The last few days of General Hospital have caused an astronomical increase in my rage-induced migraines and my Arbor Mist consumption, with a severe decrease in my urge to blog.
Consider yourselves lucky, reading public (hi Mom
), because anything that I may have written in the past three days would have mainly included colorful synonyms for "delusionally unhinged selfish witch" coupled with emoticons exploding and/or banging their head into walls.
I find the current direction of almost every storyline on this show to be repugnant, and I dread having to watch it play out. If it were not for the impending arrivals of James Franco and Scott Reeves(and the continued greatness of Dominic Zamprogna) I would be taking a mental health break the likes of which I have not contemplated since Sonny left Brenda at the altar in 1997 (I cried my teen-aged heart out for days, seriously, and then didn't watch the show for two whole years).
However, amidst the endlessly painful Carly/Jax conversation and the Nikolas/Liz snogging and Michael reveling in his bloodthirsty (adopted) birthright that was taking place today, was a sentence I have waited the better part of a decade to hear (for those not watching the show anymore, start at minute 6:15) - - - - -
"I don't know what would have happened if I would have left him at the Quartermaines, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have killed somebody".
Was it good for you? It was great for me.
Truthfully, Michael might still have killed someone if he had been raised a Quartermaine, he just wouldn't be so fucking flippant about it if he hadn't been reared by gangsters. That's the truly disturbing part about this whole story (beside Carly's insanity) - - the fact that Michael has absolutely no remorse and viewers are supposed to find him sympathetic. Whether it was justified or not, you are supposed to feel bad when you take a life. Heck, I feel terrible for days after I hit a squirrel.
I enjoyed Jason's lightbulb moment today, in spite of the fact that we've seen this culpability conversation before. It went something like. . . . "Michael probably wouldn't have gotten shot in the head if the Quartermaines had raised him, we're terrible guardians, we'll do better at protecting him in the future, blah, blah, blah..." and nothing ever changed, in fact, it got worse. I know this on a practical level, but allow me to cling to the positives for a moment - - I sense they will be few and far between this winter.
"I don't know what would have happened if I would have left him at the Quartermaines, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have killed somebody".
I need a cigarette.
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award. In a town that is also inhabited by Anthony Zacchara and the recently bastardized Luke Spencer, that is no small feat, but Sonny rose to the challenge, securing his position for the second year in a row. (He is also neck and neck with Luke Spencer for worst husband of the year, but I think he's going to lose that one because cheating on Laura totally trumps ordering Claudia's death in my book of bad)
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