Oh su000, I felt so guilty during this episode. I knew I was supposed to feel sad, but I was strangely unmoved. I never made the leap to the “big picture” about real cops dying on the job, which is always tragic. Adding Georgie to the mix was, I guess, a good move but we’ve seen it before. And besides the guilt, I kept thinking that, with that goofy haircut, Spinelli actually looked sexy. Not exactly the mood the writers were going for.

Grumpy

I must say, su, that I don’t like going to funerals, either…..Nathan’s struck a very painful chord for me….it was personal. I put myself in Liesl’s place….never fails with me.
If I smell certain baby ‘odors’ ( such as lotion and/or new Pampers) wafting my way, the scent will stir my emotions, taking me to another place and time….I burst out crying. No stopping it.
The funeral was not sad to me….it wasn’t real, we all know that. For me, it was the reality of performance by all the cactors/actresses/character.
It was the out-of-this-world heartrending, woeful faces expressing agony through their eyes….the sadness was pervasive….no words necessary. The performers climbed beyond the last rung on the latter, per se, to fulfilling their roles.
As I said, we are singular individuals with different feelings and emotions…..some of us are affected in a personal manner, some….not so personal.

Su, I have not been watching long, but who we saw was Georgie, Maxie’s deceased sister…..Maxie named her daughter after her.
I have had dreams of older relatives, and each one was young…..never dreamt of them as elderly.
It’s a phenomenon for me. I asked members of my family and they said the same thing.
A few days ago I had a dream of my recently deceased Great-grandmother……she had her back to me. I knew it was her….don’t ask me how….but, I could see her long, blond hair, undulating down her back. Thus, I knew that she, too, was young. She died at almost 100 years old.
Again, we all feel different emotions…Do you believe in heaven?

well Said Sheri!
This was an EXCELLENT episode regardless if the character was a vet or not. Fans love Maxie, fans love Nathan and GH did a fantastic job through this beautiful ceremony.
Kudos to GH
Sorry SU you missed a fantastic episode if you really FFWD thru it.

I agree with Sheri!! Very emotional episode!!!

AMEN!!!!!!!!!

Sheri, I totally agree with you. EVERY soap and continuing night time dramas have episodes dedicated to funerals. Unfortunately, they are a part of life and there ain’t nothing pretty about them. Some people you can never convince.

Hi Soaphound ..
As I was FFing through it I had to stop to see who the new girl was..
It was Maxie’s dead baby..
Now I know a secret of death and heaven;
We age in heaven !!.. didja know that ?

Now, I feel sorry for the people that died in their 70-80, they must be getting as old as dirt. Aging in heaven isn’t cool .. LOL

ohh no! you ”didn’t feel bad” hmm you were supposed to cry with snot nose and be depressed for a day or 2, all for your entertainment enjoyment, sigh.
The writers failed you..

Nathan was a so-so with me too ..

The “dead girl” was Maxi’s sister, Georgie, who was a beloved character (and should never have been killed off). She makes sporadic “ghostly” visits to Maxi whenever Maxi is in a dark, emotional place. Maxi’s daughter with Spinelli was named after her.

I agree Sheri, its rude but what she says gives a spark so she got what she wanted. Like I always say, if you have so much disdain for the soap, TURN THE FREAKIN CHANNEL!

Yes, Rebecca is right, Suoo. Maxie’s little sister Georgie was murdered in the park by a serial killer, and Maxie named her daughter after her. That’s probably why you were so confused as that occurred before your time.
The funeral was well done and realistic but then I kept having to remind myself that Nathan was killed by a cartoon villain and what led up to it was a bunch of plot driven crappolla.
But I will say that the funeral really underscored what a talented group of actors we have on board. Dante really got to me–he is so understated but the grief is palpable and he doesn’t have to scream it from the roof tops.
And Kirsten Storms is at her best when she externalizes her grief into rage. We saw this at Georgie’s funeral when she railed against Felicia for being an absentee mother and now we see her directing her grief induced rage against Lulu. Now this, I love.
But please no more funerals. Morgan’s funeral lasted a year. Okay, it felt like a year to me, anyway. And Finola Hughes is a gifted actress who only improves with time, but for the love of all that is good, can someone please hand her a story line which doesn’t make her weep and shake? Did they really have to distort history and make Anna have a baby with Faison? I mean, if they’re going to utilize a suspension of disbelief, why not make her the mother of Griffin thereby giving her the ultimate gift of knowing she had a love child with Duke. But no! Instead Anna had a baby with the man she hated and feared the most. It was as if she had a child with the Devil himself. Can we just have some fun escapism which includes romance and some levity?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwww Now you hurt my feelings lol

Rebecca1 and Harry..
thanks for the info on Georgie ..
Now I know 🙂

I am afraid I have to stand up for Miss SUOO. Back in the days of Ron Carlivati it was I engaging in all the griping and it was she who was doing all the cheerleading.
I had folks tell me essentially to “love it (GH) or leave it (change the channel)”.
Folks should get to complain without being told to change the channel or to shut up. I’ve always been steadfast on this point whether I am the one doing the cheer leading or the one asking for a slice of cheese to go with my whine.

The only time Nina and Franco seemed to work was when they were a couple. Two damaged souls trying to make a better life. Unfortunately their acting styles didn’t gel and the performers asked to break up the couple.

I agree about having killed off the vets; they shouldn’t have. But, please, when saying Franco and Nina “never fit in” or the “only time they worked” realize that it is subjective. While I acknowledge that those characters haven’t worked for some they have worked for me and others. Love them both.

As always, characters and stories are subjective.

Rebecca, of course every thing we state here in the comment section is subjective. It’s just our opinions and no one is right or wrong.
I think we don’t need to add the JMO because it goes without saying that it’s just our opinion to which we are all entitled.

I think there’s a diffference between saying “in my opinion” than saying “fans don’t like” or “the writers aren’t listening to “us” etc. Of course we all have our own opinion. At the same time, sometimes it’s assumed we’re all on the same page (no pun intended) when we’re not.

So, once again, agree to disagree.

As for Franco, he is basically Dr. O’s only friend. She adores him and he’s quite fond of her. So, his seating(don’t recall him in the first row) but he’d be there for her as well as Nina (since they were once engaged).

And, I noticed you said Franco is not working for “you.” See? You didn’t stop at “working…”

Amen, Harry!!!……GH’s overly-obvious efforts to shoehorn Franco and Nina into every possible scenario that goes down in Port Charles has more than worn thin. They simply don’t work…period. I have nothing against RoHo…I think he has bent over backwards to attempt to make his Franco palatable and viewer-friendly, but all the machinations incorporated by the showrunners to reinvent this fatally-flawed character have been an epic fail. On the other hand, Nina was just a bad idea from day one…she should have lasted for maybe all of five minutes and then be gone, but because she was played (make that over-played!) by Stafford, this character was awarded pride of place on the GH canvas and thus, forcefed in every imaginable way in order to ingratiate her to the audience…which was another complete exercise in futility since most GH fans wanted more familiar faces from the show’s past, not a soap-hopping, scenery-chewing usurper who brought no legacy ties with a character whose annoyance factor ranks skyhigh and breeds resentment everytime she is featured in the spotlight many of us believe rightfully belongs to the beloved Laura or some other favorite for whom there is supposedly not enough money to bring back to Port Charles! That assessment may sound brutal, but that’s just the way it is, and nothing shall ever change that fact…..period! How many times do we have to repeat this mantra before it sinks in????

to clarify…the post below my response to you, above, Harry…

”Replete with nothingness”…….Thank you, Patrick! That says it all about the Corinthos Clan…and many more in Port Charles, as well!!!! The highlight of this special GH episode was most definitely the absence of Sonny, et al….not to mention, Alexis!!!!

Ms Gati is indeed a force of nature and an unrealized brilliant talent.
However, DR O clobbered Scorpio over the head with a hammer sending him into a coma. She also kidnapped and tortured Robin.
She was Faison’s accomplice and helped him terrorize Anna and so it was hard to watch Anna console her and act almost apologetic.
It’s sad she lost her son but it’s even sadder and horrifically inconceivable that gorgeous, sweet Nathan was the product of Faison and Dr O.

@CeeCee and Harry……As a huge admirer of Kathleen Gati and her gargantuan talents, I’m still miffed at her once again being largely passed over in a pivotal GH episode that would have greatly benefitted from her special gifts. Yes, as “Obrecht,” she was a medical monster ensconced in her own hellacious house of horrors, but when she morphed into the more comically portrayed “Dr. O.,” the dark humor her character brought to the Port Charles canvas was immeasurably amusing…hence whilst all of her past misdeeds couldn’t be forgiven, they were at least momentarily forgotten during those inspired moments when this force of nature blew into town with all her mirth and mayhem. Granted, it was a near-impossible task to reform this endearingly-bizarre character into someone who could be considered mainstream enough to pass moral muster, but then again, when one contemplates the aborrent nature of the majority of current Port Charles denizens—-think Sonny, Franco, Nina, Ava, Julian, Alexis, etc…, her sins were really not that out of the ordinary! I should still prefer a nuanced, yet extremely flawed, Liesl than no Liesl at all….in recent times, she has successfully managed to display some very human glimpses and if those aforementioned characters can get a pass for their nauseating behavior, then so should Dr. O. True, she may never be “Mother Teresa,” but she’s still a mother who is grieving a son for whom she made the ultimate scarifice of giving away in order to save him a terrible life. At the very least, that should earn her some respect! Perhaps that is where she and Anna will find common ground…their shared dilemmas at having spawned Faison’s offspring! Such would make for a spectacularly dramatic denouement for both Gati and Finola Hughes…whose classy and compassionate Anna’s brief moment of condolence for her sworn enemy was for me the finest of Friday’s hour-long funereal fest!

Well, CeeCeeGirl, all I can tell you is that I was left totally bereft of any emotion save for disgust at Nina’s continued milking of her cousin’s death!!! When you consider all the selfless deeds that the character of Nathan did in Port Charles, and how many lives he touched, I found it oddly indulgent to focus upon what he was like as an offscreen youngster decades ago….that subject matter deserved maybe, and I do mean maybe, a brief mention, but the man was a husband, son, police officer and all-around good guy beloved by many characters whose life should have been summed up by more than the morose droning of his pseudo-sister in what turned out to be just another typical hogging the limelight moment by MS. There were plenty of family and friends who should have shared their Nathan memories firsthand…definitely Liesl should have spoken and done a musical tribute. Even words from Britt and Magda could have been read aloud since the showrunners refused to spring for their appearances. Whilst I couldn’t have endured another “Amy” moment, how about Chet thanking Nathan for the help he provided this struggling vet? That would have been awesome…and so on and so forth. The church was packed with people who loved and respected this guy, and all we got was yet another star turn from the always attention-seeking Nina??? It was utterly unbearable! Having said that, kudos to the beautiful Dante voiceover and other realistic flourishes accompanying the service for this “man in blue”….it was heartwarming and gratifying to see all the painstaking details honoring the PCPD’s fallen cop, especially given how many unfortunate real-life examples we are experiencing in today’s society. At least GH got that part right!

Awwww…don’t be sad, be glad, CeeCeeGirl, that we can be so diametrically opposed in our thoughts on Nina and MS, yet still remain the best of friends! We simply see her through very different eyes…I honestly don’t think anything shall ever be able to change my opinion on this character….she just grates on me to no end and I cannot find any value in her presence in Port Charles——no matter what transpires!….Que sera, sera! There is so much we do agree upon…let’s concentrate on that aspect of our soapchatter! Yes, there does seem to be some sort of unsavory, longstanding alliance between Valentin and Peter…as always, this latter-day Cassadine is in the thick of it when it comes to all things evil-doing, especially where Anna is involved…I just hope that the story which is unfolding regarding her child with Faison is one with both logic and sensitivity, because I remain quite unpleased that it looks as though that offspring shall indeed be the highly-questionable Peter……not the sort of son I should have chosen for her, as the nasty Cain to Nathan’s profoundly-decent Abel. As for what all Valentin has had his fine hand in throughout the years is yet to be revealed….me thinks he will become the new default criminal mastermind of GH in the absence of Helena…who I hope shall still emerge alive and well when Constance Towers is again available after her real-life spouse’s illness and subsequent recent passing. In terms of your iPad’s mind of its own, I hear you! I became so tired of that happening to me, that I switched off the “predicitve” mode in the settings…problem solved! Now if it were only so easy to stop real life people from putting words in my mouth that I never said and particular spins on my meanings that were never intended!!! Oh well…Happy Valentine’s Day, all the same, mia amica!!!!

JW is very busy on the Hallmark channel and FV and him are not pals! Mac has always really been Maxie’s dad and had Frisco even met him? Missed the episode the Anna mess has made me take a break but when I saw this picture of the actress who played Maxie’s sister I thought to myself the destruction of what JFP did to that show so many core characters gone.

I did have to leave the room for a few moments so i missed it. I think I might have been happier hearing that no mention of Frisco was mentioned. I am really fed up at his absence every time Maxie could use her father being around. Yes, I know Mac is there and is a father figure to her but c’mon!!! Frisco is her biological father and yet he is never there when she needs him most. I agree with what Steve said; they should kill off the character.

Hey, Shaybelle,
You know how I feel about Michelle Stafford ( Nina)….I am truly saddened you do not see what I see. It is what it is, n’est-ce-pas?
Her talent is equivalent to Ms Gati’s, as far as I’m concerned…Nina and James ( Nathan) grew up as brother and sister… they were close; he was her little brother. Finding out they are cousins and not siblings does not change that….he is still her little brother in her heart…in her life.
As Nina spoke ( on the podium) her love, regrets and rumination, I felt her grief. Out-of-this-world acting.
She expressed her retro years with Nathan because those times are memorable to her. That’s all she knows….she ‘slept’ for twenty years….When they finally ‘met’ again, they made new memories—as brother and sister. ‘Cousins’ is just a word.
I know you respect my point of view and accept it….as I do yours. This is why we get on so well, amica mia.
Later…

I don’t rightly know from whence ‘retro’ came?? My iPad puts words in my mouth, HaHa…
I meant to say her former years…..
Off topic, Shay, but the alliance between Valentin and Peter is a real teaser. Apparently Valentin has known him since Peter was very young? Is this an ungodly alliance? Is Valentin the key to Drew’s lost years? And, Jason’s? Was he working with Faison? I mean, he did know the doctor from Russia, who followed Jason to PC. Hmmmm.

Usually I’m not a Maxie or Lulu character fan. Ironic that they come from Laura, Felicia, Mac calmer stock (except Luke), and Joselyn, who I do like, comes from Carly. However I do think Kirsten picked up her performance a notch during these episodes. But it is going to be tedious to see how Maxie and Lulu work out their friendship, or not. Or if Lulu ever gets it. And another thing I notice about Kirsten’s deiivery is that at the end of words she adds an addition “ah”…drives me nuts. Thankfully Drew doesn’t grunt as much anymore. And like you I have really liked Michelle and Ms. Gati. Hope they write some payback scenes for Dr. O to avenge Nathan’s death in her own way.

Yeah, that’s what I mean. There was something about Kirsten’s delivery that just rang false to me. Her elongated pronunciation or something. Just didn’t work for me.

I like Peter/Henrich. I completely believe that he was after revenge on Faison and no one else and truly feel he’s sorry for Nathan’s death.Valentin is puppeteering him to some extent…pulling his strings. But I think Peter’s got a good heart. I’ve mentioned this before but I think he’s going to fall for Maxi; try to take Nathan’s place. Not in a malicious sense but in some convoluted way…his guilt plus desire for family. At first I thought he was interested in Lulu…either way, I like him and contrary to many on this board am interested to see how the story evolves, including Anna finding out he’s her son and why Valentin doesn’t want Anna to know.