General Hospital’s Tabyana Ali Is Done With Esme (& So Are We)

When Esme Prince was a full-on villain on “General Hospital,” Avery Pohl’s acting skills shined, and we loved to hate her. She deftly wore an evil look on her face, but now that she’s been defanged, she’s thoroughly uninteresting and pathetic. “GH” has been nailing typical soap opera tropes by turning them on their ears lately, so having her memory loss be permanent would be right in line with that.

Esme needs a good storyline to make her interesting again, and the show has planted some seeds that could be used. Esme and Spencer previously dated when he didn’t know she had a sinister agenda. And now that she’s revealed to his grandmother, Laura Collins (Genie Francis), that she’s got feelings for him, that could be a part of her memory surfacing. When she was pregnant and a captive of Nikolas Cassadine (then Marcus Coloma), she referred to her child as Ace, and after giving birth, the name came to her and seemed appropriate. Perhaps more of Esme’s devious side will come out, and she could become an entirely new villain. 

Without a worthwhile storyline, Esme should be written out of the show, but the writers should somehow work it out so that Spencer gets custody of Ace. It’s also possible that Nikolas could come to Port Charles and kidnap her yet again for revenge, or even kill her. Either way, Esme needs to have a good, meaty story, or be written out completely.