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Have just finished watching Monday's ep of Guiding Light - aka The One Where Bill and Lizzie Finally Tied The Knot!!

It was truly lovely - the vows were just gorgeous, and everyone looked like they were having the time of their lives filming it!! Even though it's got to be so hard at the moment as the end of filming date approaches (middle of August, I believe).

And the Phillip and Beth scene at the end just KILLED me dead!! I swear to God, I never liked Beth before this year. Now since she's lost Coop and found a backbone, I'm loving her! And it helps that Beth Chamberlain and Grant Aleksander have mad chemistry! I just hope that Philip manages to survive the last episode, because watching him die for real would just be too hard.

The other soap I'm loving at the moment is Y&R. Philip Chancellor III is back in town, Cane has been exposed as a con-man and this is just great soap!! (Well, it would be if Thom Bierdz could actually act.... I'd even settle for just emoting at the moment!) Admittedly, the storyline is full of plot holes so wide you could fit a HGV through them, but I'm just totally suspending my disbelief and going along for the ride! The best thing about the storyline, by far, is Tricia Cast kicking ass and taking names as P3's widow Nina.  Nina's gone from shocked to angry to confused and back to angry and all the while TC has been AWESOME -  the scene in the hospital room where she lashed out at Phillip was just brilliant - here's the YouTube clip where Phillip is explaining his accident wasnt an accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsEA7i1V1pc - Nina's smackdown starts at about 7.25, and here's what she had to say:

You grew up without a father because he died in a horrible car crash. How could you turn around and-- and do that to your own child? You know, when Phillip was growing up, I told him again and again the story about how his father-- the last day that he spent on this earth-- the last thing he did was reach out to his son and take his hand because that's how much he loved his little boy. I told him that you were in heaven with the angels watching over him. You've made a liar out of me because you wanted to be dead rather than be a part of your son's life. How could you do that? How could you do that to your son?!

I'm really hoping she submits some of this stuff for next years Emmy Awards, because it's just that good!

cheapevilgirl , not sure if you're still avoiding AfterElton - just in case you are, here's the direct link for an interview they did with Thom Bierdz. There's an awful lot of "I can't answer that" in it, but it's a great read: http://www.afterelton.com/TV/gayslives/05-26-09?page=0%2C0

And here's the link to a different interview he did with the Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid84724.asp


In other soap links, the Goddess that is Crystal Chappell updated her website blog: http://www.ccandfriends.com/blog/ with a really lovely post. She's also joined up to Twitter; so far today she's been tweeting from the set of the July 4th Bauer BBQ, which IS actually a Bauer BBQ this year as Danny and Michelle are back!!! (And I admit, I signed up to Twitter just so that I can follow her tweets. How sad is that??)

And in really sad news: Ethan Zohn, winner of Survivor Africa back in the day, has announced he's battling cancer. Link to People.com article There's also a video on the site where it shows him getting his trademark mop of curls cut off before he undergoes his first session of chemo. 

And now, I'm off to watch the remainder of the Champions League Final - not going our way at the moment though!!!!

According to Daytime Confidential, the following three iconic characters may be making their return to the show in the near future:

Maureen Garrett (Holly)
Peter Simon (Ed Bauer)
RICK HEARST (Alan-Michael Spaulding)

Do I even need to tell you how happy this makes me, especially the last one??? I've been crossing my fingers and toes for this since GH bumped Rick to recurring (and even before then). Seeing A-M and Phillip sparring again would be made of epic win!

DC goes on to say that Ed would be back for a big Bauer BBQ that's being planned. (I guess this also ties in with the Manny return) As yet there's no word on Maureen Garrett's story, but she's indicated she'd be happy to come back.

I really really hope this comes to pass.....

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Soap Opera Digest is reporting that Paul Anthony Stewart is reprising his role as GL's Danny in May.... Colour me surprised and delighted!!

I also saw that Beth Ann Bonner (ex-Talia, OLTL) has been cast on GL in an unspecified role... In light of the above, I'm now wondering if it's possible that she's a recast for Michelle? (cheapevilgirl, misssimm, am I barking up the wrong tree here do you think?)

Of course, my big dream is that Danny come back and sweeps Marina off her feet, saving us all from the suckitude that is Marina and Mallet....

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Have just spent the last hour and a half watching the eps of Guiding Light that aired yesterday, Wednesday and Tuesday - Good God, can we just give Crystal Chappell the Emmy now and have done with it? Becuase she was just on fire - the whole graveside confession was gutwrenching, and her watching Natalia as she stood with Frank at the altar... GUH!!!! There are just no words for how much I'm looking forward to the ep that airs today - it should be a doozy!!

The other thing I liked about these eps is that they actually gave Frank some good stuff - during the whole "third wheel" speech, you really got a sense of how lonely Frank actually is, and it's that loneliness that is forcing him to rush into this marriage with Natalia, even though he has a very clear idea that something's not right. It reminds me of the Frank we saw with Eleni, back when Melinda Kanakaredes was on the show and Frank actually had a storyline!!

Also, Olivia calling him "Frankie" - good memories!!

In other Springfield news, Shayne and Dinah continue to be hot.

I like the new James - he looks like he could be the son of Grant Aleksander and Beth Chamberlain.

However, I do NOT like the whole James and Daisy thing - seriously, I spent most of their scenes shrieking "HE USED TO BE YOUR BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the laptop (the yelling is freaking my mum out it must be said). The other thing that drove me to distraction was the whole texting in church thing - Marina's look of shock and disgust was right on the money! This is the whole problem with their refusal to adequately SORAS Daisy - she should be older than Marina, not younger. And for the life of me I can't work out why they didn't pair James with the similarly crazily SORAS'ed Leah Bauer - can you imagine, Phillip's son and Rick's daughter?? The story practically writes itself!!

I has new default icon.....

and a link to remember: saveguidinglight.net

Just saw article saying that GL has been cancelled, final episode to air 18th September.

No words.

(other than I hope this is a particularly nasty April Fool)

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The Phillip Effect continues - eps are downloaded wicked fast, and even if they weren't they would be well worth the wait! And it's not just the Phillip stuff that is brilliant - it's everything, right across the board. The writing is just fantastic!

Yesterday's ep was a case in point - watched it earlier on, and there was not one bit that I fast-forwarded through. The Coop/Lizzie scenes were lovely, and the Beth/Coop stuff just broke my heart. I take back every negative thing I ever said about Beth Chamberlain; she has been knocking it out of the park for the last few eps, and I can't wait to see what Beth does next. Because I believe her when she promised Coop she'd never go back to Alan, and it'll be interesting to see how she copes now.

Coop flatlining at the end was horrible - I knew it was coming, but still.... both JD's did a great job! Fiona is in tomorrow's ep, so she's either going to guide Coop into the light or be comforting Buzz. Either way, I don't care!!

Now, off to watch BSG......

cheapevilgirl , not sure if you've seen these spoilers for next weeks GL:

http://www.soapoperasource.com/gl/spoilers/gl-spoilers-week-of-february-9.html

I am stupidly excited about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!