Well that was short lived. Even by GH standards.
I had one near historic day of finding three positive things that I could not bitch about in one episode, something that hasn’t happened since a certain fairytail wedding in 2005 mnd you. (Although I’m sure GH thinks we are all now convinced we hallucinated that) And then today happened. It’s like the GH gods knew I might turn the corner to like some things and went oh no you don’t. Because today’s show made me beleive Guza is out to kill me via rage-induced airway constriction. Or he really wants me to have upgrade my TV and is therefore committed to causing me to break mine via thrown chair. It’s one or other.
You know I understand…well not really but I try to sometimes follow the Bob logic…that Jason, even though he is an unrepentant hitman who makes his living killing people and placing everything and everyone he allegedly loves, is the hero of the show. And therefore his actions are generally justifiable and well since this is Guza, completely right and moral. St. Jaysus of the Holy Silencer is never wrong. Except……..
Today while he broke into Dante’s apartment (Dante’s a cop by the way) to look for Michael (cause Dante follows the Sonny moron code of hiding someone in the most obvious place in the world?) he heard a noise and drew his gun. Now assuming he thought it was Dante coming home….he was drawing his gun on a cop. As it was, he drew his gun on a…wait for it cause it is so genius….FEDERAL PROSECUTOR. Yes Claire is clearly going to lose this case beacuse of course no one wins against Diane’s brilliant legal reasoning of “the prosecutor is a meanie and the victim was an even bigger meanie and they are all jealous of how awesome my client is” but still she is still a sworn upholder of the law. And she did nothing to Jason. Claire even figured out Jason was probably going to kill Dante, granted not hard since that is like 95% of Jason’s dialogue these days but she did nothing. Didn’t even threaten him with arrest. You know I can suspend disbelief with the best of them…but it’s hard as hell to think Claire is going to put Sonny in jail when she can’t even take a golden opportunity to arrest and prosecute Jason on attempted murder! (Hell if the standard defense strategy is to say all charges are trumped up on this show….lets really make it happen!)
If only that was the only thing that made me scream. Oh if only.
I have made no secret of the fact I can not stand Spinelli. He’s annoying. His speaking habits are no longer funny and are seriously cause for a riot. Spixie is one of the single most irritating couples ever foisted on the viewing masses. And yet I do realize I’m supposed to root for and sympathize with Spinelli. Find him funny. Find his friendship with/slavish affection for Jason adorable and not completely disturbing. So why, dear readers, why the hell if they want me to like this character so badly, do they do things like have him pontificate that even though he knew by giving Sonny/Jason information about Dante was setting up a murder and even though he knew Lulu cared for Dante and was worried….that he had no regrets about passing on the information. That’s right folks….today GH preached that setting up a murder attempt was no big, even if a good friend of yours is going to be crushed. Ladies and gentlemen…..your up and coming hero!
If only this facial expression meant Maxie realized she had made a horrible choice in befriending these goobers and she needed to run to Mac and beg his forgiveness for his righteous Spinelli hate. But I know….I know…I am not that lucky at all.
Look everyone…it’s Luke starting to figure out the world’s most obvious paternity switch!
Look…three seconds later Luke is completely distracted and will forget about this until, well at least May sweeps starts.
Although…hey Skye! How you doin? Now can you explain where in the hell your daughter is please????????
I’m not even going to bother talking about Carly and Jax’s umpteenth fight about how everything bad in Sonny’ s life is Jax’s fault or Olivia and Carly’s snipefest at each other today. Mainly cause Carly and Jax will have the exact same argument next week. (Oh did I need to put spoiler alert there?) and quite frankly my ears are still bleeding from all the screeching. I am also not going to bother discussing the jury deliberations becuase jury deliberations are boring as hell and I still can’t understand why these writers think “comedic” and “nail-biting suspense” are the same thing. Or why they continue to think I’ll ever be worried about Sonny or Jason actually being convicted of crimes. As if!
Dear Lulu,
Iif you could find time in your busy schedule of hating Sonny and being cute with Dante to actually remember the fact you are in fact a Spencer, it would be great. You see a Spencer wouldn’t have trusted Michael, Carly’s son mind you, to stay put at all. A Spencer would have also realized Maxie has one of the worst track records in the world when it comes to keeping quiet with things that affect Jason and Spinelli. (Well at least in regards to not telling them. Now you were perfectly right to be confident she wouldnt’ call Mac) Did you perhaps take the same idiot pills Helena slipped the rest of your family to make her latest “plan” work? Just wondering.
Love,
Me
Now it’s been a week and I feel I must weight in on the hot topic of the moment. NuMichael. Yes the timing of the recast was jarring and I too had to remind myself that it actually was Michael confessing to Dante and not Spinelli’s here-to-unknown brother. (Oh like you didn’t notice the resemblance!) And I still don’t understand why they fired Drew Garret so rapidly. But Chad Duell has won me over. And for one simple fact.
He’s a freaking giant! He has to be pushing six feet right? I recognized the shoulder-haunch-to-hide-the-fact-I’m-taller-than-everyone pose from Jason Thompson’s scenes with Scott Reeves!
He’s so much taller than Dante you can tell it when they are sitting! I am actually salivating in glee for Sonny/Michael scenes. Because they will be hysterical for the either A – the way obvious height difference or B- the way obvious ways this inept show will try to hide it. It’s going to be epic and give us all hours of fun and hillarious screencaps to treasure forever! So for that admittedly shallow, Sonny-hating reason….I’m digging this recast!
Photos courtsey of Lisa W’s Soap Heaven
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