A Critic’s Review of General Hospital: Turncoat Character & Trauma Drama

When it comes to General Hospital, every fan has their own opinion – and Soap Hub is no different. For five days, we sat and watched the good, the bad, and everything in between, and now we offer you a handy review, and a cheeky critique, of the GH week that was.

General Hospital: A Critic’s Week In Review

Remember when we first started to hear the name Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) whispered on General Hospital? Remember that he was supposedly a man so vile, so heinous that he made the late, great Helena Cassadine – long may she reign in Hell – shiver in abject fear? That Valentin Cassadine and the Valentin Cassadine currently onscreen are not one and the same. They can’t be. I categorically refuse to believe it.

Heck, I’m having trouble believing that this Valentin is the same Valentin who wore that Godawful mustache and shot poor Kevin Collins (Jon Lindstrom) for funsies. That Valentin would have the answer for a problem like Victor Cassadine (Charles Shaughnessy).

What pains me the most is knowing that if Valentin would just clue those who need to know in on what’s going down betwixt him and his father this storyline, which has dragged on well past a fan’s ability to care, could finally get the forward momentum it so desperately needs.

Further GH Musings

* Believe it or not, I can understand Carly Corinthos’s (Laura Wright) position – but only just. If my mortal enemy offered me my heart’s desire, free of charge, I might be so inclined as to turn them down as well…then again, I wouldn’t be harboring the truth about their maternal connection to a family friend-cum-in-law.

* Though it wasn’t at all welcomed by the vast majority of our site’s more vocal posters, I commend General Hospital for including both Portia Robinson’s (Brook Kerr) concerns that Esme Prince’s (Avery Kristen Pohl) motives for framing Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) for the crimes she committed were, at least in part, racially-based, and Stella Henry’s (Vernee Watson) conviction that the world of today is far more tolerant than in times past.

* Why is it that Lesley Webber always gets the short end of the stick on General Hospital? Want to reintroduce Heather Webber (Robin Mattson) and drive home the point that she’s crazier than ever? Have her drug Lesley and cause her to take a tumble. In need of an excuse to usher Laura Collins (Genie Francis) off the canvas? Have Lesley’s abode burn to ash. So put-upon, this one.

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