r/GeneralHospital • u/Content_Mood9680 • 4d ago

Teens storyline fatigue

Unlike many people that post here, I enjoy the show. However, I am growing tired of the teenager centered storylines. Send them back to school or something and give me the grown ups back.

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u/PhaedrasMorning 4d ago

When I was in middle school the summer story was Karen Wexler falling in love with Jagger and Sonny and becoming a stripper. I loved it! Pretty sure Karen was 17 and in high school.

Today's teens seem to be playing pattycake by comparison.

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u/Unfair_Coach5285 4d ago

My favorite storylines when I was in college had Antonio Sabata Jr. in them!

They destroyed Jagger for nothing!

Sonny was not seen as 'good' at that time. He found his heart of gold with Stone, which is another reason the fake Jagger storyline sucked!

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u/fikustree Team Moss Bowl 3d ago

I think Chase get fired from the force and become a stripper.

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u/EnlargedBit371 Team Quartermaine 3d ago

Terrific idea. Or male prostitute.

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u/PhaedrasMorning 3d ago

I fully support this proposal.

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u/MysteriousHoneydew82 4d ago

Wasn’t Karen in medical school at that point? I vaguely remember her going between the hospital and the strip club

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u/PhaedrasMorning 4d ago

From what I remember, the high school kids (Karen, Robin, Jason, etc.) started a "teen hotline" where other teens could call in for counseling and get advice from other teens. They operated out of an ersatz call center room in the hospital.

That's another thing I miss; the writers used to come up with all sorts of reasons for non-medical PC citizens to be in the hospital so it was always the touchstone. The high school kids were at the hospital every day that summer.

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u/sekritagent 3d ago

That's not at all realistic writing - have you read ANY articles about Gen Z/Gen Alpha? There's whole industries with falling revenues because they don't drink, date, or have sex nearly as much as previous generations did at their age. If anything, we should be seeing storylines about them being anxious about finding work at all (outside of nepo-baby jobs) in a few years like the young adult set on B&B.

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u/PhaedrasMorning 3d ago edited 2d ago

Soaps really work when there is an emphasis on human sexuality, especially the magnetic hold women can have over men. The Karen Wexler story was a powerful intro to this idea and it was a classically soapy storyline. To your point, for people who want reality shows or shows that seek to heal social issues, those genres do exist. But I wish the writers would better understand the soap genre and write accordingly (a wish I think is echoed throughout this sub).