ATWT video clip update: I cover the waterfront

Luke and Noah want to cruise sick kids.

 

I love it. 

The Midwest has an enormous quantity of bodies of water.  There are major rivers which drain either into the Great Lakes or the Mississippi River, both of which are extremely important in worldwide shipping.  While it's unlikely that a major freighter would be docked in Oakdale, it's not out of the question that they'd have docks.

That all being said, however, the shipping industry DOES tend to send freighters to major ports and then ship by truck and rail to their final destinations.  This story would raise far fewer eyebrows if it took place in the Oakdale Railyards.

And of course, one must question why anyone thought it was appropriate to ship a bunch of sick kids out on a Freighter instead of a yacht or cruise ship.  When are they going to stop hiring idiots to write for ATWT and get some people who know SOMETHING about the world we live in!

The imaginary Oakdale, IL  is supposedly a suburb of Chicago, now we are made aware this suburb is on Lake Michigan, as well as having a riverfront...  while this place obviously doesn't exist (except in Chicago) soapdom is on a fairy tale map.  If you want reality, think back to the 80's when "The Ice Princess"   (a blue piece of coal) made the global climate change around the vicinity of Port Charles (in the South) and I bet people were still eating gumbo. AND.... that story line along with Luke and Laura put General Hospital on the map.   What's that mean???   MORE IMAGINARY GEOGRAPHY!

Is supposed to be downstate of Chicago.  In the past they've made a point of saying that it took hours to get to the city limits (that was before they invented the Oakdale Transporter that gets them to NYC and back in a couple of hours).

And I HATED the whole Ice Princess thing.  That's both when and why I stopped watching GH.

Lucinda, if they don't tell you where the ships are going, it's because it's none of your F'ing business.