Brian Damage
02-01-2012, 10:49 AM
Think people were way too emotionally invested in Kim and Kris? The media buzz around their wedding doesn’t even begin to compare to the spectacle of Luke and Laura, whose wedding brought in over 30 million viewers and is still the most watched event in the history of daytime TV. During that week in 1981, actors Anthony Geary and Genie Francis appeared on the covers of both People and Newsweek, and Princess Diana even reportedly sent the show a bottle of champagne.
The only problem? Three years prior to the marriage, the show featured a storyline in which Luke rapes Laura in a local disco. The writers later tried to reframe the incident as a seduction so that the two would be able to put it aside and fall in love, but it’s still pretty disgusting, if you ask us. Only 20 years later did the “power couple” finally come to terms with Luke’s crime, and by then it was too late to retract the show’s suggestion that rape can initiate a successful courtship.
http://flavorwire.com/254448/tvs-most-ill-advised-weddings#12
http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Luke-and-Laura-Wedding-general-hospital-80s-26326422-1024-768.jpg
The only problem? Three years prior to the marriage, the show featured a storyline in which Luke rapes Laura in a local disco. The writers later tried to reframe the incident as a seduction so that the two would be able to put it aside and fall in love, but it’s still pretty disgusting, if you ask us. Only 20 years later did the “power couple” finally come to terms with Luke’s crime, and by then it was too late to retract the show’s suggestion that rape can initiate a successful courtship.
http://flavorwire.com/254448/tvs-most-ill-advised-weddings#12
http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Luke-and-Laura-Wedding-general-hospital-80s-26326422-1024-768.jpg