50th Anniversary

50th Anniversary

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Luke Leaves July 27th

Tony Geary will last be seen as Luke Spencer on July 27th and fans are holding their breath waiting to see how it all ends. As for Tony Geary, he seems very ready to live full time in Holland where his celebrity is no big deal.

In his career as Luke Spencer, Tony Geary has been the recipient of 8 daytime Emmy awards for a role that originally was meant to last only several weeks. He was a part of the super-couple whose 80s wedding was one of the biggest daytime moments EVER!

For some crazy reason, fans fell in love with Luke and Laura's story even though this love story began when Luke raped Laura on the dance floor of his campus disco. Luke Spencer was not a nice guy and I don't know why fans love him. Laura tried to tame him but there's no taming Luke.

Even when writers broke up Luke and Laura and eventually paired him with upper-crust Tracy Quartermaine fans still enjoyed the adventurous scoundrel'S antics. It wasn't until the recent torturous story where Luke wasn't really Luke that fans began to hate Luke Spencer or at least what the writing staff at GH had done to him.

Luke cracked under the pressure that he was traumatized by holding in the horrible secret that he had killed his parents way back when. Was it this story that finally made Tony Geary say it's time to retire or were the writers trying to challenge Tony by writing this story for him?

Long-time fans of the show have been disgusted by GH in recent years. Characters acting out of character and too much of the mob stories that first started way back when Luke first came on the scene. Luke started as a mobster - remember Frank Smith? Luke managed to leave the mob and go on and hopefully GH will remember that there can be life after the mob and do the same for Julian Jerome.

What the future holds for GH is unknown as the only daytime show left on ABC, July 27th is the end of an era with the departure of one of daytime's most favorite characters.

As for Tony Geary, it sounds doubtful to me that he will ever return, even briefly, unlike Jonathan Jackson who went on with his career starring on "Nashville" but is making a brief return to GH to help send off his tv dad. Tony Geary almost sounds ungrateful to the fans who helped make him one of the highest paid actors on daytime television with perks like having summers off so he could live in Amsterdam during his extended summer vacations. Yes, daytime was very good to Tony Geary.

Hopefully GH will be good to the fans of Luke and Laura and give us closure that we deserve for hanging in there through the awful Luke's breakdown story.

What do you think about Luke's exit?

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