I think the original date rape storyline, as it was written before the left handed boy storyline started up, is excellent. It's not an easy story, but it was written with a nuance, complexity and depth that you just wouldn't see on a soap today. Laura was clearly raped, but she was conflicted because she was falling for him. Luke did a horrible thing, but he wasn't written as an unredeemable monster. You saw both their perspectives, and watched them working through what happened together.
It really is all the seduction/I-cried-rape rewrite material that's so awful. I don't even know why Gloria felt the need to have the writers do that. From everything I've learned from viewers like you who watched back then, L&L were already popular despite the rape.
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