Great episode today! Jake’s death nearly killed me. I didn’t think I could ever care for a fictional character that much. Glad they’re righting this wrong.

My only hope going forward is that Elizabeth, you know, Jake’s mother gets a prominent viewpoint this time around. I remember how glaring her absence was following Jake’s death – all the while Lucky, Luke, Jason were HEAVILY featured. And I already know Rebecca Herbst will kill it!

Absolutely loved it. Kudos to FV, RC and company for righting a terrible wrong perpetrated by the Phelps/Guza regime. I haven’t been a huge fan of some of the things that have been going on with GH lately, but this is a great twist. The little boy James Nigbor that plays Jake is a real cutie, so it was nice to see him back. This brings on all kinds of intriguing storyline possibilities. It will be interesting to see how they explain it. The fall out is going to rock Port Charles.

I know some people will complain about yet another back from the dead story, and more rewriting of history. This is one that will definitely be worth it, and will make the show better for it, in my view, so I have absolutely no problem with it. Killing Jake was a huge mistake, one of many that the Phelps/Guza regime made during their tenure of destruction that left GH on the verge of cancellation.

That’s why when people come on here and post about FV and RC being “the worst this, or the worst that”, I always say, yeah I might not be a fan of everything they do, and the show has undeniably been in a funk the past few months, but compared to where the show was before they took over, I will still take them over the previous show runners any day of the week.

What tremendous scenes with Tony Geary and Constance Towers. They’ve always had such a chemistry together. I’m glad they brought back Helena, so she and Luke could do their dance one last time. The Luke exit storyline hasn’t really worked for me, especially the bit with Frank and Jennifer Smith, but as per usual, the acting has risen above the quality of the writing. The scenes between Geary and Jonathan Jackson, and he and Constance more than made the whole trip worth it, in my eyes. And I’m looking forward to what else they have in store for Tony’s last few weeks.

SO glad Jake is alive. I can’t wait to find out the back story. Tony Geary was really great today–and I’m not usually that big a fan.

I thought the whole show was wonderful today–all week actually. It will be interesting to see if seeing Jake stirs any memories in Jake/Jason or if it drives Liz to tell him the truth.

There’s really compelling storytelling going on right now, we don’t need to perpetuate the lie.

I’m glad Jake was brought back love the actor. Will be a good storyline now Elizabeth has a son by Jason also. Helps her keep Jason I hope. I want Jason with Liz.

GH will always be a special show for me because it was the first soap that ever captured my attention and imagination. Laura and Scotty, back in 1978 and 1979, while I was still a pre-teen – they were the bomb. And then Luke came in and although I wasn’t fond of him, the story seemed amazing to me. And I have and will always follow this show in one way or another, even if I don’t watch it from day to day and sometimes skip weeks or months actually seeing an episode – i will always know what is going on.

My last big stretch of watching was the late 90’s/early 2000’s where I held on daily for about four or five years, but eventually – and with the return of Guza and the absolute mob-ification (or was it Sonny-zication) of the show, I gave up daily watching. i tried again with RC – and while I initially applauded his efforts and bringing the OLTL characters on – the wheels started coming off the cart for me when he had to create new characters for the three OLTL actors, and those characters were sub-par compared to what they had been playing. And the introduction of Franco as an on-going character seemed to be a major turning point for me.

And as I’ve been watching daily again to see Luke’s swan song, the issues I currently have with the show slap me in the face daily. The show is a living cartoon! Yes, we had alien and freezing rays and lookalikes in the past – but even those outrageous stories were surrounded by other things that grounded the overall show. Not so much these days.

RC loves to take outrageous stories and over the top characters and play them to the hilt. There is no restraint. Once upon a time, characters would tend to come in and over the course of time, perhaps go over the top – over the course of three to five years though. Today, we have Ava and Franco and Nina and others who come on at a full force 9 or 10 of crazy and go from there – they come on doing things from the start that once upon a time, signaled that a characters time on the show was coming to an end. Combine that with plastic face masks that no one can recognize, and multiple back from the dead stories and imposters of one form or another and stories that CLEARLY change directions in mid stream with no care about what now doesn’t make sense. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the writing reminds me of myself when I was a kid and did my own stories/comic books – I would start a story with a general idea of where I was going – sometimes not – and I would just go where my imagination would take me, sometimes things making sense, sometimes less so. But that isn’t how a show should be written! It mucks with the whole base and structure of the show when nothing can be trusted, when any ridiculous thing can happen no matter if it makes sense or not, when outrageous and over the top characters are main characters and the audience is expected to take them seriously. When stories like someone’s parentage being established and then reversed and then assigned to other characters – and it happens to two characters at roughly the same time – making prior stories and connections make little sense in retrospect – you realize that there is absolutely no long range thought going into the show.

Watching this underwhelming story for Luke (and Laura), which for some reason I expected to hold so much more depth than it does (I know, call me crazy), makes me shake me head on a daily basis. Dead mobsters back to life, non-shocking revelations, dead children back to life – while on the other side of town Crazy 1 (Franco) and Crazy 3 (Nina) are walking around like normal people, and Crazy 2 (Ava) is somehow fooling the whole town with a black wig and fake accent, while normally level headed Dante decides to think the absolute worst of his wife and cheats on her in what had to transpire over a 48 hour period. And no disrespect meant, but while watching that dining scene between Luke and Helena, it occurred to me that on any other show, that would boil down to a scene between grandpa and grandma talking about their ‘hot’ games over the years and mutual hate/respect/love for one another – and yet it was all so … expected.

What saves this show right now on any level is the acting. The majority of actors on this show are quite frankly, awesome. Even while watching scenes with deeply troubling characters like Nina or Ava, I love the acting (and by troubling, I mean these characters are so poorly written in terms of longevity vs. past actions, they have no business actually being on the show any longer). It’s the actors that are selling these stories at all, and ti’s the acting that currently keeps me popping back in.

RC needs a writing partner – someone to reel him in, someone to ground him, someone to remind him that while yes, bringing a child back from the dead might right a wrong from a previous writing regime, to do so could hurt the integrity of the show. Someone needs to point out that when you change the end goal of a story AFTER you’ve been writing it for six months, it might be a little hard for the audience to just forget all the details that now don’t make sense with the new ending. He needs someone to let him know that he doesn’t have to pull out every cliche soap story and play them at the same time, sometimes the same general story with two different characters, and at full tilt on a constantly rotating basis.

There is a sense of fun in some of RC’s stories and there are often good ideas there – but the execution has steadily gone off the rails for a while now. If the show can get the stories to be worthy of the actors on this show – heck, I would even be happy with pulling the stories down a notch or two – I think GH could start climbing the ratings charts again – and of course, I would be happier.

I was heartbroken when Jake was killed off, putting the end to years of stories to come and a connection between the legacy families of GH! I stopped watching around that time and only came back recently! But I have to give props to the current powers that be for making me excited about GH again! Seeing Jake back in the form of his adorable portrayer packed an emotional punch and I can’t wait to see him reunite with his mom!

I’m so excited that Little Jake is alive and back on our screens. I’m really looking forward to seeing how Elizabeth reacts because I know Becky will kill it. She has been on fire since the Nurse’s Ball and owning every scene. This is Becky’s year and she is doing an amazing job. I smell an Emmy in her future. Having Jake back is just what Liz needs (besides telling big Jake he’s really Jason.) Killing baby Jake was a HUGE mistake because there was so much potential there for everyone involved. Thank you to Ron and Frank for fixing that big mistake and bringing not just any Jake, but the original baby Jake back that was perfection. James Nigbor is the perfect Jake. Viva Liason and their family!

Kudo’s for RC/FV and their team for pulling off and righting the wrong in killing off Jacob Martin Webber Hardy Quartermaine Spencer Morgan!

I look forward to the scenes of Elizabeth/Rebecca Herbst finding out that her baby boy is alive and well!

I’m thrilled that young Jake has been brought back. I’ve wanted to see him brought back for a long time. He’s a strong legacy character with Hardy-Webber and Quartermaine roots and brings numerous storyline possibilities with his presence. I was shocked when they killed him off because there was so much potential for future stories. It was a bad decision back then and I’m so happy that Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini had the wisdom to bring him back. It’s terrific that James Nigbor is back to reprise the role. It makes the return of Jake all the more emotional.

I’m happy that Elizabeth and Jason will have Jake back. I’m looking forward to seeing young Jake with Cameron and Aiden. I know Rebecca Herbst will rock the scenes when Elizabeth sees Jake for the first time. It will be incredible. She’s a terrific actress. I loved the scenes with Elizabeth and Carly yesterday, so it will be interesting to see what their relationship holds in the future. I hope when the “secret” comes out about Jason that Carly and Elizabeth’s relationship isn’t fully broken apart. I’m a longtime fan of both Rebecca Herbst and Laura Wright and I like it when they get to do meaningful scenes together that aren’t just about the rivalry between their characters. I would like to see a true friendship between Carly and Elizabeth.

I’ve always enjoyed Helena and Luke’s bizarre relationship, so it was fun to see Helena being part of this story and being behind at least part of what happened to Jake. I’m looking forward to learning more about that.

So Liz is rewarded with little Jake while she’s lying to Sam, Danny, Carly, Michael, Sonny, Patrick, etc. Total BS. This came out of the HW’s butt because ratings are in the tank and they are desperate.

Yes, there are lots of holes in this story. IMO every story RC writes is full of holes and either drags too long or is on speed and makes no sense.

However, JAKE IS ALIVE and that is all that matters. Well, that and the fact that Becky Herbst is giving the most heartwrenching performances since her rape story, starting with the Nurses Ball (Which IMO was just awful except for Liz & Nikolas) and continuing through today’s scenes. She had me sobbing over her misery. And Liz is in misery right now.

As a Liz fan, I understand that she is far from perfect and has lied many times in the past, but before, her lies were usually in some stupid effort to help Lucky, or Jason, or Zander, or Emily, or whoever she thought would benefit. This is just plain selfish.

Also, RC just doesn’t get the Liason relationship or he gets it but is choosing to rewrite it in his own image. Most of her fans understand that she wouldn not have done most of the things RC has made her do. The way he sess her is not the way we do.

In the end though, all that matters is that Liz is getting her baby boy back. RC better not mess this up too!! Liz fans need a break from the non stop sadness and sorrow of the past 5 years! Please! Just a tiny little breathing room??

JAKE IS ALIVE and I am thrilled. The ELQ story, Jakeson having two sons and two families that he cares about, Liz dealing with the consequences of her choices while trying to help young Jake assimilate back into the fold, dealing with Nik, Helena, etc. and how Jake’s return impacts Monica, Michael, Tracy, Jason, and all of the Quartermaines is huge. And will Jake and Danny be more like AJ & Jason, Nik & Lucky, or Michael & Morgan as they grow up?

Way to go General Hosptial. You did a good thing today, not just for Tony’s exit story, but for thousands of fans. BTW, why didn’t you advertise that this might be happening if you wanted to entice viewers to tune in GH?

very interesting to see how they will explain Jake dying in the hospital and having a kidney removed, post mortum for Josselyn… and no wait must have been a look alike body on that table cuz he’s actually alive?

it’s more plausible when they die alone or just assumed dead. But would be nice to know Luke didn’t kill the kid afterall.

It is amazing how much James Nigbor looks like Steve Burton.