Character Re Casting

Strange things are going to be happening on General Hospital and although the writers can be creative, what they have up their sleeves is just plain odd.

The battle for the rights to use the characters of John, Starr and Todd was won by Prospect Park and One Life to Live will be returning at the end of April via Hulu. The actors who portray these characters will be pulling double-duty of sorts.

Although it has yet to be announced just how the writers at GH are going to do it, it seems that there will be three familiar faces playing all new characters. Huh???

Yes, because ABC cannot use characters owned by PP, they have to find a new way to use the actors.

Personally I do not see how this is going to work. The shooting schedule for OLTL and AMC (also returning via Hulu) is much different than normal daytime soap schedules. The two shows share a set and film a few weeks on and then get a few weeks off. Both shows will air 5 times a week for 30 minutes. This is different than the typical one hour show and the filming schedule reflects this. It also offers more flexibility for the actors.

So it seems that these three actors will be portraying their OLTL characters and when in Port Charles who knows who they will be. Rather odd being that they built a story with several characters and now all three of them will be familiar faces but no one is supposed to notice???

How they are supposed to explain this?

General Hospital has done some weird stuff in the past (the not so distant past included- the poisoning of the water!) and with ratings being what they are, one would think they wouldn't do anything to mess with the fans. Some of us are ready to walk away from the nonsense.

Get back to old-fashioned daytime drama! It is all starting to get too weird for me.

Nicholas Returns

Nicholas shows up at Lulu and Dante's and just as he is told Lulu is missing he is shot.

Dante pleads with Olivia to help him find Lulu.

Patrick watches the tape Robin made for him and then shows up at the nurses' graduation.

Felix is disappointed when Milo asks him to fix him up with Sabrina.

Britt and her mother have words over her failure to land Patrick.

Anna asks for Frisco's help in finding Lulu's kidnapper.

Elizabeth is shocked when she is called to the ER to find Nicholas in serious condition.

Laura vows revenge on who is hurting her children.