This is unfair. GH could have sustained anything it wanted, but it didn't have the people on staff to write decent action and adventure coupled with the horrible Eckarts. Wendy Riche...is she the one who had Tiffany Hill suicidal and a drug addict? If so, no thanks. GH in the 90s had a few compelling stories, but it lost everything unique about it and became like every other soap. That's the problem today, all the soaps must be alike--exactly alike---or they are deemed lesser. It won two times in the 80s and five times in the 90s? I think that speaks more to the quality of soaps in general in the 1980s and the total crap so many of soaps were serving up in the 90s. GH under Riche is clearly outstanding if "clearly outstanding" means trying your best to erase everything that made GH GH and change it into some sort of cousin of GL and Y&R or any other soap and you have stories that could be basically lifted whole and transplanted on to any other soap with just a few name changes.

You are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are the facts. That was the 80s and GH could have never sustained such concepts going into the 90s. Had someone like Wendy Riche not been brought onto GH, the show would have been gone. I don't think she copied other soaps either. She made General Hospital into a serious medical drama. Something a show titled General Hospital should be.

Well folks, this is all Geary's opinion which he's more than entitled to. It doesn't necessarily mean that he's right but if current GH is where HE'S most comfortable then so be it, I suppose. I have no reaction to what he said one way or the other.

Laura too.

Oh, yes! But that can always happen in the last episode.

But, right now, LUKE MUST DIE.

How could he say something like that???? I really did lose a lot of respect for him....

Geary has his lips firmly planted on Guza's ass. I can't believe he likes what Guza does with Luke. I think right now this is the worst Luke has ever been.

Oh and Tony you didn't do anything to warrant an emmy nom

If it weren't for Riche GH would have been cancelled

Geary is and always will be a pompous jackass. NO respect for him anymore, NONE!

I agree completely!

I was always on the fence about whether Laura should reunite with Luke or with Scotty. Thanks to Geary's comments, I'm officially pro-Scotty.

Same here! Guza and Geary effectively killed any love I had for L&L. Luke is no longer worthy of Laura

Edited May 15, 200916 yr by Zendall Fan

But, right now, LUKE MUST DIE.

WORD!

Seriously! It seems like Tony's on for 6 weeks max. the rest of the year he's in Amsterdam "where I can just Be Myself."

Geary has never hidden the fact that he hates soap opera and obviously had much higher goals in acting than getting stuck on Daytime. He's entitled to feel that way, even though I personally wish actors wouldn't look down their noses at the genre. After all, it is Daytime which has kept him in coke and escort-boys for 30 years.

Dissing somebody who is no longer working on GH (and hasn't for 13 -- count 'em -- years), who is no longer working in DAYTIME, though, is shitty. And no mention of Genie Francis either? I'm willing to bet one of his Emmy reels includes Laura's return to sanity and Luke being torn between Laura and Tracy. So, another classless omission.

His entire quote confirms to me what I have long suspected. GH writes not to satisfy its long-suffering audience but to please its "A-list" actors like Mo, Steve, Sarah, Laura and Tony. What a [!@#$%^&*] mess that show is.

I don't know about Sarah and Laura, but I understand that Steve and Maurice are not happy about there storyline

I do not want Luke to die. I just want the madness to stop. The character has run its course. This Luke is not happy settling down and does not want to be a father so let him leave town chasing after a treasure never to return. He can drop the occasional postcard and people can talk about him every now and then. This is what is best for GH in the long run.

Doesn't Tony write most of his storyline (or write his on line)?

Same here! Guza and Geary effectively killed any love I had for L&L. Luke is no longer worthy of Laura

What a GREAT idea this just sparked in me. Imagine a future, Guza-less, and Luke has died...quite painfully...of cirhossis (sp?) of the liver. Hardly anyone comes to his funeral. Lucky sure doesn't.

Now, written by a female writer, GH decides to get its heart back. Genie Francis returns, as a confident, independent, joyful Laura--fully restored physically and mentally--and she becomes the matriarch around whom the rest of the show is built.

I know this is a fairy tale...but damn it would be nice.

I wonder what went wrong between Geary and Riche. He thanked her and credited her for his work when he won his Emmy in 1998, that's not usual, but he lauded her back then. He also singled out Michele Val Jean in is acceptance speech that year.

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What a GREAT idea this just sparked in me. Imagine a future, Guza-less, and Luke has died...quite painfully...of cirhossis (sp?) of the liver. Hardly anyone comes to his funeral. Lucky sure doesn't.

Now, written by a female writer, GH decides to get its heart back. Genie Francis returns, as a confident, independent, joyful Laura--fully restored physically and mentally--and she becomes the matriarch around whom the rest of the show is built.

I know this is a fairy tale...but damn it would be nice.

Years and years ago something like that could have happened, but the day Gloria Monty introduced the MOB (and yes she is the first one who did) with Luke and Frank Smith and then when Claire Labine brought the MOB back to Port Charles forefront, GH forever changed.

To take it back to another type of show would be met with the same type of resistance that Hogan Sheffer's changes to Days were met with.

You look at the lack of stunts lately and the bigger emphasis on family that has taken place and GH is plummeting. If they stick with it and try to build a new audience then I give them major balls for doing it. But I doubt they will. Most likely they will abandon this and go back to what they feel was working like Ken Corday did wtih Days.

You look at the lack of stunts lately and the bigger emphasis on family that has taken place and GH is plummeting. If they stick with it and try to build a new audience then I give them major balls for doing it. But I doubt they will. Most likely they will abandon this and go back to what they feel was working like Ken Corday did wtih Days.

I know what you write here is absolutely true. Absolutely. Sigh. I guess I'm crazy for still wanting Lucille and Audrey behind the nurses desk .

Years and years ago something like that could have happened, but the day Gloria Monty introduced the MOB (and yes she is the first one who did) with Luke and Frank Smith and then when Claire Labine brought the MOB back to Port Charles forefront, GH forever changed.

To take it back to another type of show would be met with the same type of resistance that Hogan Sheffer's changes to Days were met with.

You look at the lack of stunts lately and the bigger emphasis on family that has taken place and GH is plummeting. If they stick with it and try to build a new audience then I give them major balls for doing it. But I doubt they will. Most likely they will abandon this and go back to what they feel was working like Ken Corday did wtih Days.

Having the mob as a counterpoint to the main characters' lives was one thing.

Having the mob be the heroes and destroy all the other characters' integrity just to make them look better? Quite another thing entirely.

ITA with you that Monty brought the mob to GH (and with some success, IMO) and Labine not only brought them back but made a mobster one half of the show's biggest supercouple in more than a decade. However, I appreciated the balance Labine had. There were other SLs besides mob. In fact, all SLs were about characters. Their psychological make-up. The love and hate that beat in their hearts. And regarding Sonny, I appreciated his efforts to try and become a better person for the girl he loved.

I don't see that humanistic, balanced treatment of its characters anymore, unfortunately. GH tells you who you must like and who you must hate and then rams it down your throat some more.

The mob used to be the bad guys in PC. Now they are the good guys and all who oppose them are doomed. GH isn't even good Sopranos-lite.

Edited May 15, 200916 yr by Ann_SS