I’d love more medical stories!

LMAO

hey Dylan..
the hospital is a building, a building..
it was all the Nurses and Doctors OF general hospital that GH was about not about filling up the beds that we have to watch those characters go through their treatments, and that godawful boring stuff ..

Hi Dan..

The ”hospital” brought GH to near its cancelastion.
Then entered-
Gloria Monty
She moved away from the hospital setting and moved toward more action/adventure and mystery

Despite these bumps in popularity, by 1978, General Hospital was on death row and in need of a pardon. That pardon arrived in the form of dynamo Gloria Monty, a director from The Secret Storm. She teamed with writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, and little did any of them realize that General Hospital would soon make soap opera history.

NBC President Fred Silverman gave Gloria Monty thirteen weeks to bring General Hospital up to par before giving it the ax.

Monty decided to attract a younger audience by focusing on younger characters. She moved away from the hospital setting and moved toward more action/adventure and mystery, at the same time updating the sets and stepping up the pace, so that there were more scenes.

I agree Dan. I love humor and I love it when a character lets loose now and then BUT it is a hospital and people go there to get help. If none of the characters ever got sick, drove off a cliff or got shot we would be stuck with watching Nathan cuddling up to a black poodle! Which by the way was funny and it was great to see Maxie’s mom!

Thank you Dan! 🙂

Not sure where you cut-and-pasted that from, Su, but “NBC President” Fred Silverman didn’t say boo to Gloria Monty, since GH is, and always has been, on ABC.

By the way, Glo-Mo herself was on record as saying she occasionally had to remind the writers that they were “getting a little far afield from the hospital.” If GH did indeed “move away fro the hospital setting” during her tenure, I’m not sure whether that was because of her efforts; it could just as easily have been in spite of them.

In other words, just because somebody wrote it (and somebody who is confused about which network GH appears on, no less), that doesn’t make it so.

I think Dan made a very valid point to Su. GH is not a sitcom, it’s not played for laughs and it wasn’t conceived as high adventure. I think many of us love the quips, sarcasm, charm thay so many great characters brought and still bring to the show. And the days of the WSB…Anna, Robert, Sean…the hgh adventure are unparalled on GH. Action, intrigue.suspense are all great. I’m not sure if any of fhe current characters could pull that off now. The closest recent attempt was when they went to save Robin the first time. Anna, Dr. O, Patrick, Nathan…fighting Victor. It was moderately fun because it was a group effort pulling together. Right now there are no cliques or commonalities drawing the Port Charles residents together to battle any threat.

At the same time, a soap at its core is about fhe lives of people we care about. If there werent people to root for, or despise, there’d be nothing becausd we wouldn’t care. GH is getting back to people stories. Relatjonships…Lulu and Dante’s struggles, Liz’s heartbreak, Jason’s rediscovery, Alexis in love, Kiki’s coma, Morgan’s turmoil. Soaps aren’t comedy. They’re drama..or meodrama…first. The mystery surrounding Hayden’s identity, Dr. Munroe’s, Nathan’s secret, Tracy’s illness…the writers are going back to human interest stories, some straightforward and others shrouded with questions. I think they’ve developed some characters well; Franco has gone from infantile to mature and compassionate (though still with a heavy defense mechanism and wit in tact), kiki is much more likeable, Morgan is going through a true mental health crisis but has layers of depth.

I hope at some point they can bring back some common foe to fight so that we do regain a bit of GH adventure, while at the same time I think realism…the dymamics between and of characters are equally compelling if done right.

hey CeeCee,,
LOL yea .. both Morgan and Michael Y&R cancer was mainly about him not being able to get it up ahaa! and both were written by J&S as having erectile fail lol

GH is near total sick and near dying people, no other substantial stories, just people diseases or broken bodies……….. paralyzed Sonny now most likely Kiki paralyzed too..
Maybe Tracy will become paralyzed too!
ohh lil’ Jake will needs lots of help to walk again too..
GH needs walkers and wheelchairs in the budget..

Coming soon.. another cancer story or perhaps herpes !!

General Hospital is a building!!!
The Nurses and Doctors of the hospital staff, were the stories not the hospital filling up with half the core cast ahaa!
just saying, again. LOL luvs!

I hope, she’s not the next character to go wheelchair… as was rumored

argh! the GH writers need to amp up Kiki character any way… and give her new life and layers… she has supplanted her being a recast and has most certainly solidified her stay in Port Charles…

to continually peg her with the dimwitted Corinthos’ men… is lame

the only part she should have… is when she takes Avery over to see Sonny.

otherwise… it’s time for her own journey…. I think it should be Ric Lansing… for starters.. she’s evolved… time for men

ps: argh! I’ll have some serious hypertensions… if … when it was last seen… Dr. Griffin was bandaging up Carly… and it appeared…. whew! that … nothing happened !?!? I hate this… that all the men folk new and old… have to go through skank, loud, and because it’s said she owns GH

LOL… was referring to last Friday ep: when Carly was leaving the locker rooms … that Dr. Griffin Dunne left well enough alone… he does not want to go their

*Dr. Griffin Dunne –
Dr. Griffin Munro

His little “Sonny” has Kikiitis!

Su, you are a joy to read. I just have so much fun reading some of this stuff.
“GH needs walkers and wheelchairs in the budget”…. You sure have a way of turning something serious into a farce. You are the comic relief GH actually needs.
So, my SuzieQ, are you implying that all these characters are puppets on a string? Too funny…luv you, too.

hi CeeCee..
It’s not about mob anything that I need;
just some adventure or a mystery to get involved in a whodunit and at the least a wee-bit of humor and grabbing cliffhanger..
I haven’t had an actual WOW! moment in 6 months and that is a sad thing indeed..

With me- it seems I know exactly what will happen. I can envision what’s going to happen and it does happen, that’s no fun..

I did mention that J&S gave their best delivering the sweeps moment of mob action, the action I said they did well..
But it had no substance to it other than to fill beds in the hospital and no real story about it all..

I just need something that grabs me in and holds me in awe for the outcome.
GH has offered very little intrigue or fun, lately..
its been monotone running on the same note.. no variety to speak of 🙁 🙁 ..
It’s been quite dreary..

hey Timmm…
J&S are boring the bejesus outta me with their doom and gloom (not about Ron)
And—

—> The ”hospital” brought GH to near its cancellation.
Then entered-
Gloria Monty
She moved away from the hospital setting and moved toward more action/adventure and mystery

Despite these bumps in popularity, by 1978, General Hospital was on death row and in need of a pardon. That pardon arrived in the form of dynamo Gloria Monty, a director from The Secret Storm. She teamed with writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, and little did any of them realize that General Hospital would soon make soap opera history.

NBC President Fred Silverman gave Gloria Monty thirteen weeks to bring General Hospital up to par before giving it the ax.

Monty decided to attract a younger audience by focusing on younger characters. — She moved away from the hospital setting- and moved toward more action/adventure and mystery, at the same time updating the sets and stepping up the pace, so that there were more scenes.

Monty was a Queen of great drama writing, in all directions! And saved GH from the hospital days of doom..

Jean and Shelly are doing a good job. They are giving the show some badly needed organization and normalcy which is didn’t have at all on Ron’s watch. GH actually feels like a drama series again instead of a cartoonish outlandish farce. I like their new stories and find them suspensful and like all their new characters.

Ron was consisently drawing in the mid two millions in his last four months of the job and had 18 straight weeks of lows in the key demo with the lowest being a 365K turnout in the 18-49. Jean and Shelly got the show back up to drawing three million viewers a week over the last two months and got the key demo back in the mid 500K’s.

Good job cutting and pasting from Wikipedia, Su. Or wherever you’re getting that info from that you keep posting. Only one problem, GH never aired on NBC, so you might want to change that before you paste it to someone else, lol.

hey CeeCee..
with Tracy; I’m going with brain worms/parasites- she got infected in Mexico..
Some type of parasite in her gnawing at her brain…
I think that would be cooler than cancer..

hi Dan..
the cut&past, It was not from Wikipedia- it was from an article, a good read..
I did include the link but it didn’t make it/not allowed..

Hi, su.
Yes, it could be an infection, one of which causes lesions in the brain. I have this from a reliable, professional source.
Tracy’s Doctor did say that none of this was confirmed yet. So, we shall see…

That’s right, Melissa. Full grown…whom, by the way, is recurrent on RIZZOLI AND ISLES.

Love that scenario…Anna needs ties to keep her in PC. Finola is such a great actress!

That’s what I assumed, Robbie. Would have helped if they had mentioned it was a Slim Fast bar. But I guess they don’t pay for advertising like Shriner’s Hospital, or like the Orange Juice Council or whatever they were called back a few years ago, when everyone on the show all of a sudden had to drink and comment on orange juice, lol.

omg, if I hear that whole bloody Schpeel on Shriners Hospital one more time, I’m going to scream! Like College Football talk wasn’t bad enough, now every person at that hospital has to mention it and it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue easily …… give it a rest GH!

Yes, it definitely was an ‘underhanded’ advertisement, which someone already mentioned and I had agreed. Harry said it was a snickers bar. But, of course, the Slimfast bar makes more sense.
I doubt Shriner’s pays the biggies at ABC. I think it is considered a donation/Charity on their part….tax deductible?
Needless to say, we cannot compare one with the other. I consider ‘SLIMFAST’ a LUXURY, whereas Shriner’s is an altruistic institution….to help/save children, first and foremost.
I do agree with Ces, though. We are now well-versed on the subject. The actors could slip in a couple of words, now and then; subtly …..without going into a speech.

It looked like a Snickers bar to me– but perhaps I was just hungry and I imagined what I was craving– LOL

“I remember it well”–such fond memory too–ahh! for the good old days. (sigh)

Hey CeeCee,

I understand how you feel. After a while, couple-wise, I lost interest in Duke and Anna altogether. Yep.

Later, my dear.

There’s nothing wrong with your views on Duke, CeeCee! Back in the day, he was dashing and daring….a perfect balance for Anna. But his return to Port Charles simply fizzled after the initial thrill of his long-fought-for reunion with the “Divine Devane.” This time around, he seemed too aged and broken for her sparlking, ever-youthful vim and vigor….of course, there was still that nostalgic pull for those of us who remembered their romantic heyday, but as time passed, there simply wasn’t enough between them to sustain the fantasy of a HEA ending for them. Accordingly, even though I was very sorry to see Duke suffer such an inglorious death, I cannot deny that he just didn’t have a purpose in Port Charles any longer…it was really quite tragic. Having said that, I’m holding out for a new man in Anna’s life that shall truly deserve her affections…..perhaps Michael Easton—if he is not indeed an evil Cassadine? Or a rehabbed-hero Paul Hornsby? Either would work for me.

@jaybird
Absolutely, Jay….but, I will never lose interest in Anna. I’m sure you feel the same way…LOL.
Later, my friend.

Well put, Rose. When former men of action are too tamed, and put into a domesticated situation, they quickly become bland. Witness Luke, Duke and now, Julian. Unless they are partnered with an equally daring and youthful woman, they lose their edge mighty fast. Of course, in Lavery’s case, he still had his alpha female in the ageless Anna, but his long incarceration definitely dampened his own adventurous spirit….(unlike Robert Scorpio and Frisco Jones, who still have it in spades!) The only way to have saved his character would have been through an eventual coupling with Tracy……they could have made for maturely sedate, but tenacious, corporate raiders, and that would have spared her the myriad indignities of the Luke/Fluke debacle! As for the resemblance between Duke and Griffin, yes, I can see it, too, but then again, there is also a certain likeness with Robert, as well. Since I so want Scorpio back in Port Charles, I’m sticking with him as the bio-daddy of choice….as Allen Saint James mentioned, he could have been born during Anna’s amnesiac episode, and perhaps the Devane-obsessed Faison assumed responsibility for the upbringing of her personally unbeknownst offspring? (With some help from Dr. O.? It’s about time all roads once again lead to Liesl….she’s been utilized far too sparingly since that promising teaser about her family secrets with Swiss Sis, Magda!)

I get not getting the Duke love. I loved him back in the day but not so much since his last return from the dead.
I still love Duke, however, I am tired of Anna waxing poetic about him while forgetting the real love of her life, Robert Scorpio.
I really do not want Dr Munroe to be Anna and Duke’s son. I do think he is Anna’s son for sure. I either want him to be a product of Anna and Robert’s or a product of Anna’s and Dr David Hayward’s from AMC.

I totally get that, Harry 1….Duke certainly had a time and place in Anna’s life, but if the truth be told, Robert really and truly was “The One” for her. All it took was his far-too-brief recent appearance to see how their everlasting bond remains to this day. He absolutely must return to her…..nothing else will do in the end, and if they also share a son in addition to the long flown-the-coop Robin, then all the better for this pair of legendary lovers.

I think they had that baby and it died having an operation? Or died in-vitro having an operation. Was Helena Cassadine on AMC at the time? Because that would explain the baby’s miraculous resurrection in the form of Griffin!

I hear you. But what’s left in Port Charles? Mobster? No thank you!

@Timmm.
I do agree that Hayden is somehow linked to Tracy. I did suggest that she may be Edward’s daughter or Larry’s, in which case making her Ned’s sister.
Have Ned and Hayden ever met? Can’t recall.

Well that would be interesting if there is an AMC connection and consistent with FV’s inclinationto draw in other ABC soaps into the GH-verse!

HA! Nancy, love the word play.

It becomes increasingly more obvious than not, nancy, that TPTB have not yet decided the contents/context of the letter. Ergo, the interminable waiting.
There is a possibility Laura has already read the letter behind the scenes.
Nonetheless, my guess is, ‘they’ are withholding disclosure until such time a storyline for Laura is ‘conjured up’. I hope that’s the plan, and soon, because it strikes me as so senseless and offensive to Genie, to use her as a fixture.
I simply love this woman….what a waste of talent. It is so irritating to just watch her professionalism and superlative acting serve as nanny and ‘Guidance Counselor’.

Its probably Larry…with Ned returning to visit his ill mother he will probably learn Hayden is his sister…i really did like RB when she was Michelle on Guiding Light but i not so much here as Hayfever-she is like an irritating itchy rash but she is a little more interesting than Sappy who makes me feel real crappy-lol…i really liked Britt with Nik and hope she returns someday!

Shay, once again we agree.
Hayden is about as useless as those Macy’s One Day Screaming commercials which are on, well, every day, which rather negates the “one day” modifier.
HAYDEN! ONE DAY SALE!

I have a feeling, without strong theories, just a gut feeling, Hayden will be Ned’s sister. If Tracy is seriously ill, Ned will have to reappear and if he is there, why not give him a sister he never knew to battle with? Wally and Rebecca would be great to see go toe to toe!

I agree Shay. Not a fan of Nathan but love Maxie. Either way, they cannot even take their shoes off and wandering Nina is there, god awful Mudder and then Freako! Ugg!

SHAY, Hayden is a little cuddle bunny! Why dont you like her? I dont like Britt. She reminds me of Megan Fox and I am no big fan of hers!

Mudder is a cartoon character. [One trick pony!]

Nathan is handsome but his acting abilities have not grown one bit. He seems like he is on the show for eye candy purposes only!

What do you think of ME’s new character being a doctor? I’m sad. I expected something totally different! I hope this is a twist and he is a doctor on steroids with his hand in Helena’s Will that pizzes off Prince Nick!

Yes, Timmbo, I’m well-aware that Nathan tops the list of your not-so-fave characters…LOL! But having said that, I do agree with you on Maxie! She can be a loose cannon, but at least she’s fresh, fun and fashionable! (I don’t even mind the usually annoying Lulu when those two have a girlie gab!) But having Nina increasingly barging into her scenes really kills it for me….it just doesn’t work. however, as for Mutter? She can cut in anytime! Kathleen Gati is so seriously under-utilized these days that whenever she appears, it elevates the scene!

Well, if that keeps Lulu out of Dante’s future orbit, then I’m glad to consider this pairing!

Oh, my dear, Patrick…..I would love for Nina to dig deep within herself and find even a remnant of Phyllis’s stinging; waspish; pungent smarts and gloriously defiant, revolutionary brain. Take over the darned magazine and turn it into something wonder our. So there! Right? LOL.
Imagine that….fire in her eyes, searing Julian right where it hurts….EVERYWHERE.
I wish TPTB would ‘lend’ Nina some of their ‘power’, and make it happen.

Wondrous…not wonder our…

Ahha Laura was devouring that bar like she hadn’t eaten in days lol
it made me really hungry for a candy bar lol..

Hip, hip, hurray, ….for the ladies!!! I mean that with all my heart, nancy.

Tell your husband to lay off the reality, we need an escape! [JK] Medically, I dont know the answer but I think it was odd for Larry to pop up and than disappear again. I think we will find out the perhaps he HAS been in contact with Hayden and they are working together OR Hayden is setting her daddy up? She claims to get ill just by hearing his name. Eventually Larry will land in jail BUT I’d like to see him back at the Q mansion for a bit since Ned is returning.