—References to "General Hospital"
Question Time
Good morning, chickadees!
I didn't get a chance to watch Maternity yesterday. If Best Friend and I are going to do this together, we may have to watch it before the football game today. What football game, you might ask? Why the Redskins playing the Giants, I answer blithely. It's an important game so we might be able to squeeze Maternity in before hand. Given that we here in the US have an extra hour today, that should be a reasonable thing to do....
The question for today is "When did [General Hospital] start?"
General Hospital began in the 60s as a half hour radio serial. When it moved to television, it remained only one half hour and was in black and white. Sometime later, it expanded to one hour and came to us in glorious technicolour!
For an accurate rundown of GH's history check out http://soapzone.com/gh/history/ .
The next question is much more interesting and not as quick to answer, "What was [General Hospital] known for?"
Well. Initially, it was just another Peyton Place-ish daytime drama set in a hospital.
In the late 70s and early 80s, however, GH can lay claim to being the single most watched soap opera in the country if not the world and the show that put DayTime Television on everyone's "to watch" list. When the saga of Luke Spencer and Laura Vining Weber hit the cover of Time Magazine, soaps had officially arrived.
What had been a genre that was snubbed and looked down-upon suddenly grew up and developed some chops.
As the Era of Luke and Laura waned, GH went in other dramatic directions. They began to write "issue" laden plots....most of which worked well, were written well, acted well and had a profound impact on the viewers who had stuck around to see what GH had up its figurative sleeve.
Over the course of a few years, GH tackled the death of a major character's child and her subsequent heart donation to her cousin (the cousin is still a major player on the canvas); breast cancer and HIV/AIDS.
These storylines were handled so brilliantly that fans even coined names for them, "BJ's Heart", "Monica's Cancer" and "Stone's Death".
In my personal little fantasy world, these are the plots that hooked undergrad and med student Greg House.
Although GH has dabbled in major issues since those three, it's never hit stride again. Unfortunately, the current writing regime (Emmys aside) can't seem to invest enough time in any single plot to get the audience hooked. For example, one character had breast cancer for about a week and was cured with a kiss.
A KISS?!
How's that for a responsible hospital show that is known for making civic PAs?
Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
So, for now, I'm convinced that House sticks with the show merely as an excuse to get out of Clinic duty.
Plus, once you're sucked into the vortex that is GH, it's hard to escape. No matter how bad it gets. :-\
I didn't get a chance to watch Maternity yesterday. If Best Friend and I are going to do this together, we may have to watch it before the football game today. What football game, you might ask? Why the Redskins playing the Giants, I answer blithely. It's an important game so we might be able to squeeze Maternity in before hand. Given that we here in the US have an extra hour today, that should be a reasonable thing to do....
The question for today is "When did [General Hospital] start?"
General Hospital began in the 60s as a half hour radio serial. When it moved to television, it remained only one half hour and was in black and white. Sometime later, it expanded to one hour and came to us in glorious technicolour!
For an accurate rundown of GH's history check out http://soapzone.com/gh/history/ .
The next question is much more interesting and not as quick to answer, "What was [General Hospital] known for?"
Well. Initially, it was just another Peyton Place-ish daytime drama set in a hospital.
In the late 70s and early 80s, however, GH can lay claim to being the single most watched soap opera in the country if not the world and the show that put DayTime Television on everyone's "to watch" list. When the saga of Luke Spencer and Laura Vining Weber hit the cover of Time Magazine, soaps had officially arrived.
What had been a genre that was snubbed and looked down-upon suddenly grew up and developed some chops.
As the Era of Luke and Laura waned, GH went in other dramatic directions. They began to write "issue" laden plots....most of which worked well, were written well, acted well and had a profound impact on the viewers who had stuck around to see what GH had up its figurative sleeve.
Over the course of a few years, GH tackled the death of a major character's child and her subsequent heart donation to her cousin (the cousin is still a major player on the canvas); breast cancer and HIV/AIDS.
These storylines were handled so brilliantly that fans even coined names for them, "BJ's Heart", "Monica's Cancer" and "Stone's Death".
In my personal little fantasy world, these are the plots that hooked undergrad and med student Greg House.
Although GH has dabbled in major issues since those three, it's never hit stride again. Unfortunately, the current writing regime (Emmys aside) can't seem to invest enough time in any single plot to get the audience hooked. For example, one character had breast cancer for about a week and was cured with a kiss.
A KISS?!
How's that for a responsible hospital show that is known for making civic PAs?
Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
So, for now, I'm convinced that House sticks with the show merely as an excuse to get out of Clinic duty.
Plus, once you're sucked into the vortex that is GH, it's hard to escape. No matter how bad it gets. :-\
posted by Cap at 8:40 AM
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A Body Massage to Gain Height
Having a full body massage helps relieve stress and remove the hard and tough muscles in your body that seemed to have stiffened due to too much pressure. While being massaged, the body undergoes a certain relaxed state, helping a person loosen up his muscles and bones.
A full body massage helps increase height, whatever your age may be. Not only are tight muscles relieved during a session of massage, it also exercises the bones and stretches them. Have you ever noticed that whenever you are being massaged, some of your bones seem to pop and you are relieved and relaxed?
Some gaps between bones are not being filled up with the right amount of fluid that is should contain to work properly. This is caused by stress and an unhealthy diet. A small person that starts practicing a balanced diet, the right amount of sleep, exercise and regular massage therapies, he should expect to grow taller in a matter of weeks. For more information, go to http://www.growth-flex.com/ .
Massaging also helps improve posture, which is enough to increase an inch or two on top of your actual height. Many people have become used to standing in a humped style that they do not recognize the adverse effects of such. Height is not the only one directly affected by mal-posture. Several spinal column problems have aroused from employing the wrong posture. Such instances include scoliosis and lumbago.
Many experts actually recommend massaging so that the body will not be totally shocked with the growth enhancing methods that a person goes through to gain some height. One good growth enhancer is the Growth Flex V Pro System. Here you can visit, if you need to know in details, http://www.growth-flex.com/ .
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jennysmith
A Body Massage to Gain Height
Having a full body massage helps relieve stress and remove the hard and tough muscles in your body that seemed to have stiffened due to too much pressure. While being massaged, the body undergoes a certain relaxed state, helping a person loosen up his muscles and bones.
A full body massage helps increase height, whatever your age may be. Not only are tight muscles relieved during a session of massage, it also exercises the bones and stretches them. Have you ever noticed that whenever you are being massaged, some of your bones seem to pop and you are relieved and relaxed?
Some gaps between bones are not being filled up with the right amount of fluid that is should contain to work properly. This is caused by stress and an unhealthy diet. A small person that starts practicing a balanced diet, the right amount of sleep, exercise and regular massage therapies, he should expect to grow taller in a matter of weeks. For more information, go to http://www.growth-flex.com/ .
Massaging also helps improve posture, which is enough to increase an inch or two on top of your actual height. Many people have become used to standing in a humped style that they do not recognize the adverse effects of such. Height is not the only one directly affected by mal-posture. Several spinal column problems have aroused from employing the wrong posture. Such instances include scoliosis and lumbago.
Many experts actually recommend massaging so that the body will not be totally shocked with the growth enhancing methods that a person goes through to gain some height. One good growth enhancer is the Growth Flex V Pro System. Here you can visit, if you need to know in details, http://www.growth-flex.com/ .
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jennysmith
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