Spoilers and Speculation: Clink Boom and Cheese Fondue

[HeatLifer]

You know what, man? I agree. :nostril flare:

No, seriously, I do. That was just mean poking a little fun at her.

We all have our quirks! ;)

I mostly miss how Carly was written. So real, so many flaws.

[UYI]

I miss SJB.

 

I have a special place in my heart for TB, but SJB was pretty great, too.

[HeatLifer]

I have a special place in my heart for TB, but SJB was pretty great, too.

I love TB, too. I loved her chemistry with Ingo and TK. My Carly power rankings will always be SJB followed by TB. I really don't acknowledge anyone else. Not hating against LW, but she's always been way too shouty for me.

They also said they would not flood us with new characters but might make an exception or two with vets or if a character for a story is glaringly needed.

The only "character for a story that's glaringly needed" is Jason being Jason and Patrick's personality.

Edited September 9, 2015 by HeatLifer

[Chairperson Meow]

Anonymous rumor, so take it with a huuuge grain of salt.

 

Another retirement coming up. This time it's Leslie Charleson's saying goodbye to GH. New writers plan a December dedicated to GH's favorite dysfunctional family with heartfelt family reunions, a ghost or two popping in and a loving goodbye to Dr.i]

Clearly, the only way to make this lack of Q's okay is reviving AJ. Either get SK back or invest in a great AJ recast. If Jason gets a "name" actor, dammit, drop some money on AJ.

[BestestAuntEver]

Clearly, the only way to make this lack of Q's okay is reviving AJ. Either get SK back or invest in a great AJ recast. If Jason gets a "name" actor, dammit, drop some money on AJ.

AJ, is a fat alcoholic loser.

[sunnyface]

Clearly, the only way to make this lack of Q's...

 

The reality is that the Q's have been knocked off their perch by the Corinthos and the hospital has been replaced by the mob/cop/attorneys. Maurice and Laura are just playing gross characters and the modern day equivalent of Edward and Lila.  What a commentary on today's society.

Edited September 9, 2015 by sunnyface

[Harmony233]

THe sad thing is Carly and sonny are the closest thing we have to patriachs and matriachs. I remeber when they used to have the old couples like Edward/Lila Audrey/Steve,Gail/Lee ect.

[ch1]

Clearly, the only way to make this lack of Q's okay is reviving AJ. Either get SK back or invest in a great AJ recast. If Jason gets a "name" actor, dammit, drop some money on AJ.

 

 

The whole point of bringing Sean Kanan on in the first place should have been to make AJ the new patriarch of the Qs since Edward and Alan were gone.  Then they could have rebuilt the family around him with Michael becoming a Q and bringing on a long lost adult kid. 

 

And actually giving him a freaking love story that didn't involve one of Jason's minions.

 

But why do that when you can just write the same thing and destroy him all over again just to give the mobsters something to do?

[peachmangosteen]

I think Hornsby works as a grayer character mixing it up with the Qs and scheming with a lot of people.

 

I read this as 'gayer' like 3 times before I got it right. Also, I agree with this.

 

I wish Dollar Store was the dad

 

Same tbh. Whatever I think him and Valerie have chem. Certainly more chem than he has with Lulu or she has with Dante.

[IWantCandy71]

The retiree could just as easily be Jane Elliot. Her contract coincidentally expires either next month or in November, and if the show tapes approximately 6 to 8 weeks ahead, a mid December send off would be just about right. I don't think it is her, though. But Paul possibly being mobular could easily set up that she might be collateral damage, AND if Hayden is a Q, there's a Tracy-lite character who could try to fill her shoes.

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Tony Geary is texting her daily with "blow that popsicle stand". Plus, unless they are pitching a wonderful story to her, I can see her deciding to pack it in.

I actually agree with the sentiment that RC loved the vets, or most of them, anyway. RC gave Jane things to do that Guza never would have. And I think Jane isn't getting the same vibe from the new writers. So it would be a perfect dropping off point, to just say no, and wrap it up.

I hope I'm wrong, not because I believe that one actor can make or break this show, or that the show would die without her. But I do think she's held on so long for crumbs, and if she leaves, I think a lot of people will give up the last vestige of hope that the show will get better. I know I will.

Besides, I just don't want to see Monica Quartermaine die, now that she's about to learn one of her children is actually alive. And I can't imagine her leaving town after learning it.

Then again, perhaps the retiree is Kin or Jackie?

[Chairperson Meow]

I like Kin, but if I had to play Franco's dad, I'd quit too.

[IWantCandy71]

LOL !  :) I bet Kin likes Roger, and vice versa, but yeah. "Your job is safe because you spawned a serial killer".  I'd run, not walk, to the nearest exit.

Then again, peeps got bills to pay. It's a hard business.

[TeeVee329]

And actually giving him a freaking love story that didn't involve one of Jason's minions.

 

I still mourn the potential of Quiz.  Liz as a Quartermaine?  Oh yes.

 

Instead, she's shed any integrity she had to hold on to mobster peen when she's not not dealing with her back-from-the-dead son (who, as predicated, has vanished).

[Badsamaritan]

No. No no no no NO. CarnAJ should be the new Alan & Monica. I will never forgive MoRon for his RoHo hard on & putting Carly with both his characters.

If the new writers did bring back AJ & put him with Carly for a real live story, I would watch every episode without fast forwarding. Like, at all.

[dubbel zout]

I can see Jane Elliott leaving, too, especially with TG gone.  The ELQ thing gets resolved, and Tracy decides Michael is doing a good job as CEO and it's time for her to move to L.A. and spend some time with Ned and Brook Lynn.

 

I just hope that if LC and/or JE that leave, their characters aren't killed off. There aren't really enough characters around to mourn them properly. And if that doesn't show how pathetic GH has become, I don't know what does.

[TeeVee329]

If LC does retire, I could see Monica getting engaged to Judge Naxie Spoiler and embarking on a cruise around the world or something to that effect.

 

Where is Ned supposed to be, btw?  Just hanging out...somewhere...watching Olivia's baby?

[ulkis]

Seriously. Ned is a really good boyfriend.

[magnolia11]

He's over on DAYS pressuring Rafe to arrest Chad DiMera.  Damn you, Frank, for not offering Wally a contract.

[IWantCandy71]

I wouldn't *want* Monica or Tracy to die. But I think the old "leaving town" trope is just uneventful and kind of anti-climatic for two such legacy characters. If either actress chooses to leave before the show ends, they should get goodbyes with the 2 loved ones still around, and a sad weepy death. I mean, Monica leaving town to travel the world with the judge is cutesy and all....but a recurrence of her cancer with what's left of her family around her, and ghost Alan and Emily holding her hands, would be a far better ending IMO.

[UYI]

Honestly, if LC is retiring and decides to go, I say screw it: Give the audience something they want and either have her leave after getting a tip that Alan is alive, or get SD, if his health allows it, to make a cameo where we know, for sure, that Alan is alive, and he and Monica can retire to somewhere beautiful together.

 

I know that leaves Judge Naxie spoiler in the lurch, but it would make me happy, and I'd bet it would make a lot of other fans--and LC herself--happy, too. After everything she's gone through these last several years both Monica, and by extension Leslie, deserve this.

Edited September 9, 2015 by UYI

[TeeVee329]

I wouldn't *want* Monica or Tracy to die. But I think the old "leaving town" trope is just uneventful and kind of anti-climatic for two such legacy characters. If either actress chooses to leave before the show ends, they should get goodbyes with the 2 loved ones still around, and a sad weepy death. I mean, Monica leaving town to travel the world with the judge is cutesy and all....but a recurrence of her cancer with what's left of her family around her, and ghost Alan and Emily holding her hands, would be a far better ending IMO.

 

I get what you're saying, but advocating for more dead Quartermaines just seems wrong.

[Harmony233]

maybe its because this show has shown such little repect to the vets that if LC retires I see them just giving her goodbye an sentence onscreen about how she moved away or someting.This show has def made me not have much hope in it.On another soap where an vet was retiring it would probally be a big story on GH not so much.

[Tiger]

Honestly, if LC is retiring and decides to go, I say screw it: Give the audience something they want and either have her leave after getting a tip that Alan is alive, or get SD, if his health allows it, to make a cameo where we know, for sure, that Alan is alive, and he and Monica can retire to somewhere beautiful together.

 

I know that leaves Judge Naxie spoiler in the lurch, but it would make me happy, and I'd bet it would make a lot of other fans--and LC herself--happy, too. After everything she's gone through these last several years both Monica, and by extension Leslie, deserve this.

If Leslie decides to retire and Stuart is too ill to film even one scene, I'd "settle" for Monica getting a call from off-screen Frisco that Alan had been found in one of Victoria's facilities, and then have Leslie's last scene be some WSB bringing her into a room, and Monica exclaiming "Alan!"with her face beaming.

If Stuart s up to filming a few scenes maybe laying in a bed and with minimal dialogue, you do the dame scenario as above but the episode ends on Alan's face. And then the next episode is maybe Anna giving some exposition and the rest of the Q's gathered around his bedside. The episode could end with Monica she was taking Alan to a rehab facility in Arizona or something, that she was officially retiring from GH, and ask for Tracy to look after the family.

[TeeVee329]

I'm just...hear me out...Monica getting a happy ending with Alan would warm my heart so.  But after the show so badly bungled Jake's BTFD, I'm just super leery of them going anywhere near that well again.

[WendyCR72]

The show bungled Zombie Jake's return because RC had no plan for it. Just poof! I'd hope if Leslie Charleson was retiring, there would be time to plan an appropriate exit.

 

I may not be a big Monica fan but for all the years on this show, she deserves a good exit. And personally, killing another Q doesn't seem like a "good" exit.

[Badsamaritan]

And she gives the house - that Alan gave her, dontcha know - to Michael. Now that's a boatload of manly responsibility, and I think she would like him to be the anchor of the next generation of Q's. And Sonny is never ever allowed in the door again.

[ulkis]

I'd be fine with ghost Alan welcoming Monica to the light, but no hokey wigs. I mean, what is the point of having a 50 year old drama if some people don't die natural deaths? I mean Monica is a little young for that, but Stuart Damon is almost 80 at this point.

[UYI]

I don't know, I just feel like after everything Monica has gone through just in this last decade alone, finding a way to let her have her husband back, and maybe have her sell the mansion and find somewhere private to live with him would be a small but nice way to make up for it. Monica hasn't really had to chance to win something in life for a long time, and this would be a way for her to do it.

 

Plus, Alan & Monica are my all time favorite GH couple (along with Robert & Anna), so that factors into it for me, too. :)

Edited September 10, 2015 by UYI

[Oracle42]

After Luke's shitty ending I'm going to need a better exit for the next vet - and no more dead Qs!!!!

Edited September 10, 2015 by Oracle42

[ulkis]

I don't know, I just feel like after everything Monica has gone through just in this last decade alone, finding a way to let her have her husband back, and maybe have her sell the mansion and find somewhere private to live with him would be a small but nice way to make up for it. Monica hasn't really had to chance to win something in life for a long time, and this would be a way for her to do it.

 

Plus, Alan & Monica are my all time favorite GH couple (along with Robert & Anna), so that factors into it for me, too. :)

 

Okay, how about Audrey? Maybe they should save that for GH's last episode.

Edited September 10, 2015 by ulkis

[jsbt]

I know Ron wanted Stuart Damon to return alive as Alan, especially when they thought the show only had six months to live in 2012. I would kill for that. But I hear he's in very ill health.

[MichaelaRae]

Okay, how about Audrey? Maybe they should save that for GH's last episode.

 

Awww, c'mon. Audrey still has so many honks to give.

[TeeVee329]

Poor Audrey's dealing with BFTD Jake while Liz hangs on to mobster peen for dear life.

Edited September 10, 2015 by TeeVee329

[WendyCR72]

Poor Audrey's dealing with BFTD Jake while Liz hangs on to mobster peen for dear life.

 

Isn't poor Audrey like 110 by now?!

[ulkis]

My point exactly!

[Chairperson Meow]

And she gives the house - that Alan gave her, dontcha know - to Michael. Now that's a boatload of manly responsibility, and I think she would like him to be the anchor of the next generation of Q's. And Sonny is never ever allowed in the door again.

Or, you know, a not dead AJ.

[UYI]

Isn't poor Audrey like 110 by now?!

 

After seeing Rachel Ames during the 50th anniversary show two years ago, I feel kind of bad making fun of Audrey's age, because RA is still quite lovely and still seems pretty capable of getting around and other things. Although being a great-grandmother on GH doesn't help with the ridiculousness, lol.

Or, you know, a not dead AJ.

 

In my head, there would be two different feeds of this available--one for the fans of SK, another for the fans of BW. Kind of like a  Two Beckys on Roseanne thing.

[KerleyQ]

And she gives the house - that Alan gave her, dontcha know - to Michael. Now that's a boatload of manly responsibility, and I think she would like him to be the anchor of the next generation of Q's. And Sonny is never ever allowed in the door again.

 

I'd love that if it wasn't for his in process full on reunion with his crappy ass parents.  I don't want that house somehow becoming mob central.  I would love, love, love if AJ was still around and Monica gave him the house and Michael lived with him, though. 

[IWantCandy71]

The reason I vote for death for Monica, is quite simple: it's a matter of respect. I don't want her being like Audrey, mentioned but never seen. It's like the show would be saying "she isn't important enough to give an exit story to".

Poor Rachel Ames. :(

Anyway-with sending her out of town-there's no way Monica would leave town after finding out Jason is alive. I think it's a pretty general consensus that most of us hate the OOC storytelling that's been going on. Monica just going on a world cruise with the judge after finding out she has a child still alive-it's just ridiculous. Would never happen.

I don't want another Q to die, but if they aren't using her, she's never seen, what's the difference? Might as well write her cancer coming back or some other illness, and give LC what she hasn't gotten in many years-a beautiful, heartfelt family story. And as a compromise, IF we had to do it this way, we *could* have her find a specialist in Europe who could help her. I would accept that as a reason for her to leave town and the show, and have it be IC and still be a poignant ending. She'd still get the emotional battle trying to fight the disease, and get the goodbyes, but there would always be a chance LC might pop up again from time to time.

Edited September 10, 2015 by IWantCandy71

[TeeVee329]

I don't want another Q to die, but if they aren't using her, she's never seen, what's the difference? Might as well write her cancer coming back or some other illness, and give LC what she hasn't gotten in many years-a beautiful, heartfelt family story. And as a compromise, IF we had to do it this way, we *could* have her find a specialist in Europe who could help her. I would accept that as a reason for her to leave town and the show, and have it be IC and still be a poignant ending. She'd still get the emotional battle trying to fight the disease, and get the goodbyes, but there would always be a chance LC might pop up again from time to time.

 

I just don't see the show giving over the time to do such a story for Monica justice.  Not when they got to integrate Franco and Nina into the canvas. #eyeroll

[Ambrosefolly]

The reason I vote for death for Monica, is quite simple: it's a matter of respect. I don't want her being like Audrey, mentioned but never seen. It's like the show would be saying "she isn't important enough to give an exit story to".

Poor Rachel Ames. :(

Anyway-with sending her out of town-there's no way Monica would leave town after finding out Jason is alive. I think it's a pretty general consensus that most of us hate the OOC storytelling that's been going on. Monica just going on a world cruise with the judge after finding out she has a child still alive-it's just ridiculous. Would never happen.

I don't want another Q to die, but if they aren't using her, she's never seen, what's the difference? Might as well write her cancer coming back or some other illness, and give LC what she hasn't gotten in many years-a beautiful, heartfelt family story. And as a compromise, IF we had to do it this way, we *could* have her find a specialist in Europe who could help her. I would accept that as a reason for her to leave town and the show, and have it be IC and still be a poignant ending. She'd still get the emotional battle trying to fight the disease, and get the goodbyes, but there would always be a chance LC might pop up again from time to time.

While I am one of those that thought they should have gone ahead an done an Alzheimers with Audrey and have her die from it considering what ended happening with her character, they also could have had her leave Port Charles to either be with her son or retire some place warm. I am sick of dead Qs and maybe my bias against Michael is coming out, but I know Monica dying will be all about him (and possibly Jason) , like it was for Alan, Emily and AJ. If Monica is going to leave and unless her breast cancer comes back and she dies of the disease in a matter of months, a violent death will almost guarantee, Monica's story will be about everyone else but Monica.  

[dubbel zout]

Monica's death would be all about Jason, of course.

[ch1]

And Michael (whose head will be firmly implanted in Sonny's ass again I would bet).

 

What's the point of a doing a big send off when there are no Qs around that would add emotional weight to it?  The only one is Tracy. 

 

They might as well just have a throwaway line. 

[dubbel zout]

What's the point of a doing a big send off when there are no Qs around that would add emotional weight to it?  The only one is Tracy.

I made this point earlier, and it's why I'd rather Monica not get killed. LC is on so infrequently they could have Monica retire from GH and travel. It would give the show a reason to celebrate her, and it would explain why she's not onscreen. If she can go to medical conferences for three years straight, she can be on a world cruise.

[ulkis]

I think, if LC is making it official, she should somehow help oust O. from office, and then everyone insists she take the C.O.S job back, but she says, no, judge Naxie spoiler and I will sail off with Gandalf, etc etc, and they go on their cruise.

[KerleyQ]

And Michael (whose head will be firmly implanted in Sonny's ass again I would bet).

 

What's the point of a doing a big send off when there are no Qs around that would add emotional weight to it?  The only one is Tracy. 

 

They might as well just have a throwaway line. 

 

Maybe Frank will just tweet "oh, BTW, guys, Monica's dead now. We had to cut the scenes for Franco and Nina stuff, though." 

[Oracle42]

You're missing all the exclamation points that follow any of his mentions of Franco/Nina

[TeeVee329]

This week on #GH: Franco and Nina banter adorably about Franco snoring.  Also, some old lady (Harmonica Nicklevermont?) gets eaten by a shark.  Tune in!

[ulkis]

http://tvsourcemagazine.com/2015/09/general-hospital-spoilers-september-14-2015-edition/

 

I like this spoiler:

 

Julian finds out just how ride or die the Davis women are.

 

Meanwhile, Carly faced with an important decision that could forever change Sonny’s lie.

 

I can't wait for Sonny to wake up paralyzed and tell Carly she's a whore* who should have let him . . . DIE. No, seriously, I can't wait.

 

*I am not callign Carly a whore, I'm saying that's how the character of Sonny would probably say it.

Edited September 11, 2015 by ulkis

[aw86]

Anna back in Samtrick propping mode next week.  HEAD EXPLODES

http://tvsourcemagazine.com/2015/09/general-hospital-spoilers-september-14-2015-edition/