Omg this is great! Thank you so much! I never saw how Kyle actually saved Reva, and I never really understood how Claire fit into it all. I loved when Reva was telling Cain she loved him when she was really talking to Kyle! And of course that kiss was amazing!
Glad you liked it and yes, it fills in all the holes that is already published out there. Trying my best to contribute to the collection we have of Kyle/Reva on TH-cam. They were my all time favorite on GL.
Another long segment. Should it be shorter segments? Finishes Cain storyline. Kim & Larkin’s performance on the bridge EMMY WORTHY!!!! Uggh that embrace & kiss was everything at that time of Kyle/Reva drought! The way they left the bridge was like an end of an Act on Broadway stage…
I love the longer versions but I'll watch the short ones too :) These bridge scenes were everything - I have watched the ones with the embrace/kiss/confessions to each other 1000 times over the years (magically the one day a week my dad let me tape fell on that episode date). But I'd never seen the full confrontation on the bridge when Reva professes her love to Cain but is really talking about Kyle @2:08. Airing approx May 19th & 20th, 1986 it'd been 5 months since their cancelled first wedding and this Reva/Kyle fan was ready for them to reconnect :)
I think the character development with Reva during 1985/1986 was the best, along with the best writing on GL. After falling so far down with her suicide attempt, Reva was allowed to become strong and independent. Kim's acting during these years are most memorable to me, not to mention how drop dead gorgeous she looked these years.
First scenes including Kyle shooting Cain and Reva & Kyle's quick embace after aired Friday, May 16th, 1986. After @4:12, the scenes are from Monday, May 19th.
What irritates me with Maeve is that she knew what she signed up for with Kyle. She knew that his heart belonged to Reva when she married him. Kyle did try to do the right thing by Maeve and he did try to make a real marriage out of it. His worry for her health and long hours at the journal was not over the top. He tried to connect with her as a real marriage since inception. My goal in posting as many videos of 1986 was to show that Kyle tried to be a man of his word in his marriage. It was Maeve's paranoia, lies and deceit and lack of maturity that broke up that marriage. Even after Kyle was told about the death of his child, he tried desperately to connect with Maeve in his grief - and was given nothing but a cold, heartless shoulder. Even then, he stayed away from Reva. I just always viewed Maeve as a weak and pathetic character - and Leslie played her well on-screen. Kyle was not the villain in that marriage IMO.
@@sampsongirl No matter how convincing Kyle’s case was to get hitched, Maeve should’ve been more sensible than to marry a man she knew loved another woman. Both were just asking for the marriage to crash and burn. And yes, Maeve’s deceit caused more pain and grief to Kyle than anything he’d ever done to her, so she gets no sympathy from this viewer!
Maeve arrives on the bridge @4:03 and sees Reva/Kyle hug/embrace. I think this ended the episode and then was repeated on the next day when Maeve takes a long look and then rushes away. (I just rewatched the version on Jenniferec2003's channel th-cam.com/video/l6EMXIxauT4/w-d-xo.html to clarify because I also thought maybe I'd remembered it wrong). After Maeve exits, Reva steps back from Kyle as she remembers Fletcher & Claire are hurt and then the next scene is EMT's & cops and Fletcher being taken away on a stretcher. THEN alone on the bridge, Kyle and Reva confess their love for each other and kiss. And I summarize all that to say that in later episodes, Maeve will claim to see Kyle & Reva kissing. While certainly an intimate moment for which Maeve had zero context, she doesn't actually witness anything other than a hug.
YES! A situation where the writers re-wrote actual history. It was Fletcher who tells Reva the morning of the baby's funeral that Maeve witnessed the kiss. She did not - by the time they actually kissed, she was on her way back home to pack her bags
Agreed, Maeve married Kyle knowing he was in love with Reva. But, during their marriage Kyle was talking out of both sides of his mouth. Kyle was confessing his love/devotion for his wife but secretly keeping tabs on Reva. The man had a pic of his former lover in his desk drawer for goodness sake. Maeve asked Kyle if he wanted to go back to Reva after the Laura reveal and although he didn't respond with words his actions seemed to indicate he didn't. Don't misunderstand me, I loved K/R but I do understand Maeve's reaction given Kyle not being forthright abt his feelings for Reva.
1986 was an absolutely awful, AWFUL year for the show, with its convoluted storylines and revolving door of characters. It was just unwatchable and nonsensical. Ironically enough, that same year proved to be top-notch for As The World Turns, what with the intro of the Snyders, Kim and Bob's later-in-life pregnancy, the Doug Cummings storyline and the Tad Channing murder. Plus, very notable was the way they were able to blend the less seasoned characters like Lucinda/Lily Walsh and the Snyders with long time regulars like the Hugheses, Stewarts and John Dixon. Also noteworthy was its having regular, working class characters like Steve and Betsy, which at this point was an anomaly in soap world. But Guiding Light was at this time just a bad General Hospital clone with forgettable and even embarassing storylines, and it was no surprise why so many of its top actors (Vincent Irizarry, Judi Evans, Jordan Clark) abandoned ship! Oh, and that first Dinah and that cherubic Dorie character, just the pits!
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc They ruined the Claire Ramsey character, making into her a histrionic, neurotic shrill. And there was this trend of love triangles evolving into quadrangles, hexagons or even octagons, particularly the Reva-Kyle-Maeve-HB-Josh-Fletcher-and I think there were some others saga. And that Maeve storyline, taking away a child from his father instead of just sharing custody, and we were supposed to feel sorry for her when she lost custody; not to mention the way she used the Fletcher and Louie characters; and Flecther just stood by her as if this was normal; WTF? It just was always seeming as though it was always trying to top itself. And Reva getting run over after her wedding was aborted, in such a predictable and trite fashion; why was that even necessary. Not to mention done in such an unbelievably over-dramatic way.! Plus, introducing Calla-Jessie-Simon, bringing them to the forefront and then just left as fast as they came. The first Dinah, I know this sounds mean; but no way could Vanessa have given birth to her, and it was such a dull-as-dishwater performance. I think she had been on another P&G soap several years prior, and she was just as lackluster then. But of course the worst was to come in Spring 1987 with that awful Paul Velere murder storyline; just the worst! The writers had no idea where there were going on this storyline, and at some point everyone had been a suspect; even Mindy and Roxie were briefly arrested???? I know that the Warren Andres character had run his course, but having him be the culprit out of thin air, the motive having something to do with Warren being upset with Springfield over Lesley Ann's death (mind u that was 2 years earlier), somethin, something, something!!!! Luckily the show got a huge shot in the arm with head writer Pam Long's return that summer, and it really changed trajectory with that episode where a fed-up and sexually repressed Reva went out on the town in that sexy glittering red dress. After that it was mostly uphill for quite some time!
Omg this is great! Thank you so much! I never saw how Kyle actually saved Reva, and I never really understood how Claire fit into it all. I loved when Reva was telling Cain she loved him when she was really talking to Kyle! And of course that kiss was amazing!
Glad you liked it and yes, it fills in all the holes that is already published out there. Trying my best to contribute to the collection we have of Kyle/Reva on TH-cam. They were my all time favorite on GL.
Another long segment. Should it be shorter segments? Finishes Cain storyline. Kim & Larkin’s performance on the bridge EMMY WORTHY!!!! Uggh that embrace & kiss was everything at that time of Kyle/Reva drought! The way they left the bridge was like an end of an Act on Broadway stage…
I love the longer versions but I'll watch the short ones too :) These bridge scenes were everything - I have watched the ones with the embrace/kiss/confessions to each other 1000 times over the years (magically the one day a week my dad let me tape fell on that episode date). But I'd never seen the full confrontation on the bridge when Reva professes her love to Cain but is really talking about Kyle @2:08. Airing approx May 19th & 20th, 1986 it'd been 5 months since their cancelled first wedding and this Reva/Kyle fan was ready for them to reconnect :)
Right before Riva would drive off a dock in 1990.
Kim Zimmer? One of the best of all times?
I think the character development with Reva during 1985/1986 was the best, along with the best writing on GL. After falling so far down with her suicide attempt, Reva was allowed to become strong and independent. Kim's acting during these years are most memorable to me, not to mention how drop dead gorgeous she looked these years.
Yes. Easily.
absolutely she was
First scenes including Kyle shooting Cain and Reva & Kyle's quick embace after aired Friday, May 16th, 1986. After @4:12, the scenes are from Monday, May 19th.
It's so hard to believe that a character like Maeve could be caught in a love triangle.
What irritates me with Maeve is that she knew what she signed up for with Kyle. She knew that his heart belonged to Reva when she married him. Kyle did try to do the right thing by Maeve and he did try to make a real marriage out of it. His worry for her health and long hours at the journal was not over the top. He tried to connect with her as a real marriage since inception.
My goal in posting as many videos of 1986 was to show that Kyle tried to be a man of his word in his marriage. It was Maeve's paranoia, lies and deceit and lack of maturity that broke up that marriage. Even after Kyle was told about the death of his child, he tried desperately to connect with Maeve in his grief - and was given nothing but a cold, heartless shoulder. Even then, he stayed away from Reva. I just always viewed Maeve as a weak and pathetic character - and Leslie played her well on-screen. Kyle was not the villain in that marriage IMO.
@@sampsongirl No matter how convincing Kyle’s case was to get hitched, Maeve should’ve been more sensible than to marry a man she knew loved another woman. Both were just asking for the marriage to crash and burn. And yes, Maeve’s deceit caused more pain and grief to Kyle than anything he’d ever done to her, so she gets no sympathy from this viewer!
Reva and Kyle all the way!
I was saddened to learn that Larkin Malloy, who played Kyle Sampson died of a heart attack in 2016.
Like the longer segments.
Maeve arrives on the bridge @4:03 and sees Reva/Kyle hug/embrace. I think this ended the episode and then was repeated on the next day when Maeve takes a long look and then rushes away. (I just rewatched the version on Jenniferec2003's channel th-cam.com/video/l6EMXIxauT4/w-d-xo.html to clarify because I also thought maybe I'd remembered it wrong). After Maeve exits, Reva steps back from Kyle as she remembers Fletcher & Claire are hurt and then the next scene is EMT's & cops and Fletcher being taken away on a stretcher. THEN alone on the bridge, Kyle and Reva confess their love for each other and kiss. And I summarize all that to say that in later episodes, Maeve will claim to see Kyle & Reva kissing. While certainly an intimate moment for which Maeve had zero context, she doesn't actually witness anything other than a hug.
YES! A situation where the writers re-wrote actual history. It was Fletcher who tells Reva the morning of the baby's funeral that Maeve witnessed the kiss. She did not - by the time they actually kissed, she was on her way back home to pack her bags
Reva yells at Kyle not to shoot Cain so Kyle immediately shoots Cain twice. Lol I ain’t mad at cha, Kyle.
Agreed, Maeve married Kyle knowing he was in love with Reva. But, during their marriage Kyle was talking out of both sides of his mouth. Kyle was confessing his love/devotion for his wife but secretly keeping tabs on Reva. The man had a pic of his former lover in his desk drawer for goodness sake. Maeve asked Kyle if he wanted to go back to Reva after the Laura reveal and although he didn't respond with words his actions seemed to indicate he didn't. Don't misunderstand me, I loved K/R but I do understand Maeve's reaction given Kyle not being forthright abt his feelings for Reva.
1986 was an absolutely awful, AWFUL year for the show, with its convoluted storylines and revolving door of characters. It was just unwatchable and nonsensical. Ironically enough, that same year proved to be top-notch for As The World Turns, what with the intro of the Snyders, Kim and Bob's later-in-life pregnancy, the Doug Cummings storyline and the Tad Channing murder. Plus, very notable was the way they were able to blend the less seasoned characters like Lucinda/Lily Walsh and the Snyders with long time regulars like the Hugheses, Stewarts and John Dixon. Also noteworthy was its having regular, working class characters like Steve and Betsy, which at this point was an anomaly in soap world. But Guiding Light was at this time just a bad General Hospital clone with forgettable and even embarassing storylines, and it was no surprise why so many of its top actors (Vincent Irizarry, Judi Evans, Jordan Clark) abandoned ship! Oh, and that first Dinah and that cherubic Dorie character, just the pits!
Eric, I agree with you. The terrible storylines and the constant recasting of popular characters is what made Guiding Light unwatchable.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc They ruined the Claire Ramsey character, making into her a histrionic, neurotic shrill. And there was this trend of love triangles evolving into quadrangles, hexagons or even octagons, particularly the Reva-Kyle-Maeve-HB-Josh-Fletcher-and I think there were some others saga. And that Maeve storyline, taking away a child from his father instead of just sharing custody, and we were supposed to feel sorry for her when she lost custody; not to mention the way she used the Fletcher and Louie characters; and Flecther just stood by her as if this was normal; WTF? It just was always seeming as though it was always trying to top itself. And Reva getting run over after her wedding was aborted, in such a predictable and trite fashion; why was that even necessary. Not to mention done in such an unbelievably over-dramatic way.! Plus, introducing Calla-Jessie-Simon, bringing them to the forefront and then just left as fast as they came. The first Dinah, I know this sounds mean; but no way could Vanessa have given birth to her, and it was such a dull-as-dishwater performance. I think she had been on another P&G soap several years prior, and she was just as lackluster then. But of course the worst was to come in Spring 1987 with that awful Paul Velere murder storyline; just the worst! The writers had no idea where there were going on this storyline, and at some point everyone had been a suspect; even Mindy and Roxie were briefly arrested???? I know that the Warren Andres character had run his course, but having him be the culprit out of thin air, the motive having something to do with Warren being upset with Springfield over Lesley Ann's death (mind u that was 2 years earlier), somethin, something, something!!!! Luckily the show got a huge shot in the arm with head writer Pam Long's return that summer, and it really changed trajectory with that episode where a fed-up and sexually repressed Reva went out on the town in that sexy glittering red dress. After that it was mostly uphill for quite some time!