‘General Hospital’ Spoilers tends to follow the same trend as the other soaps. That trend is to ignore real world does for the sake of their version of drama.
We’re seeing that now with Laura Collins (Genie Francis) appointing Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) into Drew Cane (Cameron Matheson)’s Congressional seat.
To be clear, he’s Port Charles’ representative, and that means he’s in the House of Representatives.
We’re going to dive into some civics here, so let’s buckle up. The House doesn’t have fill in appointments and aren’t appointed.
Those happen in the Senate and by the governor, not a mayor. It remains from the days when the Senators were appointed by the governor.
For openings in the House due to death, retirement, illness, etc a special election is called by the governor to fill that seat until the end of the current term.
Instead, the show took the lazy way out by streamlining it instead of giving us more drama.
‘General Hospital’ Spoilers: Limiting the fun
‘General Hospital’ Spoilers have seen the growing trend across the shows, and it’s not a good thing.
We don’t get as many fun, juicy scenes like we used to. Instead, it’s either done off camera or it’s streamlined.
That could be due to run time, budget, laziness, or simply ease. Maybe interns are helping and the powers-that-be don’t want to overwhelm them.
Whatever the reason, the shows skip over so many possibilities. They try to manufacture the drama when it’s already there and can grow organically and be so much more fun!
As we mentioned above, unless the writers had no clue or didn’t want to use Google, this is the simple and lazy way to do it.
Now, we get to see that Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and Willow were working together and he’s behind Drew’s ‘stroke’.
This still could’ve happened. In fact, not a single thing would’ve needed to be changed had they followed reality.
All that changed is we are short changed additional storyline drama that could’ve been fun.
‘General Hospital’ Spoilers: The fun that could’ve been
Picture it: an alternate world where all the possibilities were discussed and the story kept in real world solutions.
We’d have the governor would set up the election and Jenz would push Laura to endorse Willow because she’s Drew’s wife and would continue his path. Optics and all.
Laura would be forced to allow it, but would secretly encourage Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) to run as well.
Alexis believes in doing things the right way more than not, and she’s be a great, logical choice.
Jenz wouldn’t like it, but Laura’s hands are tied. So, Jenz would push her to convince Alexis not to run or even go after Alexis himself.
That would trigger all sorts of other issues with her family, including Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard).
That alone could stay Jenz’s hand from approaching her, and force him to come up with an alternate plan.
Maybe even an assassination attempt on Alexis that would be thwarted in some way. He could even try to get Ava Jerome (Maura West) to try and talk Alexis out of it.
Just like that, the flood gates are open and we have countless possibilities and storylines with so many of the cast playing a part.
It’d eventually become Port Charles against Jenz, and he’d have to make another choice to ramp things up or step back and regroup.
These are just some of our ideas. What do you think about what could’ve been? Let us know in the comments below.
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