General Hospital - MESSAGE BOARDS

His character talks about "getting rid of so-and so" so casually. We know he plays a mobster, and I doubt there is a following of teenage boys watching GH BUT I notice in the past few years its getting worse. I think Sonny and Jason's characters should be downplayed as far as taking human lives. It bothers me - the casualness of it. We see Sonny as a human being with feelings, loving his kids (or at least saying he does) and showing compassion to Carly in the hospital but then the other side of him wanting people killed as if he were just killing a roach. How can the writers ever mellow him out and make him a normal guy after having people murdered? The same goes for Jason. In the old days this wasn't shown on GH, not in Dr. Hardy's days. Any opinions?

I think that the writers are never going to get away from the mob. They seem to have settled into it permanently, much like the hospital is a permanent part of the show.

Sonny & Jason as the "nice"?! mobsters has worn thin. Sonny's continued sleeze bag ways with women has grown old as well. If they want to make Sonny bearable then they need to have the guy settle down for awhile with one woman and no more children.

Though I feel rather hypocritical because I am liking Dante.

I think they just messing Sonny character up.I'm a big Sonny fan now they messed up when they pair him up with Claudia because the person he needs to be with is Carly. It seem like when he with Carly even though he was a mobster but he wasn't that bad. Carly kept Sonny focus and Mellow, Sonny used to laugh about every little thing.I'am asking put Sonny and Carly back together and change his character a little just down play the mob role a little.

I was really annoyed when Sonny was ready to knock off Johnny, who has been loyal to him. Johnny has suffered at the hands of his father and sister and should not be punished for their deeds.

The fact that he might have killed Mr. Politi, who according to Dante was an upright citizen, does not bode well either.

Dante and Sonny will always have Mr. Politi inbetween them so I think it will eventually come to light that Sonny was not responsible for his death.

If it comes out that Claudia ordered the hit that got Michael shot and Sonny kills her, he won't be redeemable either. His kids will see his ruthlessness in using Claudia to gain power over the Z family then killing her for a mistake. He is the one who started the war between him and Claudia and should have been prepared for retaliation. Now, he expects Claudia to just get over the fact that Kristina ran her off the road, caused her to lose her baby, and got no punishment for it.
It should work both ways, Claudia should be forgiven. After all any of the mobsters in town could have hired a hitman who missed their mark and had the bullet end up in the wrong person.

I see Sonny as a fallen angel. In Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan says, "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Better to be a mobster than fix cars in Bensonherst. Olivia, who knew him as a child as well as later, said to him at the Carnival, "You have beautiful manners and a beautiful soul. It's what's in between that's messed up." She had foreseen his fall (although not her own, but that's another story) and so kept their child away from him. The further into hell one goes the more demonic one becomes, and this is happening to Sonny.

I love redemption stories, and I can see that the character is redeemable. His finest characteristic is his love for his children. They could provide him the vision to see a better way through helping them.

He could then become a sort of pater familias to them and the other characters, using what he knows of corruption to eliminate it, retired from the mob, at peace and happy. I've only seen him happy once--at the Carvival--but he is irresistible then. Maurice is a wonderful actor, and he could make us believe the redemption.

Then Sonny would be strong enough to have an adult, real, equal relationship with a woman. That would be fun to watch!

All characters are redeemable to a point, Luke, Edward Q, for example, for all the bad they have done over the years we still love them, it all comes down to the writers and if they want to redeem the character or send them into oblivion. I think if they played Sonny's behavior over the past few years as a total meltdown from his depression. A slow downslide leading to a major mental breakdown. then spend some time in counseling after a stint in a mental facility, some serious soul searching, its workable but will the writers make Sonny likable again? I guess we'll have to wait and see

Clavis...Good post....I agree that the mob is part of Sonny...when the show brought Sonny on, I think they were a bit of unsure if he would take...and yet when he did they had to write the character to me multi layered...So they gave Sonny depth...and by doing so they also made him a rootable character to many!!

As for Sonny being redeemed again, not sure he needs to be redeemed....Granted I was NOT a fan of Sonny digging into Spinelli almost a year ago and I would have liked to see that addressed...Sonny we know is a hot head...That is just part of the characters make up...For me it is more pronounced when Jason and Sonny aren't together...Just like Jason is a bit bland...So if some think that Sonny needs to be redeemed for putting out hits on rivalies, I am not sure I agree with Sonny getting redemption!!

Okay, I was off during the whole "Reese" arc, so I have no idea who this chic is, but the Sonny's monologue is exactly the reason I love the character and the ONE WAY he can be redeemed. You understand who he is in this moment. This is the Sonny who will be devastated by the Dante reveal and this is the Sonny who might try reaching out to Dante to try and connect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZddNN-h5iU

I think Dante is the only way Sonny can be redeemed, even though Dante hates everything he stands for. Don't get me wrong, I still think they will be battling each other, and Dante will be trying to get Sonny, but I think that one part of Sonny would consider it poetic justice if his son "caught" him. I think they already have a connection, and that Sonny and Dante will have a reluctant affection and bond for each other. (I think they already do - I forget sometimes how good MB can be, because he's already doing little hints ie-putting a hand on Dante's shoulder, looking around to Dante everytime he comes in the room, reluctantly laughing at him, etc.) Even when he yells at Dominic, it tends to be less threatening and more of "telling off". And I think DZ responds well, too. DZ tends to give Sonny that wide-eyed look most kids give their Dads when they're in trouble.

I really can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this storyline.