r/GeneralHospital • u/Gypsybootz Team Quartermaine • 2d ago
Portia is so much more likeable
Portia is so reasonable and likeable now that she is not with Curtis!
Curtis is the reason everyone in his family have become such annoying characters
Jordan, an intelligent accomplished woman is acting like a brainwashed Stepford wife going along with Curtis’s deranged blame game
Trina, an intelligent, talented, driven young adult with a love of art and big dreams becomes a whiny, foot stomping child willing to contort what she sees and knows to defend Curtis.
Portia, an MD and chief of staff with a great career turned her into a whiny weak mess of a woman because of Curtis. It’s great to see her reclaim her power!
The need to prop up the character of Curtis and his ego has nearly ruined several formerly strong women. I hate that the writers do this to women (same thing happened with Sonny) they don’t need to write women as whiny weak messes or villains.
Love the way Carly is being written. Strong woman who is not an evil villain but can kick butt when someone crosses her or her kids. Yes, she has a past, but once she left Sonny’s immediate orbit, she reclaimed her power. Man double crosses her and she doesn’t break down into a weeping mess, she kicks him to the curb.
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u/shawshank1969 Team Spinelli 2d ago
Portia isn’t begging to be loved and accepted by Curtis. She’s no longer trapped and fearing the sword of Damocles over her head.
People tend to be more relaxed after escaping that kind of emotional desperation. We get to see Portia’s competence, kindness and humor more.
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u/SeaMathematician5150 2d ago
I agree. I just hate that they made Trina his. She should be Taggart's daughter. I could see her as a younger version of Gia, Taggart's sister.
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u/CranberryFuture9908 #teamDaisyQuartmoresuscorbinthos🌼 2d ago
I’ve always liked Portia it definitely has an upside getting away from Curtis.
I don’t know why this pompous so called tough guy needs all the coddling from Jordan and Trina and Stella when she’s around)
They diminish their characters to prop Curtis.
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u/junknowho CashewsForever 2d ago
Away from Curtis, I find her much more likable and almost more mature. Something about being with Curtis activates the 'dumb' in his leading ladies. Look at Jordan now, running around with a scarf on her head that does nothing to hide her scars! And also drinking the "it's the other drivers fault" koolaid that Curtis is dishing out by the gallon.
TBH, I wish Taggert would return to PC and take his daughter away from her parents. She's way too involved in their drama when she should be living her own life and dealing with her own drama. Since the 'death' of Spencer, she's been relegated to 13 year old girl status, even with Kai.
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u/Captain-Spectrum 2d ago
I want some type of acknowledgment that Trina hasn't contacted him since she found out he wasn't her biological father and for her to feel some type of guilt/regret.
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u/junknowho CashewsForever 1d ago
For all intents and purposes, he IS her father. He raised her for her first 18 years. Frustrating!
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u/Swimom Team Moss Bowl 1d ago
Agreed, Portia was married and living with her husband Tagget at the time of Trina’s birth. Her affair with Curtis had ended when he discovered she was married… he never returned her calls so she went on with her life and raised her baby girl. If I recall facts correctly a DNA test to determine biological parentage for Trina wasn’t done until she was an adult.
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u/AlternativeAdvice916 2d ago
On the show over the years all black characters had to prop Curtis over the years so he has always been the common factor in why female characters get hate more than him as a male character on the show and currently it has been refreshing to finally have Isaiah as a adult black male character who doesn't have to prop Curtis character and he gets to dislike him on screen
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u/AlternativeAdvice916 2d ago
I have always loved Portia character on the show and I love Portia and Isaiah as a couple on the show currently
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u/NightBard Spy Joss and Mossy Fan 2d ago
She's not perfect, but compared to Curtis she's pretty amazing right now. Just wait until Trina has some issue though and Portia will be back to her worried faces.
I did like that Trina started out defending Curtis but came around to realize she can't defend him on this and that's ok. That she can love him but not agree is some progress.
Curtis deflecting all the blame other driver, to me, comes off as him realizing he's fully to blame for what happened but by putting the focus elsewhere ... that he can live with his over inflated ego. It's really hard to watch someone being so wrong as Curtis is. Even if it turned out Isaiah was the other driver, the other driver wasn't in the wrong beyond scraping the guard rail and not reporting it.
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u/RedRumWW22 2d ago
OMG I was just thinking this today! They have rehabbed her a bit! I like her much better with Isaiah!
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u/leebelle9 2d ago
I also find Portia a lot more likeable without her jumping through hoops for Curtis. Curtis is the common denominator in the whining relationships. I thought I was going crazy because I always hated Portia and now I like her with Isaiah. Jordan would do better with another love interest. All the women around Curtis become insufferable when they have to justify his childish actions.
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u/AlternativeAdvice916 1d ago
I always loved Portia character it was always a one sided view of her Shown because it was the writers having her prop Curtis character on screen now that Portia no longer has to do that because Brook Kerr is a Soap veteran actress who always deserved better writing and a better relationship on the show people finally get to see her come into her own with her and Isaiah as a couple currently and Isaiah accepts Portia for who she is as a person
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u/Kit-kat1000 2d ago
I so agree with you about Carly. She is 100 times better now that she’s not with ole dimples. She stands up to anyone, woman or man.
As for Curtis, they took a once likeable character turned him toxic. I am really very fond of Jordan these days and have started to like Portia which I thought would never happen. If Trina would stop acting like a baby and live her life for herself rather than trying to fix everything for everybody else, then she could also become strong stronger. I miss the old tough Trina. She could stand to absorb a little bit of Carly and Joss’ confidence and strength.
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u/Nonkinkshamer 2d ago
I see what you mean. While the moments with them together was sweet. The way Curtis is now is jealous and tunnel vision. The man used to be a former detective but can't pick up on the fact that the details aren't lining up. Why? Because Jordan got hurt the moment she got hurt his intelligence dissolved and now he's fixated on going after Isaiah. You would think that a former detective would be able to I don't know detect that something was off? I understand that letting characters be wrong is part of the process of making them seem realistic but I would have hoped that by now Curtis would realize he's barking up the wrong tree.
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u/leebelle9 2d ago
Also, since he was a cop, he would understand the concept of assault. Isaiah said a really hurtful thing, but an adult male should be able to refrain from punching people. He also felt the need to kiss a woman while she was driving despite the fact that they sleep together every night. Curtis should have used his PI skills to solve the case instead of jumping to conclusions based on the fact that Isaiah is sleeping with the ex wife.
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u/Designer_Instance_51 1d ago
I agree. I'm also tired of hearing Isaiah provoked Curtis. No! He said the one thing that pushed him over the edge...being a better dad to the baby. But, Curtis provoked the entire situation the minute he walked in and yelled that foolishness...take your hand off my child 😒 then continued to accuse him. This man is a former cop and PI...if feel so strongly about it then prove it. Oh, I forgot he's a media mogul now 🙄
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u/behappyer 2d ago
I used to despise her but I’ve liked her ever since her speech to Tracy and Laura when her secret came out.
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u/depictionofmood 2d ago
I don't see Portia's character changing much, but her life circumstances are better after ending the miserable marriage to Curtis, the blackmail problem being resolved, getting love and support from Isaiah, and having a less stressful job. I was surprised she still works at GH. There is the problem of her giving ketamine to Jacinda to drug Drew, which the hospital doesn't know about yet. If they find out she may lose her job.
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u/Creole_Richmond 1d ago
I will never like Portia, but Curtis has become irrational. Granted, Isiah did provoke him, but Curtis has to face the consequences of his actions.
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u/goldentalus70 2d ago
Sometimes she acts weird for an adult, though. Like when she went to the Q's, when Chase opened the door and greeted her, all she did was giggle and walk in before saying anything. She didn't even say hello to Chase, she just said she was there to see Tracy.
I replayed it a couple of times because it seemed so strange to me.
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u/NanaIsABrokenRose 2d ago
Chase is pretty. :) Is he the brightest peg on the Lite Brite? Nope. But he’s pretty.
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u/goldentalus70 2d ago
Well, sure, but that's got nothing to do with her weird giggle and not even acknowledging him.
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u/VixenSmasher 1d ago
I really never connected with the Curtis character and now I’m just actively disliking him
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u/IdlesAtCranky Team Moss Bowl 1d ago
I often find the way GH writes women in general now to be highly annoying.
NINA: MY DAUGHTER! MY DAUGHTER!
WILLOW: MY CHILDREN!!
LULU: MY CHILDREN!!
PORTIA: MY BLACKMAIL! MY MARRIAGE!! MY BABY!!!
TRINA: MY PARENTS! MY PARENTS!
ALEXIS: I MUST SAVE KRISTINA! (Though she's gotten better lately, and therefore much more interesting.)
KRISTINA: MY BABY! MY REVENGE! HEY, I'LL GO TO MED SCHOOL!
BROOKLYNN: PHOEBE! MY LATEST SCHEME! MY CONCERNED FACE!
Ok, I get it that being a parent consumes huge time, energy, and attention. BUT IT IS NOT YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY.
I stopped watching for a few years, one of the reasons was that they did this to Sam and it just pissed me off.
Carly is, as OP says, an example of a better-balanced character. Tracy is another. She's hyper-focused on her family, but at least she's still interesting. Even Britt has at least been doing more than just mooning over Rocco.
But so many of the women in this show are given one obsession, and that's all they can talk or think about until they get a different one.
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u/Gypsybootz Team Quartermaine 1d ago
Absolutely on the money. Give us some Nina Crimson intrigue, some Ava and Trina art mysteries, a metro Court murder. These are smart women and should be having storylines that deal with something other than their children. Why don’t we see the teens in school? Back in the day we saw Liz, Lucky, Nicholas and Sarah in school. Dealing with bullies, dating drama, going to prom.,etc. there were real life problems. Give the kids lives other than their parents’ problems to build them into characters for the future.
Remember Frank’s political campaign on Ryan’s Hope and how everybody got in on it? Drew just said he wanted to be a congressman and then he was one. People had real conversations about real stuff.
Now Trina has an ok voice and sang once at a bar and she’s going to be made into a star, without doing the work and struggling. I could see Gio becoming a star because he’s been playing and practicing for years, but everything is just so unreal now and cartoonish
People do more in life than just whine and obsess about their kids or pop up out of the blue and say “I am going to be a singer, be a congressman, go to medical school, be a spy with absolutely nothing in their background that shows they have been planning this.
If anyone is old enough to remember AMC at the beginning there was Gram, who gave good advice to her kids and grandkids without butting into their business like Stella. She was kind and supportive, not controlling and judgmental. There were villains with layers, who didn’t always win (Palmer, Adam)
AW had Felicia Gallant, an over the top character , but GH characters seem to be all over the top. The other soaps are all gone and GH is one of the last few left so I guess viewers want over the top.
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u/IdlesAtCranky Team Moss Bowl 1d ago
I agree — except I don't think most viewers do want "all over the top all the time." Some OTT can be fun, look at how many people like Sidwell.
But the whole feel of GH is way too one-note. I think they still have viewers not because people really want what they're serving, but because, as you say, they're the last one standing of the classic soaps.
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u/Clear_Bright99 2d ago
Yes you’re right! The way they write Porcha’s character is diminishing. I really like Isaiah but his character was more interesting when Lucky was there. I don’t like him paired with Porcha. I think he needs to be with someone like LuLu or even Nina. A person who has no problem crossing lines. And Porcha needs to be single right now. And they need to send Curtis on a long vacation until they can come up with a better storyline. As for Carly, I think she’s always been my favourite and I feel like the writers have always favoured her.
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u/ITSJUSTMEKT 2d ago
I disagree. I cannot stand the character (love the actress of course). The character comes off as so self righteous and smug, it's as if she's forgotten all of the horrible things she did to Curtis. Don't even get me started on the character of Isaiah, who started off as a sort of mysterious, rugged, world traveler type and has turned into a whiny, soft, submissive character.
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u/Constant-Catch7146 2d ago
No.
The Portia character is not redeemable.
This whole whiny/self righteous dynamic between these supposed adults is getting so repetitive and tiresome. It has not improved.
We almost need meddling Stella to get them all in a room and yell at them to straighten up and fly right. 😄
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u/SpiderJedi22 2d ago
She’s not likable at all.
Just because Curtis is annoying doesn’t make her likable.
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u/Impressive_Age1362 2d ago
I can’t stand Portia , she is a pathological liar, she lied to Curtis about Curtis being Trina’s father, still think Taggert is his father, she tampered with Heather webbers lab results, now she is lying about the fight was unprovoked, I think Isaiah is the father of her baby, but said it was Curtis, she wants her cake and eat it too
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u/anniewinger1347 1d ago
I don't find Portia any more likeable. I'm no fan of Curtis but what Portia did with Trina was deserving of not being trusted and then she continued to lie and manipulate. I don't think Curtis handled it well either, but Portia still refuses to really take accountability for what she did or accept the consequences without making herself the victim. Talking about how Isaiah gives her support is not comparable because she didn't lie to Isaiah and deny him the chance to father his child or watch her grow up. Curtis is definitely going too far with this accident stuff and I don't particularly like his character, but I definitely don't blame him having major trust issues with Portia.
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u/drivewaybear they all a bunch a hypocrites 1d ago
i can understand portia’s point about curtis not giving her support since he’s been having an emotional affair with jordan throughout the entirety of their marriage and jordan lied to tommy, curtis’ brother, about being tj’s real father the same way portia lied to curtis. so why is jordan so trustworthy? you can say she didn’t lie to curtis or keep his child from him his whole life but she did it to his family. and her lies about having an affair with sean is what got tommy killed.
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u/anniewinger1347 1d ago
Well their marriage pretty much started with the reveal of Portia's lie so they never had the opportunity to have a marriage built on trust because that foundation was destroyed from day one. Like I said, my argument is not that anyone is perfect or particularly likeable, but this post is titled about Portia so I addressed that. Nobody is entitled to forgiveness when they do something bad and I just find it unlikeable when someone does something bad and then turns themselves into the victim because they said sorry and it didn't erase what they did. Portia cites Curtis walking out on their marriage as a fault of his but I actually think the real fault was trying to stay in the marriage knowing he'd never be able to trust her. He was under no obligation to forgive her but trying to force forgiveness and trust when it wasn't there was not good for anyone. Curtis supported her before finding out about Trina so again Portia can't say that Isaiah supports her like Curtis didn't because he did until he found out she had been lying to him and Portia has no way of knowing how Isaiah would respond to that because she didn't do it to him. Regardless, my feelings about Curtis or Jordan or anyone else have nothing to do with how I feel about Portia because I judge her by her own behavior and not based on anything anyone else does.
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u/drivewaybear they all a bunch a hypocrites 1d ago
when did portia try to force forgiveness from curtis? he chose to stick around under the pretense of making their marriage work. under the circumstances she had every right to think he forgave her. it wasn’t until one of their last fights that he admitted he had been holding the lie about trina against her the whole time. curtis spent the entirety of the marriage lying to portia, manipulating her and having her jump through hoops to meet impossible standards since he never really forgave her. i view portia’s behavior over the last two years as that of a gaslit emotionally abused woman who was acting out of fear to hold on to a man that had one foot out the door from day one.
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u/anniewinger1347 1d ago
I wasn't talking about Portia, I was talking about Curtis. He tried to force himself to forgive and trust Portia when he didn't. Portia did push for forgiveness though and even now she is resentful of Curtis for not giving it and their marriage ending when Curtis should have ended it on their wedding day. As someone who works with many victims of abuse both physical and emotional, calling this that is a wild exaggeration. By that logic someone could argue that Portia crying and constantly guilting Curtis made him feel trapped like he had to stay so he is a victim of emotional abuse. I don't think either of them are victims of emotional abuse and I think both of them made the mistake of trying to hold on to a marriage that was over on their wedding day.
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u/drivewaybear they all a bunch a hypocrites 1d ago
curtis gaslit portia at every step during the drew fiasco, drilling it into her head over and over that it was all her fault. drew only went after portia because curtis helped michael steal aurora. he straight up lied to everyone that will listen that she cheated on him, slut shaming her to her own daughter, stella and hat daddy, when he made it crystal clear he was done and walked out first.
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u/anniewinger1347 1d ago
I am not a fan of Curtis or Portia but all I can say is we seem to have watched two very different shows and I see no point in debating with someone who has a completely different interpretation of things because we don't even see eye to eye on basic plot points.
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u/LBC_1973 6h ago
Portia never knew who Trina’s father was. She wanted to be her stable husband Taggert vs her cokehead affair partner Curtis.
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u/anniewinger1347 2h ago
This is an insane statement. She didn't want to end her affair with Curtis he broke up with her because he didn't know she was married because she lied to him. It's crazy to say she wanted it to be her stable husband while she was cheating on him. She only wanted it to be Taggert because Curtis broke up with her. She may not have known for sure it was Curtis but she knew it could be and she never told him, lied to Taggert and Trina. Curtis also asked Portia if Trina could be his when he first found out Portia had a kid and she lied to him and told him she knew Taggert was the father. When she was confronted about her lies, she also admitted that she never would have told the truth about this.
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u/Calm_Initial 2d ago
Nah. I’m in the Portia, Isaiah and Curtis can all go camp.
Bring in some fresh characters to start over and keep some diversity in Port Chuck
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u/Jodi4869 2d ago
God no. She is whiny. Curtis can go too but I have no love for her either
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u/Matuatay Team Cassadine 16h ago
Especially for someone who's supposed to be a physician. All she does is run around the hospital whining and crying about whatever is going on at the moment. Just boring.
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u/slythefoxx2 1d ago
Portia was annoying because of Portia. Honesty shouldn't be that hard in a relationship and I really don't get why that makes Curtis a jerk for expecting it, especially after she hid his child from him. Like, he didn't even get mad when she did dirt and no man worth anything would ever be ok with his partner manipulating him on behalf of another man. Certainly not one he hated.
So, Portia could have been like this the entire time. Curtis didn't make her like that, she did by being gutless and dishonest.
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u/LatterPhilosopher355 AJ Quartermaine Lives 2d ago
Yup!!! I've said for years that GH can't write for women when they are with leading men.
Emma has been a nice exception. Carly with Val and even Jack. It was Sonny.
Hell even Willow is pretty badass without Drew hahah. She was strong with Chase the first time around. He always let her be her Until Michael came sniffing around. Now I like Michael. And he's better with Jacinda. She says what she thinks and he listens. But he wasn't like that with Willow.
BLQ is useless. She puts up with chase and his constant playing hero to Willow. And I don't like that. Yes it's on Chase but they need to stop with the car nonsense and get Chase and BLQ their own story where he isn't simping.
Curtis absolutely is terrible. And it sucks bc he doesn't NEED to be. It was fun to watch him manipulate drew and act like a Q! He was fun with selina and dealing with the poker games in the club.
They just ruin so much bc they create silly drama for what they think is good tv. And it can be when they arent ruining characters.
This whole Rocco mess has Lulu. Ring over the top. And I like her. Dr O was insufferable making Rocco seem like he was Britt's. Don't get me started on a possible unecessary retcon. Britt started of fun and likeable and she's headed that way but she's been hard to take sometimes, too, bc of Rocco being involved. IMO. They should've kept the kids with the Dalton puppy stuff unrelated to sidwell. Involving young kids in Faison like treachery is not needed and the kids need to be kids. It's like watching Scooby doo. Lessens the evil. Hate it. Hahha.
Anyway. But yep. Curtis destroys women.