General Hospital's Black and White Ball: Black and Blue

amp160If you were a main GH character like Rick or Lulu or Elizabeth you turned your back and a silly old man youamp8217d never seen before popped out of the shadows and stabbed you with a sword or pointed a gun and tried to make you jump off a parapet At random by surprise and quickly it was as if one of the fouramp160bad amp8220ghostsamp8221 in Pac Man suddenly appeared from a corner gave you a token chase and gobbled you upamp160amp160 Certainly it wasnamp8217t the kind of soap opera drama we like or are used to the kind that features villains as complex intelligent characters who feel and express a range of emotions and ruminate mightily before they strike Think Days of Our Livesamp8217 Stefano di Mera Or better yet GH39s own villainess manquamp233 Helena Cassidineamp160Motivationless oh yes amp8220insaneamp8221 Anthony Zacchara played by Emmy winner Bruce Weitz and what a waste of a firstclass actor was nothing but The Terminator Guza styleamp160amp160 Fast anonymous death coming out of nowhere Just junk That39s what General Hospitalamp8217s Black and White ball mostly turned out to beamp160Take the sequence39s centerpiece murder the offing of Emily Quartermaine by her fiancamp233 Nikolas Cassadine Was the murder a result of psychological conflict crossed romantic emotions pathological jealousy We were led to believe that Nikolas who earlier this year had been given a serum that turned him into Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde murdered his fianceamp233 Emily in fit of unconscious Mr Hydeness Our beloved Emily had succumbed not to the complex Nikolas we all know but to some monster who had been drugged Mr Anonymousamp160What kind of creative layered daytime drama is this to lock up 20 characters in an island prison overnight and have a demented old guy in a tux amp8220Pyscho Popamp8221 as Luke tagged Anthony Zacchara kill them randomly What does it all mean It means absolutely nothing beyond four weeks of sweeps stunt entertainment that was given not one second of mature writing thought or sophisticated scribing skill Soap operas are not video gamesamp160They should be about complex human behavior not cheap kills amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160amp160 amp160And seriously darlings would you die for love I wouldn39t but if someone I had watched grow up on screen and become a woman over a 15year period on a soap operanamely Emily Quartermainewas going to be killed I39d like it to be for a good psychologically complex or romantic reason not as a mindless momentary sweeps month thrill killamp160Of course about 10000 other things happened during the four weeks we viewers were stranded at the Black and White Ball on Spoon Island with almost the entire cast of General Hospital What do you mean The Black and Whiteamp160Ballamp160was only one night A heart attackamp160a case of appendicitis a reported drowning various shootings sex and declarations of love verbal cat fightingin essence everything but the GH studio sink was included in a month of dramaamp160Come back later this week mon cheres and Iamp8217ll review the good scenes and things that were salvaged from this abysmally scripted mess by some of the showamp8217s veteran actors Believe it or not some of the yearamp8217s finest acting moments by actors like Anthony Geary Jane Elliot and John Ingle were mined from this sequenceamp160Mean GHamp8217s scriptwriters however should be sentenced to a screening of Ed Wood the 1994 Tim Burton film about the famously bad 1950s movie directorcross dresser of Plan 9 From Outer Space fame if they really want to know how a proper schlock horror movie should be constructed And they should remember to bring their angora sweaters Read more Marlena on the GH39s BampampW Ball at marlenadelacroixcom

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