My eyes!
For years we’ve been warned that High Definition is unkind…to actors, news anchors, reality show contestants, etc. Now, in the most misguided soap opera decision this side of killing off Frankie Frame, General Hospital is now in HD.
It’s a whole new world: apparently everyone got dye jobs and it’s so bright, it looks like a nuclear apocalypse transpired in front of the Metro Court. Then there’s Sonny. It’s worse than we all feared: he’s spray tanned within an inch of his life. I kept waiting for him to give up on chastising Claudia, rip off his tear-away suit and bust out a paso doble.
And what’s up with the new hospital set? Why is there a huge stairway to nowhere? I get that hospitals have stairs (hello…that’s where half of the cast was trapped during the last ratings stunt) but why is it just out there in the reception area? Stairs are just so conducive for the middle of a busy hospital waiting area; it’s so easy to wheel patients up and down them. Or conversely, fall down them if you’re pregnant.
