It's a Miracle I Am Still Watching
GH IMHO Column for AllSoapScoops.com
Well, the year is not yet quite over, but I am
doing my year in review article
anyway.
ABC keeps showing commercials for all their daytime dramas with the umbrella them "a season of hope." I keep hoping the show will get better. It's a miracle I am still watching. I think it's also interesting that Soap Opera Digest loves the cast but hates the storylines. Interesting, and a shame, since they do have such a good cast. So here's my opinion of the show this year...
THE GOOD
Luke Spencer is always good, even when I don't care about the storyline, don't like the storyline, or I even don't understand the storyline. I am very glad the Spencer/Cassidine wars are over. Pairing him with Jane Elliot (Tracey) has been a scream, and the Q's maid, Alice, is a hoot and a half.
Hats off to whomever it was in casting that found the SORASed Leslie Lu. She looks like the possible daughter of Genie Francis and she's a good actress, too. Nice to have someone recognize that Luke's many absences have not made his daughter's heart grow fonder. It's a shame that they have told us, through Lulu, that her grandmother doesn't want her living with her--not sure why that would be. In real life, they don't want to pay Denise Alexander more than they have to.
I always like Alan and Monica, and they have really come together nicely in the story about Jason's surgery. Monica telling Jason the story about the time she went to the gatehouse and felt she really was his mother was so nice. Too bad we don't have more of that from this core family.
Robin's return has been nice. Good to see someone that Sam can be friends with without sleeping with them. And Robin hates Carly. I like that!
Bringing back Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) has potential also, because it ties the veterans in while exposing us to his son (who so far is a complete jackass, but a cute jackass...).
THE BAD
Revolving door romances are getting on my nerves. Courtney and Carly have ricocheted into liaisons that have made no sense. Emily spurning Nikolas made sense in terms of the rape, but now she's suddenly turned on by Sonny. Ew. No wonder Internet usenet readers are dubbing this liaison "Soily."
I think the one male character that I really cannot stand at this point is Jax. I started hating him when he dumped Skye DURING their honeymoon because Brenda appeared at his window. His relationship with Courtney was okay until he became obsessed with childbearing.
I would probably like Sam a lot more if she spoke 50 percent less of the time. They're trying to turn her into a jack-of-all-trades guru on every subject from brain surgery to child-rearing. It's enough that she's supportive. Nobody likes a know-it-all, and especially one who suddenly does ballroom dancing (number one stupid storyline of the year, btw).
Calling Nurse Bobbie: It's ridiculous in a year of three actresses playing Carly that we haven't seen Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) on the air. Why is EMILY taking care of Michael and Morgan when they have a GRANDMOTHER. Bobbie has had more airtime with Noah Drake than she has with her own family. This makes no sense, unless this is what the actress actually wants. It's funny that I am complaining about this: I don't even like the Bobbie character all that much.
THE UGLY
Manny Ruiz and Helena Cassidine are working my last nerve. How Manny just sauntered into an OR without anyone noticing is bizarre. And then Carly and Sonny waltz in also. Hello, Jason's HEAD was wide open. Does keeping anything sterile matter to anyone?
While I am very tired of Helena, watching her knock out Courteny and kick her into the water was oddly fun.
Reese and Carly III: I found the entire handling of both actresses, Kari Wuhrer and Jennifer Branson, so distasteful. They threw JB into the Carly story just a day after Tamara Braun left and Michael, who had been thought dead, was revealed to be alive. Then, after creating a huge story for Reese, she's suddenly dispatched, and then JB is replaced as Carly with Laura Wright, who does not seem as suited to the role as JB was, if you ask me. LW's Carly is just nasty and seems to glare and squint a lot. I want to give her polarized sunglasses. Something, anything, to not watch this squintfest. I've liked LW on Loving and The City, but the whole Carly situation is a fiasco. The only thing I have liked about Carly all year is that she has a good shrink (Kent Masters King, ex-Julie, KL) who keeps asking her why she doesn't try to develop her OWN life.
Michael: I found the entire kidnapping and brainwashing of Michael by AJ so distasteful. Killing off AJ also seemed unnecessary. Nice for Billy Warlock to get a contract with Days of Our Lives, reprising a role he originated years ago. Too bad they killed a Q on GH.
Meanwhile, having Michael as AJ's killer was just wrong, and then compounded in wrongness by making the day player shrink the real killer. In Michael we see the real shame that is GH; the authorities are seen as bad guys and the mafia are the good guys. I realize the Mafia is a good source of drama, but on daytime, it's too much of a good thing. How many shootings and kidnappings can we stand. It's amazing how Sonny can shoot up a room and then get mad at Carly for lying to him.
Don't know how they are going to improve this show when head writer Bob Guza Jr. tells TV Guide that the show is rooted in the mob (citing Luke and Laura circa 1981). No, the show is NOT rooted in the mob; it's rooted in the HOSPITAL and always has been. Does't this guy know the name of the show he's writing for!?
Where is Claire Labine when you need her!?
ABC keeps showing commercials for all their daytime dramas with the umbrella them "a season of hope." I keep hoping the show will get better. It's a miracle I am still watching. I think it's also interesting that Soap Opera Digest loves the cast but hates the storylines. Interesting, and a shame, since they do have such a good cast. So here's my opinion of the show this year...
THE GOOD
Luke Spencer is always good, even when I don't care about the storyline, don't like the storyline, or I even don't understand the storyline. I am very glad the Spencer/Cassidine wars are over. Pairing him with Jane Elliot (Tracey) has been a scream, and the Q's maid, Alice, is a hoot and a half.
Hats off to whomever it was in casting that found the SORASed Leslie Lu. She looks like the possible daughter of Genie Francis and she's a good actress, too. Nice to have someone recognize that Luke's many absences have not made his daughter's heart grow fonder. It's a shame that they have told us, through Lulu, that her grandmother doesn't want her living with her--not sure why that would be. In real life, they don't want to pay Denise Alexander more than they have to.
I always like Alan and Monica, and they have really come together nicely in the story about Jason's surgery. Monica telling Jason the story about the time she went to the gatehouse and felt she really was his mother was so nice. Too bad we don't have more of that from this core family.
Robin's return has been nice. Good to see someone that Sam can be friends with without sleeping with them. And Robin hates Carly. I like that!
Bringing back Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) has potential also, because it ties the veterans in while exposing us to his son (who so far is a complete jackass, but a cute jackass...).
THE BAD
Revolving door romances are getting on my nerves. Courtney and Carly have ricocheted into liaisons that have made no sense. Emily spurning Nikolas made sense in terms of the rape, but now she's suddenly turned on by Sonny. Ew. No wonder Internet usenet readers are dubbing this liaison "Soily."
I think the one male character that I really cannot stand at this point is Jax. I started hating him when he dumped Skye DURING their honeymoon because Brenda appeared at his window. His relationship with Courtney was okay until he became obsessed with childbearing.
I would probably like Sam a lot more if she spoke 50 percent less of the time. They're trying to turn her into a jack-of-all-trades guru on every subject from brain surgery to child-rearing. It's enough that she's supportive. Nobody likes a know-it-all, and especially one who suddenly does ballroom dancing (number one stupid storyline of the year, btw).
Calling Nurse Bobbie: It's ridiculous in a year of three actresses playing Carly that we haven't seen Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) on the air. Why is EMILY taking care of Michael and Morgan when they have a GRANDMOTHER. Bobbie has had more airtime with Noah Drake than she has with her own family. This makes no sense, unless this is what the actress actually wants. It's funny that I am complaining about this: I don't even like the Bobbie character all that much.
THE UGLY
Manny Ruiz and Helena Cassidine are working my last nerve. How Manny just sauntered into an OR without anyone noticing is bizarre. And then Carly and Sonny waltz in also. Hello, Jason's HEAD was wide open. Does keeping anything sterile matter to anyone?
While I am very tired of Helena, watching her knock out Courteny and kick her into the water was oddly fun.
Reese and Carly III: I found the entire handling of both actresses, Kari Wuhrer and Jennifer Branson, so distasteful. They threw JB into the Carly story just a day after Tamara Braun left and Michael, who had been thought dead, was revealed to be alive. Then, after creating a huge story for Reese, she's suddenly dispatched, and then JB is replaced as Carly with Laura Wright, who does not seem as suited to the role as JB was, if you ask me. LW's Carly is just nasty and seems to glare and squint a lot. I want to give her polarized sunglasses. Something, anything, to not watch this squintfest. I've liked LW on Loving and The City, but the whole Carly situation is a fiasco. The only thing I have liked about Carly all year is that she has a good shrink (Kent Masters King, ex-Julie, KL) who keeps asking her why she doesn't try to develop her OWN life.
Michael: I found the entire kidnapping and brainwashing of Michael by AJ so distasteful. Killing off AJ also seemed unnecessary. Nice for Billy Warlock to get a contract with Days of Our Lives, reprising a role he originated years ago. Too bad they killed a Q on GH.
Meanwhile, having Michael as AJ's killer was just wrong, and then compounded in wrongness by making the day player shrink the real killer. In Michael we see the real shame that is GH; the authorities are seen as bad guys and the mafia are the good guys. I realize the Mafia is a good source of drama, but on daytime, it's too much of a good thing. How many shootings and kidnappings can we stand. It's amazing how Sonny can shoot up a room and then get mad at Carly for lying to him.
Don't know how they are going to improve this show when head writer Bob Guza Jr. tells TV Guide that the show is rooted in the mob (citing Luke and Laura circa 1981). No, the show is NOT rooted in the mob; it's rooted in the HOSPITAL and always has been. Does't this guy know the name of the show he's writing for!?
Where is Claire Labine when you need her!?
Posted: Fri - December 30, 2005 at 01:43 AM
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