Nanci
A least GH runs on entertainment, and none are diseased or dying.. lol
Y&R characters are diseased peoples lol..
the big story is watching a man die of horrible disease, cancer.. ohh what fun!
— Y&R cancer’
Delia, Ashley, Michale, Lily, Delia died anyway,,
ohh yah Jennifer Brook died from Y&R cancer..
Hope was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer,
Katherine Chancellor had surgery for a brain tumor and a breast cancer scare.
Colleen dies to give Victor a heart
Paul get a transplant too
Niel is blind
Dylan has PTSD
Niki an alcoholic & Multiple Sclerosis
Sharon is Bipolar
Y&R drama has always run on diseases and death,,
good lord they should quarantine the soap … LOL

Watching people suffer and die of a variety of ailments is not fun, really it isn’t..
It takes them a year to suffer and die.. people have to watch them suffer to their deaths!
Y&R characters all need to go General Hospital and let the fine doctors cure them or put them in river and have done with it LOL .

GH, someone will get shot and be thrown in the river.. no need to get depressed they usually are very bad guys who end up in the river..
and they usually do not die..
GH will have a shoot-out and yet no bodies piled up lol ..
As a matter of fact, not one character on GH is diseased and dying of cancer or another disease.. all are healthy, hot and sexy, and live very very exciting lives!!
RC and team don’t write diseases they write good stuff that is not depressing, good entertainment..

Long live ALL the soaps.. they are loved !!!

You are right about the part with someone crying and screaming…that was me…Obama interupted my soaps again…lol

Nah, no diseases on GH (rolling eyes), just plutonium poisoning or whatever Luke and Jerry were dying of not too long ago.

If they keep wearing those magical masks they might come down with an epidemic of latex poisoning or something.

Yes, when I started watching GH again in 2013 I was disappointed to still see the guns & violence-mob, mob, mob. It used to be just bad people trying to kill a family or something, mob would take them out, move on. Recently though Sonny’s been trying to kill just whoever makes him mad or might tell something on him. He’s lost his mind. Still, I complain, then ignore it. But as of late, it has slowed down considerably. Pretty sure only 1 person got shot during all of sweeps, and he didn’t die. Sonny’s bodyguard. Now Nathan is in the hospital w/a shoulder wound. He’s a cop, but the shooter shot to wound him only. Kinda weird for GH, especially since Shawn the hitman has missed his last 37 murder attempts. He’s like a virgin all over again. LOL. I can only hope that this means the murdering has slowed down. Everyone’s pointing guns at each other but not using them. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking it will stay slowed down.
IMO, the female demos would rise much more for females if they’d put all the violence on the backburner. Not the excitement, just murder.

@su0000 And you have totally hit on my problem with GH! Realism! Cancer is a fact of life, people are diagnosed and dying from it every day. In your life you will know at least one person, if not more (unfortunately) who will suffer the disease. Let me ask you a question: when was the last time your (let’s say) best friend suddenly pulled off a plastic mask to reveal they were someone else? When did you know of someone hog tied and thrown into a hole in the ground (oh, and let’s not forget the person hired to bring the captive food and water)? When is the last time a magistrate, out of Court, saw you at a restaurant and forbade you to see another party? When is the last time you traveled from point A to point B in nanoseconds? How often do you see guns flashed around (but rarely does anyone get shot)? Who do you know who got shot in the heart and is walking around perfectly fine today? For that matter, how many presumed dead people have you known? I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Hey, a little fantasy is fine, but GH overdoes it. At least for me. But, hey, if that’s the kind of mindless entertainment you enjoy, have at it.

But we are not talking about a weekly drama, comedy series or spy movies. We are talking about a continuing daytime drama. In reference to your last statement regarding these shows being “total fiction for entertainment”, soaps have also been known to educate as well as entertain. Despite your obvious deference to cancer, bipolar and stories of the like, these types of stories can also educate us, the viewer. How is anything that goes on in GH ever going to do that? GH is pure escapism. If that’s as far as your mind wants to expand, then by all means enjoy it. I need something more.