‘General Hospital’ (GH) Spoilers reveal there will be one less veteran soap character on ‘General Hospital’ in the years to come, because we found out yesterday from Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) that Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) of the infamous supercouple Luke and Laura… is dead!
But no, he didn’t even get a huge death scene like our beloved Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) but since he hasn’t been on the soap since 2015 it was kind of expected. Rather, Tracey Quartermaine told Laura Weber (Genie Francis) the bad news, that Luke had been killed in a cable car accident in Austria that she believed had been caused by Victor Cassadine (Charles Shaugnessy).
‘General Hospital’ Spoilers: Sayonara Luke!
If anyone was ever in hopes that the supercouple might be revived one day, then, well, sorry guys but it looks like that will only happen in the afterlife now. Anthony Geary, the guy that played Luke, retired from GH in 2015 and hasn’t really looked back, and truth be told he was kind of tired of playing this character.
He’s been trying to escape Luke for decades, there was a time in the mid-90’s that he quit the soap as well but he returned and stayed until his retirement. But now, it looks like things are most probably permanent, and Luke will not be returning, not even in spirit, to the Port Charles landscape.
We get it, it’s fine. Props to the show for at least getting him taken out by a Cassadine though, that was pretty inventive. At least they gave him a worthy nemesis whose hand by which to die. Inserting my own opinion here, but I was a little too young for the whole Luke and Laura drama.
But a few years ago I watched the ‘seduction’ of Laura scene on youtube and let me just say that I can just see why Anthony Geary is tired of playing this guy. The original story was based on a sexual assault framed as a ‘seduction’, as a society I’m glad our standard for seduction have risen, because if that’s what passed for sexy back in the day… yeowch!
Call me uncultured, call me an enemy of true love, but I’ve seen better written love stories than Luke and Laura, I’ve rooted for happier couples, and I’ve gotten behind couples with a lot healthier beginnings (and that’s coming from a soap standpoint where almost no relationships are healthy) who didn’t get their deserved time on air.
It’s time to move on to better written love stories, they will always be an important time in daytime history, but I for one will not miss Luke. Sorry/not sorry. Stay tuned!!!
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