GH: Michael Logan's Interview With Jonathan Jackson

[Y&RWorldTurner]

http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/jonathan-jackson-returns-to-general-hospital-2594.html

[DRW50]

Wow, if his main reason for returning is working with Tony Geary, he's going to be in for a very rude awakening.

[Lucid]

I can't wait to see him on screen again

[miss wolf]

The last answer is just so wrong. HIS connection to the role of Lucky and HIS fans?? It's been 10 years. He's not kid anymore. Things change. Fans change. Fans leave.

And please ABCD just be honest for once...Greg Vaughan was fired!!!

I guess Nathan Parson just lost his best friend.

[Kubla Khan]

This is going to be an odd transition because GV and JJ really have nothing in common -- as far as appearance, mannerisms, style, etc.. GV was the definition of hunk, hunk, hunk...and JJ is....well, a manchild at best.

[Faulkner]

While JJ certainly isn't a piece of chiseled man-beef like GV, I still think he's appealing in that Leo DiCaprio/goth rocker kind of way. He's still pretty damn adorable, that Jonathan.

[DRW50]

He's going to be such a contrast to the men on GH who look like the Hulk. I hope he won't take any tips from them on fitness.

This means the only guys on GH I would call hot are probably all going to be gone by this time next year.

[SFK]

Not that I watch GH, but I hope he's dropped that whole aping Christian Slater thing where he talks in his throat and his voice is all clicky.

It's strange because his Lucky was so very successful, moreso than say Nathan Fillion's Joey whose successors also showed a noticeable physical change. Don Jeffcoat and blond twin boy were so hard (impossible) for me to wrap my brain around as Joey, and when Nathan came back it was like all was right with the world. I just don't think it'll work the same for JJ... at least not initially. His teeny bopper fans in 1997 are grown now, many of them probably don't even watch anymore. It remains to be seen, but I'm willing to guess that what made teenaged JJ appealing to girls won't exactly translate to a man in his twenties. Female fans want their men to be like GV.

[SFK]

I hear you, but even in LD's case, youth was on his side. Of course he's had a super successful career, but just watching him in the kind of role he continues to play, there's this thread of that Tiger Beat boy the girls fell mad for playing grown up. As the face gets fatter, the eyes get more lined, I really don't think fans want to see LD grow up. It's the difference between "golden boy" actors like him or JJ, and actors like Paul Newman and the men who've played Bond. Just different types.

[DRW50]

I don't think it will matter that much because female fans aren't a priority for GH. The show is anti-good looking men, and anti-female.

The question I have is whether JJ is going to get bogged down in the tic-laden Master Thespian stuff he and Tony had a tendency to do, and whether they will make Lucky the same waste of space they have made their favorite leading men into. Wendy Riche was there for JJ's entire run. The type of young man Lucky was under that regime does not exist on GH now. Now, if Liz had been raped, Lucky would have slept with Sarah to help him get over the burden of a girl who was damaged goods. That's how GH sees rape now.

[DeeeDee]

Now?

GH & rape's problems started a LONG time ago.

[DRW50]

You're right, I was just separating Riche's era from the others as I don't think she saw rape that way.

[DeeeDee]

Touche.

This will be Guza's test though.

Will he backburner the mob for the Spencer/Cassadines or will Lucky become another mob sidekick like Zander & Spinelli?

[DRW50]

I don't even know what is left of the Spencers and the Cassadines. I think he happily destroyed both of those families, and that legacy, as some type of spite move because he only cared about them when JJ was around.

I guess he can rebuild them (I'm sure we'll be getting some new, very very scary Cassadines soon), but by the time he wrote JJ's Lucky out, Lucky was starting work for the mob. I won't be surprised if we get that again.

I wonder if JJ knows that the show had Luke get a big kick out of his Lucky being tortured and brainwashed by Helena.

[miche]

My wish if for Guza to backburn the mob or kill everyone in it. But the hospital of General Hospital would be destroy before that happen.

JJ is going to be screw