Sunday Surgery: General Hospital--Calling for the Paddles!

Paddles can be used to save ones self from a sinking ship. Row away in the lifeboat. Paddles can also give a jolt of electricity to a heart so it beats back into life. GH needs both. Big time. Seen the ratings lately?? GH went down by some 200,000 people. Not the usual 100,000 'swing voters' but double that. That means people intentionally tuned OUT.

Total Viewers--last week, last year 
1. Y&R 5,053,000 (+5,000/-225,000)
2. B&B 3,051,000 (-142,000/-335,000)
3. GH 2,378,000 (-263,000/-292,000)
4. DAYS 2,376,000 (-134,000/-488,000)
5. AMC 2,270,000 (-117,000/-252,000)
6. OLTL 2,220,000 (-107,000/-242,000)
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1. Y&R 3.5/13 (same/-.3)
2. B&B 2.2/8 (-.1/-.3)
3. GH 1.8/6 (-.2/-.2)
4. AMC 1.7/6 (-.1/-.3) <- ties low rating (Last time: August 23-27, 2010)
4. OLTL 1.7/6 (-.1/-.2)
4. DAYS 1.7/6 (-.1/-.4) <- new low
See all ratings on SON...they have all the demos for the stat freaks out there!!

Oh, and by the way, ABC is airing all repeats October 27th-- (a Wedensday) as a money saving venture. General Hospital will take us back to 2005--YES, 2005 where Sam and  Jason talk about babies. Jason is diagnosed with a brain tumor and Sam wants a part of him to live on. Georgie, Lulu, Jax and Liz will all be in this eppy. Why THIS episode? Don't ask me...you think it's prelude to a JaSam baby? Not sure. I would show some classic weddings like Lucy and Alan. Or go WAY back to the '70's!!

On a more fun note: I finally FOUND the clip of Alexis with her Island Dress at the Casino!! I knew it existed. It's right at the start of this Sexis video:



Yet another way to prove my point. This has been going on FOR YEARS. and YEARS. It may have been cute and a bit tongue in cheek to do this with Claire, but it just made me realize that things are so bad, I can't even laugh anymore.  I do try to laugh though, yes I do!
Rumors abound that TPTB are upset about the whole reception of Vanessa  coming  back and the ratings not only not going up, going down. Uh...well, when you take 5 weeks to DO much of anything, what do you expect? Cutting out the major PC players that Brenda knew back in the day sucks too.  She's got ties to the Q's remember-- I personally would have had her come back to take over or buy into Crimson. Ugly Betty-ish. But, that's me.

Not to be a total Debbie Downer..so let's look at some of the GOOD things on  the show.

:crickets chirping:

Oh, ok..heh.  Yes, I did enjoy Stone-- he was my "Georgie" of the month. Liked Lisa's meltdown and how Brianna Brown plays Lisa as totally sane in other scenes. She can have me believing that Robin's imagining stuff! LOL. The biggest goof all week was Patrick's "rescue" of Robin from that well. How DID he do it? Bungee cord? Lowering a boom?  NO CGI for me to mock? What?!
Dr. Matt had his scene of the month in Kelly's. Mike was in there too-- you remember him. No? He's father to Sonny and Grandpa to a slew of PC kids.

I often wonder how newbies deal with this show. The whole Dante/Carly/Spinelli revenge plot seems to be on hold while Dante frolics around the "Irish" countryside. I suppose the writers will remember they were about to pull a money-laundering scam on him at some point.  It's crap like that I can't stand. Sort of like never seeing Keifer's mother again. Oh, I can go on and on, but I'll spare you. Alexis should be back soon...Luke will  be on to visit Lucky, then get thrown  into jail in "Ireland" (time off for Tony to do a play) and Suzanne will come to Port Charles. She and Siobhan will both be new transplants. Will Siobhan still wear her TAM and scarf all over the place? Hey, she can totally work at Kelly's ...they used to be the Irish connection in town. Liz is also back, finding out that Brooke Lyn is staying at Wyndemere. Ewww..

SO, will Claire end up pregnant? Surprisingly, rumors are going around about Robin being with child instead of her?!! Claire will  seek revenge..but it will have to do with her being a law-woman. She can throw Jason/Michael in jail at will it seems. Other thingsthat are mind bogglers: Ethan. Can that character languish more? Now he's getting roughed up  by Johnnie's thugs-- I guess so Maya can nurse him back to healt.  Because god knows, she's useless. So glad they got rid of Robin Christopher and kept her :eyeroll: ...

That's about it for this Sunday's surgery. How did YOU find this week's shows? Is Brenda's attitude grating on your last nerve yet? I did enjoy her talk with Sam  (who spilled her entire story in about 3.4 minutes)--and can't wait for Brenda to find out Jason has a kid with Liz!! HA. We also have Sebastian Roche coming back in December, which seems like a long way out if he is indeed, the Balkan. That means waiting through Oct/November for any kind of movement on that front. Well, what did you expect? The women of PC will have to be in peril for awhile or we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. Right?

A Bit of a Balkan Mystery??

As reported on TVGuide and other websites, Massi Furlan is slated play The Balkan. Even  IMDB has him listed as such...and yet,  I'm not entirely sure?? He's been on as one of the guys that grabbed Brenda when Sonny saved her. He also writes this on his Facebook Page:

I play "The Balkan bad guy also called Giovanni'. Keep an eye for my big next scene on the 24th. Big surprise !

I'm wondering if he's actually THE Balkan or just Giovanni the henchman?? He does have scenes with Dante coming up. We shall see-- it's just interesting they'd have the identity on so quickly.  OR is this to further the 'Secret' that Brenda may have. I do think there's going to be a connection  between Brenda/Dante. Just how FAR that goes, not sure. Lots of things swirling in rumors-- I still say Guza's fine tuning this whole thing...and it might change at any point. We know that it will all dovetail when Lulu/Dante get to Ireland-- when Lucky has to play more of the part of his assassin AND the Brenda connection comes around.
Massi was actually BORN in  Italy-- at least we'll get a real accent...LOL.  Since  we've heard the Balkan is really Russian, not sure about that either. Why would he have been one to grab her if he is indeed, THE REAL Balkan?? I guess I'm wondering if things are a bit mixed up on how the press releases went out.

Interesting...at least something to  think about  this Saturday!! PLUS, he does say there's a "surprise" on the 24th??! I hope it's a good one.  Dare we hope??