless. She spoke more volumes in that one reaction than Bree Williamson played in 2 days worth of brilliant dialouge over at OLTL.

In Zimmers reaction as Reva there was pain for her sister, grief for what she must be going through, speculation on what the hell happened, a moment of "he finally wised up," and a glimmer of hope for her bud to come back to her. NF was also great throughout this eppy, but it was that final moment that just made me smile.

Also a very classy fade to black follwed by a quick tribute to Robert Calhoun.

....Ditto this-I thought the fade to black and tribute to Calhoun was a nice, classy touch. As far as Zimmer, she can convey more in one scene than most actors in a whole episode.

giving more credit to Kim Zimmer and the GL cast. I swear, if anything on this show saves it - it'll be its cast. Anybody who can make the most out of this dialouge deserves Oscars.

I did have 2 Laugh Out Loud moments today though - in a good way.

Upon watching clips from "ALWAYS: The life and times of Reva Shayne" - Josh becomes furious when he sees how twisted the truth is in the film.

Reva's response: "Oh you're right Josh. They should have stuck with the real stuff. You misserable and me happy - that would have worked!"

IT DOESN'T WORK ON THE SHOW - and there is OBVIOUSLY a dialouge writer who gets that because they're making fun of it! God, somebody wake Ellen Wheeler & David Kriezman up - PLEASE!

My other favorite LOL moment was when they annoucned after a brief recess there was one more scene of the movie they had to show.

CASSIE (to Jeffery): Let me guess, Reva walks on Water and Cassie get Herpes?!?!

JEFFERY (to Cassie): Maybe someone will do me a favor and shoot me again!

LOL! God, please SOMEONE help this show!

Oh, and Alan is still walking around Springfield even though he was thrown in Jail last week and as far as I know, nobody posted bail.

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I agree about the scene with Zimmer on Friday. I think Zimmer was effortlessly able to convey what they audience wanted her to. That this was a possible way to get back with Josh.

I cant seem to get into this show lately. Am i missing out on some great stuff with the wonderful Gina Tognoni?

Dont worry Blanchett/Winslet fan - You're not the only one.

Tognoni, other than being beautiful and looking stunning at Bill & Ava's wedding hasn't really been handed a script worthy of her talents in months. What surprises me is that, this years Emmy winner hasn't even been mentioned on our thread for Emmy Consideration for the whole year of 2008. WHY? BECAUSE THE WRITERS ARE AWFUL!