General Hospital - MESSAGE BOARDS

): He just can't seem to win these days... He gets hell from people for not shooting Claudia, in a room full of people; but he received it for pulling out a gun, at the carnival... Oh well, he is still just as fine as ever in my eyes(:

I bet today will be a great episode, to bad i am in school... ://




This thread was not meant to start an argument or anything,!!

Well, gh2012, I must say I have absolutely no sympathy for Jason and would love to see him get his comeuppance.

But I have a feeling as well that today's episode will be a good one...

It's interesting how different everyone can view a character. When I see Jason, I see the same guy I've always seen. He's loyal and he protects the people he loves, nothing has changed IMO.

The Jason I know and love never would have taken a shot at a person holding his PREGNANT best friend (with a gun to her belly no less) in a room FULL of INNOCENT people.





It's just a soap.

Well, I don't buy the OOC argument or any of that either. Jason is a product of the writer's imagination and they can write him any way they want.

The fact that he's flip-flopped from one woman to another or is still chasing Sonny's kids around while denying his own is all just part of driving the stories, IMHO.

I still have no sympathy for him, though.

As far as I can tell, Jason has been one of the more consistently-written characters on the show. For better or worse, he seems pretty much exactly the same to me now as he has in any given previous year.

I think Sonny should have killed Claudia, himself, take her back to Puerto Rico, and do the deed, time for him to clean up behind himself, he marry her.

The Jason that we see now on our screens is the REAL Jason and he has been since day one. I'm glad we got that cleared up!

I completely agree! Jason can't win. If I hear another out of character argument i will scream!! lol Writers shape characters the way they want them to be. When they do something that fans agree with then they are in character. However, when they do something that upset us then they are out of character. I would argue that soap characters are like humans. They have a central identity, but they make mistakes and they change. If character stayed the same over the years, that character would become boring. Carly has changed and most agree that she has matured. If she was the same person that she was with Sonny or SB's Carly, then she would drive a lot of people crazy. Recently on the boards, I have heard how much more we like Carly now that she is mature and away from Sonny. It's okay for Carly to change or develop, but not Jason? The "out of character" actions of various characters make them interesting. It shocks, upsets and makes us cheer for them. No one likes when people put Liz in a box. She has many sides and she can be a ride or die chick too. When people argue that Liz is cowardly, her fans get angry. They point out all of these times when she has supported Jason or gone head to head with Sonny. I could respond and say these actions are out of character for the timid, people pleaser Liz, but I won't because I recognize that Liz has various dimensions and the out of character actions make her loved by her fans.

Jason does things that upset us and he does things that make us happy. His character hasn't changed. To me he's become more human. He has more dimensions.