Yet again.

Let’s just get this out of the way.  Shut up, Sonny.  Even though you weren’t on the show today, enough people talked about you that you might as well have been on the show.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.

Let me spell it out so everyone in Port Charles can understand.  Dante = Awesome.  Sonny = Not awesome.  Therefore, Dante is not Sonny, because Dante is awesome while Sonny is decidedly not awesome.  Now, can we leave the poor guy alone?  Or at least allow him to have some sort of lock installed on his hospital door?

I’m surprised that the powers that be actually put Matt Hunter/Jason Cook in the new opening credits.  That’s like acknowledging that he actually exists.  Now every time the new credits run, people are going to be confused.  “Who is that guy?  Oh, THAT’S right.  He’s the guy who shows up in the hospital once every three or four weeks, says two or three words, and is never seen again.”  And I actually like Jason Cook (old school Shawn and Belle!).  Why they actually keep him on General Hospital when they hardly ever use him is beyond me.  Shawn Brady should go back to Salem, as he used to actually really like Carly Manning.  Plus, his sister Ciara is like a creepy zombie.  Someone in the Brady family should look into that.

Oh, and Dante and Lulu?  Still adorable.

Snerk.

Sonny:	"How did you finally connect with Ethan?"
Luke:	"Well, I didn’t shoot him in the chest, for one thing."

Once more, with feeling.

Oh dear. Carly Manning on Days of Our Lives just exclaimed, “I SHOT MY OWN DAUGHTER.”  Fortunately, unlike Sonny Corinthos, Carly actually has feelings and isn’t a mobster, so she isn’t likely to try to place blame on this on other people.  (I’m looking at you, Sonny, telling Olivia that if she’d only told him about Dante years ago, their lives would all be different.  Sonny might not be the mobster he is today.  Barf.)  Unfortunately for Carly, unlike Sonny, half of Salem hates her for no reason, so she’s likely to be looked down upon for what she’s done, while Sonny gets off scot free.  As always.  Sigh.

Cue the tiny violins.

So, hey, did you guys know that Sonny shot his own son?  Only he didn’t know Dante was his son.  He thought Dante was an undercover cop who had infiltrated the organization in order to take him down, so shooting him was okay.  Until he found out Dante was his own son.  But Sonny cares about his kids, see?  And he was a poor, abused kid, so that makes it okay that he’s in the mob and is responsible for killing other people, because he just wants to give his kids a good life, and if he’d known Dante was his kid, too, maybe he wouldn’t have shot him.  He didn’t know.  It’s not his fault.  Dante should forgive him and want to be his right-hand man now.  It’s not his fault that he shot his own son.

ARGH.  STOP.

Attn: Elizabeth Webber

I think there’s a bed at Shadybrook with your name on it.

Note to self.

If I ever find myself in need of urgent medical care, I hope I never have to receive that medical care at General Hospital in Port Charles, where apparently the ICU lacks employees and is a common area where people are free to come and go as they please, including known mobster hitmen who, the last time they were in the hospital, threatened a patient with a gun.

I was thisclose to flinging something at my TV today when the usually awesome Dante lied and said that he shot himself.  (I’m kind of surprised that when he said it, Sonny didn’t barge in and say, “I SHOT MY OWN SON, BUT I DIDN’T KNOW, SEE.  I DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS MY SON.”  That’s all he can say anymore, right?)  But then, Morgan, who is awesome, had to go and visit Dante, and they had to have a really awesome scene together, so all was forgiven, and my TV was spared having something thrown at it.

If I’m Morgan, I’m doing whatever I can to get away from both my mother and my father and making it so that my new big brother, Dante, raises me.

Oh, and Lulu?  Still awesome.  I don’t know when it happened, but I’m really liking this truth-telling Lulu.  “It must be a gift to hypnotize the people you hurt the most to cover your ass.”  YES.  Way, way better than Olivia, who seems to think that Sonny will pay because he’ll be overcome by his guilt.  Yeah, Olivia, that’s a way better punishment than going to prison.  Sure.  Okay.  You just keep thinking that.

Vivian was definitely trying to bring the 80’s back with her shoulder pads this week.

I can’t watch Sonny on General Hospital without thinking of this image now.  And laughing, of course.

I love how Sonny keeps mentioning that, yeah, he shot Dante, but in his defense, he didn’t know that Dante was his son.  As if that makes it any better.  So it’s okay if you shoot a cop (or anyone for that matter) if it’s not your son?  I can just see Sonny on trial now.  “Well, you see, your honor, I didn’t know he was my son.  I should have known he was my son.  He has my good qualities.  But I didn’t know he was my son, so I shot him.  I shot my own son, but it’s okay, see, because I want to be there for my kids.  I want to make this right.  I didn’t know he was my own son.  Also, I don’t know where the towels are in my own house.”

/facepalm

(Image courtesy of Television Without Pity)

Soapy Goodness

I’ve been watching soaps, namely Days of Our Lives, since my junior year of high school, which was, well, awhile ago.  Over the years, I’ve watched Days pretty regularly, but on occasion, depending on my schedule and how bored I was, sometimes I’d watch other soaps as well.  I watched Sunset Beach most of the time it was on.  I watched a bit of Port Charles.  I’ve watched All My Children on and off.  (Ryan and Erica together really grosses me out.)  I’ve also watched General Hospital on and off, depending on whether the storylines were sucking me in or not.  (Too much mob stuff = not so exciting.)

Lately I’ve been really enjoying Days of Our Lives.  I love the soapy deliciousness that is having Melanie be Carly’s long lost daughter, especially with Melanie marrying Philip who is Victor’s son who lives with Vivian aka Carly’s nemesis.  So Days right now?  Pretty awesome.

But you know what’s been even more awesome?  General Hospital.  Namely because of Dominic/Dante and Lulu.  I’m not really one to go nuts over a soap opera couple, but Dante and Lulu?  Awesome.  Seriously.  I love that their relationship has progressed slowly (by soap standards) and that they’ve proclaimed their love for each other without jumping into bed first.  I’ve watched enough GH to know that Lulu’s love interests have kind of lacked a spark, but with Dante?  Awesome.

Also awesome?  Kristina and Morgan calling Sonny out on his evil doings.  Such a refreshing change of pace from people just sweeping Sonny’s evil doings under the rug, even though I know he’ll inevitably get away with shooting Dante.  YOU SHOT YOUR SON, SONNY.  /cue blank look on Sonny’s face

Yeah, I kind of look forward to watching General Hospital every day now.  I am not ashamed.  It is awesome.