General Hospital: The Critic’s POV

What with all the nodding shoutouts to hardly referenced lore (Lucy’s Aunt Charlene! Delia Ryan Coleridge’s is Ava’s birthmother!) and minute character details (what, you’re telling me you remembered that Ned’s government name was Edward Lawrence Quartermaine Ashton?) in Monday’s airshow, I started to wonder if perhaps we were finally viewing material penned by fi-core writers.

A quick perusal of the credits proved otherwise. There were Chris and Dan/Dan and Chris’s names along with another writer or two whose moniker seemed familiar. Strange. It’s not like this team to drudge up the past unless they plan to spin it to suit their purposes. But I’ll take it.

What I’d rather take, however, is the plethora of reduxes I see on my TV screen. Curtis’s (Donnell Turner) paralysis tale smacks of Sonny’s own battle with the same condition (and both were failed by an assassin’s bullet. Funny that.) which we saw play out not that long ago. And Sasha’s (Sofia Mattsson) wounding of Cody (Josh Kelly) recalls Alexis’s (Nancy Lee Grahn) stabbing Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) with a needle full of lidocaine (and that little whoopsie is barely 2 years old).