Guiding LIght: She's a Marvel recap

[thebitterguy]

A minute by minute recap of the Guiding Light episode titled "She's a Marvel".

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Harley was a superhero?

The actor who plays her dad is married to Margaret Colin, who played the cyborg's wife on Now and Again. Sort of a superhero connection. Assuming he still plays her dad. I haven't watched GL in years.

[thebitterguy]

"I know those words, but the sign doesn't make any sense".

Now and again? Cyborg? I am filled with confusion.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

It was a TV show. A very good TV show. A very short-lived TV show. John Goodman's brain was transplanted into Eric Close's artificial body.

I found a clip from Guiding Light. Justin Deas does indeed still play Harley's dad. And here's reason to be grateful I couldn't open the whole episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttxqq8keGNw

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Found this too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slWFwdaKVck

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

What... the fuck?

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Without commenting on the merits of the crossover itself, I have long believed that superhero comics, at least since Chris Claremont, are soap operas for teenage boys. So in that sense the idea itself is not offensive.

[thebitterguy]

Remember the weird bit at the end of the Franklin RIchards comic from last night? It was a tie-in to this.

[thebitterguy]

I don't think anyone's offended by it. It's just a very strange idea, an interesting way to launch sweeps month.

And, hell, Joss Whedon writes comics now, and his stuff is definitely soap-operaish.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

There was a strong soap-operaish element to comics even pre-Claremont. He just was one of the first to be really obvious about it.

[thebitterguy]

Just look at any iteration of the Legion of Superheroes. Particularly Shooter's Dick List.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

That was the one of them all I didn't look at.

I also don't think it'd make it make any more sense.