I am pretty sure there was never a need to make a "nod" to Amy Vining.  She was a unique character on her own.  Making newAmy a "play" on the original is just lazy and useless.  She's never gotten her own personality or story and is only trotted out during the time the Nurse's Ball is coming around.  I actually think the actress is charming, but it is a very thankless role.

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Well tbf I did like the growing conflict that was growing between Terry and Amy over Amy's brother Chet (and that his foine self was finally being used). It could have gone somewhere and even now could be used since Terry STILL has issues with Amy. But the actor moved out of L.A. so that story stopped. 

Jason threatening the new guy. I get the suspicion, I guess, but yawn. 

2 hours ago, prefab1 said:

English and Communications. Sadly I haven't gotten to teach a course in Television Studies yet, but I have gotten to direct several senior theses on TV. I've got a student right now who's writing on the representation of food and eating on Gilmore Girls. 

Back to GH, has Nurse Amy always been so annoying and cartoonish? I've been cringing through her scenes this week, especially knowing that she's the show's only representation of a plus-size woman. 

Amy needs to go away and never return.

I love how we have to hate Boyle when he's 110% correct 😂😂😂

56 minutes ago, MontyB said:

Jason threatening the new guy. I get the suspicion, I guess, but yawn. 

Jason seemed over-the-top to me with those threats, and the amped up music was layered on top. It was all so contrived.

3 hours ago, Taoboi said:

Well tbf I did like the growing conflict that was growing between Terry and Amy over Amy's brother Chet (and that his foine self was finally being used). It could have gone somewhere and even now could be used since Terry STILL has issues with Amy. But the actor moved out of L.A. so that story stopped. 

Oh right. Nurse Amy Driscoll's brother Chet was played by *actor* Chris Van Etten who is a military veteran in real life.  (He had no connection to the then *writer* Chris Van Etten.)  I basically remember this due to them coincidentally having the same name.

5 hours ago, prefab1 said:

I remember Shell Kepler's character Amy Vining fondly, but she always seemed like a real person, even as she was being used as a plot device to spread gossip around the hospital. These were often fairly comic scenes, but Amy Vining was rarely the object of ridicule like her namesake Amy Driscoll was this week. 

Yes, you've understood & described what is wrong comparing to the past which was definitely right. What in the heck is the problem? Oh, I know it's the way Frank produces this show. 

Did you, any of you, see Mo's IG from Sunday. Well, it's him reminiscing about when he first began, had a crisis & quit but Riche, who is an amazing EP, between herself & Shelley Curtis, got with him, found out what was actually the hell going on & basically said, No, we do not accept your resignation, we are going to get to the bottom of this thing & you ARE going back to work at General Hospital. 

Now, MO has told this tale, true, but still a tale, maybe a thousand times but now he has planned out what to say & when to say it & also he has set it to music. Plus he stressed that he's been at this for now 32 years. 

6 hours ago, prefab1 said:

I remember Shell Kepler's character Amy Vining fondly, but she always seemed like a real person, even as she was being used as a plot device to spread gossip around the hospital. These were often fairly comic scenes, but Amy Vining was rarely the object of ridicule like her namesake Amy Driscoll was this week. 

I think Amy often felt like a caricature, but Shell did have a sweetness, and viewers saw Amy grow up on the show (not technically, but Amy was a young woman when we first met her). There's no real need to have a replacement.

If anyone for whatever reasons has been unable to access the Will Trent episode being called an homage to GH, PM me for a link to the episode.

Absolutely love that they did this. 

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I think Amy often felt like a caricature, but Shell did have a sweetness, and viewers saw Amy grow up on the show (not technically, but Amy was a young woman when we first met her). There's no real need to have a replacement.

I think that by her final years on the show, she had slipped into caricature a bit, but I was watching some 80s clips of Amy, and she seems like a well-defined comic supporting character. There are some clips of her interacting with Duke where they bounce off each other perfectly:

Back to today's episodes, I'm not a fan of either Sidwell or of Carlo Rota's "Iago in a community theatre production of Othello"-style performance. But I did really enjoy his scenes with Tracy today. Jane Elliott always brings her A-game and brings out the best in her scene partners. 

 

10 hours ago, prefab1 said:

Jane Elliott always brings her A-game and brings out the best in her scene partners. 

I think it's because she doesn't judge the writing.  She just commits to it, 110%.

20 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

-- Diane's wigs continue to be hilarious.

Just for you, hot off of yesterday's ABC/Disney press site.

30 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Just for you, hot off of yesterday's ABC/Disney press site.

LOL Thanks. Someone at GH hates her.

2 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

LOL Thanks. Someone at GH hates her.

Ya know, truly, if anyone from Hair/Makeup/Costume had it in for ya, uh-oh, yep, you'd be in real trouble, or should that be reel?