A Little History On A Short-Lived Romance!

If *any* storyline indicates just how inconsistently storylines are executed on General Hospital, the Chloe/Stefan anti-climax is probably one of the best indications of all! For several long, long, agonizing months, Chloe Morgan struggled with a brain tumour, fearing she would either go blind or die if she did not have access to a drug that Helena Cassadine had in her possession. Although Chloe's brain tumour allegedly caused horrible headaches, Ms Morgan was still able to jog, shop and wear the tightest French braids since Pippi Longstocking got a makeover! Another side effect of the tumour was narcolepsy: Ms Morgan was able to fall into deep sleep at the drop of a hat, preferably in full make-up while draped luxuriously on a couch or chaise lounge. Oh did I mention the tumour also made Ms Morgan psychic? Yep, when she dreamed, she saw life through the eyes of one Helena Cassadine, the queen of all things evil.

Somewhere down the line, Chloe lost her boyfriend, Jax, who dumped her when the mere glimpse of his presumed-dead lover, Brenda, gave him the perfect excuse to dump the psychic tumour girl -- and pursue a short-lived career on nightime television on Aaron Spelling's equally short-lived Titans. The same night Jax left her, Stefan Cassadine sent a couple of his henchman into her hotel room to kidnap her and bring her to a secluded island where he was staying after faking his own death. Stefan's plot was to deprive Chloe of her life-saving medication, which would allow her to continue having psychic dreams, which would in turn allow Stefan to "see" into Helena's mind and, hopefully, catch some glimpses of her doing the Nasty with Andreas. Despite the fact that she was deprived of her meds -- and despite slowly going blind and being driven batty by her psychic dreams -- Chloe remained feisty and beautiful. In fact, her Muppet-less wardrobe on the Island was better than the crap she usually wore in Port Charles! Apparently Stefan wanted her around, but not badly enough to see her, day in and day out, lounging in cow-print skirts.

To make a long story short, Stefan and Chloe began to have feelings for one another, and Stefan decided to cut the charade and bring Chloe back to Port Charles, where she could resume taking her medication, fight the tumour and regain her eyesight. The idiots who write for GH decided to put viewers everywhere out of their misery and cure Chloe Morgan of the longest-running, most pointless and anti-climactic illness the show has ever seen. Chloe eventually discovered that Stefan had kidnapped her and not Helena, as he had convinced her, and their romance was nipped in the bud and kicked in the crotch. The tumour storyline consumed most of the show over the course of a year, only to be "resolved" in the most absurd and silly ways imaginable. Thank you, General Hospital, for always realizing your errors too late, making viewers suffer in the meantime, and then expecting us to be happy when you quickly and embarrassedly pull the plug. As always, the viewers got what they wanted ... NOT!