Tony gave a passionate rebuttal to the “seduction” of L&L. It’s good to get unequivocal confirmation that L&L’s rape scene was directed and acted as a rape. No ambiguity, no seduction. All that came later, and he acknowledges that.
I’m obviously glad it wasn’t enough to destroy the possibility of them, but I fully understand why they needed to revisit the rape during “my” GH era. I was a teenager during the rape revisit and something some longer time fans might not get is that a lot of newer GH fans who fell in love with 90s L&L were clueless about the rape. Or if we knew, the consensus seemed to be that Laura just suddenly fell in love with her rapist. It was inconceivable.
Of course we didn’t see the rich, complex story that unfolded after the rape. That was excellent writing. But the writers back then ruined all of that with the Sailboat Seduction scene. It’s ironic that one of their sexiest scenes contained some of the most irresponsible writing they ever got. It was reiterated later when Laura tells Luke at the Floating Rib that that night at the disco was the first time they made love. The look on Luke’s face when Laura said that tells me that Tony was just as incredulous about that rewrite as I was hearing it.
Revisiting the rape nearly 20 years later required some fudging of the original story. How could it not? You can’t explain to a modern audience that two characters fell in love after a rape, and then subsequently called their own rape a loving seduction. At least the revisit was well written, and at least it worked to correct the original sin of the seduction rewrite.
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