"Elizabeth's First Love is Back" on GH
Jonathan Jackson returns to General Hospital on October 27 and ABC has released a promo. I'm looking forward to Jackson's return, but I'm a bit confused. I was under the impression Lucky Spencer had been in Port Charles for some years now. The promo says that "Elizabeth's first love is back."
Does that mean Lucky doesn't have a prescription for treating the case of crotch crickets he caught in Sam's hot tub? Does this Lucky know Jake is Jason's son? Is Lucky still a recovering drug addict? Does this mean Lucky isn't the Barney Fife of the PCPD? Will Jackson's Lucky remember the affair with Maxie? And why would Lucky ask if Elizabeth remembered him? How exactly does one forget their first love?
An actor is not the first love of a character, the character is. Instead of using "first love" or "the real" to describe actors returning as characters why don't these PR departments just keep it simple? Soaps have to promote the returns of big name stars. It would be stupid if they didn't, but there is no need to promote the return of one actor by pissing off the fans of another.
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3 July 2008
5 hours 59 min
I was just happy to see JJ, but I have to agree ... the chosen words seem just wrong. But did anyone really expect something else? LOL
I have to say I'm not very surprised that they using these exact words. It's not fair to GV - it's not even fair to Jacob Young if you wanna go there. But it's ABC. It's still a shame though.
Besides this PR fauxpas I'm really happy to see JJ as Lucky again.
Now if ABC could find a way to promote CO77X with James Franco's upcoming appearance ... you might find a compliment for them there after yesterday's hysteria, but I doubt that.
1 June 2008
1 year 13 weeks
I really hate this promo it is disrespect GV ..
Lucky was not gone he was here for the last ten years .............
And I kind like the way they are starting James Franco character a month before he is there.. the Montages with the "mad world " song is pretty cool and it makes me so excited to see what is that
25 December 2008
1 year 9 weeks
I guess they could've worded things differently but I'm just glad that they are promoting his return because it would be stupid of them, not too.
Anyways, Jonathan is back and so am I. I can't wait until he starts airing.
7 March 2009
3 years 21 weeks
I thought he was already back. ????
OH!!!! HE is the "REAL" Lucky!!!
23 July 2008
13 weeks 2 days
The promo makes absolutely no sense. This is probably just ABC trying really hard to avoid the REAL campaign fiasco. It's stupid.
1 April 2009
1 week 14 hours
Oh god. It's the Real Greenlee all over again.....
18 January 2008
1 year 30 weeks
Did anyone expect anything different from the network that promoted "The REAL Greenlee?" I give them points for kind of restraining themselves, actually. Any way they were going to do it, it was going to be insulting to Greg Vaughan. This network doesn't know how to do things any different.
1 June 2008
1 year 13 weeks
Hi I just heard that Scott Reeves is also going to GH he will be Liz brother D'r Steve weber
Yeaaaaaaaa
I loved him in Y& R
25 December 2008
1 year 9 weeks
Thanks GH Lover for mentioning the James Franco montage with mad world playing. I youtubed it and I'm loving it. Love how they are setting it up
1 April 2009
1 week 14 hours
Scott Reeves on GH??
(stopping in tracks) LOVE HIM!!!
Loved him on Y&R actually....
He shoulda been cast on OLTL as REX'S brother, cuz Scott and JPL look IDENTICAL!
Well, on the bright side, if he's Liz's 'brother' on show, she (the character, of course) won't be slurping it up w/him...Cuz liz is such a Ho....
8 September 2009
7 hours 28 min
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Lucky looks younger than Michael Corinthos. JJ held up well...too well, but he still looks like a teen. I guess Rebecca Herbst looks young too, so it's probably not gonna' be too noticeable.
At least they paid Greg Vaughn. Frons didn't even pay Sabine the rest of her contract.
23 July 2008
13 weeks 2 days
I could care less if he looked younger than a zygote! I got my Jonathan Jackson back!
25 December 2008
1 year 9 weeks
Damn straight season. Jonathan Jackson is back!
26 December 2007
2 years 7 weeks
What if the Jacob Young/Greg Vaughn version of lucky isn't lucky? Maybe this is just my super-suspicious mind, but when "Lucky" saw Helena at the hospital last week, he was lookin at her that seemed like she could reveal something about him and he doesn't want her to. Who says he isn't some guy Helena paid to be Lucky? I dunno, maybe i'm just reaching. Just the way he was lookin at her bothered me
6 July 2008
2 days 5 hours
That would be a great plot twist, wouldn't it? And, totally in keeping with Helena's nefarious agendas.
More likely than not, that little line will make sense when we see it in context, especially in view of previous scenes.
I am so glad the real Lucky is back. I didn't mind Jacob Young, and Greg Vaughn is good to look at, but neither is Lucky.
20 November 2007
3 days 9 hours
I agree season, the real Lucky is back, and so will I, but not one day before he is on!
GH is under 2.0 and they really need a miracle, since Guza job is safe: after loosing half their audience he is still on, we will see if they can write a good story for a great actor!
6 January 2008
1 year 27 weeks
Yeah for Liz!!!! Rebecca H got JJ back to play Lucky and she's getting a huge daytime star to play her brother. Go Liz!!!
24 January 2008
28 weeks 5 days
first - i have to brush my teeth after puking.
second - i agree with others: did we doubt tiic would manage to muck this up with the most disrespect?
third it would have been totally respectful to pull a "john black" and keep both actors on air. i still say they should have had GV actually be sly, but who listens to me? (btw: sly is lucky's cousin that vanished into thin air.)
now i'm excited about reeves, but only if it doesn't become the world revolves around liz show, like it did for several years with carly. and it has to add more to the hospital.
i know jj can act and gh is masterful at the misleading promos. i'm sure his "remember me" line is that he's been out of town a few days or something.
ugh and shrug. i'm one who thinks he looks misplaced on the canvas now, but well see what happens.
what will disgust me most is if liz suddenly turns on a dime and remembers her great love for lucky - that would be a total crapfest - but would i expect anything else?
23 July 2008
1 day 4 hours
Stupid, just stupid....but I expect nothing less from ABC's moronic PR department or its' daytime executives.
23 July 2008
13 weeks 2 days
How would pulling a "John Black" be disrespectful?
2 January 2009
3 years 16 weeks
we may get a good actor back but we still have to deal with crappy writing. i think they should've pulled a john black
24 January 2008
28 weeks 5 days
season - i said it would have been "totally respectful" to have done that. keeping both actors would have worked for me.
even more interesting: if rebecca is really emily, there's a fake lucky, the real lucky, liz banging nik, and ethan thrown in for fun - that would have been interesting and completely unmob related. all sorts of couples and mixed feelings and real soapiness!
23 July 2008
13 weeks 2 days
Oh, okay I misunderstood. The only issue with that is that Lucky didn't have plastic surgery. If they had introduced that Lucky looked different when he was found alive it would have worked.
22 January 2008
3 hours 2 min
Welcome home Cowboy, You have been missed!
1 July 2009
6 hours 52 min
I love JJ, too. But come on, attention guys in the promo department, why don't you just say the "real" Lucky is back.
How are they going to explain this?
22 January 2008
3 hours 2 min
That promo is the ISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sorry, this is nothing like the Real Greenlee. Anybody could play Greenlee. Hell I got a call back, but there was only one Cowboy!
22 January 2008
3 hours 2 min
How are they going to explain this?
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Who cares! The MAGIC OF LUCKY AND LIZ IS BACK! I wouldn't care if they rented a Goodyear blimp and put JJ's face on it. LUCKY! LUCKY! LUCKY!
5 December 2008
3 years 9 weeks
Yeah this ad is kinda weird, but I am so excited for JJ to be back!!! Hopefully this will give the Webbers/Spencers/Cassadines some much needed attention and storylines!
I wonder how they will dig themselves out of the hole that is Liz/Nik/Lucky/NotEmily. I hope they can because it has so much potential!
1 December 2007
2 years 16 weeks
I think it is the way he tilts his head when he asks if she remembers him but I got the impression that he's asking if she remembered him while she was hanging with Nikolas. I may be reading a bit much into that little clip though.
Oh and I love Jonathon Jackson!! I am hoping that he and Scott Reeves will mean great things for GH with a bit less mob. I am loving that Liz will be center stage. Yay!!!
5 December 2008
3 years 9 weeks
Hey can anybody answer this.. from previous comments I looked at youtube at the montage of Mad World they had with presumably James Franco and all the crime scene pictures. Well on wubs.net, they said to look at the guy in the photo in the top right corner but never said what we were looking at. I tried and can't figure out what we're looking at. Anybody have any clues?
Loved the clip though, somehow I missed it live. I must have been fast forwarding too much.