This song played towards the end of today's episode. It was not only fitting for the story lines it played background music for, but for my sentiments towards Guiding Light as we head to September 18th.
Aaron and Andrew's Come On Let's Get It Going:
Click Here to listen at last.fm
Everything will be okay if we just stick together
Our friends will make us better, than we were before
Things will go our way if we just hold a little bit longer
The struggles make us stronger, in the end
No need to dry your eyes if that's just how you've been feeling
The tears give life meaning, that's what i love
And I can't turn away because this is what we dream of
It is everything that we love and I just need to know
If you want me to stay just let me know
I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
I can't hear you
I can't believe we've come this far, it feels like its been forever
You helped me keep it together and kept our heart strong
And i can't turn away because this is what we dream of
This is everything that we love and so I need to know
If you want me to stay just let me know
I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
I can't hear you
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
And if you want me to stay just let me know
And I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay just let me know
And I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
And I can't hear you
Our friends will make us better, than we were before
Things will go our way if we just hold a little bit longer
The struggles make us stronger, in the end
No need to dry your eyes if that's just how you've been feeling
The tears give life meaning, that's what i love
And I can't turn away because this is what we dream of
It is everything that we love and I just need to know
If you want me to stay just let me know
I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
I can't hear you
I can't believe we've come this far, it feels like its been forever
You helped me keep it together and kept our heart strong
And i can't turn away because this is what we dream of
This is everything that we love and so I need to know
If you want me to stay just let me know
I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
I can't hear you
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
oh it's alright
And if you want me to stay just let me know
And I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay just let me know
And I can't hear you
And if you want me to stay don't let me go
And I can't hear you
GUIDING LIGHT I WANT YOU TO STAY! Do you hear me? I want you to stay.
Damn you CBS for taking it away! I hate you for taking away what could have been.
The chance to see Otalia become a true love story and super couple. To see Phillip reconcile with his family. To see Olivia's friendship with Phillip and Josh continue to grow. To see Phillip co-parent. To see Emma grow up to be just like her mother. To see if Josh and Reva will be always forever. To see if Beth and Phillip will reunite. To see Bizzie build a family amongst the Lewis and Spaulding clans...
I mean SERIOUSLY!? SERIOUSLY!
Phillip and Rick sitting on a see-saw having a conversation about kids and enjoying what time you have with them while you can. To cut to them playing basketball with Emma & Olivia, which results in them losing and reflecting on woman, fish and their friendship.
Come on!
What soap gives you that? No soap! Well, besides Guiding Light. And you are taking that away? Tis a shame. It really is.
This show is about family and the town of Springfield. How they all live and interact with one another.
I came for Otalia 2 months ago. I caught up on their backstory through youtube and Big Purple Dreams. Once I finished watching the clips and then re-watching a million and half more times I realized I needed to watch the entire show because there seemed to be essential parts missing. I know Otalia was there, but the other characters that are in their orbit were not. I needed to know about them too. Well, I also need to see Otalia on a daily basis, but that's another addiction for another day...
So, I started tuning in daily. I fell in love with Phillip and Beth. I fell for Bizzie. I cheered for Dinah and Shayne. I grew amazed by Lillian's strength and love. Was intrigued by Doris. Wondered how the family lines and friendship lines crossed and crisscrossed. And how is it that Blake has every job in Springfield and still look so fabulous! I became invested in the lives of the citizens of Springfield. I rooted for them. I cried for them. I cried with them. I yelled at them. I smiled with them. I laughed with them. I laughed at them. I shared their pain, struggles, and fears. I wished them well.
On top of all that I fell in love with what I believed soaps could or should have been and what they had been. I'm 27 and I've only been watching soaps for the past six years, but I've been reading Soap Opera Digest for as long as I can remember. I remember hearing about Luke and Laura - the wedding of the century. The Kane women. Myrtle and Phoebe. Carly being buried alive. The Cassadines. Stone's Death. John and Marlena. Angie and Jesse. Josh and Reva. The Nurse's Balls. Robert, Anna and Holly. I wish I could have seen it all. Oh I wish to have seen it. The love stories. The drama. All the elements that made soaps this genre that I have grown to love and more recently loved to hate.
But with Guiding Light, it has always been about the love. Sure, I may not have agreed with some of the choices they've made. However, I've enjoyed the ride. The story line as a whole has not let me down. Even with the unexpected pregnancy of Natalia Rivera. I may not particularly like the fact that she is pregnant, but I'm not going to give up on it. I like where it's going. I see it's greater purpose or the potentiality in the story. And what's a super couple is without angst and drama with a wrench and the kitchen sink or in this case a pregnancy thrown in as a hurdle for the couple to overcome? I'll take it. If the story is told well, with emotion and passion and is character driven I will follow. Because isn't that what it's all about?
That's what drew me in. I was searching for a story about strong independent women who didn't need a man to complete them or any other bullshit you want to call the situation of a woman needing a man. I didn't want them to be perfect. I wanted them flawed, damaged and with some real emotional and physical baggage - the way people really are. I wanted it to ring true to life. It didn't need to depict my life it just needed to be unbelievably real. And the stories I found on Guiding Light have been very real. Yes, I've seen my life reflected in moments by almost every character, but it's not what keeps me tuning in everyday. It is the emotional and passionate stories told beautifully and acted wonderfully by this great set of people at Guiding Light. Let's not forget the fact that these actors who are breathing life into these characters are getting the chance to act! We are shown not told. I get to see in their body language and their subsequent actions how they feel and think. I like that. I appreciate it. I respect it.
But more than anything, what I loved about the Otalia relationship is the fact that it was slow building. Sadly for me I didn't get to see it play out in real time. I saw it play out in the several days I spent watching the past two and a half years of backstory. It wasn't contrived or thrown out of left field. It was love. They had no other reason to go there other than the fact that it was love. And I love that! I may be a cynic but I still carry a bit of hopeless romantic inside of me. And to see something ring true and to stike a chord in my heart is a beautiful gift.
So I thank the wonderfully talented team at Guiding Light for all that you did!
And to you CBS, I hate you for taking this away from me!
Guiding Light please don't go. I want you to stay!
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