the awesomeness that is GH
Nov. 14th, 2012 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaI haven't been posting much lately about General Hospital...but I really should, because it is getting more and more awesome. I am enjoying it more than I have in over a decade. It reminds me a lot of GH circa 1991.
Sometimes its awesomeness is of a cracktastic nature, as when it turned out that the reason returned-from-the-dead Duke Lavery was behaving so out of character was because he wasn't Duke Lavery, but evil mastermind Cesar Faison in a Duke mask! Yep. And then at the end of the episode, it was revealed that Real Duke is alive, after all!
Sometimes the awesomeness is not cracktastic, but simply a righting of the imbalances that Guza's regime had put into place. For example, Anna Devane is front and center on the show again, as she should be. (And Robert Scorpio returns to the show tomorrow!) Another example: the return from the dead (yes, there are lots of those at the moment) of AJ Quartermaine--played by tall, muscular Sean Kanan, rather than the man who'd replaced him, the wonderful but pocket-sized Billy Warlock--in what is rapidly turning into the Call Sonny and Carly on Their Hypocrisy Tour. Watching Sonny and Carly squirm as Michael starts to call AJ "my father" is damn satisfying.
Sometimes its awesomeness is of a cracktastic nature, as when it turned out that the reason returned-from-the-dead Duke Lavery was behaving so out of character was because he wasn't Duke Lavery, but evil mastermind Cesar Faison in a Duke mask! Yep. And then at the end of the episode, it was revealed that Real Duke is alive, after all!
Sometimes the awesomeness is not cracktastic, but simply a righting of the imbalances that Guza's regime had put into place. For example, Anna Devane is front and center on the show again, as she should be. (And Robert Scorpio returns to the show tomorrow!) Another example: the return from the dead (yes, there are lots of those at the moment) of AJ Quartermaine--played by tall, muscular Sean Kanan, rather than the man who'd replaced him, the wonderful but pocket-sized Billy Warlock--in what is rapidly turning into the Call Sonny and Carly on Their Hypocrisy Tour. Watching Sonny and Carly squirm as Michael starts to call AJ "my father" is damn satisfying.
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Date: 2012-11-15 12:00 pm (UTC)Cheers and hugs!
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Date: 2012-11-15 07:09 pm (UTC)::hugs::
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Date: 2012-11-15 12:03 pm (UTC)Even though Billy Warlock was a fantastic actor, I always preferred Sean Kanan. For one, he was AJ when I started to be really into the show for myself (as opposed to the background noise that my mom was watching). Also, he was just a better foil against Jason, with him and Steve looking so much alike. And BW had this enormous chip on his shoulder (which made sense, given what AJ went through in those years) while Sean still had this glimmer of hope and confidence. I can't wait to see what happens!
And I'm SO glad that Real Duke is going to show his face!!
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Date: 2012-11-15 07:16 pm (UTC)I loved both AJs, but Sean Kanan makes more sense on canvas right now. He doesn't look like an AJ who Sonny can push around (the way Billy Warlock did). This is the most interesting story Sonny and Carly have had in eons...
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Date: 2012-11-15 08:54 pm (UTC)I DIE. DIE.
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