05 June 2011

What if General Hospital Cured Robin of HIV?




Since 1995 fans of General Hospital have watched as the character of Robin Scorpio (Kimberley McCullough) contracted HIV from the love of her life Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Now 16 years later, there is finally a real case in which a man has been cured of HIV after undergoing a stem cell transplant for leukemia. Immediately upon hearing this news the "writer" in me started thinking of potential storylines that could come from this advancement that we, viewers, would be happy with.

Here is how I would play the story out if I was Garin Wolf:

Upon coming home from a long stressful day at the hospital Robin gets a call from her mother Anna. "Darling, did you hear the news, there is a cure!" with an inquisitive look on her face and not even thinking about it being for her HIV, she replies "a cure for what mom?" "For you! There was a man in Berlin who was just cured of HIV!" It then hits Robin, she hadn't considered a cure before, especially not since she became a mother herself, "oh?" she replies.

From there we go on to have Robin and Patrick discuss the case and find out that it cannot really be re-done as the case was truly a one off. But Robin doesn't give up that easily; she does some investigating and finds out that there is a similar trial going on in Llanview, and that she can fly over there now and get started... But then she remembers about Emma, she can't risk it, not now... But if this means the difference between getting a few years with her daughter or getting to be there when her daughter walks down the aisle and has kids of her own and crazy psycho ex's trying to break up her marriage doesn't Robin owe it to her to at least give it a shot?

This causes natural conflict for Robin and Patrick as they both want to do the "right" thing.

Now here is the tricky part, it all depends on contracts. If Kimberly wanted to leave then this would be her exit story which would see her die after complications arises from the treatment. However if she stayed it would be a really intersting storyline that we could play out many different ways after judging viewer feedback. One could he to give her a placebo, another could actually cure it, another might see her simply turn away and not be able to take the chance of not being around for Emma.

Anyways what do you think? Would you hate it if they cured Robin's HIV? Let me know in the comments below.

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