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I admit I have been gone from the show for awhile now.   After the whole Sonny shooting Dante debacle I just couldn’t take it any more.   Now since that time I have still managed to wet my curiosity now and again by reading www.despairintheafternoon.wordpress.com (I love those snarky ladies).  And yes on occasion I would DVR an episode just to see if anything had changed (it hasn’t) or I would bring up Hulu and listen to a week’s worth of eps while I was working.  I have an addiction and I realize that now.  It was never so clear as to when I heard that One Life to Live and All My Children.  I couldn’t believe it.  I had grown up with these shows.  I remember when Todd Manning raped Marty Saybrooke and Marco Dane was causing problems for Tina (I used to think he was so cute).   I never followed AMC all that often but still I knew what it was about and of course like every other young woman I had a mad crush on Leo du Pres and thought Tad the Cad was the bees knees. 

So needless to say I couldn’t help but to be worried that General Hospital was next.  Ok so in recent years I have felt that the writing has gone to shit.  And yes I cheered when I found out that Rebecca Herbst had been fired.  No offense but I blame it all on the writers.  She used to be one of my favorite characters but over the past 6 or so years the writers have turned her in to a whiny, self-righteous bitch and I wanted her gone.   About the only time I could stomach her was when she was with Nikolas because it was the only time she wasn’t bitching or moaning about how frakked up her life was.  Plus when Lucky Spencer was played by Greg Vaughn he went so much better with Sam McCall.  What?  He did.   Then again, and yes I know that I may be the only who feels this way, but I love the idea of Maxie and Lucky being together now that he is once again being played by Jonathan Jackson.  Let’s find Elizabeth someone new.  Someone that allows her to have the strength and backbone she once had. 

Now the one thing I have always agreed with since the show brought on Laura Wright is that her Carly belonged with Jasper Jax.  They just made sense.   Of course what makes sense to me and the rest of the viewing audience obviously doesn’t make sense to TPTB because those jackasses have fired Ingo Rademacher so that they could put Carly with Sonny again I guess.  I say that because we all know he won’t be married to Brenda for very long.  Speaking of his marriage to Brenda, once again the writers have proven (Garza you little bitch I’m referring to you) that they care nothing for history.  Because they keep having Sonny spout off to Kristina that she is so much younger then Ethan and that it would be wrong for them to be together.  Hey Jackasses!  When Sonny & Brenda first got together she was 18 and he was much older (yeah we could count then too, morons) and he was taking over the mob.  Let’s talk about that age difference shall we you misogynistic prick.   Oh this show pisses me off!  Correction:  Sonny pisses me off!

Remember when GH used to love women?  Yeah I do too.  Now it just has a hard-on for the Sonny and Jason.  Hell it even stopped with the Spinelli love.  I miss Spinelli.  I wish Bradford Anderson‘s pilot would have been picked up by TNT he deserves so much more than what he has been given lately.   But even with all my gripes and my months of non-watching I have come to the realization that I don’t want my favorite/least favorite soap to be cancelled.  I grew with Port Charles.  It’s my home and as much as I may rebel against it I feel better knowing that it is there if I ever need it.  

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No longer did I have to sit through Todd bemoaning once again how no one was good enough for his little girls or listen to Sonny Corinthos complain about how he was just a misunderstood murdering psychopath.   And yeah I know all you Sonny fans will go on and on about how he is just doing his job and it’s his business and blah, blah, blah.  Anytime someone decides the only way to get their daughter to stop fake dating a guy is to plant a bomb in his car is a card carrying pyscho. 

However this is all besides the point.  The point is that for a while now I have been wanting to check in with my favorite soap characters just to see what was going on but I didn’t want to have to muddle through the rest of the garbage.  Thankfully Youtube solved that problem because I was able to string the past 4 months worth of John & Natalie scenes all in one neat little playlist.  Heaven people, sheer heaven.   Ok yeah I probably missed some important parts…oh who are we kidding they may have been a part of other stories but I didn’t want to know about those stories.  I wanted to see them get back together and get through this baby drama.  And can I just say that John in protective daddy mode is so freaking adorable I could scream.  Although Natalie may want to stop talking to herself or at least not doing it so loudly. 

Up next on my Youtube playlist is Lucky Spencer.  I am getting giddy just thinking about the fact that I am not going to have to sit through Elizabeth’s whiny presence in order to see Lucky’s story.  Did I forget to say how much I am loving Youtube?  It’s allowing me to enjoy my stories again.   Now if OLTL can get Marty something to do beside be crazy jealous over a guy she barely knew.

You see I am currently at work.  Yep that’s right my 9-5 job that requests my undivided attention.  Not that I give into the request.  I merely allow it enough of my attention to get the job done.  Right side of brain focuses on the task at hand.  Left side of brain cringes at the thought of Sonny flirting with a woman.  Seriously does Guza think all women are stupid?  Who in the hell is he writing this show for anyways?  Oh hell I can feel the bile rising in my throat again.  Ugh…

But as I said in the title of this little love piece (that was sarcasm folks, keep up) I did indeed manage to find a couple of things about this week’s episodes that kept me from wanting to hurl.  One of them was Brianna Brown.

   Oh yeah you read that right.  Yes I know that Lisa Niles is a trifling bitch, but it the most awesome way possible.  Forget for a moment that she is tramping all over the sacred Robin and Patrick (who by the way can come off as too one dimensional at times) and try to just picture the way Brianna portrays her.  That sinister gleam in her eye when Patrick finds her in his house drinking a beer.  The way the water works start to flow and stop with the flip of the switch.  Come on that is pure freaking gold!  Still haven’t convinced you?  Fine.  I understand.  But I ask you again to think back on past trifling GH bitches:  Lucy Coe, Samantha McCall, Caroline Benson aka Carly Jax, Maxie Jones, Faith Roscoe, and I am sure many many more.  All the characters I just listed were not always liked.  In fact some of them were down right hated by the viewers.  Except at the same time the actress playing them made us love them.  I don’t know about the rest of you but I can only handle sugary bubble gum for so long.  I enjoy a little crazy in my soaps.  And frankly Lisa Niles reminds me a little of Janet From Another Planet.  Yeah I know she is from a different soap, but she was still frakking awesome!  So Guza and Co. when this particular storyline comes to an end can we please, oh pretty please keep Lisa?  I promise to be good and eat all my vegetables. 

The second non-vomit enducing part about GH this week was Luxie or LuMax or whatever other frakking mashup you loyal Shippers have come up with.  I dont know what it is about Lucky and Maxie, but I am loving the possibilties.  Whether it be friendship or FWB’s I seriously do not care.  All I do care about is I want more of them.  Now.  Do I see wedding belles and frilly white dresses for the two of them?  No, but I do see fun, fun and oh did I forget to mention fun times with them?  Can you imagine fun on GH?  I know!  It boggles the mind and yet I do believe it is possible.  And hey who knows stranger things have happened so the idea of Lucky and Maxie falling in love isn’t totally out of bounds.  I mean come on this is GH where the unthinkable often happens.

For the first time in a long time I am unable to blame Sonny for his reaction to finding out his daughter has been abused.  I am unable to view his reactions as being anything but something I would do if I found out one of my children had been abused.  Ok so I may not have pulled a gun on the person that hurt them, but I can not honestly say that I wouldn’t do it either.  My only thought other than to make sure my child was ok would be to make that person pay.  So how can I watch the scenes with Sonny pulling a gun on Ethan without realizing that in his mind as far as he knows Ethan hurt his little girl and he wants Ethan to hurt.  He doesn’t know that it was actually Kiefer that did this so as far as he knows he is not pulling a gun on an innocent man.  This is not the Dante situation. 

Nor do I blame Kristina for blaming Ethan.  In her mind what happened was her fault.  She caused it to happen.  In her mind she is replaying the if only’s.  If only she hadn’t embarassed Kiefer.  If only she had been a better girlfriend.  In a twisted way that I am sure many of us do not understand she loves him.  In her mind Ethan was supposed to be her knight in shining armor.  The one person who was going to rescue her from Kiefer because she was too emotionally weak to do it herself.  So no I do not blame Kristina. 

Sam also isn’t to blame for her reaction.  Would any of us have reacted any differently if our sister had told us who the person was who harmed her?  I know I wouldn’t have.  And yes it may have been a bit hippacritical of her to say that the reason Ethan shouldn’t be trusted is because he is a con-man, but with that being said no one in that town really does know anything about him.  The only reason why we the viewers would jump to Ethan’s defense is because we have known for months.  But say we hadn’t seen this storyline unfold.  Say the only thing we saw was Ethan grab Kristina and leave a bruise only to see her hours later laying on the floor battered.  Can we honestly say that we wouldn’t have jumped to the same conclusions or even have thought it would be possible?

 Nor do I blame Alexis for not seeing the signs.  I was a teenager once and I was an expert at letting my parents see only what I wanted them to see.  The amount of things that I kept from my mother was staggering.  To this day I am positive that she doesn’t know the half of it.  I know she wanted to think that she knew everything and that she was doing everything in her power to keep me safe, but the sad truth is that she was only able to do what I allowed her to do.  Alexis may have been overworked and focused on what was in front of her face, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t care about Kristina.  As a parent you make the best choices you can for your children with the information you have at hand.  And unfortunately that information is often very little and not altogether whole. 

No I don’t blame any of these people.  The person I blame is Kiefer and whatever it is that makes him an abuser. 

If you are being abused or know any one who may be in an abusive relationship please contact the National Abuse Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or go to Love Is Respect.

Which is funny to me considering the first time I saw Brett was on the teen soap One Tree Hill and I thought his character Tim Smith was the most ridiculously lame character ever.  I couldn’t stand Tim Smith and I found it hard to believe that Brett’s ability to play the pathetic tag along wasn’t just a little bit real.  I knew Scott Evans’ work even less.  The only other time I saw him in anything was an episode of Fringe and I’m pretty sure his head melted or blew up or shrunk.  Ok I don’t really remember what happened to him in the episode, but I do know that he wasn’t on very long and something happened to his head.  Before Kyle came along Fish was stuck in day player mode over at OLTL.  They would drag him out whenever they needed an extra body to further one story or another pushed through, but other than that he was all back ground material.  And then someone over at OLTL decided to put newcomer Kyle and Fish together and before long they had one of the sweetest most honest couples to ever come across Daytime.  Nopt only did Kish bring OLTL critical acclaim they helped to open lines of communication to our differences and our similarities.  Unfortunately as with any action that forces people to take a step forward in life that same action can cause them to take two steps back.

  I find it ironic that on a show where a convicted rapist can become a sex symbol or having a father try to rape his daughter to further a story line or decides the best way to put a wrench in a romance is to have someone withold treatment for a boy with cancer feels that it is the storyline about a commited gay couple that has viewers tuning out.  It boggles my mind.  I feel for the sake of this article that I must be forthcoming about some personal things about myself.  I am a 32 year old heterosexual female who has no problems seeing a homosexual couple on  the screen.  Just as I see no problem with interracial relationships or interfaith relationships.  In no way do any of these different forms of relationships skew my own personal choices.  They do however help to show why we should all be more understanding and tolerant because they are no different from any one else.  Sometimes I am able to fool myself into believing that society as a whole is pushing past bigotry and prejudice.  That we are moving towards a world that doesn’t judge based on race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference and then something like this happens and I realize all over again that we have such a long way to go.   And it saddens me to no end.  Until we can have equality for all I believe that TPTB will continue to use stories that make even one person nervous as the scapegoat for what is wrong with their show.  Well OLTL I for one am disgusted by your actions and your behavior.  Shame on you.

 As we start the week  Lucky has decided that the best way to protect his wayward brother from the long arm of Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan is to arrest Ethan on an expired Visa charge.  Surprisingly enough Luke, who is against all forms of the law, agrees with Lucky and volunteers to pack Ethan a toothbrush.  It’s ironic how a guy like Luke has no problem with the mob or danger unless of course it involves his kids.  Oh sure he doesn’t mind if they try to pull a con or two as long as it doesn’t outwardly involve guns and shootouts.  But you bring Sonny, Jason, and Johnny and the possibility of a shootout he is all about keeping his kids as far away as possible.  Even as far as jail.  I gotta admit though that I for one had forgotten all about the fact that Ethan isn’t a citizen of these here United States.    Nice little touch of reality writers.  Not that I expect it to last long considering reality is not a soap’s main agenda.  I am sure the Visa angle will last just long enough to move certain aspects of the story along before being swept under the rug never to be heard from again. 

But I digress.  The less Lucky gets all teary-eyed around Elizabeth or talking about Elizabeth or thinking about Elizabeth the more I like him.  Not that I am holding out much hope for too much growth when it comes to this whack job of a couple, but it is nice to see that finally after all this time Lucky realizes that he is in love with the girl he knew at 15 and not the one he knows now.  Of course I knew that ages ago and maybe if they had asked me my opinion we wouldn’t have had to suffer through their tedious lack of love affair.  Unfortunately Elizabeth doesn’t see it.  Her whole grass is greener escapades are getting trite.  How awesome was it when Lucky admitted to Nikolas that he too hope the baby was his?  Please oh please Gh writers let this be the one time where Lucky gets his wish.  He is so much better with out the noose around his neck.  (Ed note and by noose I mean the shrill Liz).  Not only is Lucky getting along with his father he has finally accepted Ethan as his brother.  So much so that he went to Jason and practically begged him to lay off Johnny because this time it involved his family.  Jason may be mister big and bad in PC but let him try to take Ethan out and see how fast Lucky makes his life miserable.  No longer is Lucky a member of the Keystone Cops, now he is a fully functioning member of the PCPD.  A detective who is able to put two and two together without the help of Spinelli and his wonder notebook.  I want more of this Lucky.  This Lucky is drool worthy.

 I never know from one day to the next whether or not I am going to enjoy Luke’s Lebowski ways or if I am going to stare at the screen with gaping mouth and bewilderment in my eyes.  This week was the Lebowski week.  Everything that came out of his mouth was pure enjoyment.  Be it flirting disgustingly with his wife or ogling a girl young enough to his daughter (it’s ok you can say ew, I sure did).  But what surprised me the most was although he had told Sonny he would see what he could do about getting Lulu to talk to Dante on Sonny’s behalf he truly didn’t believe it would do any good and he seemed worried that by doing so he could possibly harm his already percarius relationship with his own daughter.  For all his faults and lack of hands on parenting skills Luke truly does love his children and he only wants them to be happy.  He may not like the fact that one of his son’s is a cop or that his only daughter is dating cop but he is smart enough to know that his means of being happy is not that of his children’s.  So in order to keep the peace or more perhaps more importantly to keep them in his life he stands to the side waiting for the moment when they shall need him.  Of course that’s if he isn’t off on one of his many adventures. (Damn you Geary and your bi-yearly vacations).   

But I think perhaps what I loved the most about Luke this week is his never ending love for Tracy.  Sure it may be argumentative and a bit on the Too Many Horrible Mental Images side but for the most part it is probably the healthiest relationship on the show right now.  I say that because even though they both have flaws they continue to love each other without constantly trying to change each other or make each other feel bad for being themselves.  They accept each other completely and totally.  Wow how is it possible that Tracy & Luke made it to healthiest relationship in Port Charles?  Seriously? Wow.  I just said it and even I find it hard to fathom.  Look at that I blew my own mind, cool.

  Which of course brings us to the newest Spencer, Ethan.  That’s right I called him a Spencer.  In my mind he is Ethan Spencer and not Ethan Lovett.  Yes I know the existence of him goes against the very love that he and Laura shared….yada, yada, yada.  Come on people let’s move on already.  Sometimes I don’t mind a little rewrite of history as long as it means we get Nathan Parsons, because frankly he is awesome.  For awhile there I thought he in danger of going the path of Matt Hunter, but nope TPTB decided to mix him in with the Kristina/Kiefer storyline and suddenly I get Ethan, Ethan, and more Ethan.  Um yeah I will take a little rewrite for that.  Of course if it had been anyone else other than Nathan Parsons playing the role I could be singing a completely different song right now. 

Speaking of Kristina and Ethan, how utterly impossible is it not to feel bad for the both of them.  Even knowing what was coming up with Kiefer I couldn’t help feel bad for Kristina as Ethan at first tried to let her down easy and then was forced to be hurtfully blunt with her.  Here it was for the first time in her life (or so she thinks) a guy is nice to her, genuinely nice and she gets shot down.  Not that I am blaming this on Ethan, not at all, he truly had no other choice.  It wasn’t his fault that a 16 year old troubled girl had latched on to him nor was it his fault that even though he had the best of intentions they back fired (and from what the spoilers say horribly back fired).  I know he was a jerk to Kristina and he grabbed her arm entirely too hard, but I don’t believe it was done in malice or with intent.  Unfortunately for Ethan his charm and good guy heart is about to lead him in to a world of trouble.  My only hope is that at the end of this storyline Kristina emerges a stronger young woman who is able to one day find a good guy like Ethan or maybe a couple years down the road Ethan himself.

Everything I watched became work.  I had somehow managed to lose the one thing I had always enjoyed, writing.  And to be honest that was worse than not enjoying the shows I had always enjoyed.  I had finally found what I wanted to do with my life and amazingly enough I was good at it.  People were reading my postings and not just fans but other writers and critics were reading my postings.  It was more than I ever could have dreamed of.  For the first time in my life I had started to believe that I may have had a future in this.  Oh now I am not naive enough to believe that I could one day get paid to write my musings, but I can always dream right?  And then one day without warning I decided to take a day off.  A day off from everything.  I didnt turn on the television or computer.  I didn’t pick up a magazine or even speak to anyone about what was going on in the world of show.  I didn’t mean to take the day off, but it happened anyways and then it happened again and again and again.  And before I knew it 2 weeks had passed and I hadn’t watched a single episode of any of the shows I had been blogging on.  I hadnt even tweeted.  I had for intent and purposes gone AWOL. 

Now I would like to say that this time was spent skipping along, singing songs, and watching the butterflies.  I would like to say that, but I can’t because I was wracked with guilt over what I wasn’t working on.  Instead of feeling like I was on vacation I would look at my DVR and see all the work I had to do.  The more days I took off the more work piled up and the more work that pile up the more days I took off.  I was stuck in a vicious cycle that I couldn’t get out of.  So I did the only thing I could think of to do.  I hit the delete button.  Yeah that’s right I started to delete everything that I wouldn’t be too upset if I missed it.  I took all my must read books and put them away.  I gave back all the movies that I had in que.  And then I went out.  I went out with my friends and got sloppy drunk mind you.  I went to the fair and almost through up after riding all the rides and no I was not drunk that time.  I went out to lunch.  I even started exercising which of course lasted all of a week.  I hate exercise and believe it should be banned from all existence. 

  Before long I started to feel normal.  I was finally starting to relax.  No longer did GH or anything else feel like work.  But I didn’t want to make the mistake of jumping back in head first so I started out slow and spent a day watching the Lord of the Rings and the next day I had a movie marathon and the next day I watched nothing but cheesy natural disaster flicks.  Because let’s face it somewhere along the way I had lost my geek life and I desperately needed it back.  So I immersed myself in The Last Man and Battle Royale.  I spent hours listening to the Dropkick Murphy’s and the Bouncing Souls and Pennywise and Linkin Park.  I read some sleazy novels and surfed for the latest superhero movies news.  I found myself at a local comic book convention.  It was small but I knew I was surrounded by my people.  And finally after a month I felt ready to re-enter the world of writing.  Which brings me to the point of this little rant, my change.

From now on I will be writing one post a week about GH.  Each week I will watch all five episodes following one story per week and then posting my write up about it.  This doesn’t mean that sometimes I won’t do more than one post a weel, especially if there was something big happening that week storyline or real world wise.  But for the most part it will be one post a week about one storyline.  So if I didn’t write about your favorite storyline or character that week don’t worry they could be coming up the next week.  I hope everyone joins me in this new venture and I hope by streamlining things I will be able to be a better writer.  Thank you for reading and until next time enjoy your stay in Port Charles.

For the next few months we will be spoon fed sappy flashbacks from L & L’s carefree younger years.  Lucky and Nikolas will shoot daggers at each other for the millionth time while they patiently wait for the ever so popular DNA test.  Meanwhile Helena will making threatening, albiet funny, overtures towards Elizabeth and her unborn love child.  Luke will prance around his should be bankrupt casino (not working with the mob my eye) spouting off to whoever will listen how even when he sees his child’s world crumbling in front of him he won’t lift a finger to try and help.  Good one Luke, you must be proud.   After months of this dance we will either A) find out that the baby is Nikolas’s and Liz lies to everyone and say’s it’s Lucky’s so that way she can protect her baby from Helena or B) find out that the baby is Lucky’s and the ride off into the sunset to live happily ever after or at least until the writers need to come up with a new way to tear them a part. 

Or how about the big Sonny/Michael/Dante/Jason and whoever else is involved in this ode to Coppola.  Right now the only thing that is keeping me from hitting the fast forward button is the acting.  Oh it is not because I want to see what is going to happen.  I already know that.  Dante is going to discover that Michael killed Claudia and even though every inch of him is screaming to drop it and let Sonny take the fall he is going to do the right thing and let every one know that Sonny didn’t do it and is for once an innocent man.  Wow I almost choked on that last one.  I also almost choked when Robin walks into Dante’s room to try and convince him to go easy on Sonny.  That was just despicable.

Speaking of Robin, BTW get her around Patrick stat because she iritates the hell out of me with out him, her and her hubbies story bores me to tears.  Do they even have a story?  No really I want to know, because I can’t figure it out.  Is Lisa pyscho or a school buddy? And where the hell is Matt?  He is finally in the opening sequence (which I love by the way) and yet he’s no where to be found.  Maybe he’s invisible. 

I could keep on, but frankly right now it is even boring writing about it.  So on that note I bid everyone good night.

MY FINAL LIST OF THINGS I HATE ABOUT GH

CarJax-I love them I really do but as long as Carly has this insane need to be intimately connected to Jason & Sonny and as long as Jax has this constant need to rid himself and those around him of Sonny they are never going to be happy.  And frankly this whole “I did for my family” & “You knew I was connected to Sonny” is just old and tired and I’m done with it.  I want CarJax back, the CarJax that I love.  But that jsut isnt going to happen so I’m over it.

Spixie-No not Spixie the couple, they work great both comedically and romantically when it is them versus the world.  But GH had to go and ruin it by throwing Franco into the mix.  So now instead of Maximista & The Jackal we have mopey and dopey.  Oh how I wish upon the GH fairies that Spinelli would grow past Stone Cold and get a life of his own, but alas the fairies are not being kind right now.

Scrubs-Robin has the audacity to be pissed at Patrick for keeping a secret from her about Sonny’s kid when she tried to keep Emma a secret from him?  Seriously?  Seriously?  Once again we are back to Robin being up on her high horse while she spits on all the common folks.  This people is why without Patrick I usually can not stand Robin, the sanctimonious windbag.  Sure Patrick is an egotisical s.o.b but at least he can recognize himself for what he is. 

Luke, Tracy, & Ethan-Oh I don’t really dislike anything about them.  I learned to accept Luke a long time ago.  I’m just tired of only seeing them once in a blue moon and I would really like to see Ethan do…well do anything.  That Nathan Parsons really is a gem and it seems tragic to waste him on one-liners.  As far as Tracy goes, well I just love her and want to see as much of her as I possibly can.

Matt Hunter-I know what you are thinking-How can I possibly hate Matt?  I don’t.  How could I he has never done anything on the show that could make me love or hate him.  Which is what I hate about it.  There is no way showing up to work every couple of months is enough to pay Jason Cook’s bills unless ABC signed him to a deal that says ”You will make this much no matter how many eps you are in.”  I say let Jason go and send him back to DOOL where they will at least appreciate him.  Or maybe to OLTL.  They know how to incorporate more than just a few characters at a time.

 Lucky, Liz, & Nicholas-First off let’s say that I am not a Liz fan.  Never have been, never will be.  I think she is self-righteous, two faced, holier than thou, and about a million other describing terms.  That being said I do thing Rebecca Herbst is playing the hell out of the raggedy ass storyline she has found herself in.  Another “Who’s the Daddy” storyline?  Really?  Come on hasn’t this been done before like say 2 years ago when it was…oh wait Liz, Lucky, & Jason?  When the writing on this show is good it’s of frakking fire, but as The Wub Queen put it “this is just lazy writing.”  Wub Queen I could not agree more.  I wanna see Nic go all badass Cassadine on everyone.  Stop wallowing and belly aching and start doing something.  Anything please?  How is it possible that Emily has been dead for over 2 years now and she is still irritating the hell out of me.  The only thing I am liking about Lucky right now is Jonathan Jackson.  And no I do not care if any of you disagree with me on this.  He can be red eyed and scruffy face all he wants because when that guy is in a scene he takes it from whoever is with him. 

JaSam, wait no scratch that, just Jason-Oh no I kill people and some freak name Franco thinks I’m awesome so now killing is bad.  Oh no my business has caused me to hurt people and I can’t believe I am teaching Michael & Morgan to be like me.  Oh no woe is me woe is me.  (Please read what was written before in a mocking tone) Shut up Jason!  No one is buying it any more.  Either you are a killer or your not.  But whichever you are Shut The Hell Up About It!!!!  No one cares.  Especially not me.  Own who you are man.

Olivia-25 years ago (that’s the age I am guessing Dante is playing considering Lulu was in college not to long ago)(damn you can make detective fast in the NYPD) when they were the tender age of 16  & 15 respectively Sonny & Olivia slept together (apparently condoms hadn’t become all the rage yet) and made Dante.  Cut to the present and you have Olivia protecting Sonny after he tried to kill her son.  I’m sorry but regardless of the fact that Sonny didn’t know that Dante was his kid he still choose to shoot a cop and no the law doesn’t care about the distinction and if someone had just shot my kid I dont give a frak who they are I would try to kill them myself.  But not our Olivia.  No our Olivia who apparently never got over her 15 year old roll in the hay (this is what slays me.  if there is a female writer on staff at GH you just know she is rolling on the floor laughing at the absurdity that a 40 year old woman would still think the guy she slept with when she was 15 was so amazing in bed that she still carried a torch for him all those years past).  I swear the comedy on this show kills me sometimes.  So yeah right now I am hating Olivia. 

So that’s it.  My last I hate GH post.  I got it all out of my system and now it is time to move on.  If you wondering why I didn’t say anything bad about Sonny, well it would be because my past few post were pretty much all about my dislike for Sonny and I didn’t think I would be able to add anything without repeating myself so I left him off the list.  Oh there are more things I don’t like about the show but these were the major things that bugged me.  And now hopefully I can begin Monday fresh and new and ready to go back to loving what is in my opinion the best daytime show on the air and frankly one of the best shows period. Have you seen the crap they put on primetime lately?  Sheesh it’s ugly out there.

Instead of paying attention to the unfolding story I am thinking about how instead of facing the fact that regardless of the circumstances Sonny was the one who pulled the trigger.  He and his friends can say all they want that if Olivia hadn’t lied than Sonny wouldn’t have tried to kill him.  But does that arguement really hold water?  Can they honestly say that this was the first time a cop had tried to arrest him?  Of course not.  There was no absolute reason for Sonny shooting him other than the fact that he was pissed someone actually got the better of him.  What if it had been Mac or Lucky that Sonny had shot?  What would the arguement be then?  What excuse would they have been able to come up with that would make it all ok?  If someone can anwer me that than I will take back everything bad I have ever said about Sonny.

We all know that Sonny isn’t a good guy and that is ok.  On soaps the good guy is often the boring guy.  The guy people walk over to get to the bad boy.  But shouldn’t there be a point where the writers, viewers, and everyone involved say “hey that is far enough”? or are we expected to believe that the Luke’s, Sonny’s, and even the Todd’s (yes an OLTL ref) deserve our forgiveness over and over and over again?  As I mull this over and over in my mind I am shocked to discover that not only to these guys disgust me as a human being but I disgust me for ever liking them in the first place.  How sick is that?  It’s not the writer’s fault or even Guza’s (although I would love to blame him).  It’s viewers like me that were so willing to look past their sins because a part of me wanted to like them.