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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Anna Reveals She Had A Child With Faison, But Is It Henrik or Someone Else?
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General Hospital confirmed a bombshell revelation that had been highly-suspected by fans of the series. Last week, following Faison’s (Anders Hove) death, Anna (Finola Hughes) visited him at the hospital morgue. Once alone with her nemesis, she takes a lock of his hair with a scalpel, pockets it, and reveals that she had his child!
In a moment later, that was actually all in Anna’s mind, Faison wakes up and grabs her and asks if the child is Henrik? As of now it’s left unanswered, However, all roads seems to lead to Henrick being the son of Anna and Faison.
But not so fast! In this week’s issue of Soap Opera Digest on Newsstands now, GH co-head writer, Shelly Altman previewed that Anna has become very curious to figure it out. Altman says on Anna’s plight: “She doesn’t know whether this son of Faison’s is the child she gave birth to, but the idea that these two people could be one and the same is alarming to her.”
As to what’s next, Altman teased: “We will find out the back-story, and how this all came to pass – and why Anna has reason to think that this history would never need to be known, and that she could move on, having had this child, without making it a part of her daily life.”
As viewers saw, Peter August (Wes Ramsey) revealed himself in key scenes with Faison to be the son who was treated like garbage by the nefarious criminal, and who now basically holds all the cards via the flash drive to Drew (Billy Miller) getting his memories back, or does he?
Watch the scene where Anna goes to the morgue to reveal her secret to a dead Faison after the jump. Then let us know, will Anna turn out to be Henrik’s mother, or will there be a twist? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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So you mean to tell me that Wyatt is actually Patty Halliwell’s son who just happen to came out from the womb of what we all thought to be his mother, Piper, who actually turned out to be a sister who unknowingly carried the child of her mother, which also happens to be her brother?
Whoah boy.
*Hopefully anyone got the reference. hahaha
james…One of my ravorites…”Charmed,” with Finola.. Even Rose McGowan is making her name in the news lately.
Rose McGowan is beyond irritating. Cause or no cause I just don’t like how she comes off. She managed to say, quite bluntly, that she didn’t like her Charmed co-star, Alyssa Milano and proceeded to discredit her. Who knows the truth behind any of these personal attacks but it just comes off so petty. Which brings me to another thing…I have been known to say (as I think most of us have) how much I “love” an actor whether on a soap or otherwise. I submit a retraction…I don’t know ANY of these actors or what their real selves are… Read more »
Rebecca1…I think we all “love” actors at one time or another. Probably based on the characters they play. But after wiki-ing a few of them I don’t do that much anymore because sometimes I can change my mind based on what wiki says. And if i don’t like it, I can never enjoy their performances again without their thinking about what their “real selves” are like. As for Rose, she does have her own style whether you like her or not. It can be a little much for me as well. But she has been a major force behind the… Read more »
Rebecca, what you say about loving actors is how I feel about hating actors. Of course, it’s not the actor I hate when I rant and rave about how much I hate (fill in blank) because I don’t know the actor who plays the character. I hate Sonny but he seems perfectly lovely in interviews. Most notably, he was charming and vulnerable when Oprah Winfrey interviewed him on her show. And sometimes I hate certain choices actors make (lip chewing, adolescent posturing in a fifty year old woman, mumbling, sighing, shrieking, grabbing one’s temple, etc). I have no idea who… Read more »
Hi Rose Yes, I know that McGowan is very strong in the “me too” movement. Still don’t like her. Whenever I’ve seen/heard her interviewed she comes off very harsh, cold. Of course if I actually KNEW her I might actually like her, but from the aforementioned I just don’t take to her. We may share certain viewpoints with public people but that doesn’t always translate into “big hug.” I don’t really get a sense of an actor from wikipedia; it’s usually just their resume/accomplishments, personal background. But in reading interviews, anywhere…here, magazines, etc. or seeing a taped interview I always… Read more »
Hey, Harry… I realize you don’t hate the actor because you hate the character. I think, if I remember correctly that you really have like Roger in the past but just aren’t a fan of Franco. I get it. Don’t agree as you know, but I get it. It’s definitely a tribute to an actor’s skill if we can love him/her on one show and not on another because we’re so lost in the character. It’s just interesting…our ability to suspend disbelief. I look at Tamara and I don’t see Carly; I see Kim. I look at Tyler on DOOL… Read more »
I loved that. Thank you James.
Okay, thank you Rebecca. I understand. I mean, I love pizza but I wouldn’t want to marry one.
I don’t know, Harrrr…if the pizza had garlic, organic broccoli and a great sauce…could be a nice life! 😉
Yes!!
LOL, yes I got the reference! Love it.
Of course! I knew there was a perfectly good explanation!
Rose McGowan is worth about 18 million so let’s all cry about her sorrow do you really need Hollywood to lecture you on sexual abuse ! Uma Thurman 45 million net worth just now bitching about Weinstein ladies take a seat and let real working women take over.
You bloody well just ruined what integrity Anna had left she laid down with that?
“Kayk…”Oh that it would have been possible for real working women to get the attention they deserve that MeToo and it’s offshoots are getting. And whether you support a particular cause or not, or the personalities promoting them, it does take their “star” power and or money to get the attention to battle the Weinsteins of the world, etc. And just because they have the money you say Rose and Uma have that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t “bitch.” They just live in a ifferent kind of world.
I hope he is dead, as well as Helene, bring in new villain,
Well Kevin has his brain in a jar so I’d say he’s dead.
Kevin has A BRAIN in the jar…but do we know that it’s actually Faison’s??? Really, I mean…
LOL…maybe Helena will sneak in with a cloned brain and give him a transplant!
ahhhh IF it is Fason’s brain..
I believe the guy in the morgue is a created Faison double,,
Faison has a team of great plastic surgeons among other things in his bag of survival tricks.. He has survived for decades because he has game ..
Faison lives !!!!
Sorry but glad I said goodbye the most disgusting storyline a brain sitting on a table and Kevin is eating lunch I am now not reading recaps they have all gone mad
Anna finally stopped crying and obsessing over Duke and now we have to watch her cry and obsess over Faison and the son she had with him.
I am tired of this patter–can’t Anna be happy for awhile?
Meanwhile, has anyone else noticed Alexis appears to be hitting on Finn?
Y e s on the ???? whatayaknow Alexis and Finn ? OK w / me… as long as he’s not w/Anna as long as she’s not with Julian. hide these two in a corner… good enough for me. if we must … have him… on the show. feb 2nd eppi : Anna rights her position with Sonny. thank god. as she walks out and doesn’t give him a response. worked Sonny seems to be a little bit flippant , suave, dismissive. every since Jason made it home. so the treat of seeing at least Anna putting him in his place… Read more »
Yes, Harry, I’ve noticed it and it makes me sick…Poor, adorable Finn is such a clueless nice guy swept up in his pining for Anna that he has yet to catch on…I guess his status as a recovering drug addict kinda, sorta, gives him enough of a nasty edge cred to get those ever-present Alexis juices flowing on overdrive, but I certainly hope that Finn’s character isn’t degraded and served up on a platter as the next sacrificial Davis boytoy to provide this sexually-voracious termagant another notch on her seriously-pitted bedpost. Better for her to just return to Charlie’s and… Read more »
P.S. By the way, loved, loved, LOVED! Ned’s campaign ad against Alexis….so very true it was! #QuartermaineOrBust!!!!
Hey Har…
Not sure if they’re fliriting…if they are it’s two ways from what I see. But, rather, I think they’re allowing these characters to FINALLY befriend someone other than the small circles they inhabit. It makes perfect sense for Finn and Alexis to become friends as they bond over addiction and get to swap stories at the meetings. I think it’s nice… And, both like to speak in ironies and wit so I think they play well off each other. I like their friendship!
Shay, correct me if I am over reaching here, but I think you might not care for the character Alexis Davis? I am pretty adept at picking up on subtle cues. I once loved Alexis. Loved her when she first appeared in Port Charles and had to use a paper back to breathe in and out of it for her anxiety attacks. She was quirky, funny, stuffy, frazzled–like a female Frazier Krane. But watching her fall for one bad boy after another while acting like a virgin for the very first time became redundant, tiresome even. The first time she… Read more »
@Harry…You are most gifted in the art of perception! Why, yes, Alexis definitely ranks as one of my all-time least favorite GH characters, and her placement has shot ever more progressively toward the top of that list with each passing day. (Along with Nina….) Quite frankly, I was never taken with this woman and her snooty sense of condescending moral superiority, but in recent years she has become utterly unbearable, especially given her own immense personal failings. I used to simply ignore her or ff through her scenes, however, as she’s become ever more inexplicably omnipresent on the GH canvas,… Read more »
Faison is dead and it shows just how awful these writers are. Instead of writing an ongoing story for Jason and Drew with Faison as the villain who still has a goal to achieve with the two of them, he is brought back, not even lured back by Jason, but for something totally unrelated, Nathan, and he’s dead in a couple of episodes. Instead of using the great villainous Faison and providing some real intrigue for Jason, Drew and others he’s gone. Now I’m sure Van Etten and Altman think they’ve done something brilliant here, using Faison’s brief return and… Read more »
Thank you. MB!!!!!! Applause, applause….
Faison is not dead, I betcha ..
I think he is dead, su. He said it was time for his character to go…he’s been a character on this show for decades and the actor lives in another country. So, unless he has a sudden desire to be resurrected this may have been his last hurrah.
Very well written! I tuned out after they let Genie Francis go, but this is preposterous! It’s another re-write of history! I remember when Finola first appeared on GH and have followed her stories. There is NO way that Anna Devane would allow Faison to touch her and now she’s suddenly had his child??? i know there were visa issues with the guy who plays Faison so he could not be in the US long term, but they could have done block taping. It would have been more interesting to make Finn his son and not another newbie. Anyone BUT… Read more »
This was after his brain was removed. No shaved head. No scars or stitches on his head. Stitches all over his chest though from the surgery.
The stitches on his chest were the autopsy cut to remove the organs..
They are exactly how they look..
Where, on what was his surgery to even cut him like that if it were surgery stitches..
This is all getting too close to making my brain bleed from the overkill of stupid like Anna cutting hair not pulling for the root that is needed for DNA ….
I couldn’t get past the fact that Faison’s skull was perfectly intact after his brain had been removed!
so true! They are really careless. and I hate rewritten history.
So , how did Faison know she even gave birth being she hid it from him to have Faision have her son and raise her son.. HUH??? Anyways it makes no difference.. Faision is Not dead .. The dead guy in the morgue is a creation of Faison a double that replaced him, yup .. The double was shot operated on as Faision was and put in Faison’s place in the morgue. Faision has ‘people’ taking care of these things. The writers would never commit the sin of killing Faison or Helena, never happen. If they actually killed either off—… Read more »
And for STUPID.. The lock of hair is problematic: the hair locks were cut and don’t have the roots, so have little if any nuclear DNA. That’s the kind you’d need for much of the relationship testing. Dumb Anna needed to pull his hair to get the root, not cut it.. And– She/Anna said- ”CHILD” not son. Faison asked if Hendrick in Annas in her crazy head.. Anna is jackedup crazy.. She needs to be commotes, she needs help.. The only reason Anna had such hate and fear of Faison was – he would discover her secret that Robin is… Read more »
If they dared to say Robin was not Robert’s daughter, I’d grab a pitchfork and join the mob outside of Prospect Studios.
Certain pieces of show history are untouchable.
Oh, my gosh, su!!!!!!…you are on to something…Robin is Faison’s?
My grandmother said something about Anna ( when she appeared on AMC) giving her daughter to someone named Filomena? ….that Robin did not ‘meet’ her mother until she was 6, 7, or 8?
My Gran only watched GH spiradically, due to the ‘sharing’ of characters….she would follow them from AMC to GH, LOL.
hey Celia.
The writers are timid, they would never be excitingly brave enough to have Robin as Faison’s and her CHILD.
RC would go there he is a brave writer, but not Shelly and Chris they are in fear of fans ((a reason GH is so blah in comparison to its glory days)
And– Faison is not dead.. it was a clone/double in the morgue. yuppers!
Celia, as I recall Filomena was the caretaking woman of Robin when they and Anna first appeared on GH. Robin grew up those first 8 years knowing Anna as “Love” until learning Anna was actually her mother on the show.
@Kevin.
Hi, Kevin,
Thank you, my friend…..It’s been a few years, but my grandmother did remember Filomena, LOL…. as I said, her GH viewing was sporadic….she was an avid AMC watcher, where the characters did interchange….as, Alex, Anna’s twin.
Faison is really dead. You can take my word for that. He’s escaped Hell before, but this time we put a little extra security on him. And of course it would be more difficult for him to run around up there without a brain.
Why give Fasion a child, When he’s dead. This show does not need anymore kids or long lost kids.
Unless this is written right with keeping Anna’s history intact, the one we saw on screen and loved,no Anna Devane fan will accept this. The timeline and how Anna came to have Faison’s child is of upmost important to us loyal Anna fans and GH viewers who have kept tuning in to watch her story on screen since her conception. We will not accept a child born before Robin, it was clear and forever captured on film that Robert was the first man Anna slept with. So hope GH has done their homework on this matter. We also won’t accept… Read more »
GH has gone and dismantled – and FIRED three couples … that were adored Dillon and Kiki Laura and Kevin Nathan and Maxie Dillon – fired Laura – “quit” after being offered crumbs Nathan – chose to leave ? perhaps… still doesn’t sit well… was their contract negotiation? The Corinthos’ Clan – Sonny Carly Jason Sam Michael Nelle Finn Franco Drew PLUS perhaps thee ONLY real actor Max Gail and Add back Billy Miller. I hope Bobbi strikes… WHO doesn’t need a flirtatious dance for Max and Jacklyn Michael Easton ; Finn truly needs to go…. he does absolutely nothing…… Read more »
@TinaP. “thank you” for the excellent summation. ALL on point. “OUR Anna” altho, i’m curious your opinion on thee relationship between Anna and Finn. Michael Easton has been given EVERY “advantage” ugh! March 13, 2012 that’s – 6 – WASTED years. Tracy Elliott propped him. WHY GH practically had a show within a show..and it was just the two of them… doing nothing. Hayden and Finn… NOW tptb are sticking him with Anna. doing nothing. the same propping.. is going on with Nina and Franco… they could disappear from the canvas and I don’t think the audience would care that… Read more »
Well I like the relationship between Anna and Finn, like FV I too thought Michael Easton and Finola had great chemistry since he played John MacBain. I remember I too wanting them together back then. For the first time in a long long time I finally saw Anna smile again, heck she was even laughing. You could tell just from her face that she really enjoyed being with Finn. I thought the kiss he gave her on New Years in her house was HOT and I so wanted them to take it on up the stairs which looked like where… Read more »
I agree with your sentiment. I am still hoping though that Anna was already pregnant during the time she was kidnapped by Faison, during the early 1990s and the baby is hers and Robert.
A second Robert/Anna child would be a retcon that most fans would accept. However, parking lot Peter is definitely older than the 25 year old that child would be.
Tina… I completely agree with you on Anna and Finn; have loved their coupling from the start for just the reasons you gave. I wasn’t a Finn/Hayden fan and if they do bring her back at some point with Finn’s child I’m hoping it doesn’t come between Anna and Finn if they finally get real.
I disagree though about Anna’s history. i’m curious to see if Peter/Heinrich is hers with Faison and how they weave the story. If they can add without detracting I’m all for it.
Hey Rebecca! We agree once again. I was not a huge fan of Hayden’s either.
I didn’t hate her, I was merely apathetic about her.
I do detest this Faison story as I am tired of new writers trying to erode the steadfast strength and stoicism of the great Anna Devane in order to prop up the newbies who still have not found their footing.
Finala Hughes will rise above it as she always does but I am tired of watching her act apologetic to folks who owe HER a huge apology.
Harry… I don’t know…I was disappointed in the Faison story only because he was on for a blink of the eye and then gone. Forever it seems. As for Anna, I’m in the “wait and see” category as to where they’re taking this story. So far, I’m enjoying it. There’s absolutely no way Anna can be exactly as she was when Scorpio, Frisco, Sean Donnelly, Holly, “Casey the Alien” ;), Tiffany, etc were around. Those days are gone. Now, Anna is older, has a chronic illness and is no longer an international/traveling spy! I accept that…sadly…but, ya know, we can… Read more »
I’m not sure which direction they’re going to go, but one thing I am certain of is that Finola is going to kick ass on the emotional scenes! I’m happy not only for this storyline, but also the Anna & Finn angst because Finola kills it every time! Totally inspiring. However, I will miss the whole Faison & Anna situation, it was such a great matchup & stroyline. Let’s hope it’s not “really” over…
Loving GH lately. Kudos to Shelly Altman, Chris Van Etten & of course the amazing Finola Hughes!!❤️
So many problems with this show… ~ Faison’s brain was removed without shaving his head or leaving any scars? Did they use Dr. Hfuhruhurr’s cranial screw-top method? ~ Faison knew he had a son but he didn’t know it was with Anna? How is this even a thing? We are seriously supposed to buy into criminal mastermind Faison being obsessed with Anna for decades yet somehow never connecting the fact that the random son he just happened to know about might have been conceived with her? Um, no. ~ Faison recognized Peter when he entered his hospital room and knew… Read more »
Alan, I agree with a lot of your points in your post. This is another futile attempt at a history rewrite (Anna/Faison). The PCPD and their guards are inept in most scenes. The mob solves most of the crimes in Port Charles and takes down most of the criminals. Carly also spent time in a sanitarium, I believe, and you are right about her “saint” of a son and husband. “Parking Lot Pete” (Wes Ramsey) remains flat to me. Of course anyone that shares screen time with the insipid Lulu irritates me. I wish that Lulu sped off to help… Read more »
” ~ It may just be me but Wes Ramsey just doesn’t have the screen presence to sell his character being the offspring of Faison and Anna.” n – o. it’s not just you. I’ve read more posts agreeing with… yeah, I brought up the nepotism card. OK that’s done. I do not , like how this show continually focus , on the Corinthos the proof was all their… with all the solid acting done in and around Nathan death. now that was emmy.. with emotions ALL over the place. so… Faison shot the wrong one ? son so… Faison… Read more »
I totally agree with you, Patrick, that Wes Ramsey does not have the screen presence to be Anna and Faison’s child.
Love your post, Alan. I especially love the part about Lulu going all Jughead on us when narrating the Faison story. I’d love to see Lulu start wearing a crown knit cap.
How did Lulu, with no college education and no news reporting experience, suddenly become a seasoned investigative journalist?
Did Lulu see The Post at the Port Charles Theater over and over and thought that qualified as experience and education?
I know, I know, suspension of disbelief and all that jazz, but I really cannot stand that insipid little twit.
Lulu probably got a tutorial on youtube on how to become a seasoned investigative journalist-thats how todays generation is educated now-lol
Thank you, Harry! I have not been fan of Lulu since the character was recast! She is the most annoying, insipid character on the show! I wish the character would leave Port Charles. I liked Julie Marie Berman as Lulu. The recast has no chemistry or spark with anyone.
Jim, you’re probably right.
I hope you’re doing okay.
Any viewer that knows Anna’s history knows she didn’t have sex with that monster. She’s been brainwashed into believing she did. If she had a child post-tanker explosion ’92, it was Robert’s .
I’ll gladly watch the backstory because Finola will eat up the storyline she’s given like the boss she is.
Given that Faison is/was(?) an expert in hypnosis, he could have had his way with Anna and impregnated her years ago wiithout her even initially realizing it…….she could have found out her child and its origins much later either through WSB records or repressed memory therapy. I’m not saying I would necessarily wish this to be the case, but there are enough spaces of time in Anna’s backstory to allow for such a scenario.
Exactly….I meant as much, Shay, when I said Anna was “out-of-it” and was violated, by Faison. I don’t know anything about Kevin’s backstory….had no idea he had a brother…LIGHTBULB!!!!! Could Kevin, actually, be his brother? ( Ryan, is it?)……I mean, this sibling was mentally unstable? Was he capable of killing the real Kevin and impersonating him? All this time? Am I speaking gibberish???? It’s ok, you can tell me—-I can take a one-two-punch, Shay…. Oh, if Kevin turns out to be his brother, let’s go all the way, here…..Mr Hyde may want to implant the brain in the jar into… Read more »
Hi, Shay, ….Just thinking, as I re-read Mr. Fairman’s intro, if Peter were Faison’s and Anna’s son, would Faison not treat him as gold? …..Afterall, Faison IS/WAS obsessed with her; thus, any issue of her womb would be a treasure, nor “garbage”, I would think….. …..nonetheless, I repeat: we did have a long discussion about Griffin, when he showed up in PC, with his long, beautiful locks and face, that I did not think he was Duke’s?…..Faison in a Duke mask, as he made love to Anna?….that somehow he and Nathan were brothers?……..Hmmmmm. Yet, Peter is still a strong contender…..as… Read more »
I am not sure if any of you were watching when Ryan allegedly died in an amusement park. My memory is hazy and circular but I think there were clowns involved.
Think of it–Ryan coming back to Port Charles as a scary circus clown. (shudder).
@CeeCee….There are so many holes in this scenario, that we could debate them until the cows come home, but yes, if Peter, Peter Parking Meter were truly Anna’s offspring, I should think that Cesar would have named him “Crown Prince of Faison”….and treated him accordingly. So there is one mystery yet to be addressed. Also, I cannot imagine Anna abandoning her own progeny, no matter how monsterous the man who made her with child…she would have likely taken Liesl’s path to protect her son…provided she were actually aware of his existence..so the question that begs to be asked is what… Read more »
Hi, Shay, Good thing you directed me here, Shaybelle, from the other site. Merci, mon amie pour m’avoir accueilli…. I just had a sixth sense about Peter…..and, it is obvious there is something brewing between him ( ‘him’, object of the preposition…just ask Ron, LOL) and Valentin. I, also, think Peter knows Anna is his mother. I do not like him. Can you imagine if he joins the Saint Sonny Society? Oh, Lordy Lord….hair-raising, goose-pimply reaction! I suppose TPTB needed a ‘chunk’ of Faison, since ‘they’ would be killing off Nathan. You have a point…..who knows if there is another… Read more »
Finola being a boss in acting doesn’t mean it’s enough. The story needs to be good too and acceptable to most long term Classic fans. I hate to say it because I love watching the acting on the show but TPTB have taken advantage far too long of the fact that fans will watch just to see some great acting and their fave characters. When they write said characters OOC and give them stories that twist every piece of their history out of shape to make it work (when they easily could have taken a piece of history that would… Read more »
@Harry and CeeCee……So Kevin’s twin brother met his end at the hands of a clown? How very Stephen King…”Beep, beep, Ryan!” Although I was not watching GH religiously during the days of the Chamberlain-Collins tale, I do recall certain creepy scenes of the two and Dr. Collins’ subsequent role in various storylines on Port Charles, but if there’s any creative license to convolute these disparate characters into a present-day mindmeld, then it will happen. Hence should Ryan have indeed met his maker way back when in that high-budget amusement park scenario, then we are probably looking at yet another example… Read more »
i’m not – getting , Wes Ramsey’ Peter August. he’s unsure of himself… how he’s coming across…. if he’s playing to type. as the son who double crossed dear ole abusive father. because he ??? wouldn’t be melded in his form there’s a “regal” air about his delivery ? the soft spoken delivery, he certainly lost it when Jason paid him a visit, in his office @Crimson. so who knows like Finn… I just don’t see him being Anna son. dang ! can any one be in the same realm as Anna? not since Duke and Robin and Emma. at… Read more »
Hi, Shaybelle, Glad to ‘see’ me? LOL….. one question: Am I assuming this correctly? Did Valentil lie to Anna by telling her she had given birth to a girl? ….so, her ‘daughter’ is, actually, Peter? Sex change? Kidding!!!!! Seriously, I just knew Valentin was involved in this…..I hope mean, ‘auntie’ Charlotte was part of it ( who was really not a ‘blood’ aunt) and that she is Valentin’s mother ( my Gran’s idea, that). She calls me almost every day at 4 PM to tell me her take on everything…So cute!! she started watching regularly when I did, LOL. No… Read more »
Absolument, mon amie! Bienvenue!!!!! Yes, it would seem that the dastardly Valentin has attempted to pull a fast one on the Divine Devane, but he shall not succeed. …better men have tried and failed in that pursuit of this intrepid superspy…once Anna regains her emotional bearings, she will see through his obvious lies. (Alas, as much as I desire her to have indeed birthed another daughter, it seems pretty obvious by now that Peter is her son by Faison….just another case of the GH showrunners trying to turn a storyline into a “brainteaser” when it’s really just a “no-brainer!”) Hence… Read more »
Yes, time for new villains please
Not happy with this it’s rewriting history. As far as we knew Anna never slept with Faison and if she had we would have known. It’s BS.
Hope Griffin is her son.
THAT WOULD BE SO GOOD….
OMG, @James!! That’s why Peter looks so familiar!! I hadn’t gotten around to IMDBing him yet!
I don’t suspect Heinrich is Anna’s son, he’s a snake in the grass…deceptive,
manipulative, he’s played everyone like a chess piece w/ little or no regard
to human life,,,definitely his fathers son. Anna would have shielded her
child from Faison’s evil clutches at any cost, including not raising that child
herself for his or her protection much like Liesl tried to do with Nathan.
I don’t think Peter/Henrich is a “snake-in-the-grass”, Fanny. I actually think he’s a good guy (as well as extremely intelligent, sophisticated) who, like Anna, hated Faison. I don’t think he intended to hurt anyone other than Faison…
I’m hoping he stays with the show. I’ve vacillated on who I think he “romances” but I’ve gone through Lulu, now Maxi (the family he longs for) and now I’m thinking Kiki! (But then I think they’re going to have a Kiki/Griffin/Ava web so that might be out.
Anyway, there’s something about Wes and his delivery that’s very smooth…can’t explain it but I like it.
when anna said she had a child w/ faison, it made me sick to my stomach, it took a while for me to process this, was she raped? the back story on this is going to be interesting , lets see what the shows comes up with. it made me think of Laura who had nikolas w/ that psycho starvos, and we all love nikolas, but still i sure hope its not peter August, for some reason i’m not into the character. hope its someone else.
Before I post on the absurdity of a Devane/Faison offspring, let’s take a look at this overused storyline. The Never Before Mentioned Child Syndrome has been used with various degrees of believability on GH through the years:
Monica/Dawn
Laura/Nikolas
Bobbie/Carly
Alexis/Sam
Holly/Ethan
Connie/Trey
Heather/Franco
I might be forgetting some. Dawn was a dud. Nik and Sam probably made the most sense time period wise. Bobbie and Holly were supposedly devastated that they could never have children. Connie created another personality to forget Trey. Fitting Franco in the Heather/Scott timeline was just another forced way for the audience to accept Franco.
Leslie/Laura….too
I hate Franco but him , Scott and Heather are a riot!
At least Franco seems more like her offspring than milquetoast Steven Lars
Hi, T, I don’t dislike Franco…I simply do not understand him. Perhaps Kevin ( if he is Kevin) will shine a light on his brain? LOL…Will Kevin turn out to be a psychopath, as a few suspect? Everything seems to be sooo convoluted, all around….Peter, Faison, Anna, Andrew, Jason….this brain ” switch” is so out of the realm of reality that we either go along with it, or bust…aha!! It’s extraterrestrial…..or Frankenstein-esque… As we both questioned…. how could Sam not ‘know’ her newfound husband did not have the same body-parts as Jason? You even equated the ‘situation’ with fake-Jack and… Read more »
What bothers me is that Franco is a terrible character and always had been, just like Nina, and yet the writers see more value in keeping Roger Howarth and Michelle Stafford around than Genie Francis. That to me is ludicrous because of how important Laura is to the canvas.
Amen, Jimmy…..It really does beggar belief that we’ve suffered through year upon year of Franco and Nina with nothing of any positive value to show for their prolonged presence on the GH canvas, whilst Laura, Robert and a slew of other legacy players we’ve been clamoring to see back in Port Charles on a permanent basis remain—at best—-infrequently recurring characters in a town they helped put on the proverbial soap opera map. “Ludicrous” doesn’t even begin to adequately describe that situation!
Edward/Jimmy Lee
Edward/Bradley Ward
Is everyone forgetting that Faison mentioned Cassadine (inferring Valentin) was behind the Jason/Drew coverup while on his death bed…..? Why hasn’t Jason shared this nugget with Aman yet?
It’s a reasonable assumption that a man could never know he fathered a child. For a woman to know about a child and never mention that child in 20-40 years is ridiculous.
I’m going to give it a week or two to see how it pans out, but I can’t imagine Anna ever carrying a child of her sworn enemy, let alone have relations with him. Are they saying the child is older than Robin (as the dude from the parking lot is)? Or, did this happen after Robert, her and Faison were assumed to be dead in the early 90’s?
Regardless, this is a horrible rewrite of a beloved character that combined with the treatment of Genie Francis has me close to removing GH from my DVR.
I am hoping Peter August is not her child. If Anna had a child with Faison, I hope it is someone else and that would be another great story. It would be interesting to see how Peter would react to that!
How about Drew’s old girlfriend who is the mother of his child…forgot her name.
Her name is Kim. That would be a great twist because it would tie Kim and Oscar to more core characters, and there is a resemblance between Kim and Anna. Plus, I’m not sure if it’s just me, but it seems like there is a side to Kim that she is hiding. Potentially a repressed crazy side or something she is ashamed of, which could be her lineage.
Yes… Kim would be better!
Tamara Braun (Kim) is only about eleven years younger than Finola Hughes. I can see child/parent relationships if the actors look years apart even if they’re close in age in reality. For example, although Kelly Monaco is only about 8 years younger than William DeVry, to my eye she looks young enough to be his daughter. Tamara doesn’t look that much younger, to me…than Finola. I guess it’s subjective but Kim being Anna’s daughter would be a stretch for me. Personally, I like Peter/Heinrich and though he, too, is close in age to Anna I think he has a baby… Read more »
oops! correction…one that makes more sense to me now. Wes Ramsey (Peter/Henric) is only 40 in real life thus 18 years younger than Finola…which explains why he looked younger to me than Finola!
Not interested in this story. It’s as stupid as the fake mask storyline-brain swapping/mapping, memories saved on a flash drive. Send “Parking Lot Pete” back to the parking lot and write a story that actually has depth and romance. The writers are capable of this, they gave Nathan a beautifully (albeit devastating) written send-off.
What a great twist. Also, think about it…the scars are probably on the back of his head.
Thanks for these comments! I just started watching GH and was really confused about this SL in particular.
Am over GH right now. The never-before-known/never-mentioned-it-child trope is as overused as preposterous resurrections. Daytime dramas do stretch credulity but I find it weak that so many new characters coming to Genoa city are forgotten children. Sigh. This on top of the reprehensible behavior and violence that no one seems to make amends for. I like complex characters that cross the line between good and evil as much as the rest of us, but…
I really dislike this story idea. I’m sure it may make for some interesting scenes, but on the whole, I think it detracts from the moral core of Anna. It’s a contrivance. I really don’t need to see another lost-child-I never-knew story on another soap. It’s tired and so predictable.
GH has such wonderful talent (and I really like most of what this writing team is giving us) . Just not a fan of this twist.
We never saw Faison actually die. It happened off screen at the end of an episode, caused by going into cardiac arrest when he was talking with Peter. So how are we supposed to know for sure that he actually died, and wasn’t replaced by someone else? My theory with the lack of scars on his head is that the man who died isn’t Faison at all – it’s someone that Faison (or possibly a very much alive Helena) hired to impersonate him, and is wearing a mask to look like Faison. Helena or Faison could have also hired the… Read more »
Faison is dead. He’s in Hell. Take my word for it!
Well if they don’t want to pay Anders Hove’s salary anymore then possibly they think they can replace him with this Peter/Henrik dude. That’s sort of FV’s territory and he doesn’t have a good record on bringing our faves back, especially lately with Genie.
Sigh…I’m enjoying the stories…the lot of them…and going along for the ride. Longtime viewer/fan, but I find the twists and turns fun. To stick to history as many want/remember would mean the show might as well go into reruns.
There’s nothing wrong with adding to history. So…if you don’t remember something happened or you remember something a certain way…many times they’re ADDING history that we’re just finding out about now. IF Anna had a child with Faison, it’s not changing history…it’s adding to what they never told us before. Works for me!
i agree..there is nothing wrong with adding to history…even if Robin does turn out to be Faison’s!!!!
Hahaha…errrrrr…can I make an amendment to my statement? Robin is NOT Faison’s! LOL…Scorpio all the way. (Unless Holly is her mother? GASP!!!!!??? naaahhhhh.) 😉
@Rebecca – I agree and am also enjoying the stories and going along for the ride! I like adding to the history.
Yes, Robin needs to stay a Scorpio (miss Robert! 🙂
Hey Abruzzfan…
I think, here at least, we’re in the minority. History tampering is a big no-no. LOL…s’okay. Rides are fun! 😉
No, Faison is not dead. This supposes individual who is alleged to be the son of both Anna and Faison is not so. There will be a chain of events that will take place there is definitely another individual who will turn out to be the son of Anna and Faison, Stay tuned!
I don’t watch much, but Anna having a son with Faison kills GH. Anna had an affair with Faison years ago, but now a son, The real joke would be Faison hated the child of the women he desired for years ? I like Finn with Anna, which is something because I am Scorpio all the way. Maybe its just I dislike so many of the characters, maybe this couple is a last chance for me. Laura screwed again,. No thanks. Alexis as mayor, yea sure, the mob lawyer, who filed the adoption papers for Michael knowing they were signed… Read more »
@janet – I completely agree: “I like Finn with Anna, which is something because I am Scorpio all the way. “
Agree, too. Love Anna and Finn.
@janet……..That sums it up quite succinctly! Just when I thought this soap was finally getting its act together after years of having lost its heart and soul, we’re back to the same convoluted mob-centric mess that GH was before the re-emphasis upon legacy characters that initially seemed to be happening with Steve Burton’s return. Now that the situation has suddenly done a U-turn with Laura’s abrupt departure and more of the same old, same old forcefeeding of long-failed characters and more unappealing newbies, I’m once again fed-up with this show….especially due to the utter contempt I harbor for the current… Read more »
Maybe Anna’s secret child is Damian Spinelli? Here’s the soap opera logic: (1) If it’s someone previously known to her, then that leaves it open to a lot of what if’s such as what might Anna have been able to do to influence Damian NOT to have ever worked for Sonny? (2) Spinelli is intelligent as is Anna, and as was Faison. (3) Spinelli like Anna walks the line between law abiding and breaking the law. Sometimes he is more one and sometimes more the other. (4) He is close in age to Robin and both were raised in part… Read more »
I like your theory, however Anna Devane, super spy, would never willingly carry a child of Cesar Faison. If Spinelli were the long-lost child of Anna and Robert, that would be hilarious— and make him Mac’s nephew.
Hoo boy. What happened to this show? Just a month ago I wrote in praise of Chris Van Etten and the stories he and his team were presenting… and now we find out that Anna has a love child with Faison? Nathan is dead? Sonny’s boring dad is back? and yeah, I am sure that Kevin is really Ryan (there’s no other reason for it to come up so many times in the past couple weeks other than to remind old viewers and introduce new viewers to a character that we thought had died in the mid 90s).. and so… Read more »
I’ve been watching GH since I was a little boy, back in the 1960’s with my Mom. Ok, I still love GH, but YOU have to come out with it, Please please let Anna know that Henrik is actually the Boy that She delivered and not a girl. Also, how is it that Valentin is so young that he was actually there when Anna gave birth about 30 years ago, only in Soap Opera Land is this possible. Also, please get Maxie and Lulu back to being Friends, because Lulu seems to help hold Maxie together. I think, Peter aka… Read more »
Hi Mark,
I, too, would love for Anna to find out that Henrik/Peter is her son. I’m sure she will…when is the question. And, why is Valentin lying to her…did he raise Peter? Faison rejected him so perhaps Valentin was keeping tabs on him…since he was in love with Anna.
And, Valentin is not that much younger than Anna. I’m not sure how old either is supposed to be in the show but in real life James Patrick Stewart (Valentin) is almost 50. And they were peers back in the WSB days so it works…
Actually, I hope that Drew discovers who he really is and that somehow he remembers Franco and how they were friends when they were little. I know somehow Kim and Julian belong together and please put Finn back with Anna, they were so good together, or bring back Hayden with Finn’s baby.
Anna is Kim’s mother. Faison’s son and the Traitor are NOT the same person. Yeah, Peter August is Faison’s son and Nathan is also his son, but that’s simply an aside. Valentin said Anna had a daughter and the plot never said the Traitor was a male. Drew disappeared from the Navy Seals in San Diego around the same time Jason was ‘killed”. Coincidentally right after he met Dr. Kim Nero. Peter August and Kim Nero showed up in PC at about the same time – around the time when Jason was escaping and then finally free from the clinic… Read more »
Breaking News
DAYS and GH Director Joe Behar Passes Away at 94
Joseph Behar was heavyweight director in daytime drama having worked on both Days of our Lives and General Hospital and now comes word of his passing. Behar passed away on June 26th at the age of 94.
According to his obit, he died at his home in Manhattan Beach, California.
Joe spent the the bulk of his career directing Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. He actually directed the pilot episode of General Hospital back in 1963, then came back the ABC daytime drama series 30 years later to direct it for more than 10 more years,.
Along the way, he won 5 Daytime Emmys for his work on GH, and had won six overall throughout his career. He continued directing until his retirement back in 2005.
Behar’s career started on the Ernie Kovacs Show and he also directed Let’s Make a Deal. and more.
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He is survived by his wife, Carolyn and his sons, Jeffrey, Steven and Greg Behar and his grandchildren, Alex, Mallory, Niko and Lydia.
Watch an interview with Joe via the TV Academy on his career including working with Frances Reid (Ex-Alice, DAYS), the pace of directing in daytime and more below.
Share your remembrances and condolences for Joe and his family in the comment section.
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GH’s James Patrick Stuart Releases His New Album ‘Clean Slate’
On Thursday, the highly-anticipated nine song set from General Hospital’s James Patrick Stuart (Valentin Cassadine) dropped on Apple Music
The album entitled “Clean Slate” features the tracks: “Look Out Below”, “My Funny Friend”, “Can U Feel Me?”, “World of Good”, “Don’t Tell Me”, “I Burn For You”, “Always Love You”, “Another Time”, and “My One and Only Love”.
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Fans of General Hospital, always love when James performs at the Nurses Ball’ but now here, Stuart delivers several original songs with his unique vocal style that make it unmistakable JPS.
Check out a preview of the album below.
Now, let us know if you will be adding “Clean Slate” to your playlists and more via the comment section below.
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