What?

 

He's involved in covering up Kristina's attempted murder of three people, and he's gone?

 

What a waste!

 

I guess Frank enjoys all-time low ratings because they'll be appearing rather quickly.

4 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

What?

He's involved in covering up Kristina's attempted murder of three people, and he's gone?

What a waste!

I guess Frank enjoys all-time low ratings because they'll be appearing rather quickly.

I doubt he will affect the ratings that much - they didn't improve noticeably when he returned in 2010, and they didn't when he came back last year. I think most of the viewer base had moved on from Lucky a long time ago. The problems are...so much else.

58 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

I mean...that could lead to a Liz/Ric/Ava triangle but...

If they actually use Liz, that would be inevitable, although probably more along the lines of Ric pining for Liz and Ava coming after her.

55 minutes ago, Spin865 said:

I really wonder what happened here. I liked his return when he was actually on screen, but he was so rarely played with anyone but a few characters that he doesn't really feel like a loss for the show. His comeback felt more like a circa-2013 recurring GH vet return like Kevin or Duke rather than a leading player.    

That's it exactly. I suppose that's also how Frank saw him. The only difference is Kevin did get some decent material here and there.

1 hour ago, John said:

Guess it was a one year deal

Look the mistake was making Lucky into Luke

Greg Vaughn was interesting as Lucky  just sayin

I preferred GV myself

They didn't involve Lucky in things because they didn't want to, and when he didn't want to play the romance they had no further use for him. That's the issue AFAIC, not the character.

6 minutes ago, Vee said:

They didn't involve Lucky in things because they didn't want to, and when he didn't want to play the romance they had no further use for him. That's the issue AFAIC, not the character.

I agree they could have done more with him, but even if they had tried, I think there was a lot of damage done and the character had just been gone for too long without enough on the current canvas to really make it work. I think Lucky last really had worth as a character when JJ left in 1999. He could have under Greg Vaughan but Geary and Guza spit on that at every turn. 

They could have done more with him than the icky Kristina/Lucky relationship that seemed to be in the works though. Amazing how Frank has made so many bad choices with Kristina after presumably paying a big price to bring Kate in.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by DRW50

2 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

For sure that last return (which for me was actually my first time watching JJ since GV was playing the part when I started watching) wasn't good, but it least had some sort of plot. This version was just ambling around, very Josh Griffith. It never even got off the ground. And now we got Isaiah and Sidwell out of it. 

And all he did was cry that run. That was my first exposure to him and I was not a fan at all.

1 hour ago, Taoboi said:

I mean...that could lead to a Liz/Ric/Ava triangle but...

Sign me up!

32 minutes ago, Cheap21 said:

I preferred GV myself

Same.

he came back and was treated like ur average cast member. Just a mess. lol 

Not surprising. After seeing his pathetic scenes on today's episode, where he says Port Charles is not his home, I expected to come on here and see this, and here it is.

JJ should retire. He doesn't have it anymore. Lucky should probably be killed off or hardly ever mentioned again. The writers and producers made a mistake in trying to make Lucky into a version of Luke. A Luke type charactrer doesn't fit in today's day and age. Luke and Lucky are dinosaurs best left in the past.

8 minutes ago, Jdee43 said:

Not surprising. After seeing his pathetic scenes on today's episode, where he says Port Charles is not his home, I expected to come on here and see this, and here it is.

 

His mother, son, sister, and the love of his life live in PC, and it's not his home.

What horrible writing.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by Soapsuds

8 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

His mother, son, sister, and the love of his life live in PC, and it's not his home.

What horrible writing.

That makes zero sense.

Lucky was on for nine months, and he never once showered, washed his dirty hair, or shaved.

1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

His mother, son, sister, and the love of his life live in PC, and it's not his home.

What horrible writing.

With proper writing I think that could make sense - Lucky's happiest years were in Canada and on the run, not in Port Charles. But the show has never done well at explaining why Lucky is the way he is (among other reasons it's because having an abusive father and a mother who suppressed herself to survive living with her rapist does not make for a well-adjusted son).

The return was doomed from the get go. FV didn't want Lucky, but needed him to rebuild Laura's family. His introduction was crap. 

The chemistry with Herbst is still there, but #firefrank can't use Becky to prop pets if she's actually got a story that matters. Her numbers will go back down.

There are way too many characters on the show, and several already fill the cop/hero character that Lucky used to represent on the canvas. They built so much around Dante with the "Gio" story, and, Chase is also too connected to just drop. 

They barely connected Lucky to anyone but Elizabeth, Laura, Lulu and Kristina, he barely shared scenes anywhere else. The character was never given anything substantial to do. Dayplayers spend more time  behind the bar at Charlie's than he did.

Instead we have crap characters like Dalton, Vaughn and Boyle getting more play around the canvas, along with the guy that tried to kill him when he returned being all over like horse s**t. Until they get rid of Valentini, every tiny positive that comes along will only last until #firefrank is bored. 

I wouldn't be shocked if Easton turned back up... 

And I do agree that they not once attempted to clean up Lucky's "unhoused chic" look...   With a better EP and writers... well you all know how this show is.

 

Edited June 6Jun 6 by slick jones

That's a shame! Unlike most of you, I've been really enjoying the Liz and Lucky scenes, but they did seem like they came from a different show. They were on their own little island, especially once Liz broke her leg and was only seen in the home set.

Even their lowkey naturalistic acting styles seemed like it was on a different show. I actually thought Liz's calm-but-frustrated response to the Kristina revelation was in character for her, but it did feel weird on an episode that was otherwise all about characters shouting at each other about Gio's parentage. 

I'll just try to be grateful that we got 9 months of JJ (sporadically) back on screen, and they did a bit to repair the crappy state of the Lucky/Liz relationship.

 

EXCLUSIVE: #GeneralHospital star Jonathan Jackson talks his difficult decision to leave GH after returning as Lucky Spencer just nine months ago. https://t.co/nSHevjPtgI

— TV Insider (@TVInsider) June 9, 2025

 

https://www.tvinsider.com/1196281/general-hospital-jonathan-jackson-leaving-reason-lucky-spencer/

“It was more of a real, sincere attempt from myself and from General Hospital to make it work for a longer period of time. The hope was to be able to stay on longer.”

But for Jackson, traveling between Tennessee (where he lives) and California (where the show films), ultimately proved too disruptive for his personal life. “There was always that possibility because it was a bit of an experiment on my part to see if I could make it work with the family dynamic,” the husband and father of three explains. “There were moments where I thought, ‘I think I can find this balance with the family and time back and forth,’ and then you just have to pray about it and try to do what you feel is right. We gave it our best shot, but we weren’t able to keep it going.”