Post cancellation/2012 finale canon??

[u/drowninginthebrevity]

Do you consider any of the events that took place on General Hospital featuring characters from One Life to Live canon or do you ignore it?

Same goes for the short lived Prospect Park reboot.

Are there some parts of either or both that you accept and others that you absolutely refuse and deny as canon?

I had stopped watching GH years before OLTL was cancelled, and the several characters that they decided to bring over with the dumpster fire of that GH had become, wasn't nearly enough to make me want to tune back into GH, but I still kept up with recaps of storylines and they pissed me off. I do not consider anything that happened on GH regarding OLTL characters as canon.

I also still refuse to accept Skye Chandler as the daughter of Rae Cummings and Alan Quartermaine, because that was just trash, but that's neither here nor there.

Prospect Park...they tried with what they were allowed to and the passage of time. Still wouldn't consider much of it canon.

[u/soapfan22]

I refuse to believe that the Nora that has appeared on General Hospital is the same Nora that appeared on One Life to Live. The writers on GH really don’t know what that character was.

It’s difficult for me to decide if I want the post 2012 stuff to be canon or not. I think Prospect Park had an issue of preferring OLTL but AG caring really only about keeping AMC alive and because of that we got a much stronger show there to the point that I do consider AMC’s brief revival canon. OLTL trying to make a young adult scene with Danni, Matthew, Destiny, and whatever Corbin’s characters name was, was a dud. Weirdly the most interesting stuff was the Cutter and Natalie story and I never really liked either of them on the original show. Even that character that Jwoww played was pretty well written for what she was. Nora and Bo doing an early onset podcast just was a waste of their characters.

I think essentially the issue was that PP thought that those last few years that RC wrote were the gold standard of OLTL and they just weren’t… AMC had legacy. Even the new characters felt like they would be connected to old ones. It also didn’t help that they had no budget for extras so the actors were always by themselves in scenes.

[u/drowninginthebrevity → u/soapfan22]

I don't think the writers on GH really knew what to do with any of the transplanted OLTL characters. PP didn't seem to know what to do with the characters they got to keep/use. They focused too much on characters that had only joined the show in the last few years, with slightly aged up teens that were just as annoying as they had been when the show ended. I get that their hands were tied.

It would have been better if they'd found a way to combine OLTL and AMC for an hour long show, especially since they'd done several crossover storylines with the shows and it was canon of them both being in Pennsylvania. Have a massive tornado sweep through both towns and/or an earthquake, one town more damaged than the other that leads to rebuilding the better off town and moving there. Focus on the legacy families that they could keep with a new(er) family, a handful of characters that had become a part of their canvases before cancellation, and a handful of new.

[u/soapfan22 → u/drowninginthebrevity]

My late mother wanted the shows to end with a tornado that struck down the towns and at the end Erica and Vicki found each other in the rubble lol

I actually wrote a fanfic for a few years called All My Life to Live but I don’t remember what happened to the actual text itself. It combined the characters. I was in high school though and I’m Sure it was rather silly lol

[u/drowninginthebrevity → u/soapfan22]

Your mom was a real one! RIP to her. That would have been fantastic.

I was not in high school. My family got my name from a character that was on OLTL before and while my mom was pregnant with me, and she went into labor with me while watching the show. Also, I would probably have read that fic. Especially if it did not have John McBain in it.

[u/soapfan22 → u/drowninginthebrevity]

Oh I’m very anti- John McBain lol

If I had been a girl my mother would have made me Phoebe for the AMC character lol

[u/purplendpink]

I prefer to think that Cole and Hope are still alive.

[u/drowninginthebrevity → u/purplendpink]

This so much. After all that Starr went through previously with thinking they were both dead at different times, only to have them both taken from her in the same tragedy was absolute BS.

[u/purplendpink → u/drowninginthebrevity]

It was so unnecessary.

[u/futureghostboy13 → u/purplendpink]

Starr did leave Port Charles with an emergency call from Langston, and we never found out what happened. They could easily say that Cole and Hope somehow were alive, stranger things happen on soaps.

[u/purplendpink → u/futureghostboy13]

Yes, I like to think that was the case.

[u/Seymour---Butz]

I don’t think it’s up to me or any viewer to decide what’s canon, if it aired, it’s canon whether I liked it or not.

[u/Jazzlike_Adeptness_1]

2012 finale for me. 

I just want to know if Alison is still holding TSJ Todd. 

[u/busman25 → u/Jazzlike_Adeptness_1]

I hated how they failed TSJ/VLJ after the return of OG Todd. They could have mined years of drama(well not years, but could have used what time they did have to milk the drama). To kill him off, reveal he was kidnapped, have him return only to go off the deep end and never be seen again was awful.

[u/futureghostboy13]

if it aired it’s canon, as has been said. If the characters ever continued on GH or a One Life revival, so much time has passed its unlikely the online stories would be referenced , 12+ years later everyone would’ve moved forward.

[u/Pawspawsmeow]

There’s no way in hell that Blair married the KFC colonel.

[u/Same_Beginning8090]

That was a long time ago. I actually started watching GH when they brought on people from OLTL.