General Hospital: October 2022 Discussion Thread

[xtr]

Thanks. I've been enjoying many of the episodes of the earlier seasons with Stabler and Olivia. Love them together and separately. I think that the best seasons are the ones where Stabler were still around, and they worked together. I also like Ice T's character Fin, and Tamara Tunie and BD's Wong's characters. I like some of the ADA's especially some of the earlier ones. I'm not as a big of a fan of later seasons especially the ones that focus more on Amanda Rollins/Kelli Giddish's character. But overall, I have been enjoying the show and see why it's lasted as long as it has. I wouldn't mind if GH took a page out of their playbook when it comes to this hooker storyline. Especially if they do decide to make ADA Arden the hooker.

[Contessa Donatella]

Love hearing you talk about it. In the earlier years there's no doubt that the double wallop of Benson & Stabler was what made the show! Also love Fin & Tunie (of course, of ATWT fandom). A couple of years ago Jill Lorie Hurst, one of GL's final years co-HWs & her writing partner did an episode, which was rare, that they let anyone else outside their regular writers' stable pen one & GL's Tom Pelphrey was in it, too. I don't want to go off-topic too much so I will cease here.

[slick jones]

Meanwhile, back on GENERAL HOSPITAL...

Arden 

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[ranger1rg]

I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I’m not that crazy about Esme. I just don’t find the actress as threatening and as evil as she should be. 
 

Sticking that black.hood on her head isn’t enough.

[Contessa Donatella]

Yes, this is one of my Minority Opinions. I don't think Avery is all that & a bag of chips. Hate the hood & the lurking in the hood. One thing she has is writing. They just write her as getting away with everything. And I can't stand those huge white sneakers she wears. Make her feet look like Bart's The Simpsons.

[slick jones]

She's a typical #firefrank basic villain just like Hannah O'Connor on OLTL. She's not that strong of an actress and the character is far from intimidating. She does bad things... blah blah blah. <yawns>

 

[carolineg]

Hannah O'Connor is a good analogy for the character.  For some reason Esme reminds me of Nelle a lot.  The motivations aren't the same, but the type of character they are is super similar to me.  

[slick jones]

Same #firefrank archetype. There could be so much more to the character but instead Escarole is just a one note character.

She came in mean and we never got to see any other side to her. Just the O_O agenda.

[Faulkner]

I thought AP had the bitchface down pat (she has the female version of the punchable face), but GH couldn’t just allow her to be your garden-variety mean girl. They had to up the ante and make her this budding, all-encompassing supervillain, and, unless you’re the next Kimberlin Brown, that really exposes one’s limitations.

[ranger1rg]

I'm soooooo tired of Miz Wu's low, monotone voice that's intended to evoke power and fear. I know she's popular on soap boards, but I think her acting is laughable.

That's how I feel about her. The writing for her was better when she was first introduced, and the actress was fine with that "Esme is a conniving brat" stuff. But seeing her as a brilliant, mysterious mover and shaker of others' lives? Just no.

And I never stop thinking about how ridiculous her visits are with her father -- how she gets in, how he's always alone, how no one monitors anything.

[victoria foxton]

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[Contessa Donatella]

Alley Mills is being cast as a mystery woman. Who joins me in thinking that she will be Esme's nanny, Maggie?

[Bright Eyes]

I only read the recaps so I have a question: Is Esme just a red herring to being the hooker or has it been confirmed that she is or isn't?

[Contessa Donatella]

Unknown.

[Liberty City]

I think she is a red herring and likely the one who hooked Oz, but the rest has been someone else.