New SadđNews !! General Hospital Luke Spencer !! Very Heartbreaking đ News !! It Will Shock You.
Early this year, âGeneral Hospitalâ killed off Luke Spencer, the iconic character who was played by Anthony Geary on and off for decades. Lukeâs current wife Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) turned up at the door of his ex-wife Laura (Genie Francis) â whose coupledom with Luke sent âGeneral Hospitalâ to its stratospheric heights in the early 1980s â to tell her the tragic news. Luke had been killed, under mysterious circumstances, of course, in a cable-car accident in Austria.
On Friday, the show memorialized Luke, with his old friends gathering to celebrate him on the Haunted Star (if you know, you know).
Frank Valentini, the executive producer of âGeneral Hospital,â isnât doing interviews about why he decided to kill off Luke now, especially since Geary, who is 74, hasnât been on the show since a guest appearance in 2017. But Lukeâs death has indeed provided a rich storytelling opportunity, first as Lukeâs friends â and Gearyâs old castmates â learned of his death, and then on Fridayâs episode as they mourned him. âGeneral Hospitalâ has a significant number of cast members from Gearyâs era who continue to regularly appear on the show, such as Francis (now the mayor of Port Charles!), Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio, super spy) and Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie, Lukeâs sister, whom he always affectionately called Barbara Jean).
Gearyâs Luke was a truly significant character in the history of soap operas, and all of television. He joined âGeneral Hospitalâ in 1978 as a villain, who would soon rape Laura â an assault that turned into a romance, which was a hideously common trope in daytime dramas at the time. (The show and the characters reckoned with the rape in a mid-2000s plot.)
Luke and Laura would prove to be a game-changing couple both for âGeneral Hospital,â and all of pop culture, with their banter and modern sensibilities that attracted a young audience. Their two-part November 1981 wedding brought in Elizabeth Taylor as the evil Helena Cassadine â along with an audience of 30 million viewers.
âGeneral Hospitalâ being what it is, even more than a generation later, surely the Cassadines â the ones who remain diabolical â are behind Lukeâs death. Victor Cassadine (Charles Shaughnessy) had to be asked to leave Lukeâs funeral, and then the late Helena herself (as played by Constance Towers) appeared via video message from beyond the grave, gloating. Even the Ice Princess, the diamond thatâs a sacred object in âGeneral Hospitalâ lore was mentioned â though not seen, much to the chagrin of Spencer Cassadine (Nicholas Chavez), who stared after the closed box held by Tracy covetously.
In the episodeâs final moments, Laura blew a kiss at Lukeâs picture, saying, âGoodbye, my love.â
Here are some other images from the episode.
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