Guiding Light doesn't have a really great leading man. That's one of
its issues, and IMHO, not a new issue for the show.
As much as I loved Pam Long, she did tend to neuter the men a bit. The
best leading men in the last decade were Michael Zaslow's Roger
Thorpe, and Grant Aleksander's Philip Spaudling. Aleksander
was fired and Zaslow is no longer with us.
Bill Lewis has some potential, but we need to see him change and grow
over a few more years. Whether GL will be around long enough to make
that happen, who's to say.