Camp Grow Up A Lot

Today, the headline on Soap Opera Weekly shows a picture of Jesse Soffer (age 24) with the proposed question, "GH's New Michael?"

When young Michael went into a coma, we here FORMORTV talked over the possibility that they could replace the actor with someone new, someone older. I like to call it CAMP GROW UP A LOT.

What is CAMP GROW UP A LOT? I coined this phrase years back when a young Jason and young AJ went off one summer to camp. I think they were about 8 and 9. The next time, I saw them they were about 16 and 17. Even though I, myself was very young, I found this quick grow up odd, especially because they had just gone off to camp. Then all of sudden they are in high school!

After they returned from Camp Grow Up A Lot was when we met the teen set of the 80's, Jason, AJ, Robin, Brenda and Karen. Some of you might remember that pack of teens. It was pre brain injury for Jason. Karen was still alive. Robin "was intelligent" so she skipped a grade or two to graduate with all of them. Karen and Jason was an item. Brenda was the bad girl. AJ was the troubled teen. Brenda and Robin became best friends. I could go on and on, but enough about the 80's teen set of Port Charles.

Skipping ahead past the teens of the 90's, Emily, Elizabeth, Nikolas, and Lucky and instead turn to a more recent teen set. Do you recall when Georgie and Maxi were suddenly 10 years older? How about little Lulu? One day she was 12 the next day she is graduating high school. Throw in a Dillon and Diego and you have one teen set ready for drama.

Now we are toying with the idea of replacing Michael. Let's review this scenario: If Michael goes in to the coma as a 12 year old (we know he is 12 because Lulu just said so the other day when in shock that a 12 year old could get shot) and comes out let's say 19 what does that mean for the rest of the kids? We have to grow up Christina, Cam, Morgan, Spencer, Molly, and Jake. Could this be our new teen set?

Another possibility is we grow up only a couple of these kids like Christina, Morgan and Cam. Then mix in a few new kids and we are ready for teen drama all over again. Don't worry about Spencer, Molly and Jake they will also grow up in the not to distant future.

All soap operas have CAMP GROW UP A LOT. We can also change this to CAMP CHANGE A LOT. Camp Change A Lot is across the street from Camp Grow Up A Lot. There is no age limit at Camp Change A Lot. The only requirement at Camp Change A Lot is you sign in as one actor and sign out as another actor playing the character! Sometimes you don't even have to look the same; this is the beauty of Camp Change A Lot!

Oh but Soap Operas don't hold the monopoly of Camp Grow Up A Lot or Camp Change A Lot, both daytime and primetime shows are familiar with these camps. They are used quite frequently throughout TV LAND!