I swear, I laughed for a good five minutes when Cassandra introduced herself as Irena Cassadine, Helena's daughter. If I didn't hate Cass and her boringness so much, I might be interested in her as a Cassadine.

Michael, shut up.

Starr, why should I care about her and whatever she'll be dealing with now?

Finally, I'm seeing something interesting with KeSul's Kate. I thought she did a good job in that scene.

Kudos to JE for grabbing that damn pillow and the comic relief it provided from the heavy scenes we got today! She's just all kinds of awesome. I don't know if she meant it to try to proect herself (hee...hee.... a pillow) or protect her clothing from the blood!

How many times do we have to see Sonny come into someone's home with a gun pointed at someone and order the other person to leave? Douchebag!

They should've waited for Robin's storyline to be further along before introducing Star to the canvas.

I really don't care about the Irina/Cassandra/Luke/Ethan stuff.... I love Helena when she rains hells bells down on people, but I dislike Luke so badly right now, I would cheer her on if she ended him instead of Ethan. I still want Ewen to be Stefan's son though!

edited to add.... I want to see scenes of Patrick with Emma and Mac telling Maxie about Robin before I want to see scenes of anyone else being told. Why does Lulu, who I don't recall having any scenes with Robin in ages, get to know before Robin's family does?

For those few of you who might be interested (who actually care about the survival of soaps), Starr and Cole are heading back to Llanview because they found out Starr's father has been charged with the murder of his brother. They talked about how they are taking a chance going back there, because Cole is presumed dead, and his posing as her bodyguard (she's a pop star). Of course, all of that is about to become moot, because Cole will clearly be killed in the crash (hopefully, their daughter, Hope, won't die, too).

It's too bad some short-sighted fans refuse to open their minds to the concept that a few OLTL characters might bring new viewers to GH and save the show. As I've pointed out before, that's not in the nature of most soap fans (on the blogs, at least). I guess it's much more satisfying to resist any change and then do the "whoa is me" dance when their show inevitably gets cancelled, because all they can do is whine, whine, whine.

This isn't exactly Earth shattering news but Port Charles was trending in the US today because of Starr and Cole's scene talking about the Cassadines and freezing the world. Starr is super popular (although not one of my favorite characters) and I think the ratings will reflect that. Port Charles has never trended in the US and I think the only thing that ever trended even relating to GH ever was "Spinelli" when Lisa Niles shot him. So it was a huge moment when a OLTL character crossed over. This can only be good for the show so everyone who doesn't feel like accepting OLTL characters should probably suck it up. Who cares if you don't know who Starr is? Why do you have to think of her as a OLTL character? Why not just a new character to the GH canvas? GH is bare as Hell in that age range so I would 100x rather have Starr and her massive fan base than some new unknown teen/20-something that tries to fit in with no backstory. Starr has an extensive backstory that is available to read all over the internet and all over YouTube if you would rather watch and learn. I don't get how it could ever be a negative. She isn't taking anyone's air time. Michael needs a partner now that Abby is killed off. Its simple math.

RC, Laura Wright, and a bunch of other actors flipped out with excitement over seeing "Port Charles" trending. The ratings are abysmal and getting even worse judging from the new ratings released today. But the show is at a creative high right now and all signs are pointing to the OLTL characters breathing life into this show. I'm a GH fan before OLTL and I couldn't be happier. I thought Starr was introduced in a classic soap way. If she was just a random person that would have been a great scene. That seemed like an 80s soap introduction for a new character so I don't see why anyone would ever be upset about it. Don't worry about Cole cause his ass will be dead on Monday or Tuesday, obviously. Hope will probably leave town or be missing or something. She's always just be in the way anyway. I cannot WAIT for Todd and Blair to make their way over.

As far as the rest of the show goes...damn that was a bombshell with Cassadine. I knew she was a Cassadine the second we saw the "IC" initials. That was evident. I thought she would be Stefan's daughter so Helena could kill her off and it would make sense. Now I feel like she's going to die saving Ethan, although I truly have no idea. When Helena said "Its time for one of you to die!" I was praying she wouldn't stop there. Kill off Ethan and the bitch in white while you're at it. The only reason to keep Ethan around now is so I can enjoy Holly's return. Excited to see her.

I have to say that I've been watching all ABC soaps for years, and IMHO OLTL was the best of all three. It was a HUGE mistake to cancel it. That being said, I am enjoying GH more lately. I am looking forward to seeing Todd and Blair. Although I understand Starr was/is a popular character, especially with the younger viewers, I would have much preferred to have Victor Lord Jr. and Tea along with Todd and Blair transition to GH. Todd and Victor could have taken on PC and created all kinds of havoc for Sonny and the rest of the mob. Plus their sibling rivaly would have made for endless storylines.

I would have loved for Victor and Tea to come to Port Charles and maybe in the future they will drop in for the short term. The thing is that Starr fills a need. GH is set in the veteran/older age range. They have plenty of their own stars that aren't utilized. So I can imagine some GH fans being upset with Todd and Blair coming in. Apparently they're just dropping in to make Starr's transition make more sense. I'm very confident that they will be huge hits with the GH fans and with ratings and they will be on canvas for a long term. Roger Howarth is a great leading man so I really think he fits GH perfectly. Blair and Carly are a little bit too familiar so they kind of fill the same role. That will be a little difficult to overlook.

Starr fills a major hole in the GH canvas so I can't accept any complaints on her joining the show. Its a bunch of bullshit whining to me. If you would rather have a new character that has a 50/50 chance of bombing than an already super popular star (haha) then there is something wrong with you. Chances of failure in that age range is probably more like 70% failure 30% success.

Yeah, Starr has always been hit or miss for me, but I definitely agree with this point. There's no one in Michael's age range currently on the show. He needs/will need a love interest at some point. So regardless of who the character was, a character would have to be brought in for him. Why not make said character Starr, since she already has a backstory/history/fans?

What I was desperately screaming on my screen: Why does this bore have to be a Cassadine??? Oh well and then she's Helena's daughter. I hope Frank and Ron work on some Cassadine storyline in the near future that makes us that one forget. Always great to see that old crazy granny though.

Don't have a problem with Starr or her way of coming to Port Chuck. It's all fine and it was nice of Cole to provide her with the history of the Cassadines and the star-crossed love of Luke and Laura. Had a very nice touch to it!

Well after hating Sam for half the week, I actually enjoyed her in this episode. This time it was Michael who I wanted off my screen.

Oh Kate Howard what has become of you!? Once a devil in Prada, today a crazy crying woman, who has blackouts. Way to go! I'm sorry but I loved old Kate, I loved Megan Ward and this is just unbelievable hard to watch ... even though I'm intrigued by the possibility that Kate shot Sonny.^^

Jason Thompson is literally the BEST actor from the show. the rest are lightweights and could learn a thing or two from him.

Hopefully this & next week's scenes will garner him an Emmy award.

and after the show ends this year, he'll become a movie star.

how did Cole know so much about Luke & Laura, from the internet or something? I bet he knows about the supercouples of Salem, Springfield, and Pine Valley too.

and LMAO @ Cassandra being Helena's daughter. When she'd have her, at 68 years old?! That scene was comic relief after all the drama from the hospital.

GH is ON FIRE! Absolutely loving it. Still some black holes, but that is the ugly legacy of GagIn.
Only qualm: Cassandra or Irina is definitely not a blood Cassidine. Mikos has been dead longer than she has been alive. It would have been great if she has been the long lost daughter of Tony Cassidine and Alexandria Quartermaine. Think of the possibilities. Another great opportunity lost. Making her Helena's daughter is ridiculous!

Please stop complaining!!! Anything that can save this show is more than welcomed.

Actually, I didn't mind that. It was a short scene, at the end of Friday's episode. when Maxie, Liz, Matt and Emma are told I want longer than a few minutes shoehorned in.

I'm assuming all the "complaining" comments are aimed at me, so here's my attempt to explain my lack of interest and cartwheels in Starr....

I have been watching GH since the summer of 1982, which, according to my math, means I'll be celebrating 30 years this year (who knew I was that old!). I briefly watched Y&R in college and Days for years before dropping it although I do occasionally check out what's happening in Salem.

I have never seen a single scene of OLTL. I don't know the characters, or their history, nor do I want to, since I'm not watching OLTL, I'm watching GH. Now, once Starr becomes an official Port Charlesian, I'll start to care. But until then, she's just some girl in a car in the middle of my show. If that insults some OLTL fans who think the sun rises and shines with the girl, well, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way, this early in the game.

GH has had problems introducing newbies lately (TJ, Maggie, Cassandra, Ewen, nuKate, nuMaxie) and yet they've all been instantly connected to the characters already on the canvas (TJ/Shawn, Maggie/Steve) and/or to PC landsites (Cass/Ewen/Windemere).

Starr was introduced, in a car at night. Was her name even given, because I don't remember hearing the boyfriend say it. My bad if he did and I was too bored to care.

To insinuate that because I haven't welcomed the girl with open arms and giant kudos after 10 minutes of her in a car means that I want my show of 30 years to be cancelled, well that's just insulting.

I agree that there aren't enough characters in Michael's age range, not just female love interest for him.

My bigger issue, I guess is how she was introduced and how she's immediately in peril. I don't know her, why should I care if she gets into a car accident. If they had shown TJ on his way to PC, get into an accident, would we all be wringing our hands or would we be wondering who cares. Heck, if he got into an accident now, a month after being in town, would we care?

They should have had Starr and the boyfriend in town for several days, introduce those of us who never watched a day of OLTL, make a like them and the possibilities they have in town, and then the accident. Make us care.

Now, it's only day one and maybe a month from now I won't remember what life was like without Starr, but for now, I'm underwhelmed.

Perkie - I agree with you 100%. Only, I watched OLTL for 25 years. In the last 5 years, I could not stand Starr Manning. Her story as a teenager was a retread of Romeo & Juliet with bf being from rival families. She headlined the awful retread of High School Musical on OLTL which was universally panned. Starr was frontburnered in story where was preoccupied with sex and she became a teenaged mother. In the final week of OLTL she was given two very complete storyline conclusions, nothing open-ended. Starr is at best a supporting character, so I am not interested in her driving story.

As far as casting someone in that age range, bring back Lexi Ainsworth as Kristina and put Michael in college and introduce new characters as fellow students.

I never watched OLTL either and have no idea who Starr Manning is, nor do I really care. We will see how the ratings go. If they actually improve or stay the same. Or if they improve for a bit, then cave. But how are we to know if it is because of the OLTL actors coming to GH, or the vets returning, or the new regime starting, that causes a spike in ratings. I guess we will see......

This whole Cassandra is Helena daughter is so far fetched. Just end this storyline please. NP deserves a better send off.

I am tired of Sonny always threating to kill someone.

Sam. personally, I don't think I would want Patrick still doing the surgery, knowing that he has all this anger and rage directed at Jason. He may just kill him on purpose and be done with it. Can they not take Jason to another hospital? And how do they even know that the protocol was viable. I don't think Robin even was able to test the results. Poor Sam. She just needs to sit down and relax and stop stressing. It can't be good for the baby. I agree with everyone on the episodes a day or so ago. Sam should have expressed apology to Patrick before just asking if that was Jason's medicine and if he would perform the surgery. It came off a bit insensitive. But honestly, if the tables were turned and Patrick needed the help, he would have acted the exact same way as Sam.

So, is Anthony injured in the accident?

2) Starr was introduced, in a car at night. Was her name even given, because I don't remember hearing the boyfriend say it. My bad if he did and I was too bored to care.

3) To insinuate that because I haven't welcomed the girl with open arms and giant kudos after 10 minutes of her in a car means that I want my show of 30 years to be cancelled, well that's just insulting.

4) They should have had Starr and the boyfriend in town for several days, introduce those of us who never watched a day of OLTL, make a like them and the possibilities they have in town, and then the accident. Make us care.

5) Now, it's only day one and maybe a month from now I won't remember what life was like without Starr, but for now, I'm underwhelmed.

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1) My "complaining" comments are not aimed JUST at you, because there are plenty like you. I know I'm in the minority, but I think my opinion is valid, so there it is.

2) Yes, Cole said Starr's name. The fact that you say right off the bat that you're too bored to care just shows you've got a grudge against these OLTL characters without even seeing them on screen.

3) It was meant to be insulting, because I think soap fans such as you (and many others) need to be jolted into realizing that if all you do is gripe about every little thing you don't like about your shows, you're playing into the hands of the network execs who want to be rid of them anyway. Why keep a show on the air when all they hear from fans is complaints? And Starr wasn't even on camera for 10 minutes. Once I edited out everything but the Starr and Cole scenes, I was left with 3 minutes and 42 seconds on my DVR. All this hubbub over 3 minutes and 42 seconds! Also, I didn't say you have to welcome her with open arms, but do you have to piss on her as she's driving into town?

4) This paragraph is the kind that drives me nuts! So, you lay out the way you think Starr and Cole should have been introduced into the show as though unless they do it precisely the way you want to see it, it's never going to be good enough. Well, tptb can't please everyone. I thought the way they were introduced was cute, with Cole telling Starr the story of Luke and Laura and the Cassadines trying to freeze the world. It gave us an introduction to these new characters and used some GH history to do it. What more could you want?

5) The fact that you're underwhelmed after 3 minutes and 42 seconds tells me that you went into Friday's show with the intention of being underwhelmed. Frankly, having only watched GH in the past because of Skye, I was expecting to be underwhelmed, too. I wasn't. It's called keeping an open mind. (Oops, sorry to be insulting again.)

And speaking of Skye, were you this resistant to HER arrival in Port Charles? I mean, she came from both AMC and OLTL, and she was dumped right into the storyline of her arriving on the Quarterbraine's doorstep, claiming to be one of them! She wasn't given several days to insinuate herself into the community and then spring it on them. She was introduced the same way Starr and Cole have been. BAM, here they are!

I don't really mean to be insulting with my opinions, I'm trying to be provocative to get even a few of you to consider the positive side of the OLTL characters on GH. If it brings eyes back to the show, can't you spare 3 minutes and 42 rackin'-frackin' seconds?

Oops, I just realized I was logged in earlier as TV Gord. I guess that secret's out now!

TV GORD - YAAAAAAAAYYYY--- It is so good to hear you I can hardly contain myself. Isnt it great that possibly the people from OLTL could possibly help out GH? I cant wait to see whats coming next. Hugs to you.

Another crime family from Llanview, is the last thing GH needs. I'm more interested in Anna & Robert being back than Starr and her parents visiting Port charles. Guess I basically not certain how the Mannings will fit into GH.

Thanks, giogio, same to you. I've missed you, too.

I have watched GH and OLTL for over 30 years. I especially loved GH and always tuned in. But this last summer, I couldn't bear it anymore. Not one character was interesting to me.

I did read Perkies observations a few times a week to keep up, in hopes that it might be worth tuning back in at some point. Thank you Perkie.

I started watching again this last week. I can't even tell you the last time I liked Sam and she was actually interesting this week.
Like many of you, I loved Patrick, Anna and basically all things Robin.

But my main point is, I started watching again knowing that Ron was writing GH now and that some of the OLTL characters were going to start being integrated into the show. I'm sure there are many more viewers like me who are coming back to GH for the same reasons.

I actually took my finger off the fast forward button this week. That only used to happen when Diane, Lucky, Tracey or Luke were on! It's good to be back.

Damnit AdamDrake/TV Gord!!! You took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to use the Skye example! Shit. You nailed that and I was coming here to post it! Everyone is acting like Starr was treated like royalty. Her scenes were ridiculously and almost annoyingly short. I'm not even a Starr fan, but I know that OLTL characters will rejuvenate this show. Its going to be a combination of OLTL/vets/new writers so we will never know exactly what causes the ratings to go up or down, but lets be honest. OLTL had far more fans than GH so if even a couple of those fans come over its an improvement.

Now I have already said the Starr is a female in Michael's age range thing twice, but I'll say it again. Starr's character could be some random girl with NO backstory and NO fanbase and they would have to spend weeks chem testing and seeing if the actress fits or gathers a fanbase. Starr has a HUGE fanbase and is very popular in the key demos. Its proven, its fact. No debate. Bringing Lexi Ainsworth back would be great, but she doesn't fill that same void. Michael can talk to his sister all day until he's blue in the face but they aren't going to do anything else. Unless people are clamoring for an incest storyline. You never know though, that might be better since she isn't a OLTL character. Now if they bring Kristina back they will have to bring in a random guy for her. We have already seen that story fail multiple times. So many that they had to start building relationships for the Corinthos kids with older, already established characters. Its hard to cast in that age range so when you have such a sure thing fall into your lap you have to use it.

No one said Starr was the second coming of Jesus. She will settle into a C or D storyline and the bitching will stop. When you can crossover Todd, Blair, John McBain and Starr you do it. TnB will exit and Starr will fall to the back, but McBain will be prominent. I can't wait for the bitching when that happens. John McBain is a good cop with morals that won't bend the rules for anyone, even when he wants to. Dante is poisoned because of Sonny even though he tries to be a good cop. Mac hasn't solved a case since the early 90s.

Starr's first scene reminded me of any new character in the 80s coming to a new soap and saying "Ahhh, Salem..." or "Welcome to Port Charles..." I mean please. There are some people who will care about Starr's car accident. I only care because I want Cole dead so I don't have to worry about ever seeing him on GH. But it ties into Sonny/Anthony/Dante/Michael. It isn't like they just wrapped around a tree. They were run off the road by Anthony Zacchara. People are just looking for reasons to cry about it.

I don't really understand the argument against it and I'm not buying boredom. I rather see this and have it tie into storylines that are already on GH than have Michael bump into some random at Kelly's and have days on end of awkward conversations and run-ins. Please.

I actually agree with Perkie in regards to the Starr/Cole car accident with Anthony Zacchara. I have nothing against Starr coming to GH, to be honest, and I do agree that the show needs more characters in this age range (although I think that GH should bring Lexi Ainsworth back as Kristina, too, maybe Krissy and Starr could hate each other causing friction between Krissy and Michael). The problem with the accident is that, I never watched OLTL regularly (tuned in every now and then), and I am a GH fan first and foremost. As a GH viewer, I'm not invested in Starr, so I'm not that concerned about her being in an accident. I understand WHY the accident happened (gotta have a way to bring Todd and Blair to town and pitt them against Sonny - BUT shouldn't Sonny have been the other person driving the car and NOT Anthony?), I just don't feel invested yet. I do think it was a nice touch that Cole was telling Starr the history of the Cassadines and Luke and Laura. I was also on Twitter at the time and saw Port Charles trending, which I thought was really cool.

If Starr is a super popular character and will bring those eyeballs to GH, then that's great. I just take issue with her being in a huge car accident her first day in Port Charles, as I feel I should've been given a little time to care about her first. I'm assuming that's the point Perkie was making. I'm not biased toward the OLTL characters coming to GH (Lord knows they couldn't possibly be worse than "Cassandra" or Maggie have been), so hope nobody takes offense

I have no problem with the OLTL characters joining GH (anything reducing Sonny and Dante's screen time will be like a breath of fresh air) AS LONG THAT IT WON'T BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE OTHER CHARACTERS OF GH.

As long as Todd and Blair (can't stand Todd but I LOVE Blair Craimer), mc Pain and Starr are eating Sonny, Jason, Sam, Carly and Dante's screen time and bring a new angle to the show, I will be very happy. I would have given anything to get Victor and Tea instead of Starr and Todd but I still have hope that my favorite OLTL couple TSJ/FL will show up. GH misses some real female friendship and Tea and Blair have a great relationship. I can't stand Starr (always preferred Langston) but Michael cannot be without girl being a Corinthos so I guess better Starr than another newbie...

However if the OLTL people screentime means even less Alexis / Diane / Lulu / Tracy / Edward / Anthony (I just adore BW) / Spinelli? If paying the big bucks to get KDP / RH / ME means some actors leaving GH like Brqndon Barash or Bradford Anderson, I will stop watching. Because I want GH to be save, not ONE GENERAL HOSPITAL TO LIVE (OGHLTL).

If the OLTL additions make sense and are not at the expense of the characters that we love but are not part of the unholy tetralogy (Sonny/Jason/Carly/Sam/Dante), I will be the first one clapping. But I will not be patronized as if I was a 5 year old about why I should already be bowing to the ground regarding these additions to the show I have currently no idea how it will be played.

Finally, even if we disagree with Perkie on some subjects (for me, it would be a disagreement about Dante that I loathe), the old posters of these "Perkie's Observations" appreciate so much that we have this thread on a daily basis to exchange and discuss when the daily Obs regarding OLTL disappeared quite some time ago (when Terri got some health issue) .

Anyone interested in this thread knows that Perkie is heartbroken to have lost Robin, her favorite character as she even wrote once that it was going to be tough to go on with these recaps once Robin would be gone. So what is the point of attacking her this way for an honest comment she made? She has always said that she never watched OLTL. If GH had been killed and OLTL fans had learned that Sonny and Jason were heading to Llanview would They have been happy? Not so sure. So give Perkie the benefit of the doubt and let's see how this is going to be played and what will be the consequences in terms of ratings, balance of the show, people getting their pink slip or not. then it will be time to bless the time the OLTL actors showed up or curse it.

And Perkie THANK YOU AGAIN for taking the time to write daily the best recaps of the web.

I guess I just don't understand the whole vibe of "if the character didn't originate on GH then it's a bad idea designed by people who want to get GH cancelled the way they got their own show cancelled." Starr, her parents, and McBain are hardly the first characters to crossover on ABC soaps. And OLTL died because of ABC's agenda. RC and FV are not the devils in this. My thinking that does not mean, however, that I think they hung the moon, put wattage in the stars, or created Godiva chocolate. What I'm really trying to say is let's just give it all a chance to succeed or fail before we decide that GH as we know it is over and it should just die now with dignity without the "taint" of OLTL--as opposed to any other crap that brought GH low.

As to the show itself as I was logging myself to comment on the last week, here is what I liked/loved / hated

I hate that Robin is dead (even if it opens the door to her coming back before the end of the show) and that I won't have any Scrubs moments (my favorite couple of the show in the past two years as all the other GH couples are vomit worthy).

I hate that the Dante and Sonny sudden lovefest. I have never been a fan of Dante for how he has ruined my favorite character Lulu but I loved when he told Sonny that he was dead to him and I was stupid enough to believe it a few minutes. The LANTE scenes about Sonny Friday were just ridiculous and made me want to laugh

I HATE Sonny Corinthos and I don't understand how he can burst in people's home with a gun (Johnny's numerous times, Robin's, the Q's) and not end in jail. I HATE that Sonny had a loaded gun in Robin's home with Emma there and that he is now going to cry me a river about Robin dying. It is obvious that Antony is not the one who shot at Dante but it is Kate so I hope we will hear Sonny apologize to Johnny, Tracy/Anthony for ONCE MORE throwing false accusations.

I find Shawn pathetic and it was ridiculous to hear Johnny speak of Shawn like the "good guy" when Johnny is well placed to know that Shawn was a mercenary who was pleased to beat Johnny to death just because Johnny refused to help the Balkan to destroy Brenda (and kill Sam in the process). How is Shawn a good guy??? Why isn't Johnny reminding Shawn how he was kicking him in the stomach while Johnny was lying on the ground? I am sure that Carly would love to hear this.
I have wanted JoLu to reunite for a long time but as long as Lulu is stucked with Dumbte, Carly and Johnny are really growing on me. They are hot as hell together and LW is really throwing all her seductive skills in this as well as BB.
I was HATING the CarJohn idea at first but they are the best GH surprise lately.

I adored Alexis and Tracy/Anthony (could these two start developing real feelings for each other?).
Hated Sam acting like a real b*tch (what is the point of writing Sam in such a bad way?). If I was Patrick, I would wash my hands of Jason's fate.

But the best was Robin/KmC, Patrick/JT, Mac/JY, and Anna of course. Fantastic performances of all of them. Heartbreaking scenes... KUDOS to the four of them.

As a watcher of both OLTL and GH...I for one am happy to see some of the characters of OLTL blend over. I love both shows, and the thought of never seeing the OLTLers on the TV screen again after it ended...was frankly depressing. Do I want the OLTL to take over the show?....of course not...GH has always been my first love...but with the way the canvas is now...there is room for some new characters on the show...So why not established characters that some of us already know. For those that don't know the OLTLers..they will be new characters to you...just like any other character that would be introduced to the show. I really don't see what the big deal is. Most of the characters coming over were popular on their past show...so they have already proven to be a good soap commodity....give them a chance...I for one think it will definitely bring some new life to GH, and probably some of the fans from that show....Face it... we needed major help....Anything has to be a improvement from where we were the last few months.

GHFan777 - you are so right. What does it really matter if Starr or the Mannings were new or from OLTL. I think soap fans who never watched OLTL will be pleasantly surprised by what they bring to GH. Im excited for Monday. Cant wait to see what brings them all into Port Charles.

LOL. That's cold.

I'll be honest, GH hasn't been my first love in about 5 years, but it was always the number 1 soap to watch in my house, hence my name. I started watching that show when I was about 7 years old, long before AMC, OLTL, YR, BB, Days, ATWT, and GL. But overtime, the writing, more than any newbie on the canvas, cause they were all newbie's at one point, turned me totally off.

As of right now? I'm enjoying GH. I don't think the sun shines out of Ron's ass (mm, maybe Frank, cause I’ve got a crush ), but I can honestly say that I haven’t been able to say that in months -- that I’m actually enjoying the show -- and my lack of posting about overtime proves it. I didn’t have anything nice to say about it, so I didn’t. I don’t watch these shows for anyone else but me, so I can’t honestly type that I actually care if others are enjoying it or not or think Starr is boring or think that the OLTL people should go back to their dead show in Llanview, which is what some lovely twitter people have sent to KDP in the last few weeks. Classy. It was mentioned that just when Starr and Cole were talking about Port Charles, Port Charles, it actually trended on twitter, all because she was saying the name of the town on the way in.

I can easily accept that people are not going to be welcoming to Todd and Blair and Starr and McBain at jump. And that's totally fine. I've been there with "newbies" coming onto other shows that I've watched and not being receptive to them on their first day because I wasn't "familiar" with them. When PC was cancelled, ME went to OLTL, KeMo came here, TK went to AMC. It happens. When one show's canned, the other shows get transplants. Happend on CBS as well. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it happens. In all three cases it worked out to the benefit of both the actors and shows, as well as fans who grew to love the people in new roles. And RC/Skye has already been mentioned as floating between all three ABCD shows playing the same character and she's been a success between each transition.

In this case, I'm a HUGE fan of the Manning's. Obviously, if my avatar is any indication. And frankly, if John McBain can be one cop not corrupted by Sonny or related to him or kicking back and having beers and coffee with him on the regular while "pretending" to take him down in a Dante-esque manner, then FINE BY ME. I was not a John fan on OLTL. Couldn't stand him or his self-righteous attitude at all! But GH needs someone NEW yet FAMILIAR who's not going to just sit back and take Sonny's shit all day everyday. Mac can only do so much and Dante is a moron who now thinks his daddy is the second coming of Buddha. This is not to say that things are perfect, but they ARE improving IMHO. And I love Starr. I do. She's not everyone's cup of tea, and that's perfectly fine, but I've loved her since she was a little girl. Not only from my strong attachment to her parents, but to the actress as well.

I totally got off track with my train of thought, but my point is, is that I'm enjoying it so far and other OLTL fans, (especially OG T&B fans, a fandom that goes back to the mid-90s; they always tied with my S&B, till recently when S&B just bombed this time around) are going to be tuning in to see how the Manning's and John are going to be mixing it up with Sonny and Co. Like I said, I've been a GH fan longer than any of the other shows, but GH needs ALL THE HELP IT CAN GET. The ratings were at the bottom yet again for last week and are continuing to lose viewers in the key demos. If a few peeps from OLTL can at least give the show a boost, then so be it.

I HATED the Starr scenes and the fact that she is played by a BAD actress makes me hate her(Starr) even more.I have watched OLTL a few times but not all of the time and did not like it.What really makes me hate this is a BAD actress like KA is getting a s/l while a GOOD actress like JMB is not.RC should be spending his time & energy writing for GH characters like Lulu and not wasting his time on forcing his pets from OLTL on to a show that has BETTER characters and actors already on it.Plus if these people could not save their own show then why should we expect them to save GH? It is insulting to GH actors and fans to even imply that.The bottom line is if OLTL actors,writers and characters were that great that show would still be on the air.