http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/general-hospital/the-shelly-altman-and-jean-passanante-interview-general-hospital/2016/06/22/

What a wonderful interview with these ladies. They are such smart women and so impressed with Jean and Shelly is little doll baby. I love hoe Shelly stressed umbrella storytelling. I think it's cute Jean gave Finn a lizard and talking about the Nina transformation and three magical nurses ball. It's almost been year since smarttv aren't we a lucky bunch.

Bad. dull,repetitive and slow writing. Devoid of any soul or creativity. We GH fans are so unlucky. A steady stream of newbies with no ties to anyone. 

Agreed & why no talk of Laura. They are WASTING Genie Francis

JP: "Sometimes it’s so much fun to pair people who seem so unlikely, than people who do seem likely."

 

And now we understand why she paired Brooke English (on AMC) with the drunk driver who had killed her daughter.

Agreed & why no talk of Laura. They are WASTING Genie Francis

Trust me, she's better off.

Yes the less Laura the less chance of destroying her......

Knowing JP, she'd probably have Laura fall in love with David Hamilton's long-lost son.

Knowing JP, she'd probably have Laura fall in love with David Hamilton's long-lost son.

That would probably be better than anything Laura's had since about 1996.

http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/general-hospital/the-shelly-altman-and-jean-passanante-interview-general-hospital/2016/06/22/

What a wonderful interview with these ladies. They are such smart women and so impressed with Jean and Shelly is little doll baby. I love hoe Shelly stressed umbrella storytelling. I think it's cute Jean gave Finn a lizard and talking about the Nina transformation and three magical nurses ball. It's almost been year since smarttv aren't we a lucky bunch.

The interview wasn't bad, but so far anyway, I think the most interesting thing is how little buzz this interview has created on the Michael Fairman site, at least at the time of this writing.

Fairman always has his tongue up someone's tookus, I haven't read anything from him in forever. Jean, Shelley, Frank and Nathan Varni all need pink slips along with half the cast...

Fairman always has his tongue up someone's tookus, I haven't read anything from him in forever. Jean, Shelley, Frank and Nathan Varni all need pink slips along with half the cast...

Slick u obviously don't love intelligent women very much as Jean and Shelly are the best.

Slick u obviously don't love intelligent women very much as Jean and Shelly are the best.

A flaming tub of lard Huxley campying it up. The Ginger Wretch having sex fantasies of Franco as a pirate. Hammy and Roxie the lizard. The inept triangle with bratty bipolar man/child Morgan basic Kiki and generic Dillon. Jelly are hacks GH is doomed. GH reminds me of ATWT and GL in their last years. Jean and Shelly might be intelligent women but they sure lack writing talent.

Edited June 24, 20169 yr by victoria foxton

Slick u obviously don't love intelligent women very much as Jean and Shelly are the best.

A flaming tub of lard Huxley campying it up. The Ginger Wretch having sex fantasies of Franco as a pirate. Hammy and Roxie the lizard. The inept triangle with bratty bipolar man/child Morgan basic Kiki and generic Dillon. Jelly are hacks GH is doomed. GH remains me of ATWT and GL in their last years. Jean and Shelly might be intelligent women but they sure lack writing talent.

... @victoria foxton

Jonny I love many intelligent women...not these two yo-yos...time for them to stop recycling stories and drop the dead weight that is anchoring the show...

From the interview:

 

SHELLY:

Frank Valentini (executive producer, GH) said to us, ‘What kind of a character do you see Claudette as?’ And we answered, “Bree Williamson!”  We didn’t realize we would be lucky enough to get Bree Williamson!  We really did think “a Bree Williamson” type.

 

and

 

JEAN:

Yup, I wanted him to have a lizard.  We wanted a thing to set him apart and make him a distinctive character, and who knows how that lizard could impact story as we move along!

 

Um, yeah..."intelligent" is not the 1st word that comes to my mind when it comes to those two. It's not even among the 1st 100 words that come to mind.

 

(Maybe if they were to write Bree as the lizard...at least I could then credit them for thinking outside the box. Although it still wouldn't result in a well written story.)

I am not watching live, I mostly just watch here and there from youtube clips, but I actually think they've done a fairly decent job of making Nikolas interesting, making Jason a real person, and giving Sam a real job. From what I have seen I actually like a little bit of what Maxie and Lulu have done story wise, and I think Rebecca Budig is doing something semi worthwhile with her storyline. Liz is stupid, but that's been the case for over a decade now so no true change.

 

It's not knock it out of the park wonderful but the first time in a long time I feel like we could potentially go somewhere better post Guza/Carlivati. I'll take creatively middling over mass destruction any day of the week.

Edited June 24, 20169 yr by Skin