Voila:

In sending you off, GH head writer Ron Carlivati undid two epic events. Mob don Frank Smith, who was killed by Luke, came back from the dead and so did Luke’s grandson Jake, whom Luke accidentally slaughtered in a car accident. How’d you feel about that revisionist history?
I loved that they brought back Emma Samms [Holly], Genie Francis [Laura], Jonathan Jackson [Lucky] and Nathan Parsons [Ethan] so I could work with them one last time, but I did not like the conceit that brought us all together. It was ill-conceived, cheesy and showed a lack of imagination. We saw Luke shoot Frank in the back over 20 years ago. And by the way, that character was old then. He would have been in his hundreds by now.

His prior interview with Logan a few months before re: the Fluke/DID reveal has him all in on the DID and Luke being a serial killer, BTW. And praising Ron for it lol.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Vee

Hahaha! I will always live for his disdain at RC.

But seeing the Holly mention makes me realize...TR was still over on Y&R as Colin I believe.

14 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

Hahaha! I will always live for his disdain at RC.

But seeing the Holly mention makes me realize...TR was still over on Y&R as Colin I believe.

No, he's not. Colin was killed off, with Tristan returning prior to his passing to reprise the role for newly created flashbacks.

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

No, he's not. Colin was killed off, with Tristan returning prior to his passing to reprise the role for newly created flashbacks.

Tristan was on Y&R when Tony left GH.

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Tristan was on Y&R when Tony left GH.

That is what I figured. Thank you.

Question for @Errol if you know, will GH transition to the Disney Plus app when they merge them together and phase out the HULU app?

Wouldn't have been easier to just bring Damian Smith back rather than Frank. Would've been better rather than the de-aging of Frank.

Damian is pretty dead too. I would bring on a Smith kid someday, but I see no reason to resurrect either of those.

If you are going the Smith route for a Luke exit, Damian wouldn't be as impactful. While I liked Damian and his shameless evil, he's kind of a blip on the radar for Luke. It wasn't a terribly memorable rivalry for me. I remember his shenanigans with Lucy and Katherine and his affair with Bobbie more than any else from his character.

3 minutes ago, carolineg said:

If you are going the Smith route for a Luke exit, Damian wouldn't be as impactful.

Yeah. I'd much rather bring on some young techbro guy or girl today, and much later it turns out they're secretly a Smith, maybe targeting Mayor Laura.

I do think Leigh McCloskey really sank his teeth into the role, esp as I'm revisiting it as an adult. But I do recall his schemes got pretty silly at times in his final year on the show.

2 minutes ago, Vee said:

Yeah. I'd much rather bring on some young techbro guy or girl today, and much later it turns out they're secretly a Smith, maybe targeting Mayor Laura.

I do think Leigh McCloskey really sank his teeth into the role, esp as I'm revisiting it as an adult. But I do recall his schemes got pretty silly at times in his final year on the show.

I like Damian more as an adult as well, but most of his schemes outside of ELQ, were plots to destroy his ex-girlfriends lol.

And trying to torch the Ward house with Laura and kids inside! to build a shopping mall (or whatever it was) was a crazy level of villainy you can't come back from.

10 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Tristan was on Y&R when Tony left GH.

I misread it last night; I thought I read it as 'Colin is still alive on Y&R'. haha.

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3 hours ago, dragonflies said:

Question for @Errol if you know, will GH transition to the Disney Plus app when they merge them together and phase out the HULU app?

There is currently no information available on the status of General Hospital's availability on Disney+.

Credits for Friday, January 2, 2026:

Created by: Frank & Doris Hursley
Executive producer: Frank Valentini
Head writers: Elizabeth Korte and Chris Van Etten
Writers: Emily Culliton; Scott Sickles and Cathy Lepard
Director: Tina Keller

Good setup today of things to come