Ugh!!! I hate this!

Although I have a feeling he’s gonna call the hit but then save her (he’s supposed to be in the hospital coming up)

Hate this! I don’t understand why GH would ruin one of their best couples with such an ugly, violent story. The sudden 180 they did with Julian the last few months (with no explanation for his change) is bad enough. But now this? The worst. I loved Julian & Alexis. Watching the writers toss away their romance, family (why I watch soaps) to showcase violence proves the writers are totally out of tune with what I want to see.

The character of Julian has never felt right to me.
He has always been out for himself, and I never bought
into this great love affair with Alexis. I hope he gets what’s coming
to him.

Whatever, both will come out alive and well.
Neither are leaving GH, so Alexis will not be killed and Julian will not go to prison .

The only good part is Carlos/(Jeffrey Vincent Parise. He is great!

GH has become very predictable and lame ..
It is terribly anticlimactic and drama free ..

Julian-who looks like he has been to the greasy-hair-club for mobsters….is angry when he finds Alexis making out in the bathtub with the tidy bowl man-lol

This is getting bad and DARK.

But, honestly, I love julexis still lol still rooting for them. He won’t really hurt her IMO

I never cared for Julian, mob or not. Alexis can do so much better. GH needs Jeffrey Vincent Parise, as indicated in his several post death appearances. Whether his departure was his choice or GH’s…it was the wrong choice. Actually he’d be better with Alexis than Julian. That would be a crazy, hot and funny relationship for sure!

I loved having Carlos back but am hating this story. I was never a big Julexis fan but the complete turnaround they’ve done with the character is jolting. The writing and plotting is soooo heavy handed. We can handle nuance. You don’t have to hit us over the head with Julian’s return to the dark side — in fact in some ways a much darker side than he had during his original run.

Btw, with this episode, when Carly hypocritically criticized Sabrina for getting Michael to take care of her child, I officially started fast forwarding through any scene with Carly and Sonny. I will make an exception for when Ajax comes back, but otherwise I am done with this couple.

Looks like I’ll be in the minority again. I find this riveting, especially since I can’t remember a mob guy potentially letting his wife take the rap for murder on the soaps and even contemplating killing her to remove anyone who can testify against him. Can’t wait to see how it plays out, although I do understand people liking Alexis and Julian together.

Always knew Julian was evil. Good to see him back to his old self. Alexis needs to dump him. Can’t stand them together.

I guess my suspicion was right….I wrote as much yesterday, on the June 19th board. I just knew where the weasel’s evil, twisted thoughts were going. I won’t bore you guys by repeating myself….but, yeah…..this is proof of Julian’s true love. He knows not the meaning…..a coward, an egotist and and the worst kind of fiend…..”et tu, Brute?”; JULIUS CAESAR.

Julian is a weasel hope Anna kills him!

Nancy is a great actress. Although I liked Alexis and Julian as a couple, it really was out of character for Julian.

General Hospital twists itself into a pretzel when it tries to portray its mob members as multi-dimensional characters. It never seems to learn that this is a fruitless and pointless exercise because being involved in organized crime by definition makes you a BAD person. Despite the desperate attempts by the writers to portray Julian, Sonny, et al as multi-layered, conflicted characters who you love to hate, they are constantly tripping over the basic premise that these characters are ultimately defined by their choice to make their livelihood on the very wrong side of the law. This basic and blatant fact undermines all story attempts to present them in situations of moral conflict. At least we know where the character of Sonny is rooted. Julian, not so much and Paul, after all this time, not at all. The actor is great but the show has told so many conflicting stories about him that I don’t know what the essence of the character is meant to be. Therefore, I never know what his true motivations are and I lose interest as a result. Much the same can be said of the Franco character, although he has been written in a more nuanced fashion and has the advantage of being portrayed by the masterful Roger Howarth. Thinking about it a bit, Nikolas has been put into this same leaky boat. These characters have no defined moral baseline. They meander and mutate for no discernible reasons. This does not represent complexity and make them compelling. It makes them inconsistent and confusing and represents only poor writing.

—- Dark Shadow Fans —
Monday June 27th—
( the Decades Network)
Dark Shadows 50th Anniversary
Decades celebrates the 50th anniversary of gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
On Monday, June 27, Decades will feature a special anniversary event marking the premiere of the soap opera Dark Shadows. This anniversary tribute comes to Decades 50 years to the day of the first broadcast of Dark Shadows in 1966.
Twelve of the series’ most well known shows will be featured, including the debut episodes of vampire Barnabas Collins.

Dark Shadows transported audiences to the mysterious town of Collinsport, Maine, and they never looked back. Decades remembers the premiere of this cult favorite with the 12 episodes that marked the beginning of the Barnabas storyline, one that propelled the daytime series to new heights.
An episode will also feature interviews with cast members Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans) and Lara Parker (Angelique).

Decades has run Dark Shadows marathons, 3 days 24/7 of the series, this is just celebration of Dark Shadows 50th !!
and– Decades will once again run the 3 day marathon, soon.

The trouble with the character Julian was he was brought on the show to be this ruthless criminal hell bent on getting his revenge on Sonny. Then the actor became somewhat popular and so in order to keep him around they soften up the character. He wasn’t the man behind Sonny’s down fall- Fluke was. He was given a past with Alexis, was made Sam’s and Lucas’s father- gave bone marrow to save Danny– every once in while they threw in some evil deed otherwise why else would Sonny and Anna hate him so much. It was this treatment of Julian that makes him a weak character..

Past writers killed Julian off for a reason and as much as I like the actor, I think it is time for the character to go bye bye again and this time stay dead. I rather see the show create a strong Eliot Ness type of character who tries to bring Sonny down.

So don’t waste my time having Julian think about killing Alexis, if he is ruthless and cowardly enough to kill her, it is time for his character to end. If he is a misunderstood man trying to break free of the mob then let him be that, this back and forth is pointless and annoying.

I’m fearful of what the writers are going to try to do with Julian. As many have said before, this turn-about has been too swift. It’s jarring. And now he’s having thoughts about killing Alexis? What?! I fear that TPTB may try to force us to swallow some lame twin or impostor or brain tumor reasoning for this garbage.

It’s difficult to root for anyone when each character is presented as so horribly flawed. The GH writers need to clean up their character descriptions. People are always flawed but not to the extent where they’re killing other people, kidnapping, stealing babies, or constantly forgetting their sins as they act all self-righteous. This story with Julian seems to be just another example of the writers manipulating the characters to fit into their story lines instead of having the s/l’s organically grow from character descriptions. It needs to stop.

Am I truly supposed to care about this? Truly?

OK, I like Alexis, always have. After all she’s been through with Helena, etc., she certainly doesn’t deserve to die.

But, excuse me, she married a mobster. She knew he was a mobster when she married him. Mobsters kill people. It’s what they do. (Hey, I see a Geico commercial here!)

Nobody deserves to die at the hands of Julian or Sonny or any other mobster (and I doubt Alexis will–especially given that having her go on trial for the murder opens up so much dramatic potential; she can’t die, not this early on, anyway), but if he did kill Alexis, she couldn’t really blame anybody but herself. How much sympathy am I really expected to drum up for that, and how much interest am I expected to have in any of it? I suppose it’s all “very dramatic” etc., but when the premise is tainted to begin with, and I can’t muster up much sympathy, I think it falls flat. I also suppose it was possible to have written this storyline in a way that might have sustained interest, but that hasn’t happened.

What various writing/producing teams have done to Alexis through the years is pretty criminal. (It started, as far as I’m concerned, when she slept with Sonny.) I hate the message that smart women (she’s a top-notch lawyer, so she’s no dummy) totally abandon their brains when a handsome man makes them swoon—can’t they swoon but still retain their brain cells? It strikes me as insulting to believe they can’t. (I accept, at some level, that it’s the flip-side of “otherwise-smart men who can’t keep it in their pants around beautiful, manipulative women,” but that’s never been a favorite theme of mine, either.) The only thing that has continued to make Alexis work as a character is NLG; I hope TPTB appreciate what a talent it takes to do that, given how ridiculously the character is written.

I keep hearing about how these writers “write stories of the heart”; I guess for them, heart and brain are mutually exclusive. Well, I disagree–vehemently. (Don’t even get me started on whatever it is that’s supposed to be going on between Liz and Franco. I can’t even bear to think of it.)

I was just reading the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest which has comments from GH writers Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante. A few things jumped out at me. Altman talked about the scenes in which Julian was confronted by Carlos’ apparition and explained that Carlos is really “Julian’s conscience”. I feel compelled to explain that one’s conscience is not that which goads you into committing murder. It is, in fact, just the opposite. Passanante then says of the story, “It’s like Hamlet”. It takes a special sort of delusional self-aggrandizing to compare this to Shakespeare! Ultimately Altman says that Julexis fans should “absolutely not” give up hope, adding that, “we see their relationship as a long story” and that their road “may have many bumps along the way”. In other words, what we are now seeing will ultimately be of no consequence whatsoever. This is just filing up time. This is not a plot twist, it’s a plot contrivance and it will not matter in the long run. In other words, it will mirror exactly Carly and Sonny’s relationship in that both women involved will eventually overlook and indeed forgive the atrocities they once found unacceptable. The story where Carly had what seemed to be a sincere crisis of conscience and change of heart about Sonny and married good guy Jax was tremendous. She even sent Morgan away to protect him from Sonny’s world after Michael was shot. Her character had a metamorphosis that was compelling and believable. That was dismantled of course and she now has occasional twinges of mild discomfort but is totally devoted to her husband like never before. These story lines do not portray romance; they portray dysfunction and speak to the profound underlying emotional and psychological histories of the women involved. Exploring THAT would make for great storytelling.

First of all what little I have seen of this pairing it is not romance just slamming each other against the wall reminds me of animals mating. Second real tired of the lets make Sonny perfect old news ! Does anyone believe MB as a mobster I think he is a abusive to women short man syndrome character!

I don’t think 46 year old William Devry is an “old fart.” If u want to watch a show where onlt people under 30 have a life, you’re watching the wrong genre. For that matter, ir’s simply amazing that “old fart” Tony Soprano and his associates managed to garner ratings. I

If he actually tries to hurt her, that would be unforgivable and I’d want his character gone. I don’t think they could redeem him. I would miss Julexis, tho – I liked them!

If only.

SOUNDS good to me !!!! I haven’t liked Alexis since she filed bogus papers to take Michael from his father, and give him to Scummy. Then turnaround and tell Scummy he is NOT the father of Kristina. hypocrite much ?