Episode #1200

[MagnusTrask]

GC: "Since it is now parallel time 1841, let us adopt now a great variety of all manner of improbable physical postures and stances!"

QC:  "Righto!   I'll do something strange with my right arm, and you your left!!"

[loril54]

QC   Which of us gets Catherine, the loser gets Daphne

GC    Don't I count??????????? (Quentin and Morgan thinking  NO!)

[Alondra]

Quentin gloats over his brothers because he has won the "Handsomest Collins Man" award for the fifth straight year.

Alondra

[IluvBarnabas]

Quentin: You only get lucky once in awhile in a fistfight with me or Morgan, Gabriel, whereas I ALWAYS get lucky with the ladies.

[Uncle Roger]

Quentin: "Sorry, Gabriel, no one said Simon Says."

[Mysterious Benefactor]

   Poor Gabriel, always the odd man out!!   

[Uncle Roger]

Alas, poor Gabriel is without any type of love interest in this storyline.😢😢😢

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  Truthfully, who would have wanted him?!  )

[Uncle Roger]

No one, unless they introduced a character for Donna Wandrey, Terry Crawford or Virginia  Vestoff. I doubt that ABC Standards and Practices would have allowed even an implication that Gabriel and Tim Braithwaite might have been more than drinking buddies.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  Given how careful they were about Jason and Willie's relationship and Barnabas and Willie's relationship, I'm sure you're right...)

[Uncle Roger]

Even today, that sort of relationship could still pose problems with the censors.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  Probably - but at least things have progressed much further these days when it comes to gay relationships on soaps. I mean, DOOL has a gay triangle which was actually a quadrangle for a time.)

[Uncle Roger]

OLTL did a pretty good gay love story that seemed to be well received. Unfortunately, it was tied in to a companion story about a mayoral race which seemed to focus on that issue and nothing else. No doubt that the show meant well but it may have been too much for the traditional soap audience. Whatever the reason, the characters stopped appearing on screen. They weren't written off. They were still mentioned from time to time. The show was gone altogether not that long afterward.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  I wasn't watching OLTL to live then, but I remember reading in the soap press online that supposedly OLTL got a lot of negative mail for that storyline...)

[Uncle Roger]

Well, to my thinking, it was an updated version of the Carla Benari/Clara Gray story. Characters deny their true nature, ensure lots of angst because of it, eventually embracing their true nature and living as happily ever after as soaps allow.