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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 319470" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>Let's face it: as long as the character of Sonny Corinthos is on the canvas, no one (onscreen, at least) can dwell on the misdeeds of any other character for long or become overly self-righteous about anyone else's behavior. How can anyone in town moralize about the actions of anyone else while three-fourths of PC treats the resident mobster as some kind of wise patriarch? A Goodyear blimp could be seen sailing across the skyline of Port Charles with the word HYPOCRITES! flashing in neon lettering.</p><p></p><p> For far too long, the show propped up the Sonny character and glossed over the crimes he committed. They made law enforcement out to be the "party poopers" who were minor irritants in the lives of the heroic mobster and his messianic hitman. If we were to re-visit Ava's shooting of Connie, Nikolas's shooting of Hayden, Liesl's numerous crimes against the Scorpios, and the like in an effort to "cancel" Ava, Liesl, and/or Nik, then it would be totally fair for viewers to demand similar treatment of their "dimpled don". No one in PC seems to mind he's responsible for innumerable crimes, so overlooking one bad guy while dragging another one through the mud would make them all look like...well, see the blimp? At the moment that blimp ought to remain in a holding pattern over Michael and his latest girlfriend Willow. Every time Michael goes on a rant about Nina trying to destroy the Corinthos marriage by sleeping with Sonny, I want to remind the little twerp and his sanctimonious girlfriend that they slept together (during Wiley's birthday party!) while Willow was Mrs. Harrison Chase, and Michael also slept with Kiki Jerome when she was Mrs. Morgan Corinthos. (The blimp ought to just crash onto Carly, since I'd need days to delineate her hypocritical behavior over the years) </p><p></p><p>But hey, there is no way ABC would allow the producers to write a "take-down" of their favorite <em>mobster with a heart of gold </em>(and gun of stainless steel), to finally have him answer for the decades of mayhem he's been in the center of, even if he was not always the one starting the mayhem. They might be forced to admit that turning a mobster/killer into the hero figure of the show was a mistake. So they leave him in a strange place where most every character kisses his butt and waxes nostalgic about what a great father he is, and how he has such a strong moral code, even as the words do not match the actions.</p><p></p><p>ABC has tacitly upheld this whole "Sonny's gang=heroes, police=bad guys" theme for over twenty years, even as Frank Valentini sought to move on from that theme when he started at GH in 2012. I want to believe this latest story concerning Sonny being forced to look at his past life through new eyes (since he thought he was someone else) was another baby step toward turning that page, but now it's bogged down in a traditional infidelity story arc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 319470, member: 27"] Let's face it: as long as the character of Sonny Corinthos is on the canvas, no one (onscreen, at least) can dwell on the misdeeds of any other character for long or become overly self-righteous about anyone else's behavior. How can anyone in town moralize about the actions of anyone else while three-fourths of PC treats the resident mobster as some kind of wise patriarch? A Goodyear blimp could be seen sailing across the skyline of Port Charles with the word HYPOCRITES! flashing in neon lettering. For far too long, the show propped up the Sonny character and glossed over the crimes he committed. They made law enforcement out to be the "party poopers" who were minor irritants in the lives of the heroic mobster and his messianic hitman. If we were to re-visit Ava's shooting of Connie, Nikolas's shooting of Hayden, Liesl's numerous crimes against the Scorpios, and the like in an effort to "cancel" Ava, Liesl, and/or Nik, then it would be totally fair for viewers to demand similar treatment of their "dimpled don". No one in PC seems to mind he's responsible for innumerable crimes, so overlooking one bad guy while dragging another one through the mud would make them all look like...well, see the blimp? At the moment that blimp ought to remain in a holding pattern over Michael and his latest girlfriend Willow. Every time Michael goes on a rant about Nina trying to destroy the Corinthos marriage by sleeping with Sonny, I want to remind the little twerp and his sanctimonious girlfriend that they slept together (during Wiley's birthday party!) while Willow was Mrs. Harrison Chase, and Michael also slept with Kiki Jerome when she was Mrs. Morgan Corinthos. (The blimp ought to just crash onto Carly, since I'd need days to delineate her hypocritical behavior over the years) But hey, there is no way ABC would allow the producers to write a "take-down" of their favorite [I]mobster with a heart of gold [/I](and gun of stainless steel), to finally have him answer for the decades of mayhem he's been in the center of, even if he was not always the one starting the mayhem. They might be forced to admit that turning a mobster/killer into the hero figure of the show was a mistake. So they leave him in a strange place where most every character kisses his butt and waxes nostalgic about what a great father he is, and how he has such a strong moral code, even as the words do not match the actions. ABC has tacitly upheld this whole "Sonny's gang=heroes, police=bad guys" theme for over twenty years, even as Frank Valentini sought to move on from that theme when he started at GH in 2012. I want to believe this latest story concerning Sonny being forced to look at his past life through new eyes (since he thought he was someone else) was another baby step toward turning that page, but now it's bogged down in a traditional infidelity story arc. [/QUOTE]
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