GL Analysis

Find entered in here posts that share my brilliant analysis of Guiding Light. I started this page two years in so if I find older posts that I feel belong here, I’ll add them later.

Overall Guiding Light Analysis

Guiding Light 101 – Updated 2014
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/guiding-light-101-update

A Celebration of Guiding Light‘s 75th Anniversary:
http://tvsourcemagazine.com/soaps/columns/2343-guiding-lights-diamond-anniversary

What Makes Guiding Light Special?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/why-guiding-light-special

Manny Specific Analysis

Manny vs Shakespeare
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/shakespeare-in-manny

Michelle-Bill compared to Reva-Billy
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/billy-reva-versus-little-bill-michelle

Danny Santos and Ted White
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/danny-santos-and-ted-white

Danny vs Abby
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/similarities-abby-and-danny

Danny vs Michelle
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/similarities-between-manny

Hope and Alan vs Manny
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/alan-spauldinghope-bauer

Analysis of Manny Consummation Scene
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/little-c

Carmen and Miguel – a love story?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/carmen-and-miguel-a-love-story

Carmen and the Code
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/carmen-and-the-code

Defending Drew Jacobs
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/defending-drew

Early Manny Isolation
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/early-manny-isolation

Hispanic Presence
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/hispanic-presence/

Is Michelle Danny’s Savior?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/is-michelle-dannys-savior

Jesse Doesn’t Want to Go Back or Why Jesse Holds on to Messe so long when he clearly wants Drew
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/jesse-doesnt-want-to-go-back

A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/kiss-is-never-just-a-kiss

Manny Rabby Convergence
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/manny-rabby-convergence

Mick Santos was Guiding Light’s Thorne Forrester
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/mick-santos-was-thorne

Mob as Class Barrier
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/mob-as-class-barrier

Perceptions of the law
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/perceptions-of-the-law

Should Michelle have lied about her alibi the night of Ben’s murder?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/should-michelle-have-lied/

The Santos Family
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/the-santos-family

Too Much Mob?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/too-much-mob

Uneven SORAS-ing
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/uneven-soras-ing

Was Manny fated? aka “There’s Always a Band”
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/danny-santos-michelle-bauer-fated

Why Manny’s first divorce break up doesn’t make any sense
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/why-this-break-up-makes-absolutely-no-sense

Guiding Light Analysis

Doris Wolfe by GiftofAmber
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/doris-wolfe-an-anaylsis

Josh Lewis is a Jerk
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/josh-lewis-is-a-jerk

Last Emmys for Guiding Light
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/last-emmys-for-guiding-light

Leslie Jackson Bauer
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/ed-bauer-history

Nola Reardon and Quint Chamberlain
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/nola-quint-chamberlain

Postmortem of a New Format
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/postmordem-of-a-new-format

Pulling a Josh
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/pulling-a-josh

Rebecca Budig’s Michelle
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/rebecca-buddigs-michelle

Soap Opera General Analysis

9/11 And Soaps
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/911-and-soap-operas

Are there still supercouples?
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/are-there-still-supercouples

Dear Next Cancelled Soap
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/dear-next-canceled-soap

Douglas Marland’s How Not To Ruin a Soap Opera
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/throughline

Meaning of Soap Operas to Fans
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/oltl-gives-meaning-of-soaps

Romance Novels vs Soap Operas
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/romance-novels-vs-soap-operas

Run Boy, RUN! – Passing on Soap Operas to a New Generation
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/run-boy-run

Saving Soaps
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/saving-soaps

Soaps Support Strong Women
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/soaps-support-strong-women

What fans want: A happy couple
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/what-fans-want-a-happy-couple

What makes a good soap couple
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/what-makes-a-good-soap-couple

Write Legacy and History
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/write-history-and-legacy

Last updated: March 25, 2022

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