I had a confab with my Soap Opera Digest colleagues Lee and Naomi this morning about how Ethan and Kristina are the most riveting story on GH right now. We must’ve blissfully rambled for at least ten minutes about why the pair’s tale works for us. A few of our assertions were that they’re “classic… Read More The wisdom of GH’s Ethina
I’ve been rereading my battered copy of Stephen King’s The Stand, “the complete & uncut edition,” and I almost feel like Billy at the beginning of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: “this is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” The edition of The Stand that I own is… Read More Baby, can you dig your Stand?
Watching GH today, I was struck by how beautiful and together and amazing Maxie is. The luminous Kirsten Storms really embodies this character now; she’s taken Maxie from impulsive teenager to sardonic young woman. I think it’s high time she played more of a role on the show, and not just as a talk-to or as Spinelli’s… Read More GH: Have you met Miss Jones?
I have this habit of making up characters’ back story or motivation in my head, and then watching their shows with that filter in place. I can’t help it. It sticks. A great example of viewers who have done this in the past would be X-Files Mulder/Scully ‘shippers who speculated that the duo canoodled in… Read More Canon fodder: back story and missing scenes
Me: Does Ted King (Tomas, OLTL) take Sexy Pills in the morning or what? WEEKLY/Digest colleague: Yes. And we’re doing a giveaway with them soon. Me: ROTFL!
General Hospital recently experienced a shift in writing regimes, wherein longtime head writer Robert Guza, Jr. was replaced by former breakdown writer and ex-associate head writer Garin Wolf. This led to my friend Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (you can read her thoughts here) and I spending a few hours brainstorming what we’d like to see in… Read More Mala’s Port Charles Perfect 10
Every once in a while I actually say something on Twitter that’s a) mildly profound or b) potentially worthy of being put on a t-shirt. Thought I’d do a little round-up of recent tweets that tickled my fancy. Riddle me this: Why would the Secret Service have a Twitter account? Isn’t that counterintuitive? #threecankeepasecretifnoneareonTwitter 12:05… Read More The Tao of Mala: Twitter round-up
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