GH Guza Years Thread

[Antoyne]

It still brings me joy that Rick Hearst didn't give them enough notice to kill him off so Ric ended up just getting on an elevator .

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Death or Spinelli, same thing.

[NothinButAttitude]

Not it isn't! This was around the time that I actually liked Spinelli and found him & my precious Georgie cute. When they put him with Maxie Pad, I was too through. Maxie belongs with this sexy beast:

[VirginiaHamilton]

Stole the words right off my fingertips, so all I'll add is that his arrival signaled the beginning of this show's downward spiral and 1/3rd of the reason why it went from one of the best soaps to one of the worst soaps on the air.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

I will forever admire Guza at least a lil bit for giving me two of my all time favorite GH adventure couples & mob Families: Johnny/Lulu & the Zaccharas!

GH circa 2008 was perfection. Bye haters! >

[NothinButAttitude]

I'll agree that the ONLY good thing Guza did his 2nd reign was give me Johnny Z. The rest of his family was just sh*tty.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Johnny Z was a BADASS MOFO w/a REAL HEART OF GOLD! Brandon B was dynamite in the role from the start. Guza didn't know what to do with him after he broke up w/Lulu (HUGE MISTAKE!), and especially after 'Liv. He was just floundering until Garin took over and sort of revitalized the character. Then Veronica came along -____- f-cked everything up.

But I seriously loved all the Z's. They were flawlessly cast. Their vibe, banter, family history, everything; I was fascinated by all of it. I only wish Domenica Zacchara had surfaced at some point.

[quartermainefan]

This thread just illustrates how hollow and transparent the RC/FV criticism is. If people would just admit they want Guza back and a return to his nihilistic, vile crap stories starring Sonny, Jason and Carly, pages upon pages of fake analysis of RC would be spared.

[cassadine1991]

I don;t want Guza back and I want RC/FV to leave.. GH turned to hell in the late 90s and hasn't gotten better

[quartermainefan]

You are correct, I generalized too much. I should have inserted "most of" or "much of" into that sentence.

[katie_9918]

He isn't known as Showkiller Guza for no reason.

Even when Riche was able to exert some control over him, the show was darker than it had to be and we need look no further than Elizabeth's rape story being taken over by Luke and Lucky (who Guza lost no time in turning into a misogynistic !@#$%^&*]) to see the writing on the wall. I went back to GL during Guza's first stint.

McTavish was awful in her own right, but Guza was far worse both before and after her. And RC may be awful, but I still don't want Guza back.

And for the record, I hate Johnny Zacchara, as I hated every mob element that ate a show called GENERAL HOSPITAL during Showkiller Guza's reign of terror.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

In retrospect, whether people want to admit it or not, a lot of the stuff Guza gets blamed for was started by Claire Labine, Guza just took it to another level.

Namely the Sonny worship, mob shootouts, the idea to have Jason turn loose him memory and turn against the Quartermaine's, etc. All of that either happened before Guza's first stint or were on their way there.

[katie_9918]

No, sorry, the Showkiller Guza took all of those things much further than they ever should have gone.

[NothinButAttitude]

Sorry but no. The material I've seen penned by Claire Labine, Sonny was NOT worshipped. He was pariah, which he still should be. Everyone on the canvas saw him as an unsavory character with the exception of Stone, Luke, Brenda, Lois, & Robin. Otherwise, everyone else thought that Sonny was a low life and wanted nothing to do with him. And Claire might've penned Jason loosing his memory but it was Guza who made it worse. It was Guza who made Jason a robotic-type character. I can assure you that had Claire been writing the show till now, Jason would've probably reverted back to being Jason Q regardless if Steve Burton liked it or not.

[BrookenAdamAMCSupercouple]

THIS. I started back in 1978 and the thought that the dreck from 2008 was GH 'at it's best' is just horrifying. It never would've been ABC's crown jewel of 'love in the afternoon' and constantly #1 with people scheduling classes around it if that garbage aired back then.

Guza's a bitter Gloria hater. He had it in for the Alan Jr character because he was the prize of Dr Love Quad of Alan, Monica, Rick and Lesley - the story that brought GH to #1 for the first time. He spit all over everything from that story. Then TRIES to rip it off decades later with the Godawful GVLucky,Liz,Jason and Sam 'quad' Right down to attempting the beats and ripped off some the lines verbatim 'It was just a beautiful dream.' Liz you're no Monica.

Hates the Quartermaines Gloria's premier family so turns them into a vaudeville joke and then kills them off one by one save Monica. He needed a Jason worshiper to continue on. GAG My beloved Monica reduced to worshiping the bastard she hated at the expense of her beloved Alan Jr who suddenly she had no caring for. Made me sick.

Hated she came up with Luke and Laura so he 'dismantled' them and passed it off as some 'genius' idea he had. Tried to turn Carly into his other 'Monica.' Sonny, Jason the 'good men soldiers' and the old braveandstrongandloveswithherwholeheart Carly on every single day with everyone else as windowdressing to show up once and while and 'lose' to show how great they are.

Guza and Ron are both egocentric, hacks that belong nowhere near daytime tv. Don't want either. But I will say that Ron and Frank are the ones that pushed me into NEVER watching again. Even hearing about a glorified cameo for my beloved Denise Alexander or more airtime for Monica with my favorite Alan Jr SK won't make me tune in again. I'm an Anna/Finola nut and you couldn't pay me to watch Craptini drivel.