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  UPDATED 2-1-2010

GH CHRONICLES

There's Always Hope

I can hope for a resolution or two of some of the stories on GH.

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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL HOSPITAL

Should Sonny embrace his new son Dante?

You mean after all the screaming about being betrayed or before? I say yes, but it's going to be a tough road.
There is a reason Sonny "saw himself" in Dante and he should follow through on that and try to build a relationship with him.
I never agreed with any of this anyway. Sonny did not need yet another kid.
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