On the flip side, Sonny and Carly are back together,
remarried for the fifth time, in the hospital this time after his shooting which
now has him paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
Those of us who know Sonny, know this won’t be the case for long – he is
one determined son of a bitch; it’s amazing how he has barely even changed over
the years. Even when they show
flashbacks, it’s almost impossible to see the thirty years of aging on his
face. What a gorgeous man.
Maxi and Nathan, newly united in the past year or so, seem
to have good things going for them – although they temporarily experimented
with a separation; more or less ‘wife-swapping’ with Elli and Spenelli for a
month or two – they seem to be meant for each other. The sexual chemistry is certainly there anyway. This is more than I can say about she and
Spenelli being together last year; I just had a hard time buying it. Now when they first got together, and were
‘unmarried’… I thought that was cute; I was a little upset when they ended
it. For those of you not familiar with
that era, I’m sorry, but I can’t help but reminisce. Anyway, you might not know
that’s how she ended up with baby Georgie.
Not from the time they were together, unmarried, but from a brief
encounter after that when Spenelli first met Elli and was conflicted about his
unresolved feelings for Maxie.
Franco and Nina are an item now – Nina was married to Silas,
who has recently been killed off the show (Kiki's father); Nina lost her mind a little bit after
waking up from a twenty-year coma and has since fallen in love with Franco, the
formerly-deranged-artist (now played by the same actor who used to play Todd on
One Life to Live, which has been a little hard for me to get used to). Anyway, they are pretty cute together; their
stint in the mental hospital, when Franco shot himself up with LSD so he could
be admitted with Nina, was amusingly touching.
They are both kind of child-like and go well together.
I know there are many other characters on the show, but I’m
not going to review everyone’s history here. Those of you who are not life-long viewers will just have to
catch up in time; in soap operas, history is always recounted. Every now and then, someone will have a
conversation about past events and sometimes they have flashbacks. This helps to fill-in-the-blanks for those
who are lost. I will try to help a
little too along the way, if you keep reading my blog; like I said, I love to
recall things when I can.
My purpose for writing this blog is truly to try to rekindle
old interest, and spark new interest in this show; I’ve been watching General
Hospital since I was 20 years old, having gotten ‘hooked’ while working in a law
office in Las Vegas, Nevada after my first divorce. Realizing what a soap opera my own life has been, I began
watching with intent; it intrigued me, some of the things that the writers
would do on this show…every now and then, catching me off-guard. They would
throw some totally unexpected obstacle in the path of some poor unsuspecting
individual (or couple) and then have them try to figure out how to overcome it.
It made me realize how much like life these soap operas
really are… as God throws one obstacle after another in our path and we try to
overcome it; some more than others.
Just like on this show, there seem to be those that trouble just follows
– the ones that just end up in the most unlikely situations. That’s me.
I’ve always said, if anything out of the ordinary can happen, it will
happen, to me. So, I guess, being a
writer, I was taken in by the thoughts of other writers and enjoyed the
challenge of ‘guessing’ where they were going with each storyline as the years
rolled by.
I have an alterior motive for writing this blog, though, I have to
admit; the writing for this show has been going downhill in recent years… and I
want to tell the writers that they ned to shape it up; so I will be bringing
attention to the stupidity that is being written into the storylines whenever
it happens (which it recently did). I
also used to watch One Life to Live and All My Children, which were both
cancelled in the past few years, much to my dismay. I enjoyed those stories as well and would hate for the same fate
to befall General Hospital (or my newfound second soap, Days of Our Lives…) so
my hope is to stir up curiosity among current generations, to get the writers
to pay more attention to detail and realism in their scripts, avoiding
stupidity wherever possible, and to build up the fan-base for GH, specifically,
so that it can remain on the air for generations to come.
My daughter watched with me for many years when she was
younger, and although she is a busy foster-mother these days, she loves to hear
updates from me, and I’m sure she will be reading my blog, and would enjoy watching again in her old age, if it is still on the air.
Mind you, I am busy too, even now; in my tenth year of college, seventh
year of graduate studies… working on a Doctoral degree in Pastoral Community
Counseling. Also, just published Part 1
of my book “A Letter to Heaven” now available in paperback – see links below (it’s only $11). I’ve been told it’s a pretty good read… actually, I’ve
heard “your book is amazing” from several people. So, just thought I would throw that out there.
Ok, on with my new GH blog!
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