General Hospital: The Quartermaines Mourn AJ 

Dillon is so right.

aj wouldn't have been so horrible of people gave him a break and treated as a human being

@43cdc In the suit is Edward Q (John Ingle left for a while, Jed Allan took over the role). In the jean jacket is Lois. In the black shirt is Ned Ashton. Ned & Lois are Brook Lynn's parents. The guy (teen) sitting by Tracy is Dillon Q. Ned & Dillon are Tracy's sons. The blonde who walks in at 1:03 is Courtney, she's Mike Corbin's daughter; Sonny's sister; Spencer's mother; ex-wife of Jason, AJ, Jax. Courtney died in '06, Ned & Lois live in Europe, Dillon is a filmmaker living out of town.

AJ "died" twice in 2005. This was the first time when he faked his death on his own. All of the Quartermaines, including Monica, thought he was really dead. He showed up again shortly after which is when Monica helped him fake his death.

ha ha. Loved how Tracy just told off Courtney there.

@Soccerooss John Ingle who took over the role of Edward from David Lewis in 1993, left GH and joined Days of our Lives in 2004. Jed Allan played the role until Ingle returned in 2006.

LOve it "impulse control " issues Tracy is just great. She summarizes it succinctly.

Ok really, the writers villainized him before this anyway, and that was bad too.

My goodness, how many times is AJ going to come back from the dead? The interesting thing is both times he "died", someone always saw the dead body.

I agree. Guza was intent on making AJ a complete loser. I liked him and Courtney until the writers ruined with that stupid stalking his own wife crap.

GO TRACY...TELL IT!!!

General Hospital just inconveniently forgot about the scene where Alan identified Aj's body (now that he is back in recent episodes.) What? Did Monica give AJ a dose of that "death drug" that slows down your respiratory and body functions while Allan identified him? Lots of flaws about bringing AJ back. Shame on you GH writers! Shame! LOL

Where's Monica??

She was upstairs and very upset

I think AJ got a rod deal he was a good person but they always made him look bad which I didn’t like I like the AJ that came back I think he’s a cousin of Steve Burton’s and he was the original AJ if I recall from seeing in the RU-vid videos

Why did they temporarily recast Edward Quartermaine, because now the original Edward is back?

@goblz I agree 100%

Yes this was his first death the one he faked

I have never felt that Michael was AJ’s son. There is n

who's body is sence he was still alive after this

Being nostalgic at the end of 2020: bring AJ's long lost son to PC. His mom should be Jason's GF before he became a gangster.

I don’t really understand how people keep saying that the writers somehow changed AJ from this great guy into a villain. If you go back and watch the earlier clips of AJ, nothing they have him do is really out of character. In the very first adult Jason appearance, AJ greets Jason who has just come back from boarding school by calling him a bastard. He rolls his eyes at everyone’s effusive greetings to Jason. His resentment and jealousy of Jason are apparent. throughout the years. He talks to a friend on the phone about how to fool your parents. Kid stuff yes, but AJ is no longer a kid. He admits he began drinking seriously when he was 12. AJ goes from kid stuff to more serious things like hiring an arsonist to burn down the coffee warehouse, hiring someone to stalk his own wife, placing cameras to secretly film her. and generally terrorizing her. Eventually he kidnapped Michael, brainwashing him into believing that Carly and Sonny abandoned him. His actions traumatized Michael. He shot his own father, who had helped him, in the back and tried to murder Jason. Few people are all good or all bad. And AJ is no exception. At times he shows a love for his family, especially Jason, but he allows the “bad” side to eventually control him. The writers did not depart from AJ’s original character, they simply continued the deterioration that began in his earliest appearances. AJ was a detestable jerk who would have destroyed himself years ago had it not been for the Quartermaine name, influence, and money. His upbringing was horrible but it was his own choices that destroyed him. Just as It was the accident that changed Jason, but it was his own choices that set him on his currant path. If the writers deterred from a character’s early portrayal, it was Jason’s, not AJ’s. He went from Mr. Nice Guy to a career criminal and killer. That was not just a departure from his original path, it was a 180 degree turn. AJ simply continued down his original path of self destruction. And through it all, there are hints that he has participated in unethical and illegal behavior particularly when he was in charge of ELQ. No, AJ’s character development has been very consistent.