Sunday Surgery: Monsters and Memories

BUT....DOC, I'm so tired. So damn tired. 

This whole week was a mixture of greatness and...erm...sameness.  Things move forward, things move back. Some are done well, others like well-- a high school play.  Anyway, here we are. Another week down.  Monsters and Memories were the theme of the week-- did you spot them all? 

It snowed here a LOT over our "spring break"--plus we had a windstorm AND I was sick on Friday. Just a really crappy vacation.  I'm looking forward to going back to work! 

Mixed Signals

Note: my laptop has a virus called "Face Off" and it stalls now and again so that's why some of these posts are shorter. UGH...there's not a lot of fixes available for it. BOO

Jake is back to see Franco.... um... no notice about Aiden and Cam LOL.. it's so funny by now. Liz says she's sorry about Sam to Drew. 
Hudson West (Jake) is such a great actor. Natural like JJ was when he was young. 

Harvey stole a uniform in GH to go see/kill Betsy.  Drew is in there talking to her right now. She sees him through the window and yells. Of course, Harvey leaves and Drew didn't see him. 

Jules brings flowers to Kimmy to say thanks for the zex.  She tells him Sam isn't seeing Drew anymore. They kiss. Oscar overhears her saying she thought she and Drew may have gotten back together again. 

Kevin and Franco. Franco says Harvey "hurt him". Wow...huge reveal. Franco thinks that Kevin is Harvey. Kevin can't wake him up. Franco crawls on the floor. Kevin finally gets him back to reality. And...... he still hasn't said he got molested, which we know he did. 

Later: Franco wants to go under again. 

Kiki tells off Bensch. He tries to tell her she was 'giving him signals" and he "misread' her.  He's making it sound like she was a fault and he was just reciprocating. She wants to go to the board and tell them to pick another person for the program. He  yells NO!  "Don't throw your chance away because you got your wires crossed". He's trying to put this on her--she's still pissed. He says he believed in her since the beginning yada yada.  He tells her not to give up the shadow position. He'll "take stock" and they can get back to being good work colleagues. 

Oscar and Josslyn..eating a boring lunch at Kelly's.  Just looking at their onion rings. 


So Harvey runs to the parking garage and can't use his phone (no signal) sees Jake and Liz in there.  He puts a gun on Liz. Tomorrow's preview has Liz shoving Jake and telling him to "RUN"! 

Sundown

Ah...Mike. The only thing on GH worth watching. Glad Michael is in the story. He got a high def phone to use to record him for Avery and future grandbabies.  All of a sudden Mike thinks he's a kid again and has to get home to his parents or they are gonna kill him. Sonny yells at Mike "Your Parents are DEAD"!! Which is not the way to calm him. He should have said "I'll call them now". Which Michael knew to do!! Yeah to the script writers. That's perfect. Don't yell at Alzheimer's patients--live in their moment, even if it's false until they process and calm. Michael talks about Sundowning and what happens at sundown to some people. :clapping: 
Then, Mike Remembers "Croyten"?? or a field in Croyden?? Sonny acts like it's nothing--but it's something. 

OF COURSE Morgan wore cologne!! And Ava has a giant ass'd bottle of it now!!  Nello is going to steal it to terrorize Carly's nose. :eyeroll: 

Ava peeks at Griffin's DNA tests for Peter. 

Carly and Bobbie talking about BJ..she's been gone for 24 years. Carly's thinking ABOUT MORGAN.  She tells Bobbie about the phone calls and scarf. Bobbie says she had grief moments like that too. Carly's saying No..they were real. 

I think Pete is acting scared to Griffin--but he's really not? he's evil? Did you see his face outside the door? Or did I imagine that??  Pete sounds like a 10th grader trying to be all drama in his first HS play. EESH

Anna and Jason..he wants info. She's like You'll Kill him!!  They figure out Heinrick has Faison's lighter. 

Kevin hypnotizes Franco... Franco remembers he's afraid of.... Harvey. Oh thanks for that revelation.

Grass Growing

And...we're back to 2 on 2 ...

Franco and Kevin--the only good part was that they are fun. AND I'M SO OVER THE HARVEY story and it could have pretty good. 

Nina and Curtis. He can't find anything on Peter August.

Peter August and Griffin...oh boy, acting was NOT up to par for me..nope. 



Jason and Finn. Jason wants to know what happened the night Faison died. 

Liz and Jason. Liz tries to help Jason get Faison's personal effects. She tells him that Franco moved out. She tells Jason that Jake really loves Franco. Jason doesn't care. 

Nathan's medal service would have had more people if it had been ON CAMERA!!! :eyeroll:  I guess the reason to have that whole thing was to get her into PCPD to meet the Ford Brother. ( I hope some of you got that!! hee hee)  His first name is Harrison so we could just call him Harrison Ford. 

Anna and Maddox. Anna's trying to find her boy before Jason does.  


I don't even know what to say at this point. This Peter August story is just ---  ???  The acting was so SHAKESPEAREAN....... (and not in a good way) 


Franco's going to get hypnotized. Joy.

Opinion: GH's "Me Too"?

Jumping on the latest bandwagon, GH is now having Dr. Bensch sexually harass and intimidate Kiki in the workplace where he's both her teacher and mentor. Not a bad story--if only they had done it from the beginning. Bensch always seemed "off" to us-- stiff, weird with women and a little off-putting. Then he wasn't on for about a month. Then, he seemed to be used for Alexis' stop gap with Julian. He even made Thanksgiving Dinner!! If they were continuing in that direction we should have seem some subtle signs of his intent and character with Molly. Have a little side eye with her-- make some overture that she isn't really sure happened. Something---anything. Then, James DePalva was in  a play and had to leave the show for a bit. He wasn't on for a few months and I wasn't even sure he'd be back. Kiki and TJ took their MCATS and.... Kiki passed for her flying-track to med school. (We never did hear about poor TJ btw).
Then, all of a sudden David Bensch pops up again and WHAM! He's all octopus over Kiki. 
Huh?
Did I miss something? 
I get that the "Me Too" movement is front and center. I get that older man mentor younger woman dynamic. But--but-- there was so much more to do/tell and play out before he kissed her like that!! Asking her out for a drink was perfect. We got a little uncomfortable there. He turned around and gave her the signed book she liked. (which could have been saved for another day but... ??) Do some more beats. We had a shoulder rub-- and Kiki changed schedules. Perfect.
Jumping in with the kiss like that leaves little story left, imo. The line has been crossed now. We really should have had it building more. I also wish Bensch was a whole different type of guy-- not one that was overtly creepy from the get go. He should have been charming and flirty and maybe dated Ava once or twice. All the students really like him because he takes the time to help them study. TJ could have been in the mix as well. We could have seen the way he treated him compared to Kiki.  
I would have loved to have seen more of Dr. Bensch with more of the GH staff. Nurses warning other nurses about him. Amy saying to Kiki "Watch out for McGrabberson ...he's a handful". Kiki is so isolated in her med school story it's shameful. What a goldmine way to bring in some new recurring talent with fresh stories. 

THIS WAS OCTOBER 12, 2017 

Why does this always happen on GH? Why are the stories started--stalled and then picked up only to be rushed or paced out erratically?  My opinion? TOO MANY CHARACTERS on the show that HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLD.  (there I yelled that).  Another case in point? Silas' insta-HALF-brother what's his name. Geesh, seriously I can't even remember it! Way to introduce a new guy. *sigh*. Sort of like we did with Peter August. He's hired by Sam and Jason-- then...um...BOOM! He's Fiason's son and all up in Maxie's business. :throwsuphands: 

Oh this story could have been so much more. SO so much....more. 



Well, that's my crabby view for today.  

Sunday Surgery: Life Circles

How about that Anniversary Episode? Well, you know I'm talking about that today along with the rest of the show. I'm back in "please fix this" mode! My excitement lasted about 4 months I guess... from October to January. Then, seemed like another 'reset' happened. I swear I can hear TPTB saying "calm it down" or "get back to what we do best-- having too many stories chopped up and way too many characters isolated".  I'll try to be gentle since this is Easter.  

 I'm having my fave EGG-Salad. 

Let Us Begin. 

55 Years of GH

Lots of flashbacks today! Starts out with Sonny talking about Memories and our identities. Sonny recreated Luke's Club for Mike to "Work" that night (he used to be bartender there). Everyone stops by to order a drink and talk to him. Kevin calls it immersion therapy and it works great for some Alzheimer's patients. 



First Luke scene!!  We had Monica and Alan...Edward and Lila-- a bunch of flashbacks. Jason holding baby Michael for the first time.  Ned sings.  BJ scenes...they could have played more of those.  Lucy Coe Nurses' Ball montage.  Sonny shooting Dante.

Wow... All I'm going to say is this was pretty Sonny-centric and..we didn't even get a flashback of Laura. Very thin show for an anniversary edition, imo.  What did you think?