Guiding Light - MESSAGE BOARDS

I loved that Josh and Reva ended up together. After all the years they were in love they should grow old together. However, what happened with Jeffrey. He was searching for Edmond, Jonathan knew he was alive, but the whole storyline went dead. What was with that whole thing? Are we to assume he was killed by Edmond or what?

I did see Edmund at my husband's gun shop picking up a "new" piece and thought I saw Jeffery at the corner stop & rob(just joking convience store). I think he was looking for either a cup of coffee or some toilet paper. I'm sorry it's just so ridiculous how they left it. They could have just had them shoot each other with ED being dead and Jeff waking up in the hospital and he was KING RICHARD still married to Cassie and the whole JOSH & CASSIE being married never happened. TPTB could have undone alot of the crap that had been written in the last several years, even ALAN's death if they wanted too. Oh, well.

The executives at GL have always thought that the fans wanted Reva and Jeffery together and the early plan was for Jeffery to come back at the end and reunite with Reva and Colin but the uproar over Reva and Josh being reunited if the show was going off the air scared them and so they backtracked the story and left Jeffery out there "protecting his family from Edmond" and a year later Josh and Reva together for "always" thus giving everyone sort of what they wanted. For me, I think they left ALL OF US hanging and it was poorly done! He should have come home to his family and THEN let Reva choose who she wanted, Jeffery or Josh. Same thing with Marina and Dinah for Mallet, the fans were divided so they chose neither. They left Marina sorta with Shayne and Dinah sorta with Mallet. Pathetic!!!!!!!! Why worry about pissing off the fans, the whole show was going off the air!

When I was in NYC in April and at the GL studio, I got the chance to meet one of GL's writers, a pretty young girl (late 20's, early 30's) and Ellen told me her name and said "she is one of our writers". I looked at her and said "so you are in part responsible for all of the mess of our show?". She couldn't excuse herself fast enough to get away! Ellen laughed and said, "I think you scared her". I said " if she writes this stuff, she should be able to stand here and defend it before a fan." We are who she writes for. I believe the poor writing: Josh marrying Cassie, the refusal to advance the Otalia story faster, splitting up Dinah and Mallet, Coop dying, all led to the show's demise. Changing to outdoors, and the acting didn't hurt the show. It was the stories that made the fans turn away. There was practically no romance for the last two years and that's what daytime fans want to see. Dark, Dark misery is not what makes a soap popular.

I have been a GL fan since the 1960's with a few years off for various reasons but I have always loved it. I want to comment on the end as I am upset by the sheer inplausibility of it. Even though Josh and Reva had a storybook ending which I am sure pleased the majority of fans, how is this explained since Jeffrey was her LEGAL HUSBAND and they shared a son? How was the end even possible? Were we supposed to think Jeffrey had been or would be killed? how could the writers leave this hanging when they tied up the stories for everyone else, even some characters weho had not been front and center for ages? Why did the writers get sloppy about this? Can they actually be persuaded to tell the fans exactly what their thinking was?:

I too have been a GL fan for many years, since 1972. But I thought Josh & Reva should have ended up together, so I got my wish. Nowhere was it mentioned they were married, just that they were going to be together - so it would not matter if Jeffrey was her legal husband. I do agree that the Jeffrey/Edmond loose ends should have been explained.

I hope they will have a Guiding Light special sometime and they will update the Jeffry & Edmund s/l. I'm not holding my breath though.

It was a disgrace how they left the ending for Jeffrey and Jeffeva. Jeffrey was the only character that did not get a payoff ending, and his fans. No way would Jeffrey just forever stay on the run after Edmund, and stay away from his family. He wanted to be with Reva and Colin more than anything else in the world, so to imply that chasing after Edmund was more important than that, was out of character.

Also leaving it hanging that Jonathan never told Reva? STUPID!

Reva ending up back with Josh made no sense to anything that was portrayed. Reva was over Josh, she showed absolutely no interest in him, so, just because it was a year later, and she didn't have Jeffrey back, she just goes back with Josh? I would rather they left her alone than be back with Josh. Well, at least I know, she never chose Josh over Jeffrey. It looked like a default ending to me. It has me torn over at least knowing that it was supposed to be a Jeffrey and Reva ending. I like knowing that, but they should have played it out, ON SCREEN!

If they were so hell bent on forcing a Jeva reunion, The very least they could have done is let Jeffrey return to be a father to his son.

Sounds like TPTB caved and rushed a Jeva reunion, even when it made no sense to the character of Reva.

It was he worst ending for any show I have ever seen.

I really wish a lot, that I could have sat down with that young woman and talked to her about the writing on the show. The writers seemed to have lived in a bubble, or a dream world, not where the majority of GL fans lived. I would have loved to hear her take on why some stories were deemed credible and why they didn't listen to what we wanted from our beloved characters. So sorry that she ran from me, it would have been very enlightening and very interesting. Guess she couldn't stand up to any criticism. Too bad. I was really ready to let her have our side of the issue. I am not afraid to speak my mind, as those who know me will tell you!

You are exactly right, Jeffery would have never totally left Reva and his son..They should have been together in the end. Josh should have just faded off into the sunset somewhere... No one would have missed him!

Sorry to disagree but Josh was Reva's first love and would always be. I like to think that Colin was actually Josh's son because I think Josh and Reva were together at cross creek before she married Jeffrey? In my opinion Jeffrey and Cassie belonged together and I like to think he will find her again one day. I also thing Dina and Mallet were to old for Shane and Marina I liked the final pairing up. I would have like to see more of the Rick and Mindy and Phillip and Beth as well as Ed and Holly too much of Daisy going off to college. just my opinion as a long time fan of G&L.