The GH Official Thread

[trip]

There's a OLTL Board?! I didn't realize...see, this is looking better and better!

Maria

Here is one. There may be another out there.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1668077

 

[MickeysMommy]

This show STINKS

 

[DB&KS]

Everyone whined and got Elizabeth back and her story line is that she is going full tilt trying to break up all her ex's (that she dumped) who are actually finally happy now that she is out of their lives?? Oh and the big shocker, she is neglecting her children and one runs out into traffic and gets run over. Nothing bothers me more than a character who pretends to be saintly but is not. Carly never denies who she is and I love to watch her go at her little schemes. I love Jason and Sam! Guilty pleasure seeing two people happy together I guess. I know crazy right!

 

[rcraw45425]

so tired of all the crap....generally just wait for the magazines to update me!

 

[3Leafs]

I think this is all still the material that was written when they planned on letting her go. Hopefully new stuff will be better. They need to bring a man in for her so she can MOVE ON!!!

 

[RadioNate]

Does anyone lock their doors? Robin walks into Carly's house? Seriously. Former mob wife, the Balkan on the loose, rich wife of international corporate raider, sister in law to psyco Jerry Jacks and anyone can just walk in???????

 

[Kae]

Everyone whined and got Elizabeth back and her story line is that she is going full tilt trying to break up all her ex's (that she dumped) who are actually finally happy now that she is out of their lives?? Oh and the big shocker, she is neglecting her children and one runs out into traffic and gets run over. Nothing bothers me more than a character who pretends to be saintly but is not. Carly never denies who she is and I love to watch her go at her little schemes. I love Jason and Sam! Guilty pleasure seeing two people happy together I guess. I know crazy right!

Oh man you had better be careful, there are not many of our kind on this thread mostly Sam haters.

Kae

 

[DB&KS]

Oh man you had better be careful, there are not many of our kind on this thread mostly Sam haters.

Kae

I do not bash Elizabeth as much as I would like but sometimes when I see a lot of people attacking Sam gets me a little crazy, so sorry for the outburst of insanity.......or should I say sanity

 

[Kae]

I do not bash Elizabeth as much as I would like but sometimes when I see a lot of people attacking Sam gets me a little crazy, so sorry for the outburst of insanity.......or should I say sanity

Do you remember the young Spunky Bad girl Liz? i miss her, Becky has some teeth & she deserves and good storyline & a new man. Maybe someone Artsie or A Musican.

Kae

 

[61292cna]

How much longer until someone turns Elizabeth into DCFS? She gets locked out while Cam set the house on fire she lets Jake get away & be hit by a car, Lord help Aiden!!!

 

[BabySimba]

SOMEONE PLEASE GET RID OF LISA!!! She is driving me insane!

 

[3Leafs]

SOMEONE PLEASE GET RID OF LISA!!! She is driving me insane!

We need a like button on here. I hope they are currently wrapping up a bunch of story lines.. I am so tired of the ones they have on here..

 

[RadioNate]

Of course gh would punish Elizabeth & Jason fans by not even giving them one scene together before Jake's death.*

 

[DisneyLover1217]

I missed a lot of yesterday's show because Obama came on to talk about what is gong on in Japan.

Where did Robin find the syringe? Do we know hit Jake? And how did Suzanne finally tell Theo about their grandson being alive?

 

[LeslieG]

I intentionally haven't been watching, because I don't even want to see this story line with Jake being killed. Wouldn't this child have been so interesting to bring back in a couple years as Jason's teenage son? I don't understand why they wanted to kill him off.

And why do the same story as they did with BJ and Maxie and donating an organ? It's like they think the viewers won't remember. I'm disgusted with the show right now.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I missed a lot of yesterday's show because Obama came on to talk about what is gong on in Japan.

Where did Robin find the syringe? Do we know hit Jake? And how did Suzanne finally tell Theo about their grandson being alive?

I'll try to catch you up before tomorrow's episode.

Robin found the syringe at the Haunted Star. It was sitting behind some liquor bottles, practically in plain sight. I'm surprised Luke or Ethan didn't see it and toss it in the trash. Lisa solved her clue and ran in just after Robin found it. Lisa tried to take it, but Robin knocked her to the ground and ran (loved it!).

We don't know who hit Jake, but there is a list of possible suspects. Carly was rushing to the hospital to be with Josslyn after Jax called and said she was there with a fever. Luke was rushing to Lucky and Sibbohan's wedding. Sam was trying to find a Balkan henchman but had one of her headaches and pulled off to the side of the road. While she was sitting in her car, she heard sirens, indicating that she was near Elizabeth's house when they were coming for Jake. Sonny and Brenda were on their way to the airport for their honeymoon. Theo and Suzanne were on their way to find their grandson, although they didn't show them on the road until after Jake was hit. Robin was racing back to the hospital with the syringe with crazy Lisa hot on her tail. Soap Opera Digest made it look like Sam was guilty, but in a roundabout way so it doesn't mean it's true. I don't see how they could possibly have Sam be guilty of killing Jason's son. The magazine also said Carly will wonder if she's guilty at some point and feel terrible since Josslyn is getting Jake's kidneys. I loved it when Luke told Tracy that Jake was in bad shape and that he's actually a Quartermaine. Tracy looked genuinely sad, as did Luke.

I don't remember exactly when or if Suzanne told Theo their grandson existed. He is bent on finding the kid and Suzanne led him to a house where she thought the child was being raised. The house turned out to be vacant.

I, too, would have loved to see Jake grow up and wonder about his parentage. Maybe he would even become a little bad boy, much to his cop-dad Lucky's dismay. It would have been fun to see. Too bad they chose to kill such an important little character with such potential for the future!

 

[rcraw45425]

......sitting here with tears streaming already....

 

[MickeysMommy]

Previews for the week of 21-Mar-2011
by Carol Banks Weber

**Jason maintains his sentinel stance overlooking the operating room, while Dr. Patrick Drake tries to work another miracle on little Jake.
While operating on Jake, Patrick encounters problems. The machines indicate that continuing the procedure will be useless.
Kristina has the presence of mind to make sure Abby can’t be comforting Michael right now.
Jason is crushed to the core to witness his own son, Jake, go to heaven.


The little boy known as Jake is truly gone, but his body remains on life support for the time being.
All sorts of thoughts go through Jason’s head, like why is this happening, maybe he shouldn’t have given Jake up, his life of crime didn’t kill Jake—some random car accident did…
Jason has to tell Lucky Jake didn’t make it.
Jason becomes inconsolable. Until Sam comes on the scene.
Lucky gathers strength from God and prepares to inform Elizabeth that she has lost a son.
Steve attends to his hurting sister Elizabeth.
Nikolas makes himself available to Lucky, Elizabeth, all of the Spencers, as the family suffers the loss together.
Lucky unburdens himself with his safe place to land, his dad Luke.
Patrick’s head is also full of terrible, horrified thoughts about his utter helplessness in the face of this failed operation to do anything to save that poor boy.
Patrick returns to the operating room, takes note of its cleaned restoration – ready for the next victim, like nothing happened – and loses it.
Patrick takes his frustration and anger out on inanimate objects in the operating room—until Robin enters the fray and reaches him.

Maxie requires Matt’s tender loving care.
Sam and Dante put themselves to the task of discerning the actual driver who accidentally gave little Jake a fatal knock on the noggin’. They come up with seven drivers out that night, including her and Carly.
Sam and Dante unravel a list of possible hit ‘n run suspects longer than their arm.
Dante finds himself still in a no-win situation dealing with mob-loving Michael.
It scares Sam to think she may have been the one to accidentally run Jake over. The more she thinks about it, the more likely this scenario seems. It was that headache, that damned headache…
Sam also can’t dismiss the possibility that Carly drove too wildly to notice she bumped Jake off the road.
Sam has a private chat with little Josslyn, giving voice to something nobody else knows.
Jax and Carly stare at only two ways this thing can go for Josslyn: painful chemo or a miracle kidney match. Jax is banking on the latter.
Terrell directs Jax and Carly to sign off on chemo for Josslyn.
Jax, however, sets his sights on a better cure: an organ match from another dying child.
Jax glowers at Shawn accessing Carly and Josslyn. Shawn’s just trying to help Carly cope.
Carly whispers to Jason that she’s afraid she may have hit ‘n run Jake, after all.
Jason dismisses Carly’s fears as the hit ‘n runner, after hearing her out.
Regardless, Michael chooses to step in and do a cover-up so Carly doesn’t have to pay the piper for the hit ‘n run, in case she did it. Michael is fully prepared to tamper with/trash evidence, too.
Kristina distracts the cops/Ronnie, so that Michael can abscond with the list of seven driver-suspects in Jake’s accidental death report.
Seeing a kidney transplant as the only saving grace for Josslyn, Carly bypasses Elizabeth and Lucky, to go to Jason with the request to take Jake’s kidneys.
Jason puts Carly down for bringing something like this up now when Elizabeth is still reeling from her son Jake’s sudden death.
When Jason broaches the subject of the kidney transplant with Elizabeth, she skewers him for his insensitivity and gall.
Sam provides the tower of strength Jason needs.
Jason finds the toy motorcycle Jake loved so much and presents it to Elizabeth at her home.
Later, Jason visits upon Elizabeth at her home, where they go over what happened, what went wrong, and make peace. It is at this point where they can look at the reality of saving another child through theirs.
Lucky manages to talk to Elizabeth in a way that isn’t offensive, regarding Jake’s kidneys going to Josslyn.

During his honeymoon with Brenda, Sonny goes about consulting with his experts on Theo’s coordinates. It’s become an obsession.
Mr. Potato Head—I mean, Theo browbeats Suzanne until she’s giving up where Brenda’s baby boy has been stashed.
Theo has Suzanne choose between her work with ASEC or family.
Brenda promises Sonny that she is so over the moon.
Sonny and Brenda get down to brass tacks about where they’ll live, who will be the breadwinner, etc.
Brenda elucidates to Sonny that she has no interest whatsoever in modeling again.
Brenda and Sonny pull the plug on their honeymoon to go back to Port Charles and be of help to Jason and Carly.
Brenda approaches the area where Carly and Josslyn are staying at GH, only with good intentions.
Brenda has a big thing to unload off her chest, which takes on a very emotional tone.
Megalomaniac Franco inserts himself into the children-in-peril situation by sending a missive Carly’s way about him promising to mess with Josslyn.
The Spencer clan circles the wagons, because of what’s happening to Jake. Whatever Elizabeth and Lucky need…
Lucky has been a rock for Elizabeth. But he needs a rock too. For that, he trusts Maxie with his breaking heart.
Kristina tries to block Abby from Michael. Krissy thinks nothing of thwarting Abby this way.
Michael lets Abby take care of him and his sorrow.
Michael and Abby break in their new relationship with sex.
Jason, Lucky and Elizabeth give their consent to donate Jake’s kidneys to Josslyn, to prevent another senseless child’s death.
The GH staff galvanizes to work on Josslyn in the important kidney transplant.
In light of the tragedy affecting Josslyn and Jake, Robin and Patrick come to their senses about the cheating.
Robin brings her husband Patrick back home to make a family with Emma, for good. She doesn’t have to ask Patrick twice.
Patrick, Robin, and Emma relish themselves a good old family breakfast, with sippie cups and coffee.
Lisa wins again, by grabbing the syringe and making sure nobody ever sees it again, thus saving her own hide.
Lisa and Johnny engage in hot intercourse action.
Johnny breaks up Patrick’s good thing going with Robin and Emma, by showing up unannounced and beating the drum for Lisa.
Johnny reminds Patrick that Patrick cheated on Robin with Lisa, and to not put all this on Lisa.
Fed up with constantly having his relationship with Robin tested, Patrick explodes on Johnny.
Patrick rebukes Johnny for starting the treasure hunt with Robin and Lisa, even insinuating that a child, Jake, was killed because of it.
Robin is so fed up with Lisa, she doesn’t care anymore about protocol. It’s time to beef.
Lisa comes at Robin brandishing a scalpel.

Next week: Jason loses his mind and his cool. Watch Anger Boy go off… Lulu is concerned for her clan’s welfare… Luke and Sonny swap notes as dads who’ve been through tragedies like this before… Jax flips his lid over Shawn becoming Carly’s new bodyguard for the baby… Lulu and Dante come to an agreement about their stance and the world’s events around them. Does the boy propose???… Michael and Abby solidify their good thing together, with sex… Brandon returns from jailtime to use Abby as his punching bag… Lisa finds she cannot have her way. Not this time… Patrick and Robin rub their love in Lisa’s face… Theo makes his way toward the grandson he never knew about. **

 

[MickeysMommy]

News for the week of 21-Mar-2011
by Carol Banks Weber

The upcoming story of Jake’s hit ‘n run death and Josslyn’s stage 5 kidney cancer has rubbed many viewers – who’ve personally experienced the real-life deaths of real children – the wrong way. Cheap theatrics aside, the actors involved had to take a step back to fully absorb the full ramifications of playing this story out, to their own emotional torment. A lot of them are parents, too. Steve Burton (Jason) most definitely did not want to mentally put himself in the position of even pretending his own child (he has a young son too) was dying until he absolutely had to for the cameras. “When I first heard about it, I was at a loss. It's not often I'm told what's going to happen and I'm like, 'Wow, how am I going to do this?' I couldn't even think about going there until I really had to do it because I just had that great scene with Jake not two months ago, and he's such a cute little guy! He was so good. We improv-ed that whole little scene and it got great feedback -- and then this tragedy happens? It's crazy.”


Head writer Bob Guza Jr. overrode any negative fallout considerations for the chance to play the story long-term – he’s talking years – and make every scene count for the actors and their characters. “We really struggled with the idea of killing a child. This was not a flash decision by any means. Ultimately, we decided it was powerful and emotional storytelling that not only would bring growth to our beloved characters, but also shed light on true priorities.” –Soap Opera Digest

When Steve Burton (Jason) did have to go to a dark place of imagining what it would be like to lose his own son to a hit ‘n run, it took a long time—days—to shake off the dark feelings after filming his reaction scenes. “For me as an actor, I have to go to a lot of not fun and dark places to get to that emotional level you'll be seeing in the next couple of weeks. It takes a day or two to get out of the funk. It's very emotional. For your son to die or to get hit by a car, it's hard to even fathom in real life.” –Terry Morrow, March 16, 2011, Tele-buddy’s Tinseltown Tales

Jonathan Jackson (Lucky) didn’t have to worry about going to that dark place of Method acting, because he uses another technique, one that involves spiritual empathy. “I tend to focus more on the spiritual nature of the scenes and take it more from a place of prayer as opposed to trying to siphon off my own personal relationships. I know a lot of people approach it that way and I think there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. I just don’t really like using my kids to access something for a performance.” Even so, there were days following the filming of the harrowing child-in-peril scenes that took a lot out of him emotionally. –Fancast.com by Sara Bibel, March 16, 2011

Costume Designer Mary Iannelli loves her job. Who can blame her? She gets to pick out wedding gown silhouettes for Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo’s GH character of Brenda. Back in October, she worked on the creative process using a board/book so that the actress, executive producer and head writer could all be on the same page going forward. She also enjoyed working on Luke and Tracy’s Vegas quickie wedding around the same time too, so that was a bonus. The nuts and bolts actually go deeper than just picking out wardrobe that stands out. “I usually put together a board for Jill and Bob to look at for all the guests, so we can figure out, ‘Oh, that look clashes with this,’ or ‘Let's take that out and put them in the blue dress.’ We can figure it out and they get an idea of what everything is going to look like, because on the day of shooting, there are so many cast members here that it's really hard to leave it to the last minute.” –Soap Opera Digest online, interview by SPW’s Joe Diliberto

GH fans weren’t the only ones extremely upset—to tears—at the announcement of Rebecca Herbst’s (Elizabeth) firing. Naturally, the actress who has portrayed this veteran GH character didn’t take the news well either. She cried along with the rest of us, worried about her family’s financial situation, and sat back wondering why any of this was happening, seemingly out of the blue. In a recent ABC Soaps in Depth interview, Herbst said she was blindsided by the firing of a few weeks ago, given her full storylines involving Lucky, Nikolas, Brook Lynn, paternity, children with them and Jason. What’s even worse was having to absorb this bad news over the weekend, then finish out the rest of her work days. After receiving her notice on Friday, getting through the weekend and starting work again on Monday, Herbst said she had to tell her co-workers. It was then that she discovered the milk of human kindness in their outrage, as well as the outrage of fans across the board, including JaSam fan bases. Especially heartening for her was hearing that the fans were – for the most part – expressing their disappointment without lashing out immaturely, with only the best for the show in mind. So, imagine Herbst’s enormous relief and shock to hear from executive producer Jill Farren Phelps mere weeks later, to say there’s been a stay of execution. Herbst made Phelps repeat her good news and promise it wasn’t a joke. The entire incident has taught Herbst an important lesson: she had to rely on God, through prayers, she has been able to remain steadfast and open to whatever else He has in store, and remember that she needs to make sure there’s a fallback option because you never know.

While Jason Thompson (Patrick) enjoyed the presence of the previous twins who played his on-screen daughter Emma, he’s really overjoyed by the renewed presence of a slightly older, more interactive child actor playing the recast Emma. “… she’s an adorable little girl; she’s talking and running up to Patrick and Robin. She’s part of a family, not a little baby that’s just sitting there.” –Soap Opera Weekly

Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina) and Haley Pullos (Molly) received awards in their respective age category in the 32nd annual Young Artists Awards last week.

Movie star James Franco reprises his role within a role as a demented artist and villain with the same last name, starting on March 25th via a special note to Carly. He’s on Twitter, causing controversy and misunderstanding, boys and girls.

Gossip for the week of 21-Mar-2011
by Carol Banks Weber

Early Friday morning (March 18th), Soap Opera Digest online sent delighted, relieved shock waves throughout the soap community by claiming head writer Bob Guza Jr. was given his walking papers. Later that day, network insiders refuted the claim, putting SOD in a bad light. Personally, I don’t think they were wrong. Network insiders can say any report is false. But all too often, reports are proven true, despite the denials. In case we’re wrong, go and sign this Twitition to call for the removal of Guza for real. Enough is enough, already. I don’t buy his excuses for killing off Jake last week at all. This isn’t to grow the characters, IMHO; it’s to exploit our parental love for children for cheap ratings and to beat a dead horse by glorifying the mob, showing that yet again someone dear died from a random act of fate, not some mob shoot-out or hit gone wrong.

While AMC and OLTL remain on cancellation watch – or even more drastic, a merger – GH seems untouchable, thanks to movie star status given by James Franco (Franco) and Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo (Brenda). In a March 15th update, gossip columnist RavenBeauty reported via her sources of the recent ABC Daytime meeting’s details: TPTB “view [GH] as more of a prime time show that could easily last for years to come (still in its daytime slot). They feel that it has not lost its luster or potential.”

Despite GH’s golden status, some of its long-time actors are not long for its world. This may mean Ingo Rademacher (Jax) and Tyler Christopher (Nikolas). Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth), however, will enjoy a slight character readjustment. Initially, as she was set to leave the show, at the show’s request, her character was changed to be a horrible ***** on wheels. Now, she’ll be “spicier, but gentler than originally intended,” reported RavenBeauty.

Rumors had Robin turn up as the hit ‘n run driver that accidentally caused little baby boy Jake’s death. Even she will suspect herself, but it’ll turn out to be someone else entirely (not Sam, though). RavenBeauty then began writing about outgoing Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo (Brenda), which made me wonder if it’s her. Marcil Giovinazzo is leaving the show, as her contract dictates. Explained RavenBeauty: “I think fans need to keep in mind that actors will always laugh off rumors, and not tell you if they are truly leaving because they are contractually bound by what is known as a gag order. They can get into a lot of trouble by telling you this if ABC has not given them the green light to do so. That is why I maintained that she was leaving even when she laughed off the idea. Asking actors to reveal their status with the show puts them in a very awkward position. Wave goodbye to the divine one.”

Other spumors per RavenBeauty:

**Another special guest star makes an appearance, other than Franco. For Carly?
Jason and Sam encounter the great divide during conflict and stress, but will survive it.
Sam will suffer greatly from a health crisis, but will pull through in the end.
Jason may end Johnny’s life. If Johnny is written as just a one-note Sonny-obsessed idiot, he’ll be gone.
Carly and Jax are truly over, as she falls for Shawn.
Nikolas and Brook Lynn are also no more sooner than later.
Elizabeth finds love with another man entirely.
Dante asks Lulu to be his wife.

Given his short but brutally egomaniacal history, my guess for the person who intentionally orchestrated this entire Jake, Josslyn, Sam headache trauma is…Franco.

Lisa and Johnny have shown TPTB (meaning, maybe just Guza) much potential as a power couple. They were supposed to go bye-bye soon, but their chemistry and what they bring to the head writer’s table may keep them going strong. **

 

[3Leafs]

Thanks Stacey!