We are looking forward to Francis' scenes, which either take place for real or in Lulu's mind. However it turns out, Genie Francis is always a welcome addition to General Hospital. In a recent interview, Francis, whose new haircut and recent weight loss enhance her beauty, states that she and her husband, actor Jonathan Frakes, are moving back to Los Angeles and pursuing their love of acting again. Here's hoping the producers can find a way to keep Francis around a lot longer.

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Rick Hearst, who plays devilish Ric Lansing on 'General Hospital', is still in contract negotiations with the producers, according to various reports. Should Hearst make the decision to stay with 'General Hospital', word is that his contract may be downgraded. Whether that means less money and recurring status or just less money isn't known.

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Why was Nadine in the OR? They already had Pif, Liz and Layla in there and Pif and Liz looked like they were actually assisting. So Nadine was basically standing around twiddling her thumbs until she started ranting. And if all of them were in there, who was minding the nurses’ desk? Such silly writing sometimes.

I liked the Spixie stuff, although Jason is conspicuously absent here. I’m glad we’ve got a couple of days break from him, but the timing is a bit off.

Cute line of the day: Spinelli: “Should I cross over into the void….. Maxie: “Just tell Georgie to send you back. She’ll know how much I need you.”

Lulu/Laura: I’ve got to give credit to makeup for making GF look as bad as she does. And did she say that Nik and Lucky knew that she’d woken up or did she say that just the staff know?

Hated the CarJax fight number 890, the Karpov chapter. Liked that Carly went to see Lulu. Loved Carly’s look of confusion regarding Lulu’s state of mind. Instead of finding Lulu all, ‘I see dead people, darkness and void’, she was all, “sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs’.

While I’m not complaining to get a half naked shot of my man Ric, it did catch me by surprise that the writers would allow RH to: a) have sex, b ) in a bed, c) with a woman who seems intelligent and isn’t using him to get immigration papers or to give information to his father. I had to check to see if Hell froze over. And suddenly, I’m not as interested in a Ric/Claudia hook up as I was before. At least, not as part of a deal to help stupid Johnny.

Speaking of Johnny, glad to see Nikolas finally buying a clue and questioning why Lulu is suddenly losing it and why Johnny so desperately doesn’t want her to testify.

And today, we have the return of Douche Jerry, otherwise known as James Craig. I knew his cuteness with Alexis yesterday would be short lived.