Y’know, sometimes I feel like Alexis… I mean, on Wednesday’s show she sat and spoke so quietly and calmly about her fears for her child to her new therapist that I was nodding so vehemently I probably resembled a bobble-head.  Don’t get me wrong; my child isn’t in any danger from my husband’s enemies.  My hubby’s an Optometrist, so that’s not an issue. And that’s not what I was empathizing with.  Alexis voiced feelings that I’ve had for so long regarding Sonny, his occupation and his carte blanche for wreaking havoc on innocent people that I was hitting the arm of the sofa and saying, “yes, yes ~ yes!!” at the TV.

Maybe I heard Alexis this time because she wasn’t alternately screeching and gulping air while she fought to make her point. Let’s face it, poor Alexis has been ranting a lot lately and you can hardly blame her.  You also can’t blame everyone for tuning her out.  Every single one of her fears dating back to the moment she realized she was carrying Sonny’s child has materialized in one form or another.  Everything she did from lying about Ned being the father, to the kidnapping, to her failed attempts to retain sole custody of Kristina has failed thus far.  You can’t blame her for feeling like no one gives a rat’s ass. 

I think she’s speaking (both literally & metaphorically) for a large segment of the GH watchers out there that feel like Sonny has long passed the point of no return and no one’s bothered to put on the brakes.  You always hear about soaps turning loose a fabulous actor because the writers have written them into a corner.  They’ve pronounced them unredeemable and therefore have to either kill them or wrap them in one of those fancy backwards-facing jackets and cart them off. 

But not Sonny.

Sonny gets to do everything he wants, to anyone he wants ~ whenever he wants. Money laundering, racketeering, conspiracy, murder – oh yeah, and he imports coffee too.  And we all wuv us some Sonny!

Alexis has her point that Sonny never gets caught, never has to face the consequences of his actions and yet everyone around him is in mortal danger and acts like it’s okey dokey with them.  It is as if no one gives a rat’s ass. As long as Sonny is happy, well then we all should be happy damnit!

Aside from Tony Geary, who’s off the canvas more than he’s on, Maurice Benard must chap the ass right off of Guza and Pratt.  I’m sorry, but he came on the scene as a two-bit lowbrow goodfella.  He owned a strip club, got Karen hooked on drugs so that she wouldn’t mind her job so much and he pimped her on that stage like there was no tomorrow.  Fast forward several years and he can order the wholesale killing of his heretofore unheard of rivals and he’s still a GOOD GUY?  Come on people! 

Sonny needs a reality check.  Let Maurice Benard play the guy getting caught for a change.  It’s a new dynamic for him.  He doesn’t have to go all goody-goody, but let him get knocked down a few pegs and see how his character rebounds.  I have a hard time finding any sympathy for a character that is so one note and that’s a shame. I really think there’s a lot more to Sonny that we haven’t seen and that doesn’t involve bang-bang shoot ‘em up and full frontal intimidation.  The guy is a good father and was a pretty decent husband.  He’s got dimples to die for and can charm the knickers off a nun.  Maybe it’s time we hooked him up on Monster.com and found him a new line of work ~ I wouldn’t want Alexis to think we weren’t listening.

Random Randomness

So is Rachael a Sandoval?  Did she take her grandmother’s maiden name as her last name a la Jason Morgan?  Enquiring minds want to know!!

And in the parallel universe that exists in Port Charles, NY… Liz is not only a student nurse and a therapeutic masseuse but also can scrub in on an emergency surgery?  Wow, maybe I should move there.  I’ve always wanted to be a stripper slash brain surgeon.

I guess TIIC finally heard about the viewer's problem with snow blindness... I'm referring to the peroxide twins and their dueling platinum coiffures.  I guess Jax must've picked up a box of "Just for Men" on his way to Metro Court the other day ~ he's decidely less Marilyn this week!

I'm glad that Emily and Elizabeth acknowledged the post-coital weirdness the other day.  For a minute there I was thinking I might have dreamed that whole Lucky-sex-me-up on the couch thing.  I'm still not convinced that everyone's A-OK with the situation, but really ~ what's a few more stains on that couch between friends?

Check out the TBS "Is this Funny?" commerical with the sugar daddy and his arm candy at the surreal art exhibit... look closely, the arm candy is Dr. Rachael Adair/Amy Grabow.

Yay for more John J. York on my screen!  But I wish the writers would figure out a way to make him more likeable dialog-wise.  All he's done lately is play the heavy with Dillon and scare the shit out of Courtney.  BTW, does anyone else remember that when Jax first came on the show he and Mac were former friends?  I think that Mac was the one that hid Jax's first wife Miranda after an explosion blew off half her face.  I'd kind of like to see them work together for a change ~ maybe they could reopen the Outback and the denizens of PC could have a middle ground between the high-tech Euro Corsetted waitresses at Metro Court or the STD riddled barstools at Jakes.

That Quartermaine Blackmail story lasted about a millisecond~ thanks Emily!!! GRRRRR

Anyone else notice or care that it's been months since Tyler Christopher took off to work on that movie?  How come other actors on the show get cock blocked when it comes to doing side work (so much so that they have been known not to re-up their contracts!) and here we are waiting around for Nik to get sprung (heehee) so he can find out that Emily was raped by his doppelganger?  I'm sorry folks but that ship (and storyline) have sailed.

On a different note ~ I am really diggin' this new show Grey's Anatomy.  It reminds me of the first few seasons of E.R. when George Clooney was at his most effable.  Patrick Dempsey is muy humpworthy and I loved Sandra Oh in Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways and she's fab in this too.  I hope it's not too clever that it gets cancelled.  Lord knows we probably need another America's Funniest Kid Knocks Dad in the Balls Video show.  Just can't get me enough of that!

I crack myself up.