General Hospital Celebrates 60 Years
04/16/2023
If you have ever loved General Hospital "now" is a good time to jump back on and have a little fun - they're revisiting the classic Ice Princess storyline with a mix of characters from the original run, some introduced in the intervening 40 years and two relative newcomers to the show.
To recap - 40+ years ago the evil Cassadines created a weather machine powered by an equally evil diamond called The Ice Princess and were defeated by super couple Luke and Laura (whose 1981 wedding drew in something crazy like 30 million viewers!).
Now, another Cassadine, Victor (played by Charles O'Shaughnessy - yes, that one...from The Nanny), has figured that the world is too crowded and is using coordinates embeded in the Ice to find a super secret bunker where a toxin has been stored for 40 years to use on thinning the world's population. Shades of Thanos! But don't try to make too much sense of the plot, it's merely a vehicle to showcase a new super couple - Trina and Spencer, and also, to give Laura (who is now Mayor) and a gallery of fan favorites a great heroic adventure!
Among Victor's many crimes over the past couple years, he supposedly killed the legendary Luke Spencer off camera. Given all the feelings that fans (and Spencer's portrayer, Anthony Geary) have about Laura's rape at the Campus Disco by Luke, it would seem unlikely that there would be a return in this "Me Too" era as such a return would be heralded with perhaps too much controversy. Still, it's a fun fantasy to imagine an alive Luke riding to the rescue at the very last minute giving fans a big anniversary surprise.
You can catch General Hospital on HULU every night after about 8pmET. The timing is a little inconsistent but I find that I like to watch the shows in bulk rather than one at a time anyway. The new shows stay up for about 2 weeks.
Below: a screen shot from an episode last summer when Victor found out that his nephew Nicholas had slept with his son's girlfriend, Esme. To be fair, this was exactly the expression that I was making a year ago when the show was showing Nicholas doing the deed. Apparently we are all Victor. :)