So sad. GH has really gotten hit hard in the past few years. I can’t really remember a soap having so many major iconic stars associated with it pass away so close together, even accounting for age and the show’s long run. He really did have that old-school, easy, masculine star quality that is increasingly rare.

 

Even through the various eras of GH, whenever Tristan appeared, he still had that strength of character and the twinkle in his eye. His only appearance for about 15 years was being a figment of Robin's imagination when she was struggling with whether to tell Stone she had HIV, and he handled that moment with such grace, never making it about him. He came back to a messy return a decade after that cameo, and still had charm to spare.

The Bell soaps never seemed to know what to do with him, but whatever was going on in Port Charles, he still felt at home, so much so that it's easy to forget just how unique Robert was when he arrived, the angst-ridden hospital show that had been lurching toward mobsters now having a charming international spy.

Robert went through three love interests in a decade and all of them were popular with viewers. Robert had a child via backstory, always a dicey story choice, and viewers took her into their hearts in large part due to him, creating a key building block for GH's future. He was more important to GH than myself and others, at times including the show itself, ever appreciated.

I'm glad that he at least got to have a sendoff, and such a sweet final scene. It's something I can't take for granted when I remember the treatment of some soap legends in their last years.

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There will never be another like Scorpio. I always wanted the old man to lock in once more (Robert, not TR) and put together a cohesive plan of attack to dismantle Sonny's operation, The Wire-style. They had to neuter the character a bit to keep him viable in latter-day GH given that mob backdrop (now at its lowest ebb in a generation), they gave him a series of silly work positions or subplots, but Robert never lost the essence of who he was. Tristan wasn't ever capable of allowing that.

I guess someone can always find Scorpio's master plan in a drawer one day soon. Maybe with the silly old WSB supercomputers and some shag carpeting. That is the Scorpio way.

Oh God

This is shaping up to be another difficult year for the soaps. I can't even imagine what the In Memoriam segment is gonna be like at the Emmys.

RIP

The last few years have been devastating for the General Hospital cast. So many losses.

OMG! Nooo! Le sigh.

 

He looked so well when he popped up for Sasha's exit.

 

His character has always been in my life growing up along with Luke and Laura. Just...wow. My condolences to the family.

 

And of course F@%& cancer.

Very sad news to hear. What a wonderful actor he was. May he rest in eternal peace. 

RIP, Tristan. 

I truly hope they go all out for him and get Kimberly, Emma, and Sofia back to send him off properly. Mac, Laura, and Felicia need to be involved heavily, too. 

19 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

 

Class act.

 

Writing aside, I did like that Robert and Holly ended up together. 

Just now, NothinButAttitude said:

I truly hope they go all out for him and get Kimberly, Emma, and Sofia back to send him off properly. Mac, Laura, and Felicia need to be involved heavily, too. 

I would be shocked if any of them didn't appear. 

Awful news. That mid-lates 80s era of GH was what was airing for me when I started watching and I always loved him and the others in that spy and WSB group. Sad to think of how many of that era of vets we've lost in about 4 or 5 years. Sad for people like Genie Francis, Kristina Wagner, Finola Hughes, Lynn Herring, Jane Elliot, JJY, Kin Shriner, and Emma Samms who have been there for as long as they have and have lost so many of their cast mates in recent years.

Frank Valentini has done a lot of things wrong, but he's consistently tried to keep those 70s, 80s, and 90s vets on the show and engaged in stories, work in appearances no matter how he had to do it (i.e. the phone calls when people couldn't appear, filming at Emma Samms' house, etc), and name drop them into conversations. They all really got tossed in the bin during the Guza and JFP era so it's been nice to see all of them get a second wind in the FV era. A lot of the Robert stories have been less than stellar over the recent years, but he was always engaged. The HEA with Holly in retrospect was a lovely send off.

It's too soon to speculate and I reckon they'll want to get Monica and Lesley's memorials done first, but I'm sure they'll do a lovely tribute for him and get Kimberly and Emma Samms back for it. All of the tributes under FV have been classy and well done

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I haven't watched GH in a long time so my memories of Tristan on the show are from the 80s and 90s, especially the 80s, when he first came on and then, after L & L left and Scorpio (and friends) became the focus of the show. 

So sad. 

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