Rumorama: What's the future for "General Hospital"'s gay doc?

I'm torn.

On one hand I want more soap to jump on the gay character bandwagon. 

On the other hand, GH has had a reputation of the writers being a bunch of misogynist macho frat boys who love death and guns and that nice characters or hospital characters don't stand a chance anyway. So even if he joined, he likely wouldn't be used much anyway. 

However, I do think that they probably would "only" underuse him (as opposed to turning him straight or into a serial killer), so I figure, what's the harm? When in doubt, I'm in favor of more soaps having gay characters, even if they might only be used as bit players. 

I LOVE the relationship between Dr. Kyle and Eric -- right now I'm terrified that they're sending Eric to the Great Bad Transplant Heaven leaving Dr. Kyle to mourn alone. I hope this isn't the case. I'd love to see more of these characters, but I haven't watched (or wanted to) GH since I was watching with my Grandma!

What I've heard was that GH/NS, which will end in a big cliffhanger in a few weeks will  be back in January and will run for 26 weeks if not more.  The show is a huge hit so SoapNet/ABC want to take advantage of it.  Because of that, no one is leaving the show and the cast will remain intact, including leads Robin and Patrick, who will leave the mothership and make GH/NS their full time home.  To repeat, however, this is just a rumor because there is also still talk that Kyle and Claire will both go to the mothership.  There are also rumors that the network is so happy with the writing of Sri Rao that he will take over the writing at GH or co-head write with embattled current head writer Bob Guza, who many feel need a break... or a handler.  So, it seems like there are a lot of rumors, but no solid facts about what the show plans to do or where the characters will be going.  But with GH/NS coming to a close, I suspect we'll hear some news soon.

I'm torn about what I'd like to see happen.  I really like GH/NS and I'd like the keep the current cast and writing team as it is.  OTOH, I'd love for Kyle to make a home at GH, but ONLY if Bob Guza is not at the helm.  Kyle is a major character on GH/NS.  We see him at work, his family life and his romantic life.  At GH, he'd be a supporting character with minimal story, like most of the hospital staff.  That's the way it is on that show when you're not afflilaited somehow with the mob.   But if Sri Rao were to take over or at least co-head write the show, the 'hospital' would probably be a bigger factor in General Hospital and Kyle (not to mention a lot of other characters) would be used more effectively and actually be a viable, used character on the show.  As much as I want to see more gay characters on daytime, I don't want them if they are just wallpaper or filler without storylines.

I'd love to see Kyle on GH after NS has ended, but I guess, like most of you guys, I'm torn because I'd hate to see them change him; reduse him to just filler or worse. (We all remenber what happend with Lucas.) You know that'll happen under the current writing staff.

But my fears will lessen if Sri Rao comes on, so we just have to play the wait and see game. 

Thanks to Anthony for capturing and posting the Kyle and Eric clips.

I totally waited up for them.

Fabulous!

May G.H. Night Shift continue to write such lsold moments for Kyle in the very near  future and beyond.

Daytime G H - FEH!