For me, there's zero need to retcon Luke's death at this point simply because of Geary's passing.

Sad news. But there was no way he was returning. He seemed done with acting in general and just wanted a quiet life in Amsterdam. Don't blame him. It's a beautiful city.

I think they'll do a little nod to Luke. Nothing major but something to acknowledge the actor's passing. Perhaps a mention or maybe even a story of sorts.

Either way it's a sad day. RIP Tony Geary.

Wow. Shocking news. RIP to a daytime legend!

ABC evening news with David Muir is about to discuss his passing.

I’ve never been a GH watcher (though I’ve oddly been watching some 60s episodes this past weekend), but it’s very sad to think of how many big stars from the show have passed in recent times. I remember knowing who Luke and Laura were before I ever got into soaps.

I think what will annoy me greatly is how many outlets, ABC included, will write about how iconic he was and they were, but there is still literally no legal means of watching the wedding or their best work together or literally any of Tony’s work at all. It’s almost like…if you don’t see the value in providing access to this stuff, you shouldn’t get to talk about how great it was.

Genie's tweet on Tony's passing gave more closure to Luke and Laura than the show ever did.

Wow, this is shocking. RIP.

1 hour ago, Liberty City said:

For me, there's zero need to retcon Luke's death at this point simply because of Geary's passing.

Would you just leave it as is? I would at least revisit it personally because that was an anti climatic ending for the character. I wouldn't say Luke was alive all this time and now he's for real dead, but I would expand on his og death a bit more.

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GH should but won't show a week of Robert and Luke scenes.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

I would incorporate that as well. We would learn he faked his death in the ignoble ski lift, etc. and then went on, and it would unfold future story for his surviving loved ones.

I've outlined my woulda-been plans for Luke's final story to friends like titan or DRW before but in some ways this sad news makes a revision simpler, more elegiac. I won't go into them in a thread like this, friends can ask me in DMs if they wish but I'll just say again, I think the focus has always needed to be heavy on Laura re: Luke passing away. Her grief in 2022, like the entire event, was very perfunctory and rushed. Largely because I strongly suspect FV had gambled on getting Tony back for the 60th or a future time (as he'd gambled with Steve Burton in 2012, and Trevor St. John at OLTL in 2011), and revealing that offscreen 'death' to be a hoax or scheme. (Even Bobbie suggested this in 2023, which went nowhere.) Who knows, maybe GH did have an arrangement and then Tony's health grew worse. But they should never have let that weak stuff go to air unless they were certain.

Just speaking as a general audience member, Laura should never have believed Luke was dead. The Cassadines faked her death and the death of her mother and son. People saw fake bodies. Even if remains are presented Laura shouldn't believe it. All this time I have to believe her somewhat muted reaction and the scant writing is because Laura has quietly, consciously or unconsciously, been waiting for Luke to come back. And when she realizes he isn't coming back that should break her life as she begins to fully reconcile her heart re: her life with him. Something we could learn Luke had finally begun to do himself before his own death.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

Then they should have done much more than they did.

exactly. How do you kill off the biggest male lead in the shows history in such a anticlimactic fashion as a random cable car accident. They could've said Helena or saving Lucky or something.

19 minutes ago, reallyhateskateonlost said:

GH should but won't show a week of Robert and Luke scenes.

this

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I don't blame Monty for everything soaps became, any more than I blame JER, but there's such a dividing line, made worse because the better soap years are almost entirely lost to us.

This has been my mentality for decades. They are not to blame for other soaps creating pale imitations.

I give Monty plenty of blame for not keeping the hospital characters at the center, for terrible behavior towards actors, and not realizing her show was always better with stronger writers. But I don’t blame her for the genre falling apart.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

Would you just leave it as is? I would at least revisit it personally because that was an anti climatic ending for the character. I wouldn't say Luke was alive all this time and now he's for real dead, but I would expand on his og death a bit more.

I would leave it as is, because it would just rub salt in the wounds, both for viewers and the actors. The character is dead; there is no need to bring it back up again at this point.

The best way to pay tribute would just be to do it on the anniversary of when Luke died and have his closest family and friends gather to remember him properly. They could use Lulu as an excuse since she was in a coma when it first happened.

Do a day of characters thinking about Luke and have Laura break character and say goodbye Tony