I've barely had time to regain my equilibrium from incessant cart-wheeling brought about the news that Bob Guza has finally been FIRED!!!! when, I was rudely forced back to Earth today by the news that Ingo Rademacher has been let go.
And this really sucks, not just because I have always enjoyed Ingo, but because I was hoping that with a new writing regime in-place, Jax might finally rediscover his testicles and/or get a storyline that doesn't involve him being a doormat for Carly/Guza's whipping-boy. I was getting all geared-up for a more balanced (non-mobular) canvas, and now one of Sonny's longest-living adversaries will be leaving Port Charles.
Perhaps leaving with Sonny's wife?
Perhaps leaving with Joss?
I can only hope that the new writing regime starts airing before Jax leaves town, otherwise I see a meat-hook in Jasper's future.
So, last Tuesday, I had a moment (it was shortly after Siobhan found Aidan's paternity test results and decided not to say anything to Lucky about it) I found myself pounding my head against the desk repeatedly and imagining another six to nine months of everyone in town knowing this "secret" except for Lucky himself (much like Jake's paternity before it) and I contemplated ending it all - - my fifteen-year viewing history, my blog, my drinking heavily in the afternoon - - all of it.
And just about the time I decide to take a mental-health vacation from General Hospital (I am currently nine days sober), the universe threw me what is called a game-changer.
Bob Guza is well and truly OUT as head writer.
Dude.
DUDE.
DUDE!!
I should take a vacation from caring more often, this is beyond awesome.
With All My Children and One Life to Live on their way out and General Hospital likely to follow shortly, I understand why many fans are speculating that this was Frons way of protecting his buddy Bob Guza from being the captain who sank the Titanic (dude, he already is), but at this point I can't really get outraged about it because the bottom line is that viewers will be treated to a vast improvement (it has to be, right?) for however long we have left and that is something worth celebrating . . . . and over-using emoticons, I'm positively giddy.
Dagnabit, I just realized that I now have nine entire episode to catch-up on. Oh well, that's why God created weekends . . . and Arbor Mist.
I have noticed a recent pattern developing and I find it distressing - - more often than not, my commentary on General Hospital lately seems to be comprised mainly of lists of things that I do not understand. They are long lists.
From character destruction to story repetition to blatant Emmy-pandering, Port Charles is awash in the absurd and the only way that I can make order out of the chaos is to write it all down in comforting list-style format. Unfortunately, my lists are probably not all that exciting for anyone else to read. But heck, I figure that many of my readers are still watching General Hospital, so they must be pretty forgiving folk to begin with.
I apologize in advance, but I will be doing it again - -
First of all, is anyone else as confused as I am by a promo for General Hospital without Sonny, Jason, or Carly featured prominently? (Possible Spoiler Alert: It goes without saying that Jason will eventually be saving Robin from asphyxiating in her basement on his way home from pulling a toddler from a well and rescuing a kitten from a tree)
Second of all, I thought Lisa was simply "misunderstood" as was the dearly departed Claudia, what's up with Johnny's sudden change in thinking (besides writer laziness, I mean)?
Third of all, why does the unhinged jiltee always decide to make the jilter "pay" by kidnapping/maiming/offing the jilter's wife/fiancee/golden retriever, etc? Why doesn't she ever make him actually pay by kidnapping/maiming or offing him? I've always wondered.
Fourth of all, what ever happened to Terrell and the plan to seduce Robin away from Patrick, did Guza see a squirrel and get distracted?
Fifth of all, "the tables WILL BE TURNED" ABC promo man? What does that even mean in morally-inverted Port Charles, another two-week stint at Shady Brook?
Sixth of all, it seems a shame to write Lisa into a corner so soon after Anthony Zacchara returned to town, they could have been the next power-mad (emphasis on the Brazil-nut) couple to wreak havoc scheming together.
Alas, I fear that Robin and Patrick's spike in screentime will be short-lived. Oh well, I'll take what I can get on General Mobspital.
Anyone taking bets on how this one plays-out?
I'll put my money on the morgue.
It's been like six weeks since Jake was run-over by Luke, five weeks since Suzanne slit Theo's throat, and at least three weeks since Morticia Adams in a blonde wig blew Brandon's brains out, so you know that Guza's trigger-finger has got to be getting itchy . . .
