General Hospital: Why Jason Should Lose his Memory

Message boards are all a’twitter about Robin leaving again via kidnapping-by-Crazed-#GH-Supervillain, for the third—yes count ’em— third time.  This time, Helena has captured Robin to use her abilities for evil…or whatever it is that Helena has planned, whomever she wants to unfreeze, bring back the dead, torture.  Helena’s bucket list must be something, that’s all I’ve got to say.  But seriously, has anyone ever in the history of soaps been kidnapped as much as Robin?

What amazes me, though, is the #Scrubs (the smoosh name for Patrick and Robin) fans who seem to want them together so badly that they don’t care if #Jason Thompson loses his job, as long as it means Scrubs walks off the screen together.  #Kimberly McCullough has moved on to aspirations of directing and isn’t available for full-time work at GH, so the directing and writing team look for ways to bring her back when they can.  They’ve established Patrick believing that Robin has abandoned them, Anna believes Robin is facing PTSD and so the stage is set for Patrick to stay on screen and move on.  (And it’s no secret that I enjoy SamTrick.)  I get why fans of the couple aren’t happy — it’s definitely not a happy “ending” for Scrubs, but it isn’t an ending either.  “End game” means when it’s over, when it’s done — and I’m hopeful that General Hospital will be around for a long time to come.  So in all that time in between, I want to see Patrick move on, I want to see him used in a great story, matched with a great woman and given more to do than wonder when or if Robin will return.  I want good story.

I think Robin’s kidnapping this time feeds into that good story in a HUGE way.  Jason also made his way back to Port Charles with Robin, but through a chain of events that could only be written on a soap, he managed to get his by Ava’s car and is currently en route to General Hospital.  But that is such soapy goodness.   The ONLY person who knows the truth about Robin is Jason.  That’s it.

So the perfect foil for that?  Take away that memory.  Given that they have to work with Kimberly McCullough’s availability, I think they’ve set this up perfectly for more story when they can bring her back for a while.  Jason’s memory holds serious, serious information about Robin.  And for now, if that is locked up tight in a forgotten place, that memory becomes a ticking time bomb.  Memory-less Jason (Better than Headless Jason) will settle into Port Charles, healing, probably getting a new face and making “new” connections with people (rumors are he’s been taping a lot with Liz). His story begins and builds, and through all of it, we know he’s the key to some very, very valuable information.  We know that the truth of his identity will rock the town in a big way.

When his memory returns, I want to see everything at stake because of it.  I want to see his new Memory-less Jason relationships shifted upside down, I want to see Jason realize that Robin is gone and know that it’s not because she wants to be.  And when that happens, everything should be heightened.  Patrick and Sam could potentially be in a deeper relationship that could explode from the truth of who Jason is and what he knows.  Whoever Jason has gotten close to will be in jeopardy in that time frame.

From a story perspective, I see so much potential in those moments ahead because of this twist.  I think this was the perfect setup to building Jason’s story arc and I can’t wait to see the rubble that forms around the explosion when it comes back.