General Hospital Thread- Page 2

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 5:55pm

hey, I was flipping channels and I saw the actress who played Annie on AMC on a soap. Was it GH?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 6:04pm

No, she plays Chelsea on the Young and the Restless now.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/12/12 at 9:15pm

Oh ok, thanks stock!

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 6:52am

The show has been excellent so far this week. I think Carlivati is really starting to find his footing.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 9:50am

I remember why I stopped watching One Life years ago. Those people are so annoying. Wish they'd brought over Pine Valley folks instead.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:34pm

I was really hoping they'd at least bring on David from AMC (I mean he does work at a hospital) to be paired up with Anna--they worked so incredibly well together on AMC and this forced pairing with Luke drives me crazy (Carlivati doesn't seem to remember that they were NEVER close friends in the past). But I admit AMC has always been my top soap obsession so I probably would be too easily praised by any crossover.

As a long term OLTL fan I don't mind the crossover--except I was over RH as Todd ages back, and never a big Starr or John fan (I like Tea mainly because of the actress though, and wished there was more Blair). But crossovers always cause issue with me--and yes, I know, it's a soap and I shouldn't over-think this but... Really? Blair is too busy with a kid with a cold to be at her daughter's attempted murder trial? There just have to be so many lapses of logic (John's instant sister keeping him away from the woman and son he was desperate for is another).

I've been mixed on Valentini/Carlivati's run, just as I was mixed with their work on OLTL. They often have very good weeks and then you go through long periods of stories and characters seeming to be forgotten, history being re-written, etc. But I've enjoyed the last week a lot too, I admit. And it definitely has been more watchable than GH has been for a few years--if only they would pull back on charcters fans are tired of like the mob stuff, or on inane, kinda misogynistic writing like having Sam's rape and child be much more about Jason not being able to deal with his demons instead of what happened to her.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 1:47pm

What's going on with this?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 6:18pm

I think the show has been pretty good lately. Ava is getting on my last nerve, and they haven't shown Franco (Roger Howarth) in a while........I love RH. Morgan is a pain in the ass, and Sonny is still a dick.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 2:00pm

I've never seen it, hard as that is to believe, but my girlfriend in high school used to make me watch "All My Children" every day after school.

[bobs3]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 3:27pm

I agree about Morgan. He is insufferable. I don't know if it is the character or the actor but both are annoying. It almost as though Valentini and Carlivati couldn't get the rights to the OLTL Ford brothers so they combined them into a character just as annoying.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 4:39pm

Growls, you had a lovely girlfriend :P

Morgan definitely is a throwback to the horrible Ford Bros on OLTL. I dunno - looks wise he has the waxed body, twink look that Frank Valentini seems to love when he casts younger guys (there's a reason he auditions them in their underwear) but I just find bland, and it's really a thankless character. I can't even fault the (mediocre) actor. He was brought back to the show as a plot point to bring Michael and Star...err Kiki back together, and while sleeping with Kiki's mother should be filled with soapy goodness it just seems like an afterthought (like many of Ron C's stories currently on the overstuffed show where he can barely find time to tell points A to B of most stories.) But wait, maybe he's some long lost character with a fake mask?

With Prospect Park dropping the soaps, they are holding on to he rights for a while but when/if they revert back to ABC, I can imagine Ron striking his revenge by bringing on other OLTL and even AMC characters - only tohave them do nothing. I mean we got the bizarre throwback to Ryan's Hope last month with Ava's mom being Delilah Ryan (even if they had Ilene K play the role not at all like how she played Delilah, but instead as Roxy on One Life...) And now Heather is Franco's mom? Yet another favorite story of Ron's - the sudden revelation that someone else is the birth parent (something he plagued One Life with from Rex's endless story looking for his father, to all the flip flopping about Jessica's father.)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 4:42pm

BTW for anyone interested in an actually honest, warts and all book on soaps, I can't recommend Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live enough. It's filled with the kinda behind the scenes stuff that the soap press ignores - questions of network execs and their racist policies, the ridiculous way to save budget the show was filmed its last few years (as is GH now) with often no rehearsal and things filmed months out of sequence so much that actors often had trouble remembering details like whose funeral they were attending in what scene, but also shows what hard workers everyone was and how miraculous it was they managed to make these soaps at all. Has a lot of interesting details about the 1970s particularly which theatre fans should find interesting due to the big New York theatre connection the show had back then.

http://www.amazon.com/Llanview-Afternoon-Oral-History-Life/dp/1492385646

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 12:05pm

Eric, you love a good oral history!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 12:44pm

As long as you approve, I feel no shame Growlies. :)

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 7:46pm

I've got to bring up Donna Mills. She is 74 and certainly doesn't look it (maybe early-mid 50s at the most). I am going to guess that she has had work done -- her lips seem to have been stretched out since her "Knot's Landing" days.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 8:15pm

Perhaps, but at least she hasn't had the bad surgery that two certain older actresses currently on GH have had (not to mention one of her Knots co-stars which truly is one of the saddest plastic surgery cases I've seen ) She does look great.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 1:23pm

Oh, snap!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 1:26pm

I am glad this thread has been brought back up! How wonderfully awful has GH become? I am sorry that Chelsea Lately is off the air so they can no longer spotlight the gay storyline and the fact that it's all based around Golden Girls and Knotts Landing quotes (gay guys would all love to have a threesome--unless they could watch a Golden Girls marathon instead!)

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/7/16 at 6:38pm

 

So, what's going on in the world of GH these days?