{"id":4547,"date":"2026-02-14T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:32:33","slug":"general-hospital-commentary-wake-me-up-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/general-hospital-commentary-wake-me-up-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"General Hospital Commentary: Wake Me Up Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It was another miracle when Maxie woke up from her coma fresh as a daisy. Will her return put an end to Nathan and Lulu’s growing feelings? Things are getting dangerous on Spoon Island as Lucas overheard an eye-opening conversation between Marco and Sidwell. Let’s discuss that and more in an all-new General Hospital<\/em> commentary for the week ending February 13, 2026.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Dear readers, I know that you are as delighted that I am that our beloved Kirsten Storms is back and awake. I know it\u2019s an odd thing that we get so caught up in the lives of people we don\u2019t actually know, but I was worried about Kirsten and have been invested in her updates on her health, her surgeries and recovery. I have been watching her on General Hospital<\/em> for so long and I love her and want the best for her like she\u2019s my own kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A soapy recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I heard Maxie\u2019s voice telling James, (the adorable Gary James Fuller,) that he was not going skating without a helmet, my heart lit up! Sure, Maxie was in full makeup, including false eyelashes and was fully dressed, but maybe that\u2019s how they do things in fancy private hospitals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m just happy Maxie is awake. But wow. The timing! Just as her presumed dead husband and BFF decided to start dating, she wakes up almost to the minute. It\u2019s as if the universe said to her brain, \u201cHey girl, some ho is trying to steal your man!\u201d and it awakened her from out of the blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bad case of loving you<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There is so much soapy drama in store for us. Maxie and Spinelli. Maxie and Nathan. Lulu and Nathan. Lulu and Dante. But also, is<\/em> Nathan actually Nathan? If he isn\u2019t, Maxie will know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maxie just woke up like she\u2019d had a little cat nap on her sofa. Maxie didn\u2019t know she had a heart attack and had been in a coma for six months, and she took the news rather nonchalantly. It was almost a shrug. I\u2019m not complaining, just surprised by the way it played out. I\u2019m happy about it because this means they aren\u2019t going to drag out her hospital time for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reunions and news<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By the end of Friday\u2019s episode, Maxie had caught up with her kids, and she assumed that James had started calling Spinelli \u201cdaddy.\u201d But Felicia told her that Nathan was alive and we were left with Maxie\u2019s stunned facial expression to dwell on it until Monday when we finally get to see her real reaction! I for one cannot wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best reaction to Maxie waking up was from the one and only Damien Spinelli who ran in for a hug with his beloved Maximista with the force of a train. I am so worried for his heart. Everyone has a type and I have a soft spot for nerds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soapy tropes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, BLQ interrupted Nathan and Lulu before things progressed too far.  Just as Lulu and BLQ were having a heart to heart about all the reasons that Nathan and Lulu should not get involved, they got the call about Maxie waking up. Crisis averted? Or will these two star-crossed former coma patients be unable to resist their feelings? Oh wait. Now Maxie is a former coma patient, too\u2026 Is this trope possibly being overused???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bailey Lu makes an appearance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Maxie asked about Bailey Lu, but she was at the Q mansion. It was so sweet to see Bailey this week, I was afraid next time we saw her would be in college. I enjoyed her tender scenes with Chase, even though he\u2019s on my naughty list right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fall from grace <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I did not believe Chase when he promised Dante that he would not interfere again in the investigation on Drew\u2019s shooting. He is 100% going to interfere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Willow\u2019s crimes are discovered, seeing Chase\u2019s reaction is at the top of my list. He has been completely bamboozled by Willow. It\u2019s a phenomenon my BFF and I have discussed for years. Women can usually see through other women, but there is a certain sort of man, like Chase, who will fall for the \u201cdamsel in distress\u201d act 100 out of 100 times. Willow is playing Chase like a fiddle, and he is so sure<\/em> that he is saving her. Sometimes the damsel really is in distress, so I can\u2019t fault Chase for trying to save her. He genuinely thinks Michael tried to frame her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Chase finds out his innocent angel is a cold blooded two-time attempted murderer, it will destroy him. And by that time, he may have lost his job, BLQ and everything he holds dear trying to save someone totally unworthy of him. Worst of all, he already did this once with Nelle! Let\u2019s hope Nina doesn\u2019t have any more long-lost daughters out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m too messy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s better to be like Michael. Be with a girl you know is a hooker up front and just accept her messy past. Jacinda and Michael are cute together. Paige Herschell is a great addition to the General Hospital<\/em> cast and General Hospital<\/em> is good about redemption stories. Barbara Jean Spencer went from hooker to head nurse at General Hospital \u2013 and maybe Jacinda has a similar trajectory in store. From hooker to Chief Marketing Officer of Crimso<\/em>n or something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At any rate, as much as I hope that\u2019s true, I wonder what would happen if Sasha and Daisy showed back up in Port Charles? At one point I had hoped Michael and Willow would reunite, but that was before she went full wackadoo. Wackadoo Willow. I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From tragic damsel to evil shrew <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

However, it bothers me somewhat because Willow always was a character we felt sympathy for. Her horrible mother Harmony, the creepy cult leader Shiloh, having her baby die and thinking Jonah was Wiley, having cancer and nearly dying to ensure she could give birth to Amelia, etc. She has made a lot of questionable choices, but she was never evil. So, to now have her be the sort of person who would shoot someone in the back in cold blood and inject them in the neck with a powerful stroke-inducing drug seems to have come out of nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, I thought Willow was guilty of being stupid and falling for Drew, but I believed all those hints about Willow being the shooter were red herrings and a new shooter would emerge. Someone that Drew had enraged in prison, or that Drew would be revealed to be Shiloh, or\u2026something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in the family<\/h2>\n\n\n
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But General Hospital<\/em> has been doing a lot of rewriting history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexis told Danny that any relatives he and Charlotte have in common were 150 years ago, but I am not 150 and I remember these three Cassadine men: Charlotte\u2019s Grandpa Victor, Danny\u2019s Great Grandpa Mikkos, and their brother Tony. But I know not all my readers have been watching since the 70\u2019s like me. Thanks to TVFan43<\/a><\/strong> for posting this photo with the comment, \u201cWell, look at this. Victor (Charlotte\u2019s grandfather) standing next to HIS BROTHER Mikkos (Danny\u2019s great grandfather) but according to Alexis, Danny and Charlotte share an ancestor a hundred years ago\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought maybe I was being too sensitive about this, but when I go on X and check the comments, everyone seems to feel this pairing is just gross. Poor Georgie, if her mom wasn\u2019t sick, maybe she would have been out roaming around with the other teens, so Danny didn\u2019t have to hit on his cousin. Or as @AlexNever347 put it, \u201cJust so damn gross on their part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s not the only thing going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family first<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There’s trouble in the Scorpio family. Emma is on her way to San Francisco to tell Robin that Anna has had a mental breakdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers, wouldn\u2019t this be a perfect time for Robin and Patrick to pay a visit to General Hospital<\/em>? Sure, I know, Jason Thompson is on The Young and the Restless<\/em> as Billy. But other soap actors have done double duty, like Wally Kurth on both Days of Our Lives<\/em> and General Hospital<\/em>. Why not Jason Thompson? At least for a brief window. Robin and Maxie were close. It would make sense for them to come home to see Maxie and Mac and to be with Emma for a visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I keep thinking, I am desperately missing Luke Spencer right now. If he heard Slim had a breakdown and was in some mental hospital in Paris and held on charges, he would become Dr. Von Schemerman and bust her out of there, so fast<\/em>. We don\u2019t have a single character on General Hospital<\/em> right now that has that pure soap rogue energy that we need to take a storyline like this to another level. Robert Scorpio would be right behind him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where have all the cowboys gone?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cody has the rogue energy, but he\u2019s too busy moping about Molly\u2019s book because he is also such a whiny wussy. Luke never had such insecurity issues. Good Lord please give me a character with some swagger. No one could ever replace Tony Geary or Tristan Rogers, but I miss those devilish rascal kinds of characters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I have not forgotten about my beloved Valentin. He definitely has the rogue energy I am smitten with, but he is on another mission right now and has to keep hiding in Carly\u2019s attic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t fence him in<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If Valentin was not a wanted man, he would definitely be on a plane with his petite to save Anna. But alas. While I love the build up with Valentin and Carly, I am ready to Valentin to break free. Let him best Cullum, topple Jack, and take over the WSB for all I care. Just get him out of the attic. He\u2019s too big of a character to be contained in one room. Well, Sometimes Carly lets him out for cocktail hour, but they always get interrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot thickens on Spoon Island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Readers, let\u2019s take an informal poll. Let me know who you think is creepier: Pascal or Cullum? I was sure it was Pascal until the Cullum and Joss scenes during the snowstorm. How Joss stayed in that room with him for hours, I’ll never know. I got major heebie-jeebies just watching him stare at her. Ew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Return of the parapets <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The only man I care about on Spoon Island is my sweet Lucas and thankfully he has finally wised up to the fact that Marco isn\u2019t who he said he was. And miraculously, the parapets are back on the walls of Wyndemere, so maybe some General Hospital<\/em> intern just pulled the wrong slide of the exterior shots the last time we saw Wyndemere? Who knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I certainly don\u2019t want Lucas to be pushed off the parapet, but I don\u2019t want Marco to go over either, because Lucas is stuck in the mansion with a nest of vipers and he will never make it off the island alive if any harm comes to Marco. My guess is that Marco will try and sweet talk Lucas with the same lie Marco gave Britt. It’s just a one-and-done with his dad and then he and Lucas can start their beautiful life together free and clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never thought I\u2019d hear myself say this, but at least when Brad was lying to him it was to protect Lucas from the pain of knowing his baby died. Team Brad. There, I said it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blind leading the blind<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Liz may not be the best person to give Lucas love advice as she hasn\u2019t had much luck in that department herself. I mean, she\u2019s on her way to have a Valentine\u2019s Day date with Ric after the whole panic room baby stealing thing. But I\u2019m not mad about that. Liz is one of my favorite characters on General Hospital <\/em>and I always root for her. And right now, I am rooting for Ric, too. I really hope he\u2019s on the up and up, but because everyone keeps asking, \u201cDo you think we can really trust Ric?\u201d I kind of think the writers intend to give Ric a hidden agenda. I just hope it doesn\u2019t pit him against Sonny again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spoiler alert<\/strong>: Skip the next the next paragraph if you don’t want to have things spoiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Steve Burton exiting General Hospital<\/em> for a few months, Sonny will need someone he can lean on, so maybe Ric and his brother can bond for real if the writers will allow it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romancing the Don<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of Sonny, this is the longest Sonny has ever gone without a woman for as long as he has been in Port Charles. He hasn\u2019t really had a love interest since he and Nina broke up. They keep hinting at something between Sonny and Justine, but nothing has happened between them. Is that the direction we are heading in? He doesn\u2019t seem to be interested in going back to Carly, Nina, Alexis or Ava, so\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the father is …<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Across town, Portia got the results of her DNA test and revealed that Curtis is the father of her baby. At least that\u2019s what she said. But did she or Britt switch the test results? We may not find out for twenty years. Donnell Turner (Curtis Ashford) has chemistry with Portia and with Jordan, but I am rooting for him to go back to Jordan. He should not have left her in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like Portia as a doctor and as a mom, but as a partner? Nope. She has lied to Curtis about so many things, and the trust has been broken. If he went back to her for the sake of the baby, he would have to look over his shoulder every time she left the house. Just let Portia be with Dr. Gannon and they can have their cabin together while Curtis lives the high life with Jordan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will happen tomorrow dear readers? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Will Carly and Valentine share one glass of wine too many and kiss? Will Dante accept the job as police commissioner and then get to fire Chase when Chase caught red handed tampering with evidence? Is Michael ever going to look at his keys ring and realize there are too many keys? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Cullum bottle up some Cigarillo smoke and release it into the vents of Anna\u2019s French mental ward? Will Lucy and Ava come to blows fighting over the monstrous Sidwell? Is Ava going to unleash her wrath on Jenz if any harm comes to Lucas, or will she and Carly team up for a double whammy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Rebecca Herbst ever show her age? Wow she looked amazing in that black dress on Friday’s episode! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Michael start leaving extra shirts at Deception just in case? Will I ever stop being giddy about seeing Miguel Morez in the halftime show? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only tomorrow knows dear readers and I will tune in tomorrow as long as there are tomorrows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you check out<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to click on the link to read Dan J Kroll’s latest Beyond The Gates<\/em> commentary: Plans Get Made. Life Happens. We Adjust.<\/strong><\/a> Who will Nicole end up with: Carlton, Kial, Ted — or a secret lover?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tamilu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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