General Hospital Report Card: What’s Working, What’s Not

We’re digging the match-up between Cody and Lulu even though we’re still bitter about the horrible way he was torn apart from Sasha. (They were lovely.)

General Hospital introduced Natalia as loathsome, never made us like her and has now built a whole family around her. Why? When a character’s a fail, cut bait and move on.

Trina and Kai are cute together and have loads of potential. All we’re missing is that element of swoon-worthy romance to push us from liking them to loving them.

So, is the show really never going to reveal who killed Roger Howarth’s third character and sent that note to Ava? Come on now!

The imminent reveal that Gio is Brook Lynn and Dante’s son promises to generate such a spectacular mess of drama that we’ll overlook the rewriting of history that it took to get here.

That said, is Lois never going to get to drive a story of her own? Why isn’t the show exploring what a Lois/Sonny pairing would look like? (Hint: a lot like the picture above.)

Everywhere Kristina goes, disaster follows — which makes her an ideal soap character. She can be exhausting, sure, but agents of chaos are supposed to be. (It’s in the rules!)

Some viewers will always miss Charles Mesure — and he was good. But Chris McKenna has slipped into a groove as Brennan and is sparking nicely with Laura Wright’s Carly.

The jury’s still out on Young & Restless transplant Daniel Goddard’s Professor Dalton. But the idea of a pairing with Anna holds more than a little intrigue.

We will never understand how General Hospital let James Patrick Stuart go when a rematch for his well-connected character and lost love Nina was a story just begging to be told.

The show seems to understand the incalculable value of vets like Jane Elliot (Tracy). So why is Kin Shriner (Scotty) forever on the sidelines if he’s on at all?

Isaiah is the best thing to happen to Jordan since Portia’s brother passed through Port Charles. We’ll take more of these two, please — a lot more.

The last thing that anybody wants to watch on General Hospital or any soap right now is sleazy politicians. The faster this story gets voted out of office, the better!

We’re loving ADA Turner and the fact that she doesn’t see mobsters as misunderstood antiheroes. Just please don’t let her fall for Sonny like every other law enforcer in General Hospital history.

Overall, General Hospital is in fine shape. There’s room for improvement — if only every couple was as swoon-worthy as Liz and Lucky — but its vitals remain stable. Fingers crossed that the show manages to stick the landing after that biiig build-up in the Gio reveal.