Posted by Ginger on 11/3/2009, 7:12 pm, in reply to "We All Agree On One Thing......."
I am sure that I speak for all of us here when I say that all LnL fans are welcome. We have grown to be friends who share an interest. It is lovely to visit here.
--Previous Message--
: This show would be much better off with Genie
: and Tony on canvas.
: We all hope that Genie is returning in the
: not too distant future.
: At the end of the day that's all that
: matters, I say we focus on our similarities
: and agree to disagree about our
: differences.
: I've found that the posters on this board
: are generally, kind, courteous and
: respectful of each other.
: It's a vast improvement over the rancor,
: bitterness and bile found on other soap
: message boards. (DD is a cess pool)
: Tony and Genie are talented, gifted actors
: who make magic for me every time they are
: together, I hope and pray that I get to see
: that magic again.
: As long as this board is up and running I'll
: come here for online fellowship, friendly
: debates and any and all LnL info.
: I will try to be respectful of others and I
: expect the same.
: This is a great board for a great soap
: couple and I appreciate the chance to talk
: with other LnL fans.
: I enjoy reading what all of you have to say
: even when I'm not in 100% agreement.
: Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.
: -Previous Message--
:
: It has been a rough year to be Tony Geary.
: Thanks to rampant rumors, assumptions, and
: poor wording in interviews on his own part,
: many have lost their respect for this great
: actor, who is half of the greatest soap
: couple of all time. Many feel betrayed by
: him, feel he has dropped the ball and
: stopped supporting the L&L
: "legacy". I would like to comment
: on that.
:
: An actor is, at the end of the day,
: responsible for one thing, and one thing
: only, his own career. No one gets into this
: business to become an appendage to another
: actor, no matter how successful a screen
: partnership might be. It is an unfair
: position to put any actor in, especially
: when fans seriously expect one partner to
: sacrafice their employment for the sake of
: the other, or because the stories given
: don't reflect what the fanbase wants.
: Outside of whether Luke is with Laura, or
: Genie is on the show, there is Tony Geary
: the man, the man who must protect his own
: career, and his own right to work. In a
: business where spouses work on the same
: show, or for the same network, and one gets
: fired while the other continues working, can
: we really fault Tony Geary for staying
: employed regardless of what happens to Genie
: or L&L? Do we really expect him to jepordize
: his lucrative career because ABC is not
: interested in Laura Spencer and L&L at the
: moment?
:
: But my main point is to actually highlight
: how much of the legacy Tony has carried
: alone. To echo Luke's words, which Tony
: performed with such ringing authenticity,
: "you come, you go, you come, you
: go". It needs to be reminded, IMO, that
: Geary, for decades now, has often found
: himself the sole carrier of the Luke and
: Laura mantle, and it is not a position that
: Genie has ever found herself in. For
: various, and good reasons, Genie Francis has
: been the one leaving, time and again, and
: Tony has been the one responsible for
: fighting for the integrity of the the love
: story. It must be noted that:
:
: - In the early 80's Geary wanted Luke to
: commit suicide because he didn't believe
: Luke could carry on without Laura. The man
: was willing to end his own employment
: earlier, and in such a way that would
: permanently seal Luke as unable to literally
: breath without Laura.
:
: - When Monty offered Geary the chance to
: return as Luke, he opted instead to play a
: different character because he could not
: play Luke without Genie's Laura. When Monty,
: and Bill Eckert with her, tanked, and the
: network was clamouring for a Luke return to
: help patch up the slipping ratings, it was
: Geary who implored them to get Genie back,
: because he could not do it without her.
:
: - When Genie left on her second extended,
: open ended maternity leave, one that she
: wasn't sure when, or if, she was returning
: from, Geary hit the press, and the GH
: writing team, to let everyone know that he
: didn't want Luke in ANY affairs, because he
: believed in Luke's fidelity to Laura, and
: that they were connected even with her out
: of town. He made countless public comments
: at the time that he loved Genie, missed her,
: and that Luke could not live without her.
:
: - When Genie, feeling pressure from ABC's
: lack of equity on her behalf, quit the show
: once again in 2002, Geary was heart broken,
: and missed his partner. For years he played
: stories with Luke NOT moving on, a broken
: man, and he made it clear during those years
: that he missed Genie, and he wanted her
: home. Laura's presence was held strong on
: canvas, even to the detrament of Luke moving
: on, as the soap took an unprecedented move
: of continuing to sell L&L's love, going as
: far as to sabatoge Luke's relationships at
: the time for the sake of a catatonic Laura.
:
: - After Genie returned in 2006, Geary made
: it clear once more that he wants his partner
: back, and agreed with Genie that a sunset
: ending was the only true option for them.
: Geary less than a year later stood up on
: national television and, in a bold move,
: said that it was time for Genie to come
: HOME. This was around the time that he
: reminded us that one of Luke's lungs would
: always breath for Laura.
:
: This little recap encompasses a multi decade
: pattern of Genie exiting, and Geary having
: to carry the L&L mantle alone . It has been
: an amazing thing to behold, but ALL good
: things indeed must come to an end.
: Personally I feel that Geary has just become
: realistic, that he, and Genie with him, are
: aware that someone at the top isn't
: interested in having her back, or investing
: in L&L. So he did what Luke had to do, he
: simply has moved on. What else is there to
: do but? Geary has expressed some frustration
: in the past with the "wig
: stories", and I do believe he reached a
: point where he wanted them to either invest
: in L&L and bring Genie back, or let it go;
: stop sitting on the fence, and get the ball
: rolling, or just let the whole business fly
: away.
:
: I do not blame Geary, at least not for
: supposedly "betraying" L&L. It is
: clear that Geary has been put in a position
: that NO OTHER ACTOR in the history of
: Daytime has. He has been reponsible for
: upholding not just his own career, and
: character, but the heavy weight of this
: singular relationship that defines what love
: is in Daytime television. And it was a
: burden that he carried for a very long time,
: and with much blood on the walls, fighting
: to keep it authentic, and true to what they
: all built in the late 70's/early 80's. And
: after a long fight, when the industry has
: changed so much, when the network no longer
: wants what he is carrying, I will NOT
: begrudge him for putting it down, and
: finding some relief in the freedom of having
: to worry only for his own career and his own
: character. When the chips were down, and
: Genie needed to save herself, she did just
: that, choosing many times to take leave as a
: stand for what was important to her, with
: Luke and Laura taking a back seat to her own
: needs. Does Geary not finally, after all
: this time, deserve to take the same actions?
:
: Hasn't he more than earned that much?
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