General Hospital Stealth Recasts Legacy Character

[setsuna16]

Just a few weeks after announcing that former All My Children actor Alexa Havins has been cast as Lulu Spencer, General Hospital adds yet another member of the Spencer family, this time with former As The World Turns actor Van Hansis taking over the role of Lulu's cousin, Lucas Jones

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[setsuna16]

Gio was likely going to end up being a surprise spawn of Drew, because one of his earliest scenes, at Brook and Chase's wedding, had him look over and see Jason and say something akin to "he looks familiar, but I don't know why." I took that to be that his mom had a picture of "Jason," but it would actually be of Drew since they were identical twins until Drew had to have reconstructive surgery and looked like, well, Billy Miller first, then Cameron second. But the point remains. Because it wouldn't make sense with the timeline for it to be Jason since 20-ish years ago, Jason was busy with Courtney, Liz or Sam depending on the time frame and definitely didn't have time for any dalliances, but the at that point unknown Drew with Jason's face certainly could have been somewhere in New York instead of San Diego for a bit of time and made a baby with Gio's mama.

Now? Now there are three theories:

1) Gio is the secret child of Brook and Dante, given up by Brook to Gio's mama and kept on the hush hush.
2) Gio is yet another Corinthi spawn of Sonny's.
3) Gio is Ned's child somehow.

I don't like either of those options. I don't mind Gio overall, though the show desperately needs to figure out who he is. I really, really don't want him to be a Corinthi, but I would marginally tolerate it if that happened AND he ended up being queer and Dex was revealed to be bi/pan and then he and Joss would be fighting over Dex because it would be two basically step-siblings (I don't doubt for a moment that Carly's alibi status will result in yet another Carly/Sonny marriage) in love with a guy, except one is a male and one is a female.

[daisyazul]

Gio and Dex being queer and into each other would be so refreshing. But the writers are addicted to secret love child storylines, so I bet Gio is brooklynns and dantes son. With Lulu waking up soon, it will add more drama and it will be dragged for 2 years probably.

[setsuna16]

I think the Lulu factor basically locks in Gio being Dante and Brook's child, since Lulu and Brook had massive hostilities before she went for her long nap and even though Brook is a better person and has made peace with Maxie and probably wants nothing more than Lulu to get better, it'll still be a conflict.