General Hospital

I’m mainly posting this for my sister (Hi Sis!) because she’s a GH fan too, but she works during the day and I don’t think she has recording capabilities right now.

Anyhoo…

Serial Drama had a great post about the happenings on General Hospital last week.

I wonder what goes on when the GH writers get together to map out storylines. I envision Bob Guza regaling the staff with tales of movies he saw recently and how to best incorporate their plots onto the show, writers doing Rock Paper Scissors to see what couple they’re going to break up that week (reason and sense be damned!), and the muffled sounds of Awesome Writer banging furiously on the door of the closet he’s locked in, wailing, “Check your facts, you ingrates! Laura was MARRIED to Scott when she was raped. A freaking moose would be more capable and creative than you are!”

You can see the famous Luke and Laura scene here (complete with references to a married Scotty and Laura).

Luke remembered that Laura was married to Scotty when he told the story to Lucky here.
You can see the revision of history here!

I wonder what Genie Francis ever did to the GH show-runners, because they seem to go out of their way to give her the bird at all times. “You think you’re hot stuff with your Emmy nomination and place in pop culture history, don’t you? And you’re all ‘I would definitely go back to the show’ and we’re like, ‘Ew!’ So watch this: we’re going to tell a story about Laura without you! Take THAT and shove it up one of the home accessories you sell at your store”.

According to Genie Francis in People Magazine this week, one of the reasons that her weight got out of control again was disappointment from her guest contract last fall not being renewed… sigh. Are they stupid or just mean?

I hope she wins her Emmy; I hope she looks smashing when she does it; mostly I hope they re-hire her!