Time After Time/Soap World

Word on the street in an interview with After Elton former As The World Turns head writer Jean Passanante spoke out about why she decided to kill off Reid.  Here is an excerpt from that interview:

On if she knew of the backlash:

“I am aware of it. I was at the Paley Center doing a panel and a couple of people kind of accosted me – this is before it even aired. … The fact that it happened to be a gay guy that died is completely arbitrary and coincidental. I'm a little stunned that there's this attitude that, you know, we can't interrupt a gay romance, as if we haven't done exactly that with straight romances.”