Ok, the idiots in charge have finally done it!! They have found a new and
vomitous way to make me concede my point, previously made, that the end of
Sonny and Carly was a good thing. It has taken a long time, we have seen
many failed or teased reconciliations, several mob hits, a tatooed brain
tumor-addled maniac, a brief wedding/divorce to Alkazar and one trip to a
psych ward (plus, 2 new actresses in the role, to boot--let's hope that
Laura Wright is a keeper), but, my white flag is up..I give--Uncle. The
Sonny and Carly juggernaut, as overused and repetitious as it can be, is a
better alternative to the storyline direction that GH is taking right now.

Sonny and Emily is just plain gross. If this story were told more from
Sonny's point of view and told as a midlife crisis tale where Emily just got
sucked in somehow, it would be a lot easier to see being able to watch a
scene with them in the foreseeable future. And, it would allow the idiot
writers to continue placing Emily in the damsel in distress role that they
like so much. ( She may as well put on the tall, pointy hat with the long
scarf and sit in her tall ivory tower. Woe is Emily...Woe is Emily... ) That
would be timely, given Mo's age relative to Emily's age, and really give the
show an edge. ( I am thinking it would really be the Most soaps would not
be so daring as to take their leading man and showcase him in a story where
he questioned his own machismo (how 70's is that word-machismo?). But, I
think that Mo could pull it off...I think he could take the story and really
run with it, hitting the high and low points of male menopause. Given that
such a large population of soap viewers are in an age range that could
really relate to this phenomenon, I think it would set GH apart from other
shows. Plus, it would not make viewers cringe at the sight of Emily on the
screen after the storyline tanks. More than that, this storyline would not
completely obliterate the friendship between Jason and Sonny, as the current
one threatens to do. It would be innovative storytelling to make it about
Sonny's aging in that most of our society likes to pretend that aging ceases
after 21. It would be different, interesting, engaging and most
refreshingly REAL to do a male menopause story. Consider how engaging, at
first, we found a mob boss seeing a psychiatrist in the Sopranos...we are
over it now but initially, it was an interesting twist that became a huge
storyline plot point and spurned several secondary stories. This could do
the same for GH but this time let's talk about all the not so entertaining
aspects of a male midlife crisis. Let's not gloss over it or dumb it down
to a convertible sportscar and young girl...let's showcase the mood swings,
the off and off affection, the confusion, the feelings that there is more
behind in his life than ahead of him and the resulting depression...let's
feel the alienation that Carly, Jason, the kids and everyone would feel if
this really were true. This could be so beautiful, in many ways, if GH
would just allow it. Once aware of his changes, Sonny could have
uncomfortable conversations with Carly about his feelings and what he is
going thru...we could see her struggle to love a man that would put her
through all this. We could see Emily's struggle over whether or not she was
a for real girlfriend or just his midlife crisis girlfriend and her decision
if that risk was worth the pain and possible losses in her life.

This story just runs so high on the Ick Factor that little meter is going to
spin off its axis. If the show had not SORASED Emily due to Amber's
departure, this character would be 20? 22?. Sonny has got to be pushing
midlife crisis 40 city. If you had a daughter Emily's presumed age that
considered dating a man as old as Sonny, wouldn't you have a semi-melt down?
I would...I should not be able to compare high school stories with any
suitor with my child!!! For that matter, Robin is older than Emily and I
consider her too young for Sonny...this whole story has got to go or be
turned around to serve a larger, more important purpose.