Guiding Light - MESSAGE BOARDS

What a waste of 9 years of my time!! The writing was terrible the last year, none of the plots made any sense, and now Reva and Josh go off into the sunset??????? What about Jeffrey???????????? So many loose ends, you could tell that the writers were tired. the Jonathan character is the ONLY one that can truly ACT. And all that outdoor shooting, what gives with that anyway???? The whole show was a collossal bore, I watched it because of my sick mother, and endured the rediculousness of the plots for a connection to my mom. thank goodness that part of my life is now over.

Nymph, so very sorry that you feel like you wasted the last 9 years of your life watching GL. Now that it's cancelled you can happily go forth into a new pursuit that will maybe qualify to make you happy. With your attitude, though I really don't believe that anything is going to help.

I agree with the original poster, the finale was flubbed, BIG TIME! They left one of the biggest stories, UNFINISHED, and that just sucks. Reva never found out Jeffrey was alive? Jonathan never told her? Jeffrey died, or never made it home? Reva's reunion with Josh is based on a lie, and that was a lazy way to end this show.

I thought the last episode was good!! Speaking for one who watched this great show for 50 yrs., I loved the happy ending especially for Reva & Josh!!!!!!!!

If the show had to end, as it did, I was so glad it ended on a happy note. I'll miss my favorite show

I agree and disagree. I thought leaving Jeffery and Edmond out like that was disrespectful to the actors and fans. I also felt Josh and Reva's last scene was empty. If you look at some of the classic GL on youtube, Jeffery was very important and loved in Springield. Leaving him unfinished was a Wheeler Blunder. I felt hurt for him..But in my opinion Wheeler is the DUD.

I wanted Josh and Reva to be together but that last scene just didn't do it for me. I will miss the only soap I loved very much but the ending was a little hokey compared to some of the outstanding acting I have seen on this soap over the years. In my opinion it was the writing.

I believe that the final episode was geared towards the people that had been watching GL for 25 years or more. Several storylines were picked up and finished like Fletcher, Ed, Holly and Mindy and Rick. The Reva/Jeffrey/Edmund storyline was STUPID. Breaking up Reva and Josh for good was STUPID. Having all the outside scenes was STUPID. STUPID equals CANCELLED. I know many of you will chew/cuss/tell me off. That's ok. I've been watching GL since it was a 15 minute black & white show. But I've loved it from LUJACK to ROGER to Harley and Gus!!!

Best of luck to the fine actors of GL. You will always be part of my day......be it VCR or DVDR.....

I thought the last show was well done, and the way it was done leaves an opportunity for the show to maybe return one day(although I really don't see that happening).

We can dare to dream . . .

I don't know what show the poster was watching, but I was watching the show I have watched for 34 years....the show that introduced the greatest romance of television history...Reva and Josh. The writers gave what the true, long time, dedicated fans wanted....Josh and Reva. I thought the actors (especially Robert and Kim) gave amazing performances in the last episode (not to mention for years), and can you imagine their emotions at the time of shooting these last scences!

As far as the Jeffrey thing.....I think we are to assume he continued with "the chase" and/or the lifestyle he was accustumed to. Personally, I hoped he would have stayed dead. They would have been better off just doing that.

I loved "The End" more then I could have imagined I would.

I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't some closure to Jeffrey and Edmund. But Jeffrey did say that when he killed Edmund he would go home. So I guess we know he is still looking or he is gone. I wish we knew though. I will have to use my own imagination. Soooo, you know it starts again! Josh & Reva marry, Jeffrey shows up and since he is alive Josh & Reva aren't really married. Who does she really want to be with and on and on and on! See they still live!

:D I'm sorry you feel that way...I LOVEd THAT SHOW...WHY DID U WATCH IT FOR 9 YEARS IF U DIDN'T LIKE IT...?! Honestly there where a lot of things left undone.but seeing reva and josh back together was enough for me..i didn't care where jeffery was...sorry..

Guiding Light used to be my favorite soap. I quit watching when they changed the filming. Nothing in Springfield was how I had pictured it for so many years that it totally turned me off, I just couldn't get into it anymore. I started watching again in the end so I could see the old characters return, I liked how they brought relationships back from the old days. While this was good I thought the end was lacking something. They should have taken more than one episode to flash forward and tie up loose ends.

I don't blame the first poster for the way they feel about the show.
Guiding Light was my favorite soap, when the new format came in, it was horrible. I made myself watch in hopes it would get better, but it never did. It wasn't just the bad camera work it was the story lines.
Why they thought people wanted to watch others doing the mundane things in life, I will never know. I want to be entertained, not bored. Watching people make cookies, fold laundry and visit the corner store is not entertaining. They didn't even try to cover up the ladies who were pregnant in real life. Like they couldn't be bothered to make the effort.
It is no surprise it was cancelled with stories like that.
People have the right to feel upset over the way a show we invest so much of our time into was ruined!
I also found the last episode a dud. I only enjoyed the ending with Josh and Reva getting back together but wished there was more of a build up to it. I did think it was weird about the Jeffrey ending. I think they just didn't know how to wrap that story up.
I will try to remember the Light as what it once was... my favorite show... not the awful mess it turned into.