Be sure to head over to the main page of Soaptown and read my brand new
interview with that wonderfully hilarious Carolyn Hennesy
(Diane) - a most entertaining person to listen to and write about!
Last week, I made the suggestion that Michael should not be
allowed to run Sonny's organization - in fact, don't put him in
charge of anything bigger than a lemonade stand. I received this
hysterical reply from April: To even suggest that Michael
could run a lemonade stand is sheer lunacy! He can't even decide if
he should beat the lemons or have Max and Milo do it... Oh
that's too funny, not to mention incredibly accurate. Me thinks that
perhaps April should be given a guest shot at my column, who knows
what other side-splitting observations she may come up with! I can
almost picture the scene: "Buy some lemonade," Michael pleads, "I am
the son of Sonny Corinthos - it would be in your, shall I say best
interest? To buy my lemonade." Too complicated? Too many big
words? Okay, how about "Buy
my lemonade or my bodyguards will take care of you." And since April
has suggested it, Michael is unable to squash up the lemons himself
due to his massive guilt complex. "Max, I need you and Milo to wreak
havoc on these poor little lemons - I can't do it myself. It's great
lemonade, I just wish so many lemons didn't have to be killed in
order to make it. (...hangs head and pouts) And I'll get a
lecture from Jason and my dad will cover it up and try to pin it on
Franco..." Oh and what if there is another kid pedaling his
refreshing beverage in the same neighborhood? Michael: "Shut down
that other lemonade stand or I will put out a hit on them."
I'm holding out hope for that beautiful scene when Michael makes a demanding threat and
someone (anyone) bursts out laughing and asks, "Oh yeah,
Dimples Junior? You and what army?"
And then Sonny can stomp in and announce that no son of his will run
a lemonade stand and Sonny will put Dominic in charge of it... oh
wait.
So
Sonny finally learned that not only is Dominic/Dante a cop but now
he's staring down at the man he just shot while Olivia cries that
Sonny just shot his own son. Now who didn't predict that outcome? I
know I did, in fact, it happened pretty much the way I said it
would. Well then, if the writers are lifting ideas from my column,
how about having Michael shut up for about a week? I digress, I
digress. Anyway, I'm kind of curious to see how Sonny reacts when he
realizes Dante is his kid with Olivia. Who am I kidding? Sonny won't
be able to look past the fact that Dante is a cop who infiltrated
his organization and set him up to be arrested. Sonny doesn't handle
betrayal very well, and I imagine being played like a cheap
accordion probably doesn't go over big with him either. The real
shocker would be for Sonny to say, "Oh my God, I've shot my son!"
and collapse beside him feeling guilty and pleading with Dante to
live. Then the inevitable how-could-you-keep-this-from-me speech
Sonny may give Olivia. "Connie knew about it too!" Olivia is quick
to point out because nothing is ever Olivia's fault.
Or Sonny could very well cower in a corner and mumble over and
over that he has no real friends, since everyone and their kid
sister seemed to know about Dante except him and Jason. "You didn't
see this coming Jason," Sonny could snarl, "Because you've been too
wrapped up in Franco." Blink, stare. "What was I supposed to do
Sonny?" Jason could protest in his turn. "Franco is in love with me.
He keeps writing on my Facebook wall and sending me flowers, hearts
and boxes of chocolate arranged to look like crime scenes!" Jason
kneels down next to a mortally wounded Dante. "What the hell are you
doing?" Sonny demands when Jason begins drawing an outline around
Dante with a piece of chalk... Oh I'm having entirely too much fun
here, I know.
Or we could
just watch and see what GH really does with this Dante revelation, but I imagine
that I've already predicted what will happen, it's just a matter of
which scenario.
Speaking of shutting up for about a week, Luke definitely called
it when he asked Lulu why she was directing her anger towards
Elizabeth and not Nikolas. At least Lucky finally got it right when
he berated both of them, but what's with Lulu? And forgive me for
asking, but isn't Lulu reacting a little too much about something
that isn't happening to her? Lucky and Nikolas are both her
brothers. All she has to do is ask them not to put her in the
middle, simple as that. As for Elizabeth, I almost went for it when
Lulu skewered Liz in front of the entire hospital - notice I said
almost. There was something I didn't like about it. Perhaps it was
indeed the fact that Lulu is livid about Elizabeth's betrayal of
Lucky but not Nikolas'. "Being judgmental has a way of
boomeranging," Luke pointed out to his daughter. You got that right,
big boy. The fact is, Nikolas and Liz and their affair was a mutual decision. He is
just as much to blame as she, and Luke sees this, just as I do. Even
Luke gave Liz a chance to tell her side of the story. He is staying on
neutral ground, citing all the good things that Liz did for Lucky in
the past. Why can't Lulu either stay neutral as well, stay out of it
or just, um... shut up for about a week?