GH: January Discussion Thread

[R Sinclair]

You know what? That's great. Then you'll finally stop asking for recaps about story points that happened two months ago and watch for yourself.

[Cheap21]

Indeed. Hopefully I will be able to sit through more than 5 minutes of this show once their material starts. Definetly the most promising thing Ive been looking forward to with GH in a long time

[Antoyne]

R Sinclair, that is easily your best banner.

[R Sinclair]

That's exactly how I feel. It's a cop out. You produced and wrote a show you grew up on the past 20 years, and when you're given an opportunity to do something different, you bring along your security blanket?

Thanks, babes.

[Mr. Vixen]

I completely agree. I don't t care if they fire every GH star and move every character from Llanview over. It would be an improvement. I don't know what everyone else is talking about. The show on the air currently is NOT, I repeat NOT, General Hospital. So an influx of likable characters is the least of my worries.

[DRW50]

When Jane Elliot is replaced with Nic Robuck this post will be why.

[Mr. Vixen]

Jane Elliot is still on the show? Oh yeah, I do think I recall seeing Tracy once or twice since 2003.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

And bringing all of Llanview over to Port Charles would make it more like General Hospital?

[Mr. Vixen]

No it wouldn't. General Hospital is dead. It's gone. It's not coming back, ever. So there's just this blank, historically irrelevant 3pm soap opera on now. It might as well be OLTL 2.0 cause it sure ain't GH1.0.

[DRW50]

It will be Katie in about 5-6 months anyway.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Talk about hyperbole lol I never get or agree with the GH (or any how) is beyond repair comments so I'll just say disagreed. And Ron & Frank could fix GH if they gave time and care to its characters & storylines instead of their ones from OLTL.

[Mr. Vixen]

I don't think GH could be rebuilt. Soaps aren't attracted new viewers. It's a fact - they're not. And old viewers are gone. They're not coming back, except maybe for the finale. GH has used, abused and strung along it's fans for the last decade. The longtime fans who are largely the desired demo are gone. They didn't want to watch the Sonny/Carly/Jason show and after watching history being re-written, their favorite characters being killed, and all sense of GH being removed from GH - they're done. Why would they come back to a show that has made it clear that their opinion doesn't matter for so long? How many times has GH claimed they're telling some groundbreaking story or that the Quartermaines are "back! because they're the cornerstone!" It's never been true before, and those scorned viewers have no reason to think it ever will be. They left, and they're done. So, the show isn't going to draw in new viewers on it's own, or through "rebuilding" - so why not try to get viewers that are attached to another show? It really is the last ditch effort, and all that they have left IMO.

[Skin]

Yeah I agree. As soon as GH announced that they were writing off Lucky and Robin this show died. It's sad but its the truth. This show has no purpose and no likable characters. There is no anchor or history to this show anymore and GH in it's current incarnation can't be saved. I'm looking at the cast and there is not one person who could save this show. They killed all the Quartermains, they destroyed the Spencers. There is no one left. Just Sonny and all of his problems and that's not a show or at least it's not a show that I can imagine anyone would want to watch.

[DRW50]

I don't think writing Lucky out made a big difference. The only reason anyone cared about JJ was based on his work 15 years ago, not today. Lucky was destroyed long ago.

Nothing can save GH, most likely, but I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to revive the Hardys. Most of all the show needs a warm family community feel again. Unfortunately I doubt that will happen.

[Skin]

I definitely think writing off both Lucky and Robin was/is a sign. Just like when the show killed off Emily and Georgie years back. GH was never really the same after those two deaths. The reason why I pointed out Lucky was because he was a character who could have changed or at least revitalized the show if writers were really concerned about changing the scope of GH. Lucky was definitely a character who could have helped GH out of it's mob based mentality and centralized formula. But they dismissed him and they are doing the same with Robin another legacy character the show could have used to help them break out of Sonnyville but they chose to dismiss her. There's no one on this show that means anything at this rate. Tracey and Monica are neutralized because their entire family is dead. Maxie is an island, Mac is irrelevant. There is just literally nothing this show could offer a viewer. The mob needs to be brought down and this entire show needs to be burnt to the ground, salted and then purged of anything related to that terrible threesome.