General Hospital

Head? Meet Desk.

2007-03-27T13:25:00.000-05:00

Finally.

Fi.

Na.

Lee.

A GH reference. In the last episode. Half Wit. (With the amazing and genius and incomparable David John Matthews in a starring role......Life is schweeeeeeeet!)

Ahem.

Anyhoodle, House feigns brain cancer to get into a test study that copes with chronic pain. He fakes his labs and his alias is Luke N. Laura.

This, my GHers, is a reference to the famous Super Couple who, back in the 80s, hit the cover of Time Magazine. Luke Spencer and Laura (8,000,000 last names I couldn't even begin to remember but I think she went by Weber.

Le sigh.

I know it's been a dry spell here on the blog but I can't help that TIIC over at ABC Daytime wouldn't let FOX play in their sandbox.

A Credible GH Reference! Whee!

2006-11-19T12:46:00.000-05:00

Finally! A credible GH reference on House! Wheeeeeee!

For those who have seen "Son of a Coma Guy", I'm sure you'll remember the scene in which Wilson goes to the casino to give House an alibi while nefarious activities take place in the hotel room.

Wilson's idea of the alibi is a good one...he makes an idiot of himself trying to pick up a woman at the Roulette wheel (who clearly did not want to be picked up) and then tells her his room number anyway. However, he pretends he can't remember it and yells at "House" who is playing slots some distance away. "House" yells back the number.

Thereby covering both Wilson and House for the time of.....oh, whatever it is that goes on in that hotel room.....if you don't know I'm not going to be the one to spoil you.

We come to find out that House has actually remained behind with Gabe up in the room. Wilson, cleverly, found a look-a-like, gave him the cane and yelled at him. It was dark enough and busy enough and far enough away that he actually quite resembled House.

Well, "Fake House" as he's called on IMDb, was played by Johnathan Strait who played a magician on General Hospital!

Whew!

and

YAY!

Whining is SO unbecoming.

2006-08-30T09:31:00.000-05:00

I'm whining again.

Only because I'm really at a loss about what to do. GH has suddenly become quite good (with some glaring exceptions) but there have been utterly no House references and, as discussed to death, there have been no references the other direction, either.

First of all, the idjits at ABC daytime didn't see fit to give "House" the rights and second of all (at least for the next few days) we're in hiatus. It's been a sloooooooow GH/House summer.

I've just finished watching series one of Sandbaggers (Roy Marsden is so YOUNG! LOL And the quality is CRAP!).....great, great show, though. (I so saw what was going to happen to Laura a mile off....Burnside was much too happy.)

Just to quickly recap the important stuff on GH in the hopeful happenstance that we get a House/GH reference some day....Here goes.

Diego ("Alfredo" from Humpty Dumpty) and Lulu conspired to break Dillon and Georgie up. Lulu lied to Dillon and told him that Georgie and Diego had an affair. He believed her (?!) and slept with her...taking her virginity in the process. Lulu has now discovered she's pregnant and they are actually handling a discussion of abortion like adults. (?!) The Quartermaines won't permit it. Nikolas and Liz are noncommittal but supportive. Lucky is freaking out. (More on him in a second.) Actually, Nikolas had a great scene yesterday as he told Liz that he's kinda siding on Lulu's getting the abortion. He says he knows what it was like growing up unwanted and he would prefer that Lulu wait until she's prepared to be a parent.

The ensemble reactions and characterizations are actually kinda cool.

I do have two shallow fashion statements about Nikolas, though. Tyler Christopher? I love you, babe. I do. But, you have a nagging problem with mucus when you get emotional. Con the wardrobe/prop dudes into giving you a Princely monogrammed handkerchief. Second, for the past few episodes....while you look fab in that pink shirt....you've got to lose the sweat stains under the arms. a) That is unbecoming on a prince and b) that is unbecoming on anyone.

Lucky finally got busted for his Vicodin habit and is in NA trying to kick it. (Which is why he's freaking out about Lulu's "condition"....he's a little overwhelmed at the moment.)

Blessedly, we had a break from Jax (Ingo Rademacher was renegotiating his contract) and Carly (vacation?) Man, that was much needed.

They returned yesterday and I can't say I'm happy but I'll run with it.

Sonny is in therapy and is taking his meds. He's turning into a "nicer, kinder" Mob Boss. Right.

In a surprise twist, yesterday Dr. Lainey (I lurve it when Benard blows his line and calls her that) announced to Sonny that someone broke into her office and stole all of her notes on him. Yikes.

Jason and Sam might be getting back together. (I'm cool with that. She's a horribly flawed character and he's a hitman with a God complex but for some strange reason that works for me.)

Alexis (LOVE!) has stage two lung cancer and may die. She confided in Jason yesterday and he was just wonderful...so I think they are setting up a "Okay, you really are a good guy. You can date my daughter" moment.

C'est tout!

Man, it has been a quiet summer, hasn't it?!

Jade. It's a lovely shade of green.

2006-08-20T23:35:00.000-05:00

Jeez, I'm so jaded by this show. I swear.

There were some House references this week that were such broad reaches that I don't even have the heart to blog about them. Lots of "dry swallowing Vicodin" by Lucky and some vague "He's a genius but a jerk" comments about Patrick Drake.

But, still.

I'm bummed that GH (while daytime is bitching about being on its last legs) couldn't pony up and give "House" (the number one hit on FOX since "24") some credit.......

GAH.

No wonder ABC soaps are dying a sad death.

Wake up and smell the Prime Time, people.

You work WAY too hard not to.

Sam and Reek. I'm so disappointed.

2006-08-14T18:05:00.000-05:00

There is even MORE nothing to report on GH than before. Aside from the fact that both Alexis and Jason see Sam (Jason's angsty lover) and her FATHER Ric (her mother, Alexis', husband) gettin' it on.

Oh Lord.

Seriously. My stars. Why am I watching this shite?

It's just vile.

And so it goes...

2006-07-30T23:40:00.000-05:00

There really is no news.

Emily sucks harder than ever. The actress is just embarassing and should go back to being a WalMart checkout girl where she was supposedly "discovered".

Good lord.

Other than Lucky dry swallowing Vicodin we're being treated to the unbelievably handsome Dr. Drake dealing with an AIDS crisis.

Keeps me happy and this way I don't have to watch the agonizing crap that's called grays anatomy. hork

Anne

Blogger? Won't you be kind?

2006-06-11T09:50:00.000-05:00

WOW.

I've had the hardest time with Blogger recently.

There really is nothing new on the GH front. We've been spinning our wheels with the WTD?John storyline and Sonny's weird descent into......I have no idea what.......weirdness.

Honestly.

I have NO Earthly idea what Benard is going for but....okay.....just kill Emily as soon as humanly possible, please. You have an excuse now. You're mentally ill. Just take her right out and claim insanity. I promise I'll back you up.

On Friday, we had Hydrocodone Addicted Lucky try and make a "bust" that Leez asked Jason to set up. It went horribly wrong (duh) but it was someone Jason wanted taken out anyway and he shot over the unsuspecting and unknowing Lucky's shoulder.

Gee. That should work out GREAT. [/sarcasm]

2006-06-05T11:51:00.000-05:00

Just a quick catch up.

Emily still sucks like a Hoover. She's an idiot and I loathe her.To the point where, just yesterday, I said to Best Friend, aghast, "I think I like ~Leez~ more than her!?"

I was momentarily stunned by my revelation.

GAH.

Natalia Livingston needs a breath coach. She needs a wardrobe person who doesn't hate her. And Emily needs a complete rewrite. She makes no sense whatsoever and Livingston can't pull it off.

Now, mind you, Leez has been completely rewritten and it seems to work for her character. She started out as the bitchy leather wearing skank until she was raped. We listened to her whine for two years and then she became the Angel of Port Charles. (Until there was a momentary pschysophrenic bit with Courtney falling in love with Jason. Leez felt that Jason was "hers"---wha?--and devolved into her old self for a minute or two.....but then back to Pollyanna she went.)

In the current plot, after much fiddling around, what we have now is that more and more people know about Baby John's true paternity. Carly, Jax, Maxie and Robin. Hmm. We see where that's headed.

Lulu and Diego are hell bent on breaking Georgie and Dillon up. Georgie and Dillon, oblivious to anything but their jealousy (not anticipating a conspiracy) are working on a divorce.

The main plot is a sad if not predictable one. Sam is recovering from brain surgery and Alexis wants her to move into their new house.....Skye's old set......as her daughter. Or, as Alexis says it, "Daw-der." hee I can't complain because the way she says it gives her such conviction that you've gotta stand up for Motherhood, Apple Pie and America.

Sam wants to go back to Jason but he's doing the martyr thing, "I'm just too dan-ger-ous!"Lots of tears ensue.

Everyone is turning in a great performance, though.

Meanwhile, Sonny is doing some weird version of BiPolar disease wherein he's alternating between manic highs and lows and some sort of inexplicable anger management problem.

That's it!

Oh, Dr. Drake is a frelling HOTTIE and is a cross between McDreamy (so I've been told) and Greg House. He and Robin ~finally~ got it on and it was truly romantic and hilarious at the same time. :-) Yay, sex!

Laurie's Embarrassment? NO!?

2006-05-21T16:02:00.000-05:00

Your intrepid reporter ended up in a dark room with Hugh Laurie for a good 3 hours the other night...along with about 150 of his ~other~ best friends.

Go over to www.televisionwithoutpity.com or www.bravotv.com and figure it out.

The only reference to General Hospital came when Mr. Lipton, the interviewer, asked Mr. Laurie if House had any "daytime" obsessions. Laurie slid down in his chair, put his hand over his eyes, and giggled out a muffled, "Yes." [beat] "General Hospital." [beat] "He watches soaps."

Now. I take issue with that.

Soap opera actors are the hardest working guys in the business and for Laurie, who's always moaning about how hard he works on House.....to belittle the soaps that way.....just rankled.

But, that's quite okay, sir.

The rest of the interview was fascinating.

As my Montreal friends say, 'Ci beaucoup!

GH Ketchup and Two Reverse References to House

2006-05-17T23:53:00.000-05:00

Quick GH catch up, anyone?

Maxie discovered the paper that says Nikolas is really Baby John's father. Rather than tell her crushee Nikolas, she decides to blackmail Jax. So far she's anonymous but she has enlisted Coleman's (~sigh, Coleman~) newest little partner in crime, Diego ("Alfredo" from the House episode "Humpty Dumpty") to do her dirty work.

Jax tells Carly that he wants to go straight to Nikolas and take away the strange blackmailer's power because he's tired of being Port Charles' easiest blackmail pushover. Carly puts the immediate ixnay on atthay idea.

Meanwhile, there is some Mission Impossible rip-off crap going on on Monkey Island but suffice to say it's bringing out some fun performances from Emmy winning Tony Geary as Luke (congrats!), the unbearably handsome Tristan Rogers as Scorpio and Emma Samms as Holly. Dillon and Lulu are there.....and there's some weird, squicky sex appeal going on between them but....whatever. Hopefully it will go away. Today, Tracy showed up to "save" Luke before he could race off with Holly to parts unknown with some serious, serious jewelry they found on the island. Hee.

Back in PC, Alexis has spirited Sam's comatose body away from the hospital and into an unknown location.

Seems that Jason authorized tricky surgery (performed by the GORGEOUS Dr. Patrick Drake) that was, in fact, not his decision to make and was illegal because Alexis had an injunction against him.

This show is seriously legally challenged.

However, in a shout out to "House", Alexis tried to stop the surgery by barging into the sterile operating theatre.

All that was missing was the spitting!

But the surgery was performed and Alexis was so mad she had everyone arrested and, while they were preoccupied dealing with that and her subsequent dropping o fthe charges, she spirited Sam away.

In other news, and as another shout out to "House", Lucky is convinced that the mysterious liaison between Dr. Patrick Drake and Lucky's devoted, hard working wife, Leeeeez.....is, in fact, an affair. His impression is not helped by the fact that he's dry swallowing Hydrocodone....a version of Vicodin. ;-)

That's all folks!

Oh, "Um"ily is an idiot and a Livingston needs serious acting lessons. Sonny is entering a fugue state, I think. Benard is trying to bring it but is failing so I'm not really sure what he's going for. And the pairing of these two is not only wrong on so many levels......IT SUCKS LIKE A HOOVER.

I cannot stand it and I hope Jason keeps as far away from them as he possibly can. I recommend Namibia. (That's a Laurie/House shout out, by the way. I had to say it.)

GH Shout Out!

2006-04-29T09:28:00.000-05:00

Well, now.

Hows about that?

Tamara Braun (the second Carly) was on House!?!

Whee!

Today's Theme? Family Quarrels.

2006-04-21T23:49:00.000-05:00

Honestly, the only interesting thing that happened today was that Carly was in a gorgeous dress and Jax is a dick.

sigh

While Carly is at Sonny's surprise birthday party at Castle GreySkull, Jax is at her house awaiting her return. The door knocks and it's a courier with a letter for Carly. Jax signs for it and sees the return address is Mercy Hospital. (The very Emergency Backup Hospital that proved Nikolas is John's father.) I was going to say "real" and then thought "biological" and then thought, "Oh the Hell with it. Tell them."

Okay, I don't like getting ~too~ personal on this blog but, what the Hell.

I'm adopted.

I was adopted at 6 weeks of age and as it happens, I grew into a 5'9", 145#, natural blonde with red cheeks, bright blue eyes and big bones. Walk down any street in Denmark and you'll see hundreds of me. I'm a dime a dozen.

BUT, ask me what my heritage is and it's Scottish.

My FAMILY is full of skinny, gaunt, pale, hawk nosed, brillaint, funny, baleful, glorious, moody, "sensitive yet manly", "feminine yet strong as an ox" Scots.

I have the Scots in my blood by osmosis.

I hear the bagpipes in my sleep and I cook a haggis on January 25th. (Google it.)

So all this "Who's the Daddy" crap on soap operas makes me tired.

Boot, Ah'll tell ye whah: That there Jax is a dick.

The letter arrives and he not only signs it but when he sees the return address is Mercy Hospital, he opens it.

Wait.

Let me say that a little louder.

HE OPENS A LETTER ADDRESSED TO SOMEONE ELSE.

GOD.

What a...... erg I'm choking.

Anyhoodle. He opens it and sees that it's evidence of Baby John's true paternity.

So, see my issue? There is a difference between "biological" and "real" depending on the age of the child. At this point, John would never know any difference if Jax grew a set and renegged on this ridiculous avenue of lying to a newborn.

If at 6 weeks, my "biological" Father had taken over my life, I wouldn't have known any different. I was too young. As it is, at 45, my "real" Father is the man I adore who raised me, put me through a brilliant education and, more importantly, taught me how to fix the back axle on a 1924 Model T. (It was a total mess but, by God, we got the job done.)

Am I making any sense?

If Jax wants to clear his name (in my estimation), he needs to fess up NOW, not LATER. He's got his chance and he should take it. For John's sake.

If he elects not to, he'd better give this child an idyllic life. 'Cause he owes him that.

Letter in hand, he confronts the elegently dressed Carly about it and she rallies. As Carly does.

He shuts her down (and their part in the episode) with this blunt question. "If you could hide Michael's paternity the way you did all those years ago again? Wouldn't you do it?"

Now, ~that~ was a reasonable question.

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In other news. Sonny and Jason spar from their separate corners and Mr. Escobar (one of the Drug (oops, did I say ~drug?!~) Lords has told Jason that he kill Sonny or no deal.

Meanwhile, Alexis has accepted the ADA position from Durant. Anything, I suppose, to get her out of the apartment o' hubby and kids. Hubby, oth, is seeing a great way to squeeze into the vaccum Jason has left behind in his brother Sonny's life and bidness. Alexis and Reek bicker.

In the hospital, no one has yet figured out that Lucky is in the middle of a classic 5 second General Hospital Drug Addiction Story (see: Courtney and Hydrocodone) and is all pissy all over his wife, Liz.

Robin and Scorpio almost reconcile as Daughter and Father and then fall out again.

So, that's Family Squabble (Jason/Sonny; Alexis/Ric; Jax/Carly/John; Robin/Scorpio): 4.

Winners: 0

PS: The Scot in me insists that I apologize for the personal rant in the beginning of this post. Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Yesterday, Today and (okay not) Tomorow

2006-04-19T20:22:00.000-05:00

As we know from the previous entry, I missed Friday's episode but I most certainly can quickly recap the past few days. Because: Yawn.

No reverse-House references and certainly no House references from Tuesday's episode of House. I really think that part of the show is good and dead. When I read that TIIC of GH refused to give the House Team rights to any clips, my heart sank. Right now, I'm to the point where I've considered referencing House/General Hospital comments from fanfic. o_O

In lovely Port Charles, Jason has turned all UberMobster on us and taken over Sonny's complete empire.

I think it's a) rilly kool and b) about time.

Sonny is not as pleased.

Jason and he confront each other over a contrived dinner at Sonny's wherein he has set up a dinner "party" on the patio with the two children, Jason and Sonny.* Nice. Involve the children, why don't you? GAH.

The kids split and the next thing you know, Sonny punches the Hell out of Jason just as two people careen in on the scene......Max with gun levelled and "Um"ily doing God knows what. Sonny throws his arm out in the melee and manages to toss Um to the floor.

Jason, going blind into rage as his greatest fear has just come true (Umily's danger at Sonny's hand) turns around and pins his best friend up against the french doors. He is clearly about to kill him.

"Um"ily, being a flaming idiot, leaps to her feet and tries to calm things down by running to ~Sonny's~ aid and hugging him while whinging that she looooooooves him.

Jason, he of the bloodly lip, is appalled.

This man, this mobster with uncontrollable bipolar rages and a tendency to throw barware, just tossed his sister to the ground like confetti. In front of a man with a gun.

Nice romantic scene, huh?

Absolutely vindicated, Jason goes home to Sam only to find her agreeing with the stupidity that is "Soily" as the mass websites have labelled The Stupid and Unholy Union. Maybe it stands for "Sonny's Other Ignorant Leaching Yutz"? I'm not sure.

When Jason talks to Sam about the whole debacle and they completely disagree, he goes to his best friend Carly. She backs him up and gives him her sofa for the night.

Meanwhile, Carly saw paperwork that proved Nicholas is really Boy John's father. (You will NEVER hear me call him "Little John" as they call him on the show. I cringe every time. Stupid, stupid writers. Does this mean the child is destined to grow up and have a fight on a log with a strange guy in Lincoln green tights? AGH.)

For the next three days, Carly tries to use her feminine wiles to wheedle the truth out of Jax. So far no luck.

Speak-een of Lucky. He's HOT. Oh, sorry. He's in the hospital recouperating and is be-een a difficult patient. He wants to get home long before he's ready. (The "een's" are a reference to Becky Herbst's annoy-een inability to hire a diction coach and learn how to speak correctly.)

Through some amusing shennanigans, Dillon finds out that Georgie has been lying to him about writing Diego while Diego (Ignacio Serrichio from "Humpty Dumpty") was in jail.

There is a big wonderful dustup in the foyer of the Q mansion returning the show back to it's fabulous roots of WAY too many good actors on screen reacting to a lover's tiff with all kinds of complicated emotions. It would take me a week just to describe that scene. Trust me, it was great.

Today, Georgie and Dillon made up. Awwwww. Diego was watching half annoyed and half wistful since just before Dillon arrived, he and Georgie had agreed to remain friends "no matter what".

There was some Skye and Lorenzo kanoodling again about "married/not married" and the baby coming but I just can't get into it. It's going nowhere and it's repetitive; even for a soap opera.

On the other hand, Ric and Alexis are setting up thier law practice together in their apartment with their two children close at hand and they are so funny and have such great comic timing that they simply need to take their show on the road.

Either that or bottle it and sell it as the next great pick me up.

Just lovely stuff!

In the most important news of the week, JOHN INGLE IS BACK AS EDWARD QUARTERMAINE! HUZZAH. Er, excuse my yelling but that's some good news right there, folks. :-)

ETA: Scorpio is back. He's in kahoots with Luke to track down Holly Sutton but in this plotline, Scorpio is running things from Port Charles while Luke is AWOL hunting for Holly who is supposedly being held by Scorpio on The Island of Monkey Flu. I just cannot get into it because a) all of the action is taking place off screen while Scorpio's role appears to mainly consist of talking on a cell phone and fighting with his estranged daughter Littlest Doctor Robin and b) because as amazingly HAWT as Tristan Rogers is/has become? He's a completely horrible actor.

*I just realized the line "the children, Jason and Sonny" was really unintentionally funny. It means, "the children, Michael and Morgan are at dinner with Jason and Sonny" but it sounds like I'm calling Jason and Sonny children. hee I'm leaving it and considering it unintentional double entendre. ;-)

Good Gravy, my DVR let me down!?

2006-04-07T17:08:00.000-05:00

Good gravy.

I didn't get today's episode on DVR.

Sooooo, I'll try and get it over the weekend.

Since the Earth seems to still be on its axis and the sun is slowly setting behind the western horizon, I assume nothing either Earth-shattering or orbit shifting happened.

Wednesday was a kick in the pants, so I'd sure hate to miss a traditional butt-kicking Friday.

In a Nutshell

2006-04-07T09:29:00.000-05:00

When I was in lawschool we used to have these cool little books called "In a Nutshell" in which nice people from On High explained whatever impenetrable topic of the semester you were slogging through. (My 1L slog was Contracts. Confused the Hell out of me. I was a Tort Machine, though.)

"In a Nutshell" (and the other crib books) was amazingly helpful and spoke in complete, actual English sentences rather than in archaic terminology and footnotes that rambled onto the next page leaving only a paragraph of real text on the page of the main prose.

So, here goes my attempt at the past soapy, busy few days on GH.

I ~think~ we might be getting some tenous references from GH to House and I only have one from House to GH.

I'll have to go back to "Clueless" but I seem to recall House opening a sentence with the word "soap" and everytime I hear it, I think he's going to mention our show. But no, fake out!, it's just an order to check on the soaps in the PotW's home to see if he's allergic to it.

There.

How lame is THAT reference?

I take what I can get, folks. I take what I can get.

As for GH?

Dr. Patrick Drake ends up giving a lot of his liver to Noah, his father, and they both are now just waiting to meet up post-op so Noah can get Medieval on Patrick's butt for going directly against his wishes.

Littlest Dr. Robin and Patrick are wonderful together. They are fabulous. They have fabulous chemistry, the storyline is making sense and he is so handsome it hurts.

And, by handsome, I don't mean the tall Adonis kind of handsome. You know, that David kind of handsome.

I mean, he's perfectly cast as Noah's son. He has that brunette shag goin' on that frames a long face with brown eyes, dimples and a lower lip that goes from stern to pouty depending on the emotion it's conveying.

Lovely man.

Ahem.

Not to mention he can act.

In my opinion, one of the fortes GH has is the "bedside" monologue. They do it oh, so well....even the mediocre actors get real performances pulled out of them.

The (unlikely) champion of all of them is Jason. I don't think I've seen him do a bedside tear jerker without reacting accordingly.

Patrick Drake is no exception. He's wonderful.

Okay, on to the dreck.

1. Sonny and Emily lie to everyone and go for a tryst in a hotel which ends in a mob hit. Jason, avenging angel, shoots the dude in the back.

However, not before the cops get there and the paparazzi starts in full force does he realize the full impact of what's going on in that hotel room.

And it impacts the entire canvas of Port Charles.

(Who cares? I know. But it does. I'm just reporting what TIIC are giving us.)

2. It hits the evening news broadcasts. Michael and Morgan see it. Michael puts two and two together even though his mother and Jax try to spin the obvious. Michael, understandably, is totally squicked that his father is boinking his aunt.

DID YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY? HIS FATHER IS BOINKING HIS AUNT.

GAH.

(Granted it's his adopted father but still, ew. Also, Sonny knew Emily when she was a teeny bot. This whole thing just smacks of pedophilia and incest and I'm completely uncomfortable with it. I don't care how many mis-guided Emmys are involved.)

Jax wings off with Michael and Morgan to get them out of the fray while Carly runs around telling everyone involved how wrong they are.

Jason ends up spending the night in jail care of Sam (who is over her "shrew" fugue thank goodness).

She asks that Jason be kept in jail overnight because he is so angry about Sonny and Emily that she is afraid he might do something he regrets.

She may be hypothetically right but in the meantime poor old Steve Burton has to bear the burden of a one-set "I'm right and why can't you see that" desperate scene with Sonny in one breath and then with Emily in the next.

He did a great job.

Sonny is just being selfish and pigheaded. (What's new?)

He may well be destroying his friendship with Jason but that remains to be seen.

Emily, oth, is a complete selfish and delusional witch who twists everything Jason says that makes sense into nonsense.
I ~think~ TIIC are trying to set up a construct where there are no right answers but, because this same scenario has been played so many times before, the only right answer is Jason's.

I'm not saying that the tables can't turn but the track record of women in Sonny and Jason's lives weighs heavily in Jason's favour. (Lilly..mob hit, Brenda..mob hit in shower, Angel..daughter of mob, Leez...if you blinked you missed the "I can't live like this" speech, Courtney...mob hits, etc., couldn't hack "da life", Carly...possibly the only one strong enough to put up with the crap they have put her through.)

So, my point is that history squarely defends Jason when he tells Emily that "Sonny is too dangerous. Not only his life but his mental instability. You'll change to suit his needs. And when you do, he won't be interested in you any longer."

Right effin' on, Jase. Right on.

Sing it, brutha.

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Much squabbling at Quartermaine's over Emily and Sonny and the undesireable press coverage.

Discovery that it is Tracy's birthday and much cute hilarity ensues including an impromptu birthday party in the foyer of the Mansion until Sonny crashes it.

Boo.

(In a side note, Nicholas has a beautiful speech to the Qs defending Emily's ability to make her own decisions. Too bad she's too much of a selfish nin-compoop to listen to what he is saying and how wonderful he's being than puffing up and loving that she has a hero. Who cares that he's basically telling her family that if she wants to destroy her life she can.)

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For Emmy consideration, Alexis and Sam have a come to Jesus moment in a courtroom chamber. Sam realizes she's been making horrid assumptions about Alexis but also realizes that Alexis thinks her first daughter is dead.

Both performances were great but Nancy Lee Grahn took her material and ran with it. She was awesome. Truly awe and then some.

That was a pleasure to behold.

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Nota Bene: The Daytime Emmy Awards will be held 28 April 2006.

*Yep. It's there. It was Foreman.

Well, now, Cap's life just won't play by the rules.....

2006-03-23T15:18:00.000-05:00

My life is still in a state of complete turmoil but I'm soldiering on and will try and update everyone on the show.

A few things have occurred since I was last here.

I'll go through it by character/storyline.

Sonny and "Um"ily are just foul and disgusting but there are some highlights. Sonny, much as I hate to admit this, looks freakin' fantastic in a gorgeous, well-fitting grey suit and a black t-shirt. I mean, maybe he's been to rehab or something? He looks AWESOME.

"Um" ily has met the IckFairy who dresses Skye and looks like a hag. The Talons of Doom are back, too. Someone in wardrobe and makeup clearly has it in for her.

Good.

Over the years of my reading about and keeping up to date with GH, I do know that Maurice Benard (Sonny) has had his own personal and genuine bouts with bipolar disorder. He's been lobbying TIIC for years to have Sonny face his bipolar demons.

While that request kept getting back burnered, he also started pushing for a Sonny/Emily storyline back when Natalia Livingston (Emily) by some stroke of cataclysmic absurdity, won a Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress.

It appears he's now getting both of his wishes. The bipolar disease is still just a tapdance but let's see how far they take it.

Which leads me to Jason. The "storm clouds of impending doom and heavy on the strings, please" are really great and inform us that Jason will be supremely pissed off if he finds out about Sonny and "Um".

Why, we ask politely?

Could it be because he'd make the same argument to Sonny about his little sister that Sonny made to a post-lung-surgery Jason about Courtney?

Noooo. Because that would make too much sense, demonstrate that Jason can defend himself when wronged no matter who it's by, and a knowledge of historical continuity in the show.

Too.

Much.

Work.

So, instead, they have Jason make his point that Sonny is dangerous.....not just in his choice of lifestyle but also because of his mental problems.

(See the tie-in there?)

I think Steve Burton is doing a great job with the additional emotion he's being saddled with. I only say great because when he's on he's really super. When he's off he's so boring and wooden it's almost comical.

(Speaking of comical. I hope I don't offend anyone but really. I so called that Jon Stewart would lead The Daily Show with the pictures of the Basque Terrorists, ETA, in those ridiculous get ups. Are they really trying to be taken seriously? I understand 40 years of terror...hell, I live in DC and work in Manhattan, I understand 5 hours of terror....but in those costumes? Ya gotta be kiddin' me.)

ANYway, so, Jason and his "you're lying to me" Spidey sense is all over Sonny and Umily as they lie like rugs to him.

Carly is covering for them because she doesn't want to see Jason blow like Vesuvius when he finds out.

Which leads me to Sam, the lunatic fringe. First, Sam is defending a potential Sonny/"Um"ily hook-up. (Unbeknownst to her it's already occurred.) She argues that they may well be the new "One Twoo Wuv" story.

Hork-o-rama.

Girl makes no sense.

And Jason's response would simply be, "Yeah. So were Courtney and I and you saw how THAT worked out...."

(Anyone who wants a copy of that lung surgery scene, let me know, I have it on tape and watch it frequently. It was that good.)

Sam's lunacy doesn't stop there, though. We know that Alexis is her mother, right? She is now completely psychotic about Alexis and rewriting history (or it that just lines TIIC stuff in Monaco's mouth without realizing she looks like an idiot) and making huge, mean, wicked assumptions about Alexis that no one seems to refute as absurd and unfair.

(The history re-write is that "Alexis killed Sam's baby* in order to save her own daughter, Kristina". Um, no. Sam's baby died in utero from a detatched framistat. The. Baby. Was. Born. Dead. No. One. Killed. It. And, assholes, by the way, *Sam's baby is not what's on the headstone, "Baby McCall". She had a name. It was Lila.)

So, Sam is routinely foaming a the mouth and spitting out ridiculous comments about Alexis. I'm not quite sure where they are headed with that but the anvils are raining down like any given scene in Bladerunner.

Which leads me, inexplicably, to close with what a Dick Jax is being.

So, no change there.

He's slapped Nikolas with a restraining order and won't let him see Baby John. He's allowing a physical attraction to grow between him and Carly. That's just......odd.

The only House reference (because God knows, House isn't referring to GH any longer.....sigh.....) is that the unbelievably hot Dr. Drake is grumping around the hospital and the female community in Port Charles in general.

And that Diego (Alfredo from "Humpty Dumpty") has a wee, tiny plot that may blossom but nothing so far.

Oh, lest I forget, Luke, Pregnant Skye, Lorenzo, Tracy. Yeah. Wouldn't want to forget that storyline.

For what it's worth, Lulu continues to make the show worth watching all on her very own.

Alfredo from Humpty Dumpty is Back! Oh, so am I!

2006-03-12T11:33:00.000-05:00

There is a lot to recap but practically nothing to connect GH to House other than the little tidbits thrown our way from Dr. Patrick Drake. Oh, and Cock Fighting Roof Dude Alfredo from "Humpty Dumpty" is back on the GH canvas! :-) Yes, young Ignacio Serrichio is back as Diego Alcazar. And that's a GOOD thing.

As predicted, the city survived the Monkey Flu pretty much in tact.

Stray and random characters died and a couple of main players went to see Dr. House at the Great Clinic Hours Session in the Sky.

Sadly, there were no Cow Worshippers, Syphilitic Poetry Ladies or Hilarious Pregnant Girls Who are Nearly Too Stupid to Live*. (*I had to add her in there because she is, hands down, my favourite Clinic Patient. You remember, the one with "mono"?)

Sooooo, because there are no House references, I feel compelled to link to this photo from an upcoming episode called "All In". The photos involve poker and tuxedos and silver topped canes. And pianos. Spoilerish? I guess so. Sorta. I mean, it had to happen and there isn't any plotline given away.

Why? What does it have to do with GH? Nothing. They're just there.

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ANYway, to get us all caught up quickly.

Courtney dies of Monkey Flu. The last thing she knows is that Jax is not the father of John but Nikolas is. She's furious and wants to tell Nikolas but dies before she can. Jax, because he's a dick, hides the truth from Nikolas but, when bitten by the Exposition Fairy (yes, she bites) let's us in on the Big Sekrit.

Sam's CPD brother, Danny, dies. At the lonely gravesite, Sam lets a hapless Alexis know how much she very, very, very much hates her. (The Doctors gave Alexis the antidote rather than Danny and Danny died before he could get a dose.)

Scorpio and Holly swoop through Port Charles and swoop back out again.

Oddly enough, as hot at those two continue to be.....I'd quite forgotten what truly horrible actors they are. OUCH. O_O

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Tracey has kicked Dillon and Georgie (still married) out of the mansion. Georgie has been sekritly in touch with Diego while he's been in jail. He's been paroled and just contacted Georgie this past Friday.

With the teenybots in mind, there is a new gay, er, guy named "Guy". I guess he's being set up to be Lucas' beau but someone in makeup seriously needs to work on the smoker's circles around this kid's eyes. Yikes.

ANYway, evil baddie gay-basher beats the crap outta Guy. Infront of Georgie, Dillon, Lulu and Lucas, Guy gets all huffy and takes off to report it to the PCPD.

Lucas takes a clue and backs Guy up by telling his own story. The one that he was too chickenshit to tell when it happened to him.

Guy thanks him but then tells him to call him up when Lucas figures out just exactly who he is and what his own priorities are.

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On the Carly/Littlest Doctor Robin/Hot Dr. House, er, Drake front......Carly and Jax are bonding over "Little" John. (GAH, I wish they wouldn't call the kid that.) Carly and Jax go to the HOTEL THEY OWN for dinner. They happen to be there ase Littlest Doctor Robin and Hot Dr. Drake are there on their first bona fide date. (Robin asked Drake out.)

We get a clear picture of the fact that Robin and Carly not only dislike each other but actively hate each other.

The dialogue, the blocking and everything about it was so heavy handed that (within the fiction) I'm surprised both men didn't simply get up and leave.

During all of this Max the body guard had a hilarious turn guarding Carly. Well done, sir!

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Meanwhile, back in Jason/Sam-land, Sam has gone a'hunting her biological mother because, during Danny's prep for burial, they discovered that her DNA doesn't match Danny's.

Why that means SHE'S the adopted one (or that both of them weren't adopted) is unclear but whatever. Run with it.

During that escapade, Alexis reveals to Ric that she had a daughter put up for adoption when she was 16.

Right.

Okay.

Fine.

Where that came from, I have no idea, but we're set up for Sam being Alexis' long, lost baby and it was just revealed on Friday.

We know that Sam hates Alexis with the flaming power of 8 supernovae. So, are TIIC setting us up for Carly/Bobbie Redux? Or something that might actually require thought, talent and care?

You decide.

My mind is already made up.

:-P

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Lastly, there is some sekrit trip to Puerto Rico with Sonny and "Um"ily but I don't know much about it. My eyeballs tend to sear into the back of my brain during those scenes and fry into little crispy critters.

That makes watching difficult at best.

Plus, the nausea makes me have to leave the room 'cause I really don't want to make a mess.

A little gardening.....

2006-03-09T10:01:00.000-05:00

Ah, grasshoppers.

I feel like I've been gone for-and-ever.

I'll be back later today (have appointments of my own I have to catch up on) but my dear Father is finally home (as of yesterday) and doing well.

I now have time to devote to my ~other~ family.

Namely, you marvelous people.

Until then, here is a pretty good page of recaps so you can catch up without me.

General Hospital Daily Transcripts From The TV MegaSite

Return of the Jedi

2006-02-26T13:55:00.000-05:00

Well.I'm back.

Didja miss me?

Real Life jumped up and kicked me in the head and I've been a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker for the past two weeks.

Once again, we had no soap opera mention in House but the Monkey Flu is still raging at General Hospital.

The big news is that the woman who is blackmailing everyone with the antidote is another GH veteran, Emma Sams playing Holly (Robert Scorpio's old flame.)

They both look fantastic and just yesterday (was it yesterday?) the NYT ran a rather large article on the use of veterans to bring GH's ratings back up.

Courtney died. (No comment. I'll try to be nice but YAY. 'Bout time.)

Baby "John" lived. Courtney survived just long enough to understand Jax when he told her that Prince Nicholas really is the Father (as we all suspected). Courtney had a meltdown. She was so mad but died before she could tell Nicholas.

Jax is debating about what to do with this knowledge.

Dick.

The baby is clinging to life and I hope it lives because a) it's great soap and b) I'm tired of GH and their rampant baby killing.

Littlest Doctor Robin fainted from exhaustion but that was really just a CPD to get inside Dr. Patrick Drake's head. He's more like House every day. Not a "meanie with a golden heart" but more of a "meanie who knows he's really good at what he does and saves lives but also it capable of recognizing nobility and strength when he sees it."

Honestly that's about it.

Hasta manana!

Oh, before I forget. There was a positively disgusting scene in which Sonny and "Um"ily finally got it on. Barf.

Has it Been a Week?!

2006-02-15T17:06:00.000-05:00

Good Gravy it's been an eventful week.

Both in RL, in House and in GH.

I'll try and take this time to catch up.

In RL, my 82 year old Father fell and broke his hip on Monday so I had to come home from my trip early.

Surgery yesterday.

Misery today.

My Mother is staying with me and is currently napping in my bed room while I sit here with a red wine and Giacomo Meyerby on the XM.

Le sigh.

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House.

Lots of sex and drugs but no GH.

Great episode. Absolutely perfect in just about every way.

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GH.

This will be short because, although I don't mind being specific in a daily basis, a week is way too much storyline to go into detail over.

The Monkey Flu rages on.

Dillon and Georgie marry. Too cute. He nearly dies but dreams of Georgie and in his dream she brings him back to life.

They totally sold it and, for once, a dream sequence wasn't painful.

Tracey prays to God (awkward, much? Tracy Elliot owned the scene. Fantastic acting.)

Courtney comes back from South Carolina and at the moment it's: A C Section to save the baby but possibly lose Courtney; lose both of them; or let Courtney fight the good fight and possibly lose the baby anyway.

They elect a C Section but at the last gasp, Courtney's fever is too high. Oh, what to do?

Maxie collapses in a broken elevator with Nikolas. After some wrangling with the elevator from outside (Mac, "Um"ily and Manny) they get her outta there. During the scene, "Um"ily talks Nikolas through CPR and the use of a defibrilator.

He saves Maxie's life but not without "Um"ily's help.

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Meanwhile on Monkey Island.

Jason and a very sick Carly track down the laboratory that has both a dying Lucky and the antidote.

Great Jason and Carly interaction as they continue defining their friendship.

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Back at the horspital, Leez gets a call from Lucky that's pretty damned depressing and she faints.

Patrick Drake comforts her and tells her to find a room and take a break.

Leez gets up, grabs a chart, and bravely says, "I can't help Lucky right now but there are people here I can help." Off she races.

Drake looks after her with awe.

Fin

2006-02-08T15:08:00.000-05:00

The new House last night bordered on perfection.

But the only pertinent fact to this blog is that soap operas were non-existant.

Rats.

I read somewhere that GH wouldn't give House the rights to the show so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that House may never specifically mention GH again.

Time will tell.

Meanwhile:

Back at the Hospital.
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Leez, witnessing Lorenzo and Skye bill and coo, routinely checks Lulu's chart.

She confronts Lorenzo with her suspicions in the hallway.

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Sonny/'Um"ily blather blither blather

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Lorenzo indirectly admits that he did switch the charts by asking Leez, "If that was [sic] Lucky in there? Wouldn't you have done the same thing?"

In a rare flash of good act-een, Leez hisses, "No."

Luke pulls up holding Bobbie's arm and just not looking too good. He survived the, er, whatever that was, and is looking for Lulu.

Meanwhile, in the room, Skye is sitting up on her own and looking ever-so-much-bettah but sees how very badly off Lulu is. She's crying, "Daddy! Dad! Where are you? What did I do? Why did you leave me?"

Like the title of that great film, I recommend you "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs".

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Have y'all heard of UC? "Unintentional Comedy"?

The best line of the episode, nay possibly the week, nay possibly the past 4 years......."Um"ily is arguing with her Father and Mother that Sonny needs to be put back on the recipient list based on his need rather than, as Scorpio wants, at the bottom of it based on his lifestyle.

After some verbal wrangling, Alan finally states that "AJ is dead because of him. He took Michael. He took Jason. Now it looks like he's gonna take you...."

"Um"ily, shocked, cries out, "You want him dead?!"

Alan, hilariously, answers, "We'd all be better for it!"

You and me both, buddy.

You and me both.

hee

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Sam freaks out when she wakes up to find Manny lurking over her bed.

Twerpico comes in and throws Manny out even though Alexis (in the next bed) said that Manny was being a good guy and not circling Sam like a vulture.

Later, Twerpico confronts Manny about this "Angel" act and tells him he sees through it. "I've known guys like you," he hisses. "You're a killer and you always will be."

Just then, Twerpico collapses in his arms. Victim # 8,000,001.

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Luke has a heart rending visit with Lulu. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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Next time we see him, he's in the lobby subbing for the short handed nursing staff....

He helps get Twerpico on the gurney.

And notices the Twerp's gun in its holster still strapped to his Virus Infected hip.

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Lorenzo goes to the Chapel and has a "Come to Jesus" moment.

Which is exactly what he needs to be doing and exactly what he needs.

(Nicely performed by Ted King.)

He prays for Lulu.

Rumour has it that Tony Geary is involved in the writing of this Virus Arc and I believe it. Because the other crack monkeys would be incapable of such nuance.....or the wonderful fact that religion and godhood is a thread that weaves its way through every single vingette.

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The God Committee decides, finally, that life and death cannot be.......decided by committee.......Littlest Dr. Robin nominates Dr. Patrick Drake as God and the vote is unanimous.
Just then, Luke walks in, congratulates the new God, and raises his gun.

"Your first commandment will be to give my daughter the next dose."

Meanwhile, Lulu has gone into convulsions.

Ouch.

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Okay, my little mice, I have to go on a business trip to Albany and Montreal tomorrow and over the weekend.

There probably won't be any new entries until Wednesday.

I'll miss you all! ;-)

(I'll try and keep up on GH and if something really, really blatant happens I'll swing by but otherwise, I'll see y'all on the 15th!)

2006-02-07T15:01:00.000-05:00

We don't need no stinkin' ethics!

Worst

Medical

School

Student

Ever.

Emily asks Nursey Leez to unethically change the order of the medication (there's a limited amount) so that Sonny gets it first.

Damn, she sucks.

Twerpico accuses Scorpio's organization of Lucky's abduction.

Lucky's on a plane with scary people around him...still all in gas masks and black outfits of doooooom. They inject something nasty looking in his IV.

We are disovering that the disease came from the island Luke was on and was created by the Lab Rush represents. (I forgot to use my subtitles and they all mangle the name of the Lab so badly I have no idea what it is.....something like Clarion.)

At the MetroCourt, Jason palms the CD and hides in the closet. Carly tries to play the role of hooker but Rush is immediately suspicious.

Just as things are gettin' rough, Jason comes out of the closet.......

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Sorry, got a little carried away there......

He sticks his large gun up Rush's.....er, into Rush's shoulder blades and makes him "take a seat" (rather roughly.)

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Lulu and Skye are in the same room, remember?

Well, Lorenzo has been lurking and knows that whoever is the most ill gets the serum first.

After a little emoting, he swaps the paperwork between Skye and Lulu's records to put Skye ahead of Lulu.

Er, don't they have social security numbers and stuff on those pages? I haven't been to a hospital in years but CAN YOU DO THAT?

Law*cough*suit.

O_O

Littlest Dr. Robin and Dishy Dr. Patrick Drake come in.....Robin picks up Skye's records and calls Patrick over......"Look at this" she pipsqueaks.

Patrick, "Wow she's failing fast." (No, Pat, check the ssan, that's Lulu's record. law*cough*suit)

"That may work in her favour. Put her first."

Lorenzo maintains frozen silence.

Handsome frozen silence.

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Meanwhile, back in the cafeteria, Sam's mentally challenged younger brother Danny fades fast. Maxie (the volunteer) takes him for help.

Georgie is annoyed and Michael, Demonspawn from Hell, talks her into sneaking out with him so she can be with Dillon.

After getting yelled at by Bobbie in the hallway, Georgie stands up to her and goes into Dillon's room. Tracey is there and for some reason, even though she disapproves of Georgie, seems impressed.

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Jason beats the CRAP outta Rush but not until after Rush tells them that everything was anonymous and he has no idea for whom he was working. $$$ wired to an off shore account, vague orders to get the chimp and take him to a waiting helicopter. End of story.

And it's seriously lights out.

Wow. That's rare blatant violence for Burton.

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"Skye's" paperwork says that she's the sickest and that Lulu didn't even qualify.

Get it?

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LDR comes in and, after listening to a moment of second thoughts on Lorenzo's part, doses Skye.

That's just so wrong.

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Leez has told Luke that Lucky was carted off by evil minions in black helicopters. Then she borrows Michael's phone and gets Jason. She tells him the same bad news. She also tells him that the virus is a man-made experiment gone horribly wrong.

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Rush comes to and his evil partners are with him.

He calls a stereotypical German accented guy in a labcoat somewhere and announces they are in trouble.

Dum dee dum duuuuuuuum.

++++++++++++++

(New symbols. I'm gettin' bored with this virus crap. Can you tell?)

Now they go and prove me wrong. Dammit.

Luke has a terrific scene with Scorpio about getting Lulu the serum and then begs, begs Head Nurse Bobbie (his sister) to put him through the plasma thing again and get the resulting antidote to Lulu.

Awwwwwwwwwww.

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GAH.

I do this only because I love.

We've been having these horrible and boring scenes of "Um"ily bouncing between beds (ah, not like that, you pervs) from Sonny to Nikolas.

Nikolas, clearly hallucinating, goes into an "I love you! How could I lose you?!" fugue state and Sonny has been watching.

So.

What.

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Bobbie runs to get Noah. She finds him and they take off for Luke's room.

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Tracey coerces her brother and head of the hospital, Dr. Alan Quartermaine, to doctor Dillon's paperwork so he's next.

Monica witnesses it.

The selection committee reconvenes and Monica insists that Alan step down.

He agrees to but complains that the process is causing more problems than helping.

Surprisingly, Scorpio agrees and changes the game rules......now they are going to consider the nature of the patient, quality of life and family.

Patrick states the obvious in not quite these words, "So we're playing God?"

Well, yes, Patrick that is exactly what you're doing.

Also, you're giving me a potential House reference on a silver platter!

Why thank you!

House to Cameron, "You're calling me God?"

It's a reach, I know, but ya take 'em when ya get 'em.

What can I say?

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Tag:

Jason and Carly are in the TARDIS jet. Jason is going to imitate "Officer Spencer" by using his badge and his passport.

Speak of the devil, Lucky wakes up in the Lab with Evil German Doctor, "What am I doing here?" "Vee inwented zee disease yoo hef and vee vill use your blude to vind a cure!"

Right.

ANYway, while we're in ClicheLand, back at the horspital, Skye's fever has broken and, during the sureptitious re-blood letting, Luke goes into some sort of shock that could kill him.

Law*cough*suit.

Even Noah, as he's doing the damned procedure, states the obvious, "Ya know, Bobbie?" "No, what Handsome Dr. Noah with Whom I used to Have a Mad Passionate Love Life Like Twenty Years Ago?" "If he dies, then we've lost the source of the potential antidote!"

No!

You don't say.

2006-02-06T15:04:00.000-05:00

Did I forget to mention on Friday that Carly and Jason (mistakenly) are hunting the loose chimp? Carly shows Jason a sneaky way to get out of the hospital undetected and they end up in an unsual location shot in the parking lot.

The chimp leaps into a waiting limosine and the passengers/driver/whatever open fire with machine guns on Carly and Jason.

How on Earth could I have forgotten that completely wonderfully plausible moment?

(I know you can't see me but I'm rolling my eyes so hard right now I can literally see my brain.)

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Today:

Carly and Jason are surrounded by SWAT guys and (because they are lying liars and we know all about that don't we!? Because as Dr. House would tell us, "Everybody lies.") the two deny ever having been in the hospital at all.

The SWAT team stupidly leaves and Jason calls Justus.......he got the license plate of the limo and needs a trace.

Cool.

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OH MY GOD.

The cutest child in the world, Kurlyboo, also known as Kristina Davis, toddles into the living room to find Alexis passed out on the sofa while the television newscaster natters on about the epidemic.

We pull back to see Ric unconcious on the floor.

Kurlyboo, teddy bear in hand, crawls on the sofa and tugs her Mother's sweater, "Mommy? Mommy? What's wrong with Daddy Ric? What's wrong with Daddy Ric?"

Camera pulls back.

Commercials.

I get a Kleenex.

When this show gets it right it really gets it right.

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Now, I'm thinking that GH has stolen the casting crew from House because the longer the Drakes and Scorpio are on my screen the more aligned the planets get and all is right with the World.

Lightening in a bottle, people.
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On the other hand, the geeky weird Police Detective Jesse (on www.televisionwithoutpity.com the posters call him "Twerpico". hee) has found Lucky passed out in the snow near the cabin.

He contacts the Energizer Bunny (although that little guy doesn't need a diction coach), Leez, and then the battery on his cell phone fails.

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What the Hell is going on?

I'm in a spin.

The Drakes just had a great exchange?

What?

Good writing?

On GH?!

I think the temperature in Hell just dropped 5 degrees......

Noah and Patrick are at the door to Luke's room.

A nurse has watched the blood harvesting begin and freaks and runs.

Noah insists on doing the procedure.

Patrick: Your liver condition has you compromised. I'm not letting you get near Luke. I'm doing the procedure.

Noah: Exactly, I'm dying. I have nothing to lose.

Patrick: Well maybe I do! That's why I'm not letting you do this. I may not be able to stop you from passively killing yourself but I can need you around long enough to harass you about it.

hee

Double hee......hee, hee.

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Parking lot.

Justus is there. Looking fabulous, I might add.

The plates were diplomat plates and belong to someone very, very dangerous.

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Apparently Kurlyboo knows how to dial 911 and Alexis and "Daddy Ric" are wheeled into the ER.

Sam, in a freakin' brilliant example of physical acting......she was awesomely looking off into space like she saw phantoms no one else could see......slides out of bed to race out of the building.
"I heard shots!" she slurs to Patrick Drake....."I heard shots!"

He, sexily, drags her back into a room and puts her to bed.

Because everything he does is sexy. o_O

Turns out the only bed available after Sam's litte excursion, is in Alexis' room.

Hee.

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Assuming it's a medevac helicopter, Twerpico gets a comatose Lucky ready.

In a scene that this show does really well, scary guys in black with guns and gas masks pour in.

It's pandemonium.

Twerpico completely blows the scene by getting caught in Lucky's blanket (bwah!) and messing up his only line by saying "Take it easy!" like 9,000,000 times.....once from under the blanket.

Too freakin' funny.

You can tell these guys are baddies and they not only scoop up Lucky and swoop him away but they set the cottage afire.

Leaving an unconcious Twerpico on the floor.

We can only hope.

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Carly and Jason trace "Rush" the bad guy to the MetroCourt and we're back on set.

Jason cases the room when Rush goes for dinner.

Carly bribes a hooker into letting her meet Rush for dinner in her stead.

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WTF?

Someone pass the brie 'cause it just got cheesy in here.

Nikolas finally gets a room and it's shared with Sonny. Nice. Sonny wakes from his fever dreams and mumbles, "Dis could ged interesting."

Yeah, Mo.

Whatever.

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Jason finds a CD in the waste basket.

Just as Carly and Rush come in the room, he dives into the closet.

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And then.......suddenly.

Seriously.

Out of left field.

And completely off topic.....

My

Life

Is

Complete.

Seriously, people.

I can go to my grave content.

Leonard Nimoy appears in an Advil commercial as HOT as he's ever looked.

MY CHILDHOOD TELEVISION BOYFRIEND IS PERFECTLY PERFECT!

He's backstage on the phone talking to his agent, "No, I can't!" He handsomely and manly strides past the makeup room, the room of extras, his dressing room, "I can't! I can't do it! It hurts too much!"

He's holding his hand up in a "talk to the hand" position.

It's so obvious what he "can't do".

I'm not sure if I'm going to laugh or cry!

I'm gobsmacked.

I'm speechless.

"Advil?" he says into the phone.

And, I guess later on, he steps onto this amazingly sophisticated and yet understated stage with giant screens on each side and a gorgeous podium and steps up to it with manly vigor.

Cap is getting the vapours.

We get a crowd shot.

They are all Trekkies. There are two fangirlies in Next Generation outfits (science blue).

Complete with Vulcan ears.

And Nimoy grins.

And he greets the crowd with that "talk to the hand" move......and after a moment wherein my heart skips a beat even though my intellect totally knows where this is headed......he does the Vulcan Salute.

To wild cheers and applause.
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I think something else might've happened on GH but I've forgotten.

I have to go get the smelling salts.

I'm the happiest Trekkie in the World right now.

White Board, White Board, On the Wall. House is the Fairest of Them All.

2006-02-03T17:51:00.000-05:00

GH today was freakin' hilarious.

They quarantine the entire hospital ("Kids") and Dr. Patrick Drake goes into full blown House mode.

Complete with writing the symptoms ON A WHITE BOARD.

(No, it's not vasculitis.)

Too funny.

Next, we get Leez apologizing to Nikolas that they can't find him a room.....SO HE'S ON A GURNEY IN THE HALLWAY. ("Kids")

Lastly, they gave Luke a shot to calm him down....they did everything but say ATIVAN.

With any luck, Monday's episode will be even more blatant.

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Plotwise....Lulu is rilly rilly sick. Sonny is sick and we have to deal with Talons of Doom for a while but she's easy to ignore. It's called a combination of today's Sudoku puzzle and the mute button.

Skye is sick and I forgot to mention that yesterday she and the amazingly HOT Ted King, oops, I mean, Lorenzo Alcazar finally consumate their sexy tap dance.

Dillon collapses in the hospital cafeteria.

Lukas tells his Father he's gay. (Total coolness: Tony accepts him and then gets back to the business of curing the city.)

Robert Scorpio runs around the hospital shutting it down and making a PSA to the news media about the quarantine. He's very sexy. Er, I meant authoritative.

Young Dr. Drake grabs the Littlest Doctor Robin and insists that she get out of there. Being HIV + is compromising her immune system enough as it is......it doesn't need Ebola or whatever making things worse.

Robin refuses to leave.

(She wouldn't be able to anyway but it was a powerful performance from Dr. Drake so we'll let it ride.)

Meanwhile, Patrick determines that the Chimp is Ebola-free and that Luke's Libertine lifestyle (he drinks Crown Royal like a fish) has protected him and created antibodies in him that could save the city.

Robert Scorpio takes it upon himself to tell Luke the awful news....."This could save everyone. Except you."

Awwwwww!

Luke announces, nobly, "If donating my blood will save Lulu then....start cutting and dig in."

Fin

I Found a Page with "Um"ily's Fingernails!

2006-02-03T13:29:00.000-05:00

Hee.

I found a page of "Um"ily's fingernails and it's called "Talons of Doom".

I'm laughing so hard over that I think I woke the cat.

And a special 2 inch white Talon of Doom shout out to Kara and Barb. It's great to have friends in high places. ;-)