Would that be a bad thing? This is totally Fronsian, but unlike Mo, at least her tits are perky.

But her man arms are scary. and her voice is.... ugh.

I go back and forth about Sarah Brown. Yes, she is talented, but GH does not need her or this particular character. She feels shoehorned into Sonny's life and it is all to forced and desperate. It is "let's get Sarah something to do and someone to play" rather than here is a character who can slide into Sonny's life and replace Kate.

Sarah Brown is extremely talented at playing herself. Well, a soapy, high-drama version of herself in the shape of OriginalCarly. There's no shame in it. Vanessa Marcil built her career on doing the same thing.

GH looooves the kind of actors who can "hit the high notes" during sweeps and improv a little to add color to certain scenes. Sarah is definitely that kind of actress. With Carly 1.0 she used to rake her hands through her hair and play with her hands nervously and bounce around her alloted camera space. As opposed to other soap actors who just stood there rigidly, delivering their lines.

She also lucked out with the writers who came up with Carly and wrote her stuff -- the Mulcaheys and Valjeans and Harrises.

So, in terms of technique, she's got a bag of tricks and does well. But I haven't seen any real difference between Carly or Julia or Claudia.

And like yesterday's show? The scene between Claudia and Olivia. If that was meant to be a battle, well, Lisa LoCicero won it. With no shouting or snark or "nuh-UH!" head movements.

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I don't watch GH but I do watch OLTL. When OLTL finishes, sometimes I would just leave the channel on GH for 5 mins to see what's going on and I really like Sarah Brown(Claudia).

Sarah Brown is extremely talented at playing herself. Well, a soapy, high-drama version of herself in the shape of OriginalCarly. There's no shame in it. Vanessa Marcil built her career on doing the same thing.

GH looooves the kind of actors who can "hit the high notes" during sweeps and improv a little to add color to certain scenes. Sarah is definitely that kind of actress. With Carly 1.0 she used to rake her hands through her hair and play with her hands nervously and bounce around her alloted camera space. As opposed to other soap actors who just stood there rigidly, delivering their lines.

She also lucked out with the writers who came up with Carly and wrote her stuff -- the Mulcaheys and Valjeans and Harrises.

So, in terms of technique, she's got a bag of tricks and does well. But I haven't seen any real difference between Carly or Julia or Claudia.

And like yesterday's show? The scene between Claudia and Olivia. If that was meant to be a battle, well, Lisa LoCicero won it. With no shouting or snark or "nuh-UH!" head movements.

It isn't uncommon for an actor, who may be good at learning lines and developing their own style, to, essentially play the same part. It doesn't help that the writers of her respective soap characters have made all of those characters into poorly written versions of Carly.

For example: a film teacher once told me that it's not Jack Nicholson playing a role. It's Jack Nicholson playing himself playing (fill in blank).

So, in terms of technique, she's got a bag of tricks and does well. But I haven't seen any real difference between Carly or Julia or Claudia.

ITA. Sarah Brown is good, but does not have a lot of range as an actress. It occurred to me that Sarah Brown is playing original Carly and Laura Wright is playing Cassie from GL. They both have slipped into their comfort zones as actresses, perhaps because these are the characters more like their real life personalities. The only actor who ever challenged Laura Wright since I have watched her soap career was David Andrew McDonald on GL. She did her best work with him. He is a strong talented actor who pushed her out of her Cassie niche to react to Edmund and she was good, but it didn't last long. The moment she wasn't paired with him, she slipped back into tame Cassie.

Reconstructive Surgery: Inside General Hospital's Makeover

On April 14, not long before it becomes the first ABC sudser to broadcast in high definition, General Hospital will unveil a new nurses' hub, that pivotal set's first freshening-up in many a year. And it's well-deserved, too, since the location was blown to bits last month as the casualty of a plot twist. GH production designer Chip Dox offered TVGuide.com an inside look at how and why the hospital's nerve center got a much-needed redo. Check out photos here.

TVGuide.com: Which came first — the decision to have an explosion in the hospital or the idea to update the nurses' hub?

Chip Dox: They came pretty much on top of each other. For [the GH spin-off] Night Shift, we built a new hub, with the idea that we would use parts of it on GH. They liked the concept of it so much, they said, "We want something [of our own] like that."

TVGuide.com: At which point someone said, "Let's now work it into a storyline by blowing up the place."

Dox: Exactly. And if you pay attention to GH, [head writer] Bob Guza loves to do that. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Were there any special considerations with the show switching to hi-def soon?

Dox: Lighting was our biggest one. [For HD] we use much less light, and because of that the depth of field is shallower. That puts the areas past and in front of the actors in soft focus, which we like.

TVGuide.com: And with HD's wider aspect ratio, don't you need to dress sets with more props, to fill out the frame better?

Dox: Yes, you do, and our directors are working on that. You also need a lot more extras, which becomes expensive.

TVGuide.com: How would you compare watching GH in HD to what people now are seeing on All My Children and One Life to Live? Would you say the look is "smoother"?

Dox: It is definitely smoother. The hi-def cameras also are more saturated, so the colors come out clearer and truer. The hospital had a tendency to look gray, but the new cameras grab the light in a terrific way. So the shady, scary warehouse scenes we're known for will look a lot better!

TVGuide.com: What three words would you use to describe the new set?

Dox: It's large. Modern. And I think it's comfortable. I know it's a strange thing to describe a hospital as comfortable, but I wouldn't mind getting worked on at GH.

TVGuide.com: What "problems," if any does the new, bigger set fix?

Dox: It gives you probably 12 to 13 different areas to shoot in, whereas the previous hub only had, like, four. For storytelling, that's great.

TVGuide.com: There are more nooks and crannies for clandestine conversations, new places to eavesdrop from....

Dox: Exactly. They can hide in the set and they really are hidden!

TVGuide.com: Where does the new, exposed staircase lead to?

Dox: In my mind, it goes up to the locker room area. There is a staircase on every floor, so we call [that level] the mezzanine.

TVGuide.com: Not to get too dark here, but you know Guza has plans for those stairs. Though with A.J. not around, it may take a while.

Dox: Yes. People will be falling down them.

TVGuide Link

Sneak peek of GH in HD with the new hospital set:

Alvin, you watch occasionally for like 5 minutes, right?

Alvin, you watch occasionally for like 5 minutes, right?

I do watch GH, like once or twice a week. It's hard to get invested in anything on this show.

How do you view a computer clip in hi def? Epiphany is back. Robin and Patrick are still going through PPD hell.

How do you view a computer clip in hi def? Epiphany is back. Robin and Patrick are still going through PPD hell.

Click on the HQ button YouTube gives you, it gives you a general simulation.

Sneak peek of GH in HD with the new hospital set:

Is today the debut of HD?

I have no idea, possibly.

I have no idea, possibly.

GH to go HD on 4/23/09 in the US, according to this article. I do want to tape it and see how it looks.