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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 437825" data-attributes="member: 27">General Hospital also has had this issue with its Sonny Corinthos character for decades.&nbsp; He&#039;s described as running &quot;the largest criminal enterprise on the [US] East Coast,&quot; but they use clever writing tricks to keep the viewer from knowing just what illegal activities he is involved in.&nbsp; They stress that he is not involved in prostitution/human trafficking, protection scams/racketeering, or the drug trade.&nbsp; It leads the fans to make joke-y suggestions like he imports counterfeit designer handbags or cut-rate gummi bears from overseas.Why not just spell it out, like your Eldorado example?&nbsp; Because GH has always wanted to have its cake and eat it too.&nbsp; Sonny was brought on as the town gangster and has always been surrounded by gunfire, crime, and chaos.....but they also chose to make him a sort of &quot;heroic mobster&quot; who kept other, more lethal criminals out of their town and protected everyone in his orbit from them (usually).&nbsp; He is also depicted as a &quot;family man&quot; who has &quot;a code&quot; (of what he will or won&#039;t do to his enemies).&nbsp; In short, the show can&#039;t say &quot;Sonny kills innocent people (including cops) who get the way of his moneymaking enterprises&quot; because it would mean admitting that he is an evil character and not worthy of the adulation they give him via sympathetic writing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 437825, member: 27"] [I]General Hospital [/I]also has had this issue with its [I]Sonny Corinthos[/I] character for decades. He's described as running "the largest criminal enterprise on the [US] East Coast," but they use clever writing tricks to keep the viewer from knowing just what illegal activities he is involved in. They stress that he is not involved in prostitution/human trafficking, protection scams/racketeering, or the drug trade. It leads the fans to make joke-y suggestions like he imports counterfeit designer handbags or cut-rate gummi bears from overseas. Why not just spell it out, like your[I] Eldorado[/I] example? Because GH has always wanted to have its cake and eat it too. Sonny was brought on as the town gangster and has always been surrounded by gunfire, crime, and chaos.....but they also chose to make him a sort of "heroic mobster" who kept other, more lethal criminals out of their town and protected everyone in his orbit from them (usually). He is also depicted as a "family man" who has "a code" (of what he will or won't do to his enemies). In short, the show can't say "Sonny kills innocent people (including cops) who get the way of his moneymaking enterprises" because it would mean admitting that he is an evil character and not worthy of the adulation they give him via sympathetic writing. [/QUOTE]

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