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brings you

 

2/9/04

Welcome to my last RANT…regarding GH in the year 2003. Before I jump into the awards I had to bring you a RANT one mo’ time.

Want some RC? No not the cola? Do they still sell that? The RC I’m talking about is romantic complications. Romantic complications in soaps are GREAT!!! In real life? Not so much. No matter how great your couple is they need some RC to not only shake them up and make them realize what they have in each other, but it also makes you root for them. On GH three of the biggest couples have some RC.

Sonny & Carly. Yes, the almighty S&C have a real threat to their love since Brenda bopped out of town. I find this new Alcazar twist highly inventive if not ingenious. I thought it clever to have Carly live a whole lifetime married to Alcazar and wake up with some feelings left over from that other reality. It reminded me of one of the best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes ever "The Inner Light".

A quick synopsis: The Enterprise comes across a space probe that sends out a beam that sends the captain into a coma. While in this coma the captain “dreams” he is another man on another planet with a wife. Soon he is living this man’s life and having kids, something the captain never has done because his career came first. The captain winds up living a whole lifetime as this man, learning to play a “special flute”, seeing the birth of his grandkids and the death of his wife. Eventually he wakes up finding out that the space probe was from a dying civilization who wanted to remind anyone who came upon it about life on their planet. Afterwards the captain cherished his experience and enclosed in the probe was a version of the “special flute” which he continued to play.

I feel that Lorenzo Alcazar is Carly’s “special flute” that even though she woke up and knows it was a dream she still cherish those memories.
A lot of people say that Alcazar is such a sleaze in his approach and like to admonish him for his former actions. Yeah he kidnapped Carly, but he was a man of totally different motives then. I think since he has fallen in love with Carly he is a changed man. And who is to question the motives of a man in love, right?
As much as I like Sonny and Carly, I’m kind of rooting for Alcazar and Carly-- and when it comes to soaps...that’s a good thing.

Now the RC for Jason and Courtney. The complication is kind of two fold. One is the Brian dude and the other is Courtney herself. After all the warnings FROM JASON HIMSELF she is starting to question the mob life. I think it is great that she is not falling into being the mob wife like Carly. Now this Brian dude. Who is he? And why is he so creepy. I hope they try and find a new reason for him to be infatuated with Courtney THAT IS NOT romantic. We kind of been there done that...currently! Maybe Courtney reminds him of his sister or something she was killed as a bystander to organized crime and he just wants to save Courtney not bed her. But really the RC in this relationship seems to be Courtney herself. Be careful what you wish for...So far this RC is mildly interesting.

And now that third RC I spoke of and her name is Sage (of Dillon and Georgie fame). Right now the girl is the two t-o-o. Too obnoxious and too obvious. What is her MOTIVATION? I find that screwed up people, ESPECIALLY kids, are screwed up for a reason. What makes this chick tick? I hope we get some reason soon why she is such a brat. For now, she makes this RC a little more than mildly interesting.

As for the other couples like Jax and Sam? Who cares? Movin’ on. Just kidding...kinda. I will talk about them. Slighty amusing and mildly interesting are the words to describe them. I would say they need a little RC. The whole “Dead Man’s Hand” thing was a waste until Luke got involved. (Why did Luke’s involvement in the DMH amp that storyline up like 1000%? TG is the man!) I maybe could root for this couple if they like had something REAL to do. Right now .


‘QUARTER’ BACKS

Tracy is BACK! Right now it’s kind of so what? Her lusting after Jax? Her wheeling and dealing? Been there done that. I would like to see Tracy embark on something truly insidious as only Tracy can do and how about this...involve the Q’s. I would love to have the Q’s spy on Tracy in some weird behaviors and then find out secretly that she has breast cancer. Of course this will automatically endear the Q’s because of Monica and Emily. Have them confront Tracy and have her tell them that she doesn’t want their pity. They didn’t like her before, don’t like now that she’s dying. Then have Alan try to bond with his only sister (we think ha ha) maybe Edward and of course Dillon and Ned...some interaction with the Q’s. Of course ,Tracy’s cancer is a big lie and she used it to insinuate herself back into the family for some ulterior motive of course. Let’s have something real!!! I would hate for her to be another Stefan. Was that a big waste of time or what? Stefan…well you’ll see which awards he gets.

Justice is back in Port Charles…and his name is Justus too. Ain’t that a kick? But seriously. I’m glad that among the new characters added to the canvas, they chose to add one so connected to existing characters and, YES, someone with some diversity. Ever since Ric kinda went loopy (well he was always loopy, it was just finally revealed to everyone), Sonny has needed a good lawyer and it’s good to see Justus in the mix. They’re slowly revealing more of his story, but hopefully it will be worthwhile. So far ok.


A COUPLE APART

And finally, one of the best new couples on GH: Skye and Luke. I knew from the first scene that these two would be great together. First of all, they were two great performers. It’s like when Luke and Sonny used to be tight. Every scene, even if they were just talking inconsequentially, was great. The best thing about this couple is no RC, and right now I don’t want any. One of the major peeves I had against Sonny and Carly was that I thought they were just thrown together because they were two great performers (when Carly was played by Sarah Brown). I saw no chemistry between them and never really rooted for the couple. (That all changed with the casting of Tamara Braun). I would hate to see that happen to Skye and Luke. Especially given that TPTB seem intent on having Luke still attached to Laura. Since I thought Skye and Ned had chemistry I would love to see some complications from him. Interference in a relationship doesn’t have to come in the form of romantic. This couple is so strong that it would have to be a strong reason Ned would get involved without making him look like the bad guy.

That’s it for the year,
but don't you cry 
have no fear
because next
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