Had they really had the cooperation of everyone involved and decent writing to support it, we might have seen Luke deal with his troubled childhood in a way that would have been more understandable. Honestly, I think the writers just ran dry. The invention of Nikolas was the first mistake. It made those glorious Texas scenes lies of omission. The introduction of Stefan Cassadine was more awful and destructive writing. We had years of Luke destroying any credibility he had with Felicia, Skye, Tracy, etc. Then they invented a whole backstory for Laura's departure that made no sense in terms of history. i get disgusted when I think about all the time that was wasted, stories that were untold, and characters that were destroyed because of people who just didn't care or couldn't muster the talent to write for them or us. Gloria would have protected them...her masterpiece.
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: I just love watching these and the
: transition.. and the way they transitioned
: Laura when she came into his orbit. And
: Bobbie..Luke, Laura, Ruby..Leslie, Rick,
: Luke, Laura..just loved it. Love it still.
: Don't love the re write at his exit.
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: As I remember, he spun out every time she
: was
: not there for him. That makes some sense in
: terms of the fact that he was really a guy
: who lived on the dark side before he met
: her. I think it is so interesting that he
: idolized her...idealized her. He talks
: about her purity, but we knew that she had
: clay feet. She had accidentally killed
: David Hamilton, and she let her mother take
: the blame for it. She admits that to Scott.
: I had forgotten about that scene until
: Norman brought it back to us. But Luke is
: not deterred. He is obsessed with her. It
: doesn't matter that she was married to
: someone else, loves him. He is willing to
: take any little crumb that puts him in her
: sphere. He tells Ruby that it will be
: enough just to see her once in a while at
: the disco. It was really a story about
: obsession that turned into a love story.
:
: I think the hair is a good marker for Luke.
: When they permed the hair, they changed the
: character. It really is pretty remarkable
: that Tony was able to morph this character
: from a rather despicable mob wannabe to a
: hero and romantic lead. I can't think of
: anyone else who was able to do that so
: effectively. Some would argue that Maurice
: or Steve Burton were able to do that, but I
: would say, "Go watch Geary in action.
: They don't hold a candle to him."
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: Was the other/evil nasty side of Luke
: operating the whole time or just after
: Laura's institutionalization? I can't
: remember what they said re Fluke? They re
: wrote the other sister, the ages, the death
: of parents, how Ruby got them.. everything
: we'd been told, everything Luke, Ruby and
: Bobbie told people for decades. When he was
: killing people, hitting on kiki, saying
: nasty things to children.. was that new or
: something Luke had always done but we didn't
: see? He told Laura in the Diner that she had
: kept him whole for years... I thought he
: meant that after she got sick is when he
: went evil crazy Fluke (& married to
: Tracy).
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: Ohhh! This is fabulous. If you want to
: understand the magic of LnL, you only need
: to compare the Laura/Scott scene in this
: clip to the scene after the death of Duvall
: with LnL. The scenes and dialogue are very
: similar,and so is the emotion. Kin is a
: fine actor. But there is something about
: the way the Tony and genie listen to each
: other and react to each other that really
: tugs at your heart.
:
: Also, this Luke is the Luke that was...
: before he was transformed by love. He was
: nasty, angry, and a very far cry from the
: man he became. This part of the character
: never really left him, and you can see why
: Tony liked this edge. Can a person really
: be transformed by love? Maybe not, but
: perhaps that was part of Luke's appeal
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: Here's another rarity I pulled from my
: Betamax
: archive. 2 hours of clips of
: Luke,Scotty,Laura,Lesley, Bobbie etc. And
: someone named Daniel J. Travanti as Spence.
: This would be near the end of the Lassa
: Fever story. I don't believe these have been
: posted on YT before. Enjoy!
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