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I can't rememeber, if there was a condom malfunction or unprotected sex that caused Robin's exposure. I do know that it wasn't frivalous sex.
If memory serves, Felicia warned Robin that condoms weren't always effective (I guess that's how Flea wound up with Georgie). Thinking Stone was home-free because he'd had an HIV test, the couple decided Robin would use birth control pills. Tragically, they turned out to be very, very wrong.
I'm amazed I remember all that, since I kinda hated that story for being way too sad ...
I will admit that that story scared me out of having sex until I was well into college. Yes, I am an idiot.
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Then she, no shit, had Robin make friends with space alien Casey.
Well, to be fair, I don't think she was like "hey, Robin, go talk to that nice man over there - he's actually a space alien!" I think Robin befriended this weird guy and then they all discovered he was an ET. Which ... I don't know. Even at the age of 10 or 11 or so, I had to check out for that story, because it was bizarre and pointless.
I literally have no idea what happened there. Did the writers all get high on crack and nobody stopped them? Did someone just really hate Finola Hughes and want to embarrass her (and half the cast, actually)? I guess she got the last laugh on that one, though, because she got an Emmy that year.
I think it's best for everyone's sake if we just pretend that was all a weird dream Robin had, featuring her parents and every one of their friends ... inflicted on the audience for no particular reason ... for an unseemly length of time.
Although I was always a big Anna fan, I will admit that the fake scar business sounds completely insane. I give her points for originality, though!
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- Robin is the first to feel Jason's fury, as he blasts her for abandoning her family for him, and says that reviving the dead was a mistake and has come at too great of a cost. Who is Robin to play God?
This spoiler is likely crap, but I could buy this part of it - simply because no matter what Robin does, no matter how many times she saves Jason's worthless ass .... this show always has to have someone bitch at the poor girl and tell her she's sanctimonious.
This entire plot of Robin going off to save Jason is asinine, but of course the writers AGAIN set her up to try and do a good thing - only so everyone can tell her she was wrong, shoulda minded her own business, did it the wrong way somehow, yadda, yadda, yadda.
I thought I read on TWOP that Lulu got frozen and unfrozen recently (which is, of course, fucking dumb) - so why is it such a big long process to unfreeze Jason? Does he retain more water, or something?
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Yeah, but it's the worst of her kids. It's like telling a kid "oh, wait, there is one more piece of candy in your Halloween stash! But it's a piece of candy corn."
I actually like candy corn. So I would compare Jason to an old, stale breath mint with something fuzzy stuck on it.
Poor Monica. Why can't she catch a damn break already? I haven't even been watching, but it's gross that they brought AJ back to life just to kill him again.
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I've been traveling (on WSB business, obviously ...) or would've posted earlier.
I can't find the next actual episode or even clips to fill in the gaps. The next full episode I can find is two weeks after Roy's death. So how did we get from "Frank Smith's going to kill Luke for fucking up the Mitch Williams hit!" to ... Frank Smith totally didn't kill Luke. (Well, thanks for nothing, Frank Smith!). No idea.
Here's the next episode, in which: Monica and Alan (and basically all their co-workers) fret over Monica's difficult pregnancy; Laura tells Luke she wants to tell Bobbie it's Laura's fault Roy is dead (great idea, Laura! except, not); MacGuyver (Jeff) and Joe Kelly try to find out where Crazy Offscreen Heather has stashed MacGuyver's son, or stepson, or whatever - with no help from Heather's mother Alice (apparently Jeff is married to Heather at this point, while Heather is locked in an institution).
Don't be a hero, guys - fast forward through the Richard Simmons stuff.
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTRZV43i6zQ&index=9&list=PLSow-EgQdmMFhUi9PjygfBGLAKAhwKG2Y
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BcgujiAvTA&list=PLSow-EgQdmMFhUi9PjygfBGLAKAhwKG2Y&index=10
Bonus clip: Here's why Crazy Offscreen Heather is both crazy and offscreen in this episode - she previously tried to dose Diana with LSD to make Diana go crazy (and get custody of Diana's kid, apparently), but throught the magic of said kid turning a lazy susan, Heather ended up with the wrong glass of ice tea and dosed herself. Oops!
Here she is, having a bad LSD trip, hilariously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a37wazXU34A
Bonus clip 2: GREAT Tracy scenes. Some months before, Monica had to testify in a deposition in a malpractice lawsuit about her whereabouts a certain night ... and had to admit under oath she was cheating with Rick - Alan doesn't know and now the deposition transcript has been stolen. Tracy suspects something.
And apparently, Tracy married Mitch after all ... guess she really wants to be a state senator's wife!
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I do feel bad for you guys who are lifers, I know how it feels as I cannot watch that piece-o-crap known as Y&R b/c I care too much and it is ruined.
GH OTOH I find highly entertaining, b/c to me it is not serious.
This makes complete sense to me. If I didn't have a history with this show, I might enjoy laughing at some of the trainwreck.
I could safely forget about the show in the early 2000s, when it was all Sonny and Jason and one of the NewCarlys and I just had no feelings about the show one way or the other anymore. But then they messed around so much with the history, and they brought back Scorpio and disrespected him, and what they did to Robin was so, so gross, and they've ruined my girl Anna, and for that someone must pay. Someone must pay!! [insert dramatic soap opera music here - dun dun DUN!!]
Or, y'know, I just will never watch a live episode again.
But I can understand why others feel differently, and why the ratings might be fine.
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Ok, this episode is really good (if you ignore that boring Annie Logan):
Roy wants to try out his mad assassinating skillz, and Luke and Bobbie race to try and stop him. Quartermaines! -- especially Alan, in all his sarcastic glory. Scotty wants to know why Laura is a nervous wreck pacing around their tiny, ugly apartment.
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I'm disappointed Luke didn't rip off his shirt at the end there too after he screamed "LAURA!!!"
"LAURAAAAAA, YOU FORGOT YOUR PURSE!! LAURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Before there was Sonny (shouting at random intervals, abusing women and bitching about his crappy Bensonhurst childhood) there was Luke (shouting at random intervals, abusing women and bitching about his crappy Elm Street childhood).
The viewers got a nice break from this pattern when Robert was the hero of the show. Of course, Robert didn't talk about his childhood at all, which is how we ended up with the Surprise!-I-Have-A-Brother-Named-Mac! story in '92 ...
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At 13:18 on the second clip, Luke falls right on his stupid face and it's hilarious.
Luke really is a shouty, annoying spazz. And Laura has to go ahead and save him from getting killed - thanks a lot, Laura! Now we'll be stuck with him for another three decades!
I love the giant mess Roy makes looking for the gun.
It's really nice seeing Steve Hardy and Audrey again, though! And original Edward and Lila!
Also, I don't know who that Jeremy kid is, or why he's in the Hardy's home, but he's super-annoying. I had to fast forward through his stuff ... yikes.
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Ok, 80s viewing party topic is now a thing, should you choose to check it out!
Back to the topic, can someone explain to me the Quartermaine family tree? Please? I know AJ is the bio son of Monica/Alan, Jason is Susan Moore/Alan Q offspring, and Tracy/Alan are brother and sister from Edward/Lila. The rest confuse me.Tracy has two sons, Ned (I don't know the father) and Dillon (with a boring dude named Paul). Emily was a daughter Monica adopted (Monica had met Emily's mom when she was in a cancer support group, and then Em's mother died of cancer). Skye was some boring-ass lady that was thought to be Alan's daughter, and then found out not to be ... or something ...
Edward had a son named Justus from prior to his marriage with Lila, I think. I think at some point there was another son from a not-Lila woman, in the 80s. Also, various cousins may have drifted in and out of town at some point.
Monica had a biological daughter named Dawn at one point. Like all of Monica's children, she died horribly.
I haven't actually paid attention in a while, so I don't know if there are any new Q's, un-Q'd Q's (like Skye), or re-Q'd un-Q'd Qs.
But the important thing to note is that Monica once slept with Tracy's son Ned. Which cracks me up to this day.
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Did you know Luke almost assassinated Tracy's fiancee back in the day? Ever wonder if poor AJ was just cursed from birth (according to Nurse Jessie, the answer is yes)? Want to revisit the 80s on GH, or are these episodes you never got to see?
Well this is the thread for you! The idea here is to watch full episodes and clips online from the very beginning of the 80s onward, and discuss.
I propose to start with some episodes from the tail end of '79, which set the scene for some insane Quartermaine goodness throughout 1980, as well as the beginning of the adventure stories that started with Luke and Laura, and go in order chronologically as much as possible. There are a lot of full episodes out there, so one can follow the stories -- however, I'll fill in with links to clips where there are gaps, where I can find them.
I propose we start with November 9, 1979:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Tracy is engaged to a politician ... who is about to be targeted by an assassin. She throws a giant party and looks amazing, but this party is not going to end well. This is also about a month after Luke raped his employee, Laura (who has not turned him in to the police to rot in jail, as he so richly deserves - obviously, I condone nothing about how this storyline was handled). Bobbie is engaged to a man named Roy. MacGuyver - I mean, Jeff Webber - is also hanging around.
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That sounds like fun! Actually, I wonder if we could separate them into sections--say early 80's, mid 80's and late 80's, as each era of GH then was pretty different, anyway.
I don't see why not!
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And before that, in 1997, Liz stole a box of them and hid them in Sarah's clothes, causing tension between her sister Sarah and Nikolas by making them wonder if the other thought they were going too slow in their sexual relations. That naughty Liz!
Oh my God, I'd forgotten that! That was so dumb. Did she want Nik for herself? I don't even remember what her problem was a that point.
I only remember she was annoying as hell for a long time, and pointless, until the actress got to shine in the rape story. Since then, though, Liz hasn't really had a personality - she's a cypher that bad things seem to happen to, unless the plot requires Liz to do something annoying.
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Can anyone give me a quick rundown of the original Aztec treasure storyline?
Basically, what Box305 said. It was before my time, but at some point I ferreted out a bunch of clips online, and that story was ridiculous and glorious and awesome all at the same time. It introduced so many of the favorite 80s characters. It also was the context in which Robert and Anna's first marriage and WSB past were explained. At the very end of the story, Anna also hints at Robin's existence, in a typically soapy way, as in: "Robert, I have to tell you something! Not now, later ... but it's super-important! So important I'm gonna drag this thing out, for like another month ... " And that eventually led into Robin's intro to the show.
Speaking of history, would there be any interest in an 80's viewing party topic if I started one?? There is an impressive cache of full 80s episodes on YouTube, it seems. Basically, we'd start with an episode at the beginning of the 80s, and then go chronologically through, watching one or two episodes a week and snarking on them. Especially for those of us on the Barge, and anyone who wants to see the old history - before the current crew of writers re-writes it and messes it up - could be fun.
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GH History Lessons: Because History is Always Repeating Itself
in General Hospital
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Interestingly enough, I didn't enjoy any of those stories ... but I can understand why KMc would, as an actress.
Possibly, she didn't want her own character prematurely aged with an overnight 20-year-old daugher, either. Not that I would blame her at all! I think most SORAS-ing is almost always a terrible idea - it ages characters and messes up generations all to hell.
Fun fact: Robin should be older than or the same age as AJ, and older than Jason, as they were both born at the beginning of the 80s when baby Robin was chilling offscreen.
Holly took him when she skipped town with Bill Eckert's money!
(Just kidding - I think the poor thing just got forgotten in all the "fun" of Mac and Robin yelling / whining at each about Stone. Possibly he fled to avoid the histrionics).