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Title: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on January 09, 2013, 05:04:48 PM: Daytime TV is suddenly more interesting than it's been in a long time. Lynn Herring is back on General Hospital is back as Lucy Coe. When last seen on the spinoff series Port Charles, the character had been reimagined as a vampire slayer. Lucy's Buffie-like past is going to be addressed. This could be interesting, since three of the actors who played vampires on Port Charles are now on Hospital as other characters. Is Lucy crackers? Are there vampires on the DL? Did Lucy stumble across an alternate universe where vampires exist?
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Gothick on January 09, 2013, 06:14:28 PM: What a hoot! have fun.

G.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 09, 2013, 06:39:23 PM: Very interesting - please keep us informed, Uncle Roger. [snow_smiley]

As for the Port Charles storyline, we've talked about it here in this topic:
Quote from: David-Elijah Nahmod on December 06, 2003, 05:49:47 AM
Soapnet Begins Airing Reruns of Vampire Soap #2, Port Charles
And I even posted some screen caps that I'd originally posted on the VantageNet version of the forum back when the storyline was originally shown.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on January 09, 2013, 08:47:04 PM: Absolutely.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Gothick on January 09, 2013, 09:34:32 PM: For those who wish to explore further, there are also Port Charles clips up on Youtube. I don't know which years are relevant but I saw years 2000 and 2003 mentioned.

G.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 09, 2013, 11:23:14 PM: General Hospital Exclusive: Are Vampires Returning to Port Charles? (http://www.tvguide.com/News/General-Hospital-Vampires-1058614.aspx)
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on January 09, 2013, 11:45:35 PM: Paging Rebecca Staab. [snow_happy]
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: David on January 10, 2013, 03:09:00 AM: It was 2000-2003. After PC was cancelled, all the vampires eps were rerun on Soap Net.
The first two story arcs were quite good, romantic & scary, but after vampire Caleb was turned into a leather clad rock star, it all fell apart.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: David on January 10, 2013, 03:16:03 AM: On the other hand, PC's final, never-concluded story arc, included a love story between a vampire & a female werewolf. It was very promising, a return to form, so I hope GH concludes that story.

Soaps are definitely coming back. GH's ratings have skyrocketed & there's quite a buzz around the AMC/One Life relaunch.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 11, 2013, 06:45:06 PM: Keck's Exclusives: General Hospital Golden Anniversary Plans Revealed (http://www.tvguide.com/News/General-Hospital-50th-Anniversary-1058707.aspx)

TV Guide Magazine: What's up with this talk of a vampire storyline related to the events of the short-lived GH spin-off Port Charles?
Valentini: We're not doing vampires. Because we have Michael (Easton, who plays John) and Lynn who were both on Port Charles with Kelly, we're just doing a nod.

Oh well...
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: dom on January 11, 2013, 06:46:50 PM: ...thank goodness. (With all do respect.) :)
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 11, 2013, 08:01:50 PM: The vampire aspect of the storylines on Port Charles actually worked very well. Though, of course, that show wasn't GH, so if real vampires were introduced on GH, it might not work at all. Though if vampires were actually introduced, it would hardly be the most outlandish thing they've ever done on GH. The whole Ice Princess and freezing the world, anyone! [snow_wink] [snow_silly] [snow_cheesy]
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: dom on January 11, 2013, 11:21:40 PM: Oh, did Sam Hall screw up GH like he did OLTL? [a1f5] [wink2]

(Even 'La Liz' couldn't get me to watch that tripe.)
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 11, 2013, 11:40:32 PM: I didn't watch GH when Sam Hall was there (but he did write some great stuff while he was head writer on one of my all-time favorite soaps, Santa Barbara, which was often compared to DS in that it often broke the soap rules).
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: dom on January 12, 2013, 01:00:35 AM: I was kidding about Sam Hall writing for GH. I was trying to tie in the idiocy of time travel on OLTL to the lunacy of freezing the world on GH, etc.

As far as I know, Sam Hall DID NOT write for GH (just to be clear for the record).
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 12, 2013, 01:10:13 AM: I think Sam Hall did write for GH very briefly. Or at least it was announced at the '89 NY Fest that he was joining the GH writing staff. But if he did, he mustn't have liked it because before very long he was writing for SB.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: michael c on January 16, 2013, 05:33:28 AM: for what it's worth GH was playing in my employee cafeteria today and i caught a few seconds...

lucy cowe(a character i recall from my youth)was freaking out on some guy calling him a "vampire". it seemed like he wasn't and she was just acting hysterical but i never watch the show anymore and had no context to put it into. but it was embarrassing and out of place.

the supernatural story arc is generally the shark jump for soaps. it almost never works. through some remarkable bit of alchemy and happenstance it worked on DS but i've never seen it succeed elsewhere.

i'm recalling some outer space plot on OLTL back in the 80's. wasn't it called "eterna"? and wasn't the main character on DOOL possessed by satan at some point on the 90's? if i remember correctly both storylines became major points of ridicule before the shows' writers came to their senses and abandoned them. i really hope GH doesn't "go there".
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: DLA75 on January 17, 2013, 12:10:08 AM: Wasn't ABC planing transfer Gorden Russel then the head writer One Life to Live to same position on General Hospital at the time of his death in 1981?
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Gothick on January 18, 2013, 07:45:42 PM: On the Monster Kids Classic Horror film board someone started a thread about General Hospital in which they recounted [spoiler]a woman identifying someone as a vampire--she was then, in a later scene, shown making a stake and driving it through the heart of this individual. I suspect that what the person saw might have been a flashback to a sequence from Port Charles, given what was reported above--but it's not clear to me. Perhaps it will be clarified elsewhere.[/spoiler]

I'm not a viewer and don't have access but it all sounded very reminiscent of my personal #1 All Time Favorite TV show...

G.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 08, 2013, 09:06:43 PM: What the hell was happening on GH today?! If as Frank Valentini claimed, there really are no vampires on GH, then why when I happened to go by the end of it today did I catch John McBain (the character who looks like PC's vampire Caleb) licking blood off of an arrow that he'd pulled out of some guy's body? Has McBain simply gone off the deep end? Or was more at play? [hdscrt]
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: DLA75 on February 08, 2013, 10:31:14 PM: I't Caleb Morley from Port Charles I do not think McBain they just look alike they could be brothers separated at birth. It has not been established is Caleb being a Vampire translates to the General Hospital Universe other then in the head of Lucy Coe.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Gerard on February 08, 2013, 11:05:51 PM: GH can have all the vampires, werewolves, witches, ghoulies, ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night all it wants, just as long as there's not another Luke-and-Laura wedding.

Gerard
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on February 08, 2013, 11:40:13 PM: The presence of Caleb may be their way of holding on to Michael Easton if Prospect Park regains custody of John McBain.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 09, 2013, 12:11:13 AM: Hmmm - that's a possibility because back when Valentini said there weren't going to any vampires was before Prospect Park insisted upon having their OLTL characters back. You could be on to something. Or not. Who knows? But time will tell... [snow_wink]
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: dom on February 09, 2013, 01:27:06 AM: <2 cents> Hopefully, Caleb is just a weirdo.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: quentincollins on February 09, 2013, 02:18:55 AM: Quote from: michael c on January 16, 2013, 05:33:28 AM
for what it's worth GH was playing in my employee cafeteria today and i caught a few seconds...

lucy cowe(a character i recall from my youth)was freaking out on some guy calling him a "vampire". it seemed like he wasn't and she was just acting hysterical but i never watch the show anymore and had no context to put it into. but it was embarrassing and out of place.

the supernatural story arc is generally the shark jump for soaps. it almost never works. through some remarkable bit of alchemy and happenstance it worked on DS but i've never seen it succeed elsewhere.

i'm recalling some outer space plot on OLTL back in the 80's. wasn't it called "eterna"? and wasn't the main character on DOOL possessed by satan at some point on the 90's? if i remember correctly both storylines became major points of ridicule before the shows' writers came to their senses and abandoned them. i really hope GH doesn't "go there".
I thought PC was a fun show in it's own right. It was certainly more interesting with vampires and slayers.
On OLTL Viki had an anuerism and while hovering between life and death she went to Heaven, which was a giant spaceship where old loved ones and enemies who had passed on were living. At least two of the characters were later revealed to be alive, but it didn't stop Viki from making a brief return visit years later.
Eterna, also on OLTL, was a secret underground city built by a cult that had long since died, and was the hiding place for a fortune in lost Nazi gold. OLTL also did time travel stories to the Old West, and back to the 60s. I love the kookie stories they used to do.
Marlena on DOOL was possesed by the Devil for awhile in the 90s, and I thought the story was a lot of fun.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on February 09, 2013, 02:50:15 AM: I remember those OLTL stories very well, Quentin. They were, as you say, great fun.

Just about all soaps have flirted with the supernatural over the years. Usually it involves a loved one receiving a visitation from a deceased loved one. It's usually left up to the viewer to decide whether or not it was a dream or not. But not always. The last broadcast week of OLTL brought back a bunch of fan favorites whose characters had been killed off. They resolved situations where characters were placed in life or death situations. In one glorious scene that was worthy of DS, two of the show's most notorious villains carried a third off to hell.

One of the stories from General Hospital involved young Robin with a guy named Casey. Nice, friendly guy who just happened to be a space alien.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 13, 2013, 09:50:03 PM: I saw in the synopsis for today's GH that Lucy and McBain meet, so I recorded the show on a lark just to see what was going to happen. Now I understand: McBain and Caleb are two separate characters. And as someone who was a faithful viewer of PC I have to say I loved seeing Caleb - especially his scenes with the professor - and I loved seeing Lucy and Kevin (though it does puzzle me that Keven seems to scoff at the supernatural and vampires considering that, yes, he may have felt that way at first, but he definitely came around while he was on PC, particularly after his daughter was turned into a vampire - so has he conveniently forgotten all of that?). And it would certainly seem that GH is going out of their way to imply that their Caleb is the vampire as depicted on PC, right down to his ring and the blood dripping puncture wounds on the neck of the professor's (presumably) dead body. So, I may definitely have to keep up with this to see how it all turns out. But at any rate, it's really interesting to sort of see a sequel to what had been happening on PC almost 10 years ago...
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: michael c on February 15, 2013, 05:14:27 AM: there's chatter on another board that GH has made the jump and is in fact doing a vampire storyline...

how awful. i feel so bad for all of the other actors who worked so hard to keep this show afloat in a reasonable way to get stuck doing this kind of schlock. [snow_sad]
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: michael c on February 15, 2013, 05:17:20 AM: and before i get jumped on yes i know DS also made a similar jump in it's time...

but it had only been on the air for 10 months and hadn't really found it's voice or audience yet. GH has been on the air for several decades and this plot goes completely outside of it's well established sensibility and tone.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 26, 2013, 09:14:55 PM: I didn't see yesterday's GH until today - and whether he's a real vampire or a human suffering from some sort of psychotic break, it was still great to see Caleb in full on fang mode, just like the good old days on PC (where he really was a vampire):

(http://www.dsboards.com/images/Fangs1.jpg)
(http://www.dsboards.com/images/Fangs2.jpg)
(http://www.dsboards.com/images/Fangs3.jpg)

Not to mention seeing Michael Easton and Kelly Monaco playing opposite each other.
Title: Re: OT: Vampires on General Hospital
Post by: Uncle Roger on March 02, 2013, 07:10:58 AM: Interesting little factoid: Lynn Herring revealed in a recent interview that she's one of us. She used to run home from school to catch DS, adding that her parents thought that she was "a little odd."