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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 95750" data-attributes="member: 27">Yes to this, plus there was a period of time when the then-Head Writer was totally infatuated with his Sonny/Carly/Jason stories, writing Sonny as the &quot;mobster with a moral code&quot; (*vomit*) who safeguarded Port Charles from the &quot;even worse mobsters&quot; out to &quot;take over his territory&quot;.&nbsp; The show utterly revolved around Sonny and his life.&nbsp; To this day they refuse to say just what Sonny&#039;s &quot;organization&quot; does.&nbsp; They claim he does not allow drugs in &quot;his territory,&quot; but other than drugs, what else is there?&nbsp; Prostitution? Gun-running?&nbsp; They purposely avoid saying, because they don&#039;t want the actual crimes to stick to him.&nbsp; A fan theory a while back was that he dealt in counterfeit merchandise, so his detractors online referred his organization as the &quot;Gummy Bear Mob&quot;.In order for this to happen, all the police and feds were depicted as either utterly incompetent--so they were unable to make any charges stick to Sonny and his ilk--or were written as corrupt and needing to be run out of town (or simply murdered) since they were &quot;the bad guys&quot; of the piece.&nbsp; The absolute height of his disgusting reign (and the continuing emblem of the &quot;up is down/bad is good&quot; writing style) was Sonny&#039;s shooting of an undercover cop out to expose him.&nbsp; When Sonny figured out the guy was undercover, he coldly shot the man point-blank in the chest.&nbsp; The twist?&nbsp; The young cop turned out to be Dante Falconeri, Sonny&#039;s illegitimate son with ex-girlfriend Olivia.&nbsp; After a period of time, Dante and Olivia not only forgave Sonny, they are often two of his cheerleaders (though Dante has his moments of conflict).&nbsp; They framed the whole episode as &quot;Dante deserved what happened to him, since he was trying to put his own father in jail,&quot; inferring that he wanted to bring Sonny down only because Sonny had knocked up Olivia and left her, and not because he was a mobster who killed people.&nbsp;Worse still, the HW would write Jason as everyone&#039;s hero, saving them from various jeopardies all while being &quot;forced by circumstances&quot; to kill people, all while maintaining his stoic, tragic, heartbroken persona.&nbsp; The running joke nickname for him was &quot;St. Jaysus the Holy Hitman&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 95750, member: 27"] Yes to this, plus there was a period of time when the then-Head Writer was totally infatuated with his Sonny/Carly/Jason stories, writing Sonny as the "mobster with a moral code" (*vomit*) who safeguarded Port Charles from the "even worse mobsters" out to "take over his territory". The show utterly revolved around Sonny and his life. To this day they refuse to say just what Sonny's "organization" does. They claim he does not allow drugs in "his territory," but other than drugs, what else is there? Prostitution? Gun-running? They purposely avoid saying, because they don't want the actual crimes to stick to him. A fan theory a while back was that he dealt in counterfeit merchandise, so his detractors online referred his organization as the "Gummy Bear Mob". In order for this to happen, all the police and feds were depicted as either utterly incompetent--so they were unable to make any charges stick to Sonny and his ilk--or were written as corrupt and needing to be run out of town (or simply murdered) since they were "the bad guys" of the piece. The absolute height of his disgusting reign (and the continuing emblem of the "up is down/bad is good" writing style) was Sonny's shooting of an undercover cop out to expose him. When Sonny figured out the guy was undercover, he coldly shot the man point-blank in the chest. The twist? The young cop turned out to be Dante Falconeri, Sonny's illegitimate son with ex-girlfriend Olivia. After a period of time, Dante and Olivia not only forgave Sonny, they are often two of his cheerleaders (though Dante has his moments of conflict). They framed the whole episode as "Dante deserved what happened to him, since he was trying to put his own father in jail," inferring that he wanted to bring Sonny down only because Sonny had knocked up Olivia and left her, and not because he was a mobster who killed people. Worse still, the HW would write Jason as everyone's hero, saving them from various jeopardies all while being "forced by circumstances" to kill people, all while maintaining his stoic, tragic, heartbroken persona. The running joke nickname for him was "St. Jaysus the Holy Hitman". [/QUOTE]

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