Port Charles Chuckles

Wow, Talk About a Turkey

 

So, this news is not not technically General Hospital-related (perhaps in it's suckage?), but I'm certain that most fans of the soap-genre were hoping (like myself) that the Prospect Park plan to move All My Children and One Life to Live online would be successful, giving new life to the soap industry and the talented folks that work within it. 

 

Alas, today it was announced that **plans were being halted indefinitely.

 

Wow.  Not only does the news itself suck, but the timing of the announcement could have been better.  Happy Turkey Day, indeed.

 

**Thanks to Liz W. for sending me the link

And the Hits Just Keep Coming

 

So, barely two weeks after I complain about the short-sightedness of letting Lexi Ainsworth go (because practically the only thing worth watching on General Hospital IS the acting) and a week after I rant about the complete ridiculousness of refusing to accommodateJonathan Jackson's wish for less sturm and drang, comes the announcement that Kimberly McCullough has decided to exit the role of Robin Scorpio Drake.

 

You do NOT want to see my blood pressure this morning  

 

One can hardly blame Kimberly McCullough for her decision, given the last six years of abysmal writing and lunatic story-telling (remember when Robin put Emma in a tree?).  As a viewer however, I am selfishly bummed because I could always count on Scrubs to make me smile. 

 

No matter what cockamamie story they were involved in, Jason Thompson and Kimberly McCullough always transcended the material and made me invest in Robin & Patrick and they had been one of the only consistent bright spots during the darkness of the Guza years.

 

I can not overstate my feelings about this news - - fudgecicles!!!  

You Have GOT to be Kidding Me

 

When I heard that Jonathan Jackson had decided not to renew his contract with General Hospital I assumed what 99% of the still-viewing audience probably did (all twenty of us) - - that he'd had enough of this crap.  Au contraire, Jackson was willing to stay in Port Charles, TPTB just flat-out refused to accommodate his completely reasonable requests.

 

Seriously?  Lucky Spencer is such an integral part of the canvas that you can't allow the actor to work a lighter schedule, so you'd rather do without the character entirely?

 

What the what?  Please explain this logic to me, and use small words.

 

The powers that be can accommodate Anthony Geary's summer vacation every year (in spite of the fact that most viewers have come to despise Luke Spencer based on recent characterization and history re-writing), but they can't write a story for Lucky that doesn't involve Jonathan Jackson grieving 24/7?  I mean, eventually the writers will run out of people to kill in Lucky's life, things almost have to look up purely by circumstance alone. 

 

Apparently lighter work-weeks, fewer big stories, AND less tragedy were all suggested as possible options by Jackson and TPTB wouldn't agree to ANY of those concessions?  To keep a popular, Emmy-winning actor on their show?

 

Oh for crying out loud.  Who exactly is making these dumb-ass decisions? 

 

That was a rhetorical question, it's the same numskull who let Bob Guza run the show into the ground for the past decade.

 

Oh, and apparently there's not even going to be an exit story, Lucky Spencer is just going to abandon his kids (one of whom is deathly ill) and wander off the canvas.

 

Uneffingbelievable!

 

I'm going to boldly predict right now that all those references to Laura recently are simply red herrings intended to pique audience interest, because there is NO way that Genie Francis would return to this insanity.  Especially not when the folks in charge have their heads so far up their own rectums they can't make a casting decision that most people would consider to be a "no-brainer". 

 

The Titanic is sinking, are we not even bothering to bale anymore?