oh, Guza

[gwynnega]

On today's General Hospital...

Bob Guza: No one gets to write James Franco's scenes but me. Mine mine mine!

Franco: There was this girl I was in love with...named Vanessa. Some guy murdered her.

Gwynnega: Are you kidding me, Guza? I know you're pissed that Vanessa Marcil won't come back to GH, but really.

Franco: [spouts misogynistic garbage]

Maxie: That is the worst pickup line I've ever heard.

Gwynnega: Plus it's just cringeworthy dialogue.

Franco: Okay, Maxie, I can see you're just a scared good girl. I'll take you home.

Maxie: No! I'm going to sleep with you, even though you're a creep and I'm in love with Spinelli. You're James Franco, and it's only a short-term role! Spinelli will understand.


Meanwhile...

Lucky: [wanders all over town being more brilliant than Sherlock Holmes]

Greg Vaughan: What, now that Jonathan Jackson's playing Lucky instead of me, suddenly Lucky's a freaking genius and not a lunkhead?

Sonny: Holy crap, Lucky's not a lunkhead anymore. He might actually arrest me for something! Damn it, Lucky, why'd you ever become a cop?

Lucky: [gives beautiful soliloquy on why he became a cop]

Franco: Damn, why couldn't whoever wrote that glorious speech give me some decent dialogue?

Guza: What? You didn't love my dialogue about the artist's obsession with violent death?

Franco: Go see a psychiatrist.

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

Whoa -- thanks for pointing me to the Lucky scenes (which someone kindly clipped on Youtube). Jonathan Jackson is a fuckin' fabulous actor, he really, really is. (And you're right, the dialogue was pretty good too.)

[gwynnega]

Jonathan Jackson is just magnificent. I do think the writers gave Greg Vaughan very little to work with, but it's also true that JJ is amazing!

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Wait, Lucky became a cop???

[gwynnega]

Yes, he became a cop when he was played by a different actor than Jonathan Jackson. When JJ returned to the role, everyone wondered if Lucky would quit the force, but the writers and JJ have done a good job of making Lucky the Cop plausible...

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, JJ as Lucky the Cop fits really well with what I remember of how he was in the role.

(It's been, what, 10 years or more since I watched regularly? Oh Vanessa Marcil, you will always be my first girl crush)

[gwynnega]

The two recast Luckys weren't bad actors, but they weren't of JJ's caliber, and they just weren't Lucky! It was pretty clear the writers weren't inspired to write for Lucky until JJ returned.

GH has been very uneven for a number of years--especially after people like JJ and Vanessa Marcil left. It really helps having him back!