This week was interesting. Lots of jealousy/anger issues going on.
Patrick spends a little time with Carly who tells him that Lisa's crush on him is obvious. Patrick shrugs off her suggestion, but seems inwardly pleased that someone has noticed.
Nicholas finds Tracy and Luke in Helena's dungeon. Initially Nik doesn't want to let them out saying he doesn't why his grandmother would put them there in the first place. Lucky shows up and turns the tables on Nik in more ways than one. He tells him about what Helena took away from him as a teenager and how now, Nicholas is doing the same thing. Then he locks Nik in the cell to give him a little taste of Cassadine medicine. Tracy is taken to GH where she seems to recover quite nicely. However, she is still scorned regarding her fake marriage to Luke and tells him he will not get another chance to hurt her. SIDE NOTE: If the Tracy/Luke marriage was fake, why all the subterfuge around his fake re-marriage to Laura? Come one writers, we viewers are smarter than you apparently give us credit for.
Michael happens upon Jason standing over Carter's dead body. Jason instructs Michael to high tail it outta there and tell no one of what he witnessed. The warden tries to question a few other inmates about Carter's murder, but none of them are talking. It seems Carter was a thorn in a lot more side's than just Michael's and they're happy to see him gone.
Carly continues her scheme against Dante and Lulu, but with Karma being the bitch that it is, when she tries to sidle up to Jax. She is disappointed, however, to see that he already has plans with his ex-wife, Skye. Skye wants to see what resources Jax can offer her to help her get her hands on Alcazar's hidden fortune.
Dante visits Judge Carroll and makes a plea for Michael's release siting the fact that prison will only turn Michael further away from a law abiding life. In the end, the judge relents and releases Michael into Dante's custody, with a few conditions. The main one being minimal contact with his father, Sonny.
Claire pays Jason a visit to question him about Franco. Initially Jason stonewalls, but eventually he fills her in on the details of his encounter with Franco; especially regarding Franco's promise to kill every time Jason does. Claire worries that if Franco finds out that Jason killed Carter there will be another murder to solve. SIDE NOTE #2: I'd love to know what kind of product Jason is using on his hair that is still available in prison.
Sonny spots Kristina and Johnny together on the docks. After seeing Sonny, Kristina really plays up their fake relationship which causes Sonny to just about blow a gasket. When Sonny returns to his office, he summons Alexis to let her know what is going on with their daughter.
And FINALLY! someone talks some sense into Kristina - or tries to anyway. WTG Olivia! After their encounter with Sonny on the docks, Kristina and Johnny return to his penthouse where they are confronted by Olivia. She unloads with both barrels on Kristina and her recent "acting out". Ethan arrives just in time to take Kristina home. Olivia then sets her sights on Johnny. It quickly escalates into a shouting match culminating with Olivia deciding to end the relationship. She then runs to Sonny (big surprise) and confirms all of his worst fears regarding Kristina and Johnny. Just as she has him on brink of plotting Johnny's death, Olivia cautions Sonny against acting on his anger, for his daughter's sake.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wk Ending 6/11/10
The week started with Sonny asking Carly if he was ever abusive to her. Really, Sonny? Ok I get it, you never hit a woman. You've said it like 872 times in the last few months. But how is it that anyone wouldn't understand VERBAL abuse and that its effects are often just as lasting as physical abuse. I like that Carly told him he was, but then she quantified by saying they were abusive to each other, somewhat letting him off the hook - AGAIN! After his little talk with Carly, Sonny starts to see what everyone is saying and makes an offer to Kristina to go back to counseling with her. She declines, telling Sonny that he is not “misunderstood” like Michael, and she's not going to let him use her therapy to make himself feel better. RIGHT ON!! Kristina then pays Micheal a visit in jail and proceeds to run Sonny down. As if on cue, Micheal defends their father. Simultaneously (did they carpool?), Sonny visits with Jason and asks Jason is something is going on with Carly. Hello? Jason is locked up! Why don't you try finding out for yourself. God, even with Jason in prison, Sonny still expects him to do everything. As it turns out, Carly is still busy scheming against Dante and Lulu and even tries to recruit Johnny, but he’s not interested.
Kristina is confronted by a couple of classmates who lay into her regarding Kiefer. Johnny shows up, pretends to be her boyfriend and scares them off. This is what starts a little idea in Kristina's head about creating a ruse where Johnny pretends to date her to make her father angry. With everything else Johnny is doing lately to take Sonny down, I don't see him refusing this offer.
Tracy and Luke are still trapped in a cell thanks to Helena. Tracy's illness is getting worse which leads to a funny dream sequence of her marriage ceremony to Luke: Tracy and Luke in some sort of cowboy getup, swaying in their drunkenness and professing their love. This then leads to a real moment where she and Luke “renews their vows”, right before Tracy takes a turn for the worst. Luke is so worried, he confesses that they were never legally married. Tracy is not at all happy about this and although Luke then goes on to profess his love, she ain’t buying it. Meanwhile Lucky has made his way to the island where Tracy and Luke are being held, but when he runs into Nicholas, he runs into a brick wall. Nick refuses to let Lucky search the island then has one of his hired goons escort Luck off. I don’t know how I feel about his dark and twisty Nicholas. It doesn’t feel authentic to me.
In Carly’s spare time (Who’s taking care of Jocelyn?) she was able to fit in some apartment hunter and snared the apartment across the hall from Dante for Brook Lyn. Speaking of, how many elevators does Dante's building have? He has one that takes him right into his apartment and then a door to a hallway that he apparently now shares with Brooke. I'm no architect, but how is that possible? Brook, in the meantime, is laying on the Bensonhurst/good old days stories a bit thick in an attempt to make a connection with Dante that's stronger than the one he has with Lulu. And don't even get me started on the whole Brook Lyn in a towel bit. So weak! So obvious! Lulu spots Dante trying to pick the lock with Brook standing over him wearing only one of Dante's shirts and she gets a clue about what Brook is up to. Later when Brook returns the shirt (freshly laundered and pressed, no less!), Lulu decides to lay some ground rules and basically tells Brook that the days of her unannounced visits, especially while draped in nothing but a towel, have come to an end. I can't wait until this all blows up in Carly's face - and it always does! Carly is all over the place these days; scheming against Dante and Lulu, creating fake opportunities to "run in" Jax, and dealing with Sonny. I think she's gonna blow soon.
Michael tells Jason what Carter did to him - sort of. He doesn't mention being raped, but he seems so torn up about it that I'm not sure if there is supposed to be more implied. Jason continues to teach Micheal the moves on how to defend himself which starts Micheal wondering why he needs to learn how to fight if Jason is around. Jason’s silence tips Micheal off that Jason could be spending some time in solitary after he takes care of Carter. Jason is then called away by a guard which leads Carter to believe can have another crack at Michael. In the nick of time Jason returns (doesn’t he always?) and scares Carter off. Later in the showers, Jason takes care of Carter, but before Carter dies he has some parting words for Jason: “Franco says hi”.
Kristina is confronted by a couple of classmates who lay into her regarding Kiefer. Johnny shows up, pretends to be her boyfriend and scares them off. This is what starts a little idea in Kristina's head about creating a ruse where Johnny pretends to date her to make her father angry. With everything else Johnny is doing lately to take Sonny down, I don't see him refusing this offer.
Tracy and Luke are still trapped in a cell thanks to Helena. Tracy's illness is getting worse which leads to a funny dream sequence of her marriage ceremony to Luke: Tracy and Luke in some sort of cowboy getup, swaying in their drunkenness and professing their love. This then leads to a real moment where she and Luke “renews their vows”, right before Tracy takes a turn for the worst. Luke is so worried, he confesses that they were never legally married. Tracy is not at all happy about this and although Luke then goes on to profess his love, she ain’t buying it. Meanwhile Lucky has made his way to the island where Tracy and Luke are being held, but when he runs into Nicholas, he runs into a brick wall. Nick refuses to let Lucky search the island then has one of his hired goons escort Luck off. I don’t know how I feel about his dark and twisty Nicholas. It doesn’t feel authentic to me.
In Carly’s spare time (Who’s taking care of Jocelyn?) she was able to fit in some apartment hunter and snared the apartment across the hall from Dante for Brook Lyn. Speaking of, how many elevators does Dante's building have? He has one that takes him right into his apartment and then a door to a hallway that he apparently now shares with Brooke. I'm no architect, but how is that possible? Brook, in the meantime, is laying on the Bensonhurst/good old days stories a bit thick in an attempt to make a connection with Dante that's stronger than the one he has with Lulu. And don't even get me started on the whole Brook Lyn in a towel bit. So weak! So obvious! Lulu spots Dante trying to pick the lock with Brook standing over him wearing only one of Dante's shirts and she gets a clue about what Brook is up to. Later when Brook returns the shirt (freshly laundered and pressed, no less!), Lulu decides to lay some ground rules and basically tells Brook that the days of her unannounced visits, especially while draped in nothing but a towel, have come to an end. I can't wait until this all blows up in Carly's face - and it always does! Carly is all over the place these days; scheming against Dante and Lulu, creating fake opportunities to "run in" Jax, and dealing with Sonny. I think she's gonna blow soon.
Michael tells Jason what Carter did to him - sort of. He doesn't mention being raped, but he seems so torn up about it that I'm not sure if there is supposed to be more implied. Jason continues to teach Micheal the moves on how to defend himself which starts Micheal wondering why he needs to learn how to fight if Jason is around. Jason’s silence tips Micheal off that Jason could be spending some time in solitary after he takes care of Carter. Jason is then called away by a guard which leads Carter to believe can have another crack at Michael. In the nick of time Jason returns (doesn’t he always?) and scares Carter off. Later in the showers, Jason takes care of Carter, but before Carter dies he has some parting words for Jason: “Franco says hi”.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
First Entry - Welcome!
Hello! And welcome to my blog! I'm really excited. Here you will find weekly recaps of all the happenings going on at General Hospital. Please feel free to read and discuss anything I've written in the Guest Book below. I'd love to get your feedback - even if you don't agree. Hey, that's what a blog is about right? Spreading your opinion. If you haven't been viewing regularly, I'll use this first entry to get you caught up - somewhat. You may notice in future posts that I don't spread the love around evenly. I can't help it, there are just some characters I like more than others. What can I say? I'm human.
Sonny's daughter, Kristina is really having a hard time lately. What with the abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, Kiefer, her father's neglect and angry outbursts and her brother/best friend Micheal in prison. Unfortunately she's about to make things worse by getting involved with Johnny. This apple doesn't fall from the tree; Kristina likes to play with fire.
The Micheal story line --LOVE CHAD DUELL --has me in knots. I'm not sure what Carter (his fellow inmate) actually did to him. So far, Michael's not saying. But there sure is a lot of heavy hinting around a possible prison rape. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I get the realism this storyline would bring and I do like that they are not romanticizing prison. However, it's a potentially ugly story and I just hope they don't gloss over it.
I'm crazy about Lula and Dante. I like the actors together, and think they have great chemistry. They seem to genuinely like each other on screen and off. I also like Brook Lynn, but I'm not too crazy about the her current storyline. I hope she gets more involved with the Quartermaines. The scene last week with Brook Lynn and Edward was good.
I've been a HUGE Jonathan Jackson fan from the beginning so needless to say I'm thrilled the original Lucky is back. And this is no slam on Greg Vaughn. He was great, but to me, the REAL Lucky has come home. The scenes after Lucky found out that Elizabeth was having an affair with his brother, Nicholas were amazing! No other "Lucky" could have pulled them off.
Johnny and Olivia? Meh. I like them each individually, but I'm not crazy about the pairing. And the bloom is off the Spixie rose too. I wouldn't mind a Maxie/Johnny pairing though. That could be fun.
I love my Scrubs (Robin and Patrick), but why so much angst? I know in Soap Opera Land no couple is safe, but GH has broken so many storyline barriers, couldn't they, just this one time, break this one too? Is it so wrong to have a happy couple on a soap? Note: You won't find a lot of talk on here about Lisa. I don't like the storyline or the character and you know what our mothers used to say about not having anything nice to say...And the same goes for Mya. I'm trying to reserve judgement here, but so far I'm not impressed with what they've done with this character.
So that's a little bit of background. As I said, feel free to leave your comments in the Guest Book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I will enjoy writing it and come back often.
~ Jennifer
Sonny's daughter, Kristina is really having a hard time lately. What with the abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, Kiefer, her father's neglect and angry outbursts and her brother/best friend Micheal in prison. Unfortunately she's about to make things worse by getting involved with Johnny. This apple doesn't fall from the tree; Kristina likes to play with fire.
The Micheal story line --LOVE CHAD DUELL --has me in knots. I'm not sure what Carter (his fellow inmate) actually did to him. So far, Michael's not saying. But there sure is a lot of heavy hinting around a possible prison rape. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I get the realism this storyline would bring and I do like that they are not romanticizing prison. However, it's a potentially ugly story and I just hope they don't gloss over it.
I'm crazy about Lula and Dante. I like the actors together, and think they have great chemistry. They seem to genuinely like each other on screen and off. I also like Brook Lynn, but I'm not too crazy about the her current storyline. I hope she gets more involved with the Quartermaines. The scene last week with Brook Lynn and Edward was good.
I've been a HUGE Jonathan Jackson fan from the beginning so needless to say I'm thrilled the original Lucky is back. And this is no slam on Greg Vaughn. He was great, but to me, the REAL Lucky has come home. The scenes after Lucky found out that Elizabeth was having an affair with his brother, Nicholas were amazing! No other "Lucky" could have pulled them off.
Johnny and Olivia? Meh. I like them each individually, but I'm not crazy about the pairing. And the bloom is off the Spixie rose too. I wouldn't mind a Maxie/Johnny pairing though. That could be fun.
I love my Scrubs (Robin and Patrick), but why so much angst? I know in Soap Opera Land no couple is safe, but GH has broken so many storyline barriers, couldn't they, just this one time, break this one too? Is it so wrong to have a happy couple on a soap? Note: You won't find a lot of talk on here about Lisa. I don't like the storyline or the character and you know what our mothers used to say about not having anything nice to say...And the same goes for Mya. I'm trying to reserve judgement here, but so far I'm not impressed with what they've done with this character.
So that's a little bit of background. As I said, feel free to leave your comments in the Guest Book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I will enjoy writing it and come back often.
~ Jennifer
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