You have goosebumps? I do now, watching that clip!
I knew a lot of facts about L&L's stories. But looking at Sus' playlist, getting the minutia, the character motivations and feelings beyond the story facts, has been golden.
My L&L intro was the 90s L&L. I started watching in middle school and they returned that same year. When that material that you linked aired, it made so much sense. But as I got to know more L&L fans, I kept hearing how that material wasn't true to the L&L from the Monty days. All I heard was how in step they were, both adventurers, both wanting the same life.
Seeing this material from 81 is telling me a different, more rounded story. L&L always had compatibility issues. It didn't start with the kids, and Laura wanting stability just for them. I'm watching as 19 year old Laura is trying to ground her much older husband.
Luke wants success, but he has fallen in love with the adventure, the danger, and he's PROUD of that. He wants to turn the boat into a floating night club, with his friends, and Laura doesn't want it, but she goes along with it for his sake. Luke spins Laura around, as he proclaims that he wants their lives to be lived at the peak, on an endless adventure. And you know that Laura loves him enough, and wants to be with him enough, to go for the ride. But she does NOT want a risky, adventure filled, unstable life. She can do it for Luke, but it's not what she craves for herself, at least not at all times.
I now see a continuity between the early L&L and the one I was introduced to. And it's all so, so much more fluid and connected than I ever realized
Also it's interesting to see Laura talking to Lucky in that clip about them being young adventurers, but needing to hang it up at some point to be more stable. Yet she's only 33 in that clip, and Genie's around the same age as Tony was when L&L were in the thick of their adventures.
Luke got to stay "young" so much longer than Laura did. Which is something she discusses with him on Cassadine Island in 2000.
It's all perspective.
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