General Hospital Watching General Hospital

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It's not GH anymore. It's The walking (back from the) dead.
I don't watch the show any longer and I hardly read the recaps anymore... The thrill is gone. Too many retcons that make no sense. Ok, it's a soap, but we're not that dumb. Creativity has collapsed to ground zero. Another long lost twin ? The story repeats itself, month after month. Yawn.
Too many new faces (no offense to the newbies, they need to work and the production needs to save money).
I'm off the hook. The end.
I'm back to vintage episodes on YT, these were entertaining (Leslie Charleson, Jacklyn Zeman, Tony Geary, Stuart Damon, you are certainly missed) and storylines didn't drag forever.

 

[Emelee]

Why was Maxie calling Michael? And why hasn't she hurried back to PC after hearing about Cassius and that James now knows the truth? (Yes, I know Kirsten Storms isn't available. But temporary recast Maxie again. They've done that numerous times before.)

Trina has a stalker now. Quinn or Simon or someone else?

Charlotte moving in with Valentin AND she seems to have fallen for Gio. Watch out, Emma! We all know how Charlotte felt about Anna...

 

[Daniel Avery]

Why was Maxie calling Michael? And why hasn't she hurried back to PC after hearing about Cassius and that James now knows the truth? (Yes, I know Kirsten Storms isn't available. But temporary recast Maxie again. They've done that numerous times before.)

What I don't understand is why they didn't just avoid having to do that scene with a temp recast of James when the easier way to handle it would have been to send James to Maxie and the family in Arizona as soon as all the you-know-what hit the fan with Cassius. It would have bought the family some time and of course there would have been no need to recast him for one episode.

Maxie's absence from this whole plot arc has been a series of missed opportunities, but I'm not sure having a recast doing all that heavy lifting would have been very satisfying. That said, I don't think KS is coming back.

 

[Emelee]

Maxie, Spinelli, Georgie, James & Bailey are moving to Australia. So they had James recast because they wanted to wrap up the story with Cody & James. The kid who played James was in an accident and hospitalized. That's why they recast. The scripts were already locked when the kid had the accident, so it was too late to postpone and wait for the kid to recover.

Nice thing that Maxie chose to sell her stock in Deception to Michael. A bit of Quartermaine drama in the future of Deception?

I do wonder how much stock everyone owns of Deception. It has not been made clear. We know that Tracy had 51% a few years ago, but she gave some or all to Brook Lynn. BLQ in turn only accepted the stock so that she could give Maxie and Sasha some. How much? When Sasha stepped down from Deception, she sold her stock. To whom? And when Lucy helped BLQ with framing Willow, she got half of BLQ's unknown % of stock. And Michael bought Maxie's unknown %.
Today, it sounded like no one has over 50%, which is why they will need to vote on everything.

 

[Emelee]

So mean Drew is finally out of his frozen state. And with Martin back by his side. With Danny convincing Tracy to tolerate Drew for Scout's sake, I wonder if GH will make Drew any kinder on the Quartermaines. Maybe very slowly turning into one?

Jack and Nina finally hooking up. As well as Ava and new Ethan. Good.

New Scout, I wonder if they aged her only so they can have her and Rocco as a new couple in the near future? There were not many others there for him as he is related to Charlotte, Avery and Donna.

Too bad GH didn't recast Maxie because Georgie could also be thrown in the mix of young adults.

Then there is Jake too.

It was great to the the Quartermaines gathered for the news about Drew. I want more Quartermaine drama.

Serena Baldwin is arriving in town today. Considering Jacinda isn't a contract character, and she's being used against Michael in the custody fight, I wonder if GH is planning to pair Michael with Serena? Especially if they will both have an interest in Deception.

 

[Daniel Avery]

So mean Drew is finally out of his frozen state

....and despite spending 99% of the past six months indoors, sporting a tan like a Costco Rotisserie chicken.

New Scout, I wonder if they aged her only so they can have her and Rocco as a new couple in the near future?

I think this is the direction they're trying to go, as well. They're being a bit heavy-handed with the integration of Scout into the current teens group--having her hang out with them as if she's always been there, when in fact they were depicting her as 10/11 years old as late as two month ago. But the actress is really good.

I laughed and laughed when Carly found out Jason had returned to town but immediately left on a road trip with Danny. She was genuinely mad that Jason didn't just step off that plane and immediately report to her house to "clock in".