—References to "General Hospital"
Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe
Today's theme was "missing mommy".
1. Carly is told she can't come home for the holidays. So, rather than raise Hell, Sonny acquieses and allows "Um"ily to handle the family. Great. What a bunch of heiferdust. Do the writers realize that they just castrated their leading man? Oh. Wait. Probably not.
2. Alexis has been "forced" by DA Durant, in abstentia, to defend Manny Ruiz in his post-brain surgery trial for all manner of nefarious activity. Alexis, oth, wants to go cut down a Christmas Tree with her husband and two daughters.
Nancy Lee Grahn, who is a certified daytime acting genius, totally sold the scene in which she interviews "Manny" with the intent of convincing him that she's a terrible choice for a defense attorney and comes away convinced he may well have been the victim of a brain tumour.
When she tells Curly-Boo (little Kristina) that she can't go tree hunting, my heart strings plucked out the Albinoni adaggio. O_O
*sigh*
NLG, I love you.
Not as much as I love David Shore.....but damned close.
(He's more my type, you see.)
3. Nikolas swings by the Quartermaine Mansion to give his little stepsister Lulu her Christmas present. Unable to wait, she opens it as soon as he's gone. It's a diamond necklace. As if the heart strings weren't tugged enough, Dillon asks her why she's weepy. She tells him that her mother, Laura (yes, THAT Laura) promised her she'd get a diamond when she was old enough to appreciate it. Lulu is amazed that Nikolas remembered.
Great.
I'm sad now.
1. Carly is told she can't come home for the holidays. So, rather than raise Hell, Sonny acquieses and allows "Um"ily to handle the family. Great. What a bunch of heiferdust. Do the writers realize that they just castrated their leading man? Oh. Wait. Probably not.
2. Alexis has been "forced" by DA Durant, in abstentia, to defend Manny Ruiz in his post-brain surgery trial for all manner of nefarious activity. Alexis, oth, wants to go cut down a Christmas Tree with her husband and two daughters.
Nancy Lee Grahn, who is a certified daytime acting genius, totally sold the scene in which she interviews "Manny" with the intent of convincing him that she's a terrible choice for a defense attorney and comes away convinced he may well have been the victim of a brain tumour.
When she tells Curly-Boo (little Kristina) that she can't go tree hunting, my heart strings plucked out the Albinoni adaggio. O_O
*sigh*
NLG, I love you.
Not as much as I love David Shore.....but damned close.
(He's more my type, you see.)
3. Nikolas swings by the Quartermaine Mansion to give his little stepsister Lulu her Christmas present. Unable to wait, she opens it as soon as he's gone. It's a diamond necklace. As if the heart strings weren't tugged enough, Dillon asks her why she's weepy. She tells him that her mother, Laura (yes, THAT Laura) promised her she'd get a diamond when she was old enough to appreciate it. Lulu is amazed that Nikolas remembered.
Great.
I'm sad now.
5 Comments:
Why can't Carly be catatonic like Laura? Gads, I loathe the woman! And I do hope Emily doesn't end up with Sonny. She deserves better. Sonny and Carly deserve each other, and not in a good way!
I, too, wish Carly would at the least get laryngitis!!!! Permanently, though I'm sure she could be as irritating in sign language.
How's this for a potential disgusting storyline? (Providing the producers don't recast Courtney, I'm praying!!) Emily has one mad passionate night with Sonny that she will dream about forever (ugh -- can't STAND her!) Courtney leaves, never to return because Jax hires a hitman who brings him her head in a basket. Nikolas and Emily reunite, but Emily's a little preggers. Carly goes crazier at the thought of Sonny with anyone, EVEN her, and kills Sonny, Nik, Emily (after she delivers a healthy baby), Robin Scorpio, AND herself. Sam and Jason end up with the entire empire AND all the kids. Don't know what would happen next, but it's a start!
Personally, I really like this incarnation of Carly. She reminds me a lot of Sarah Brown's OrginalFlavour!Carly.
Tamara Braun took Carly up the road to high society. Although she, herself, was very sharp and spikey, she rounded out some edges on Carly's character.
I liked Carly Three but all she did was devolve into madness.
This Carly, if she has put any thought into it, is combining the two changes in her life. She's a blend of "trailer trash made high society" and "I'm gonna remember my roots because the life I was leading made me mad."
I think it's very cool.
Of course I'm usually in the minority about that kind of stuff.
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Great idea, rhia! I'm not sure the writing staff or the producers, etc., would go for wiping the entire canvas of characters, though.
LOLOL
Certainly would cut down on the overhead, though, wouldn't it!?
The only plotline I find thoroughly revolting at the moment is the evisceration of Jax, the complete unwitting sluttiness of Courtney (whom I adored with Jason...sort of a TV: La Femme Nikita set up), and the totally whiny selfishness of Prince Nikolas. WAH. I used to like each one of those characters. :-\
Now? When they are on screen? I do my Sudoku.
Oh, I have nothing against any of the actresses. I haven't liked Carly no matter who has played her.
I think Carly is an acquired taste. While I was in the military, I stopped watching GH. Best Friend got me back into it after I returned from two years in Desert War One and was going to Law School.
I was at ground zero (not THAT one, silly) for the "Carly and Sonny have hate sex; Jason leaves in a snit." I ~think~ that was November 30th, 1999.
I adored Sarah Brown. I thought she was terrific. So, I've had a soft spot for Carly ever since.
It's exactly the equal and opposite reaction I had to Leez.
I
cannot
stand
her.
That's because my introduction to her was in the way-back-when-machine and she was a bitchy, bratty teen.
The next time I saw her she was INEXPLICABLY shitting all over the newest blonde on the block, Courtney.
Remember?
So, I not only loathe the character (and this recent angelic incarnation makes me go, "Wha?") but I also could do without the actress.
If she'd just visit a tanning booth once a month so she didn't look ~quite~ so blue and cadaverous and take diction lessons.
Maybe.
May-be I might get over my dislike.
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