GH 2/1: The Cat's in the Cradle
Previously on General Hospital, Sonny not only shot a cop, but he shot an unarmed cop, and he did so smugly. Because that's how the lead characters roll.
Chapel: The extras sit around murmering "peas and carrots" and "watermelo." Carly, Loo, John wonder where Dante and Sonny are. Jax tells them they can't wait. Loo twirls her earring and says she doesn't understand what could have happened.
So yadda yadda, we repeat the stark contrast of a teeny widdle schnookums of a baby being given the promise that the people who love her most will guide her towards her Father in Heaven and that she will be protected by a loving God.
Meanwhile, speaking of fathers....One more similar to that grumpy, grasshopper-plague-creating, vengeful one in the Old Testament glares at an unarmed cop with the intend to murder him.
Jocelyn's clear, innocent eyes stare about at the faces she is learning to love, guilty only of original sin, if you will.
Sonny's dark, dead eyes, staring at the face of his first born and the man who's come closest to stopping his destruction, guilty of all sins, even the ones God didn't have Moses write down.
Also, I didn't notice this on Friday, Sonny is such a vomit of a man, he doesn't even look Dante in the eyes when he shoots him. He looks off to the side as he says "good bye, Detective." and fires.
Olivia rushes in, hysterical and says that Sonny shot his son. Sonny angrily asks what she means, and she screeches Dante is their son together.
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Chapel: Carly absolutely glows in this scene. She's rarely looked so beautiful as light shines from her eyes joyfully. It really endears me both to Carly and Laura Wright. The priest says this is a new beginning, not just for the baby, but all of them. Sam and Jason smile at each other. Carly continues to sparkle and even does a lovely wiggle dance as the priest nears the end of his words. Even Jason's eyes are tinged in pink as Jocelyn is presented.
Corinthaus: Olivia screeches something to an ambulance. maybe they are on speaker? Maybe the hospital has installed a permanent two way radio into Sonny's arm, or something, so he can always quickly reach them when he gets shot each year? Sonny gets all maury povich about it and asks if Olivia is sure Dante is his son. She seethes at him that yes, he's his son, and he just shot him, and now his son is bleeding to death. Sonny kneels down and asks to help.
Chapel: Everyone is still blissfully ignorant that Sonny is gonna need another rug (which sucks b/c it totally pulled the room together).
Corinthaus: Sonny asks why Dante turned against him and if Olivia made Dante hate him. Olivia sobs that Dante doesn't know Sonny is his father. "He just thinks you're another thug" she spits. Sonny barks that Olivia should have told him. "We could have worked something out. I don't care he's a cop, or what he's done." Yes, he actually says that very, very ironic sentence. He says he'd never raise a hand against his child. Also, he's oddly a Boehner kind of orange in this scene. Maybe it's my TV.
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Corinthaus: Sonny is so clueless, it almost makes me not loathe him. Olivia runs to open the door, telling Sonny not to let their son die. Sonny says he never would have done this if he'd known. Oh, well, then let's all make plans for Easter dinner! The paramedics ask if he hit his head. Sonny's contribution is that "only when he fell after the bullet" Paramedics ask if he has prior medical conditions. Olivia delivers this heart breaking litany of every serious boo boo he's had since he was 10. She tries to a degree that you know is painful to hold it together as she says he takes care of himself doesn't smoke, "social drinker" is what gets me...that level of intimate..."here is this info that may matter to some 1/10000000000th of a degree. Sonny stares, trying to take it all in that he could have helped his son when he broke his arm in high school.
Chapel: Michael goes to Jax b/c he's clearly onto something being up with Jax and gives this awesomely creepy, sarcastic speech about how he knows Jax would never want Sonny to go to jail. Or maybe he's being sincere, and only you and I know that Jax is about to move to the top of the list. of both the shit and hit variety. Jax gulps and makes a mental note to put little bells on all the pillows in the house.
Meanwhile: Morgan and Kristina seem to be playing hide and seek. heh, cute. Then Molly gets kind of annoying and makes that Rie Sinclair song start to play, and I think tells Jason and Sam that they should propose marriage. Love ya, Molls, but sometimes you do make me cringe.
Loo calls Dante. We see his suit coat sitting abandoned back at Corinthaus, the phone ringing feebly to no one.
Also, at some point Olivia nad Sonny got in the ambulance.
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Chapel: Sam tells Molly that a lot of people are happy they aren't getting married. Molly quotes every childish pithy thing about marriage "two hearts beating as one" and that rot. Morgan puts in some practice at condescending to a stupid womanidiot. Molly concedes that she has to stop talking about a marriage, but she asks if she gets to be a bridesmaid. Sam gives her a truly delightful wink that makes me love Sam again for a few minutes. Jason shifts uncomfortably.
Ambulance: blah blah, we know Dante makes it to the hospital, so the drama herein is moot.
House of Lemon Pledges, now with Reception Power!" Lucky and Ethan drink champagne and agree that Lucky can drink if Ethan drives. Carly thanks everyone for sharing in this special time.
Ambulance: olivia holds her son's hands and tearfully speaks. Keeping with the religious theme of the episode, she is so beside herself in prayer, she's basically speaking in tongue at this point.
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GH: Steven and Lisa medi-babble while Dante is rushed in. Olivia and Sonny say they are the parents, and Piph drops a handful of pills and bedpans. Which I get it's loud to drop those things, and thus comical, but also, what the hell was Piph up to moments before?
House of Lemon Pledges: Michael and Kristina gossip about how Michael told Jax that Dante is undercover, and how Jax fixed it so Sonny won't go to jail. They are so adorably stupid, that they shrug their shoulders in unison, so awesome is it to be they. Michael innocently says he didn't expect Jax to be such a cool guy.
GH: Boehner orange Sonny and Olivia talk about yadda yadda Offspring-gate. Steven comes out to give them an update. Olivia tearfully uses the smallest napkin ever to wipe away her son's blood while Steven tells us that which I would like to think we all saw a mile down the road: bullet lodged close to the spine (Olivia nods b/c duh, he'll be walking by Christmas, or no later than when he walks Looloo down the aisle) and that he lost a lot of blood, so they can't operate yet. Sonny says Steven hasn't said if Dante will live. Which? I mean, I'm not bragging, but I'm pretty effing sure if I wanted to kill someone, and was standing THREE FEET AWAY and had a big ol' gun of the sort the kind a greasy shrimp would buy to prove a point....I could shoot to kill. But Sonny? Worst Mobster Ever. So Dante still has a chance to pull through. Shot in the center of the chest. All but point blank. and we've already established you can get to Italy faster than the hospital from Riverside Drive. Sonny calls Looloo for some weird reason and asks her to fetch Jason. or something like that.
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Correction: I have no idea who Sonny called earlier, but it had nothing to do with Jason...I think.
House of Lemon Pledges: The Q's leave en masse, and Carly rushes to them. Edward gallantly says she's thrown a lovely party, so don't make them overstay their welcome. Still in Super Glowing Beautiful Mode, Carly thanks them for coming. Tracy graciously accepts and then asks if she can leave now. heh. tiny scene, but cute. Lady Jane also leaves.
GH: awesomely, two cops sit the eff down right by Sonny in one of the eleventy million waiting rooms. They are dressed UP these cops. I love little else in the world but the vigor with which cops get down ON IT when a cop is shot. I mean, I hate it b/c it means a cop was shot, but I appreciate the passionate loyalty.
House of Lemon Pledges: Carly opens gifts. Loo rushes out the door. Carly opens a DVD. which I can only assume is a stupid bag of puzzle pieces. Also, when does Survivor Heroes V Villains start? I'm so annoyed I'm going to get sucked back into that show.
Tearful Hospital Bedside: Olivia sits vigil over her son and has like 3 PAGES of dialogue. Good night, nurse, that must have been exhausting to memorize. Dante rouses. He mutter something, but I can't make it out.
Chapel of Hypocritical Nonsense: Sonny lights a candle. We don't see it, but my guess is the candle puts itself out, saying "dude, I'm hear for people who have a need they didn't create." Sonny says "our Father." Here's how much of a narcisist Sonny is. He can't even be bothered to simply take the 43 seconds it takes to bust out an Our Father. Nope. Just the first two words, and then he immediately goes into "making it about me" mode. To his credit he does concede that he loves to kill. He mutters "pull the trigger" like one of those guys Chris Hanson busts will say Power Puff Girls.
Dante's room: Sonny shows up to take Olivia's place. Oh, good heavens, hell to me would be getting stuck in a coma in Port Charles. You fight as best you can to wake up, but these selfish idiots keep showing up to unload all their nonsense on you. Sonny blathers a bit and then sighs that he can't believe Dante is his son. Dante partially opens his eyes.
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House of Lemon Pledges: Sam smiles conspiratorially as Jason totally dirty whispers into her ear. I mean, watch that scene and tell me he isn't talking about her panties, or something close to her panties. Morgan wants to look at the stupid bag of puzzle pieces right now, but Carly says it will be baby pics of Jax from Lady Jane or of Michael from the Q's. That makes Morgan even more interested. Carly insists they'll look at it later. Super close up of this DVD for like 18 years. Morgan and Molly, who I now realize is wearing what would happen if Project Runwayians were told "update a hideous mother of the bride dress into a flower girl dress." This would be one of the bottom three, but they would be the first person saved. Morgan and Molly go out to get the handy laptop that Morgan stashes in the foyer. the hell? Of all the stupid things I've seen on this show, this is entirely innocuous, but sooo dorky. They put in the DVD and it's Franco, muttering about going to prison at 18. I think he's just reciting to the lyrics of a Johnny Cash song. Jason hears it and goes into the Foyer. Carly soon follows.
Meanwhile we hear a phone ringing. Shots of the mess at Corinthaus. bloodied rugs, bloodied towels, bloodied coat and shirt. Loo walks in the front door, phone uselessly pressed against her ear in that desperate way we all do sometimes "maybe they aren't answering not b/c something is wrong but b/c I'm just not doing my part to will them to answer" While it's completely idiotic that this is not a crime scene filled with every cop in the tri state area, Loo just waltzes in. The moment is dramatic enough, however, that in a rare moment on this show, I appreciate the dramatic license they took. She instantly sees the gore before her and whispers "oh no" She still has the phone ringing in her ear, and she can hear it ringing from Dante's bloodied coat. She's too stunned to hang up.
Dante's room: We still hear his phone ringing as bells go off in his head about what Sonny just said. He asks if he heard right. Olivia watches from the doorway as Sonny says he is his father.
:the end
Chapel: The extras sit around murmering "peas and carrots" and "watermelo." Carly, Loo, John wonder where Dante and Sonny are. Jax tells them they can't wait. Loo twirls her earring and says she doesn't understand what could have happened.
So yadda yadda, we repeat the stark contrast of a teeny widdle schnookums of a baby being given the promise that the people who love her most will guide her towards her Father in Heaven and that she will be protected by a loving God.
Meanwhile, speaking of fathers....One more similar to that grumpy, grasshopper-plague-creating, vengeful one in the Old Testament glares at an unarmed cop with the intend to murder him.
Jocelyn's clear, innocent eyes stare about at the faces she is learning to love, guilty only of original sin, if you will.
Sonny's dark, dead eyes, staring at the face of his first born and the man who's come closest to stopping his destruction, guilty of all sins, even the ones God didn't have Moses write down.
Also, I didn't notice this on Friday, Sonny is such a vomit of a man, he doesn't even look Dante in the eyes when he shoots him. He looks off to the side as he says "good bye, Detective." and fires.
Olivia rushes in, hysterical and says that Sonny shot his son. Sonny angrily asks what she means, and she screeches Dante is their son together.
Credits
Chapel: Carly absolutely glows in this scene. She's rarely looked so beautiful as light shines from her eyes joyfully. It really endears me both to Carly and Laura Wright. The priest says this is a new beginning, not just for the baby, but all of them. Sam and Jason smile at each other. Carly continues to sparkle and even does a lovely wiggle dance as the priest nears the end of his words. Even Jason's eyes are tinged in pink as Jocelyn is presented.
Corinthaus: Olivia screeches something to an ambulance. maybe they are on speaker? Maybe the hospital has installed a permanent two way radio into Sonny's arm, or something, so he can always quickly reach them when he gets shot each year? Sonny gets all maury povich about it and asks if Olivia is sure Dante is his son. She seethes at him that yes, he's his son, and he just shot him, and now his son is bleeding to death. Sonny kneels down and asks to help.
Chapel: Everyone is still blissfully ignorant that Sonny is gonna need another rug (which sucks b/c it totally pulled the room together).
Corinthaus: Sonny asks why Dante turned against him and if Olivia made Dante hate him. Olivia sobs that Dante doesn't know Sonny is his father. "He just thinks you're another thug" she spits. Sonny barks that Olivia should have told him. "We could have worked something out. I don't care he's a cop, or what he's done." Yes, he actually says that very, very ironic sentence. He says he'd never raise a hand against his child. Also, he's oddly a Boehner kind of orange in this scene. Maybe it's my TV.
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Corinthaus: Sonny is so clueless, it almost makes me not loathe him. Olivia runs to open the door, telling Sonny not to let their son die. Sonny says he never would have done this if he'd known. Oh, well, then let's all make plans for Easter dinner! The paramedics ask if he hit his head. Sonny's contribution is that "only when he fell after the bullet" Paramedics ask if he has prior medical conditions. Olivia delivers this heart breaking litany of every serious boo boo he's had since he was 10. She tries to a degree that you know is painful to hold it together as she says he takes care of himself doesn't smoke, "social drinker" is what gets me...that level of intimate..."here is this info that may matter to some 1/10000000000th of a degree. Sonny stares, trying to take it all in that he could have helped his son when he broke his arm in high school.
Chapel: Michael goes to Jax b/c he's clearly onto something being up with Jax and gives this awesomely creepy, sarcastic speech about how he knows Jax would never want Sonny to go to jail. Or maybe he's being sincere, and only you and I know that Jax is about to move to the top of the list. of both the shit and hit variety. Jax gulps and makes a mental note to put little bells on all the pillows in the house.
Meanwhile: Morgan and Kristina seem to be playing hide and seek. heh, cute. Then Molly gets kind of annoying and makes that Rie Sinclair song start to play, and I think tells Jason and Sam that they should propose marriage. Love ya, Molls, but sometimes you do make me cringe.
Loo calls Dante. We see his suit coat sitting abandoned back at Corinthaus, the phone ringing feebly to no one.
Also, at some point Olivia nad Sonny got in the ambulance.
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Chapel: Sam tells Molly that a lot of people are happy they aren't getting married. Molly quotes every childish pithy thing about marriage "two hearts beating as one" and that rot. Morgan puts in some practice at condescending to a stupid womanidiot. Molly concedes that she has to stop talking about a marriage, but she asks if she gets to be a bridesmaid. Sam gives her a truly delightful wink that makes me love Sam again for a few minutes. Jason shifts uncomfortably.
Ambulance: blah blah, we know Dante makes it to the hospital, so the drama herein is moot.
House of Lemon Pledges, now with Reception Power!" Lucky and Ethan drink champagne and agree that Lucky can drink if Ethan drives. Carly thanks everyone for sharing in this special time.
Ambulance: olivia holds her son's hands and tearfully speaks. Keeping with the religious theme of the episode, she is so beside herself in prayer, she's basically speaking in tongue at this point.
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GH: Steven and Lisa medi-babble while Dante is rushed in. Olivia and Sonny say they are the parents, and Piph drops a handful of pills and bedpans. Which I get it's loud to drop those things, and thus comical, but also, what the hell was Piph up to moments before?
House of Lemon Pledges: Michael and Kristina gossip about how Michael told Jax that Dante is undercover, and how Jax fixed it so Sonny won't go to jail. They are so adorably stupid, that they shrug their shoulders in unison, so awesome is it to be they. Michael innocently says he didn't expect Jax to be such a cool guy.
GH: Boehner orange Sonny and Olivia talk about yadda yadda Offspring-gate. Steven comes out to give them an update. Olivia tearfully uses the smallest napkin ever to wipe away her son's blood while Steven tells us that which I would like to think we all saw a mile down the road: bullet lodged close to the spine (Olivia nods b/c duh, he'll be walking by Christmas, or no later than when he walks Looloo down the aisle) and that he lost a lot of blood, so they can't operate yet. Sonny says Steven hasn't said if Dante will live. Which? I mean, I'm not bragging, but I'm pretty effing sure if I wanted to kill someone, and was standing THREE FEET AWAY and had a big ol' gun of the sort the kind a greasy shrimp would buy to prove a point....I could shoot to kill. But Sonny? Worst Mobster Ever. So Dante still has a chance to pull through. Shot in the center of the chest. All but point blank. and we've already established you can get to Italy faster than the hospital from Riverside Drive. Sonny calls Looloo for some weird reason and asks her to fetch Jason. or something like that.
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Correction: I have no idea who Sonny called earlier, but it had nothing to do with Jason...I think.
House of Lemon Pledges: The Q's leave en masse, and Carly rushes to them. Edward gallantly says she's thrown a lovely party, so don't make them overstay their welcome. Still in Super Glowing Beautiful Mode, Carly thanks them for coming. Tracy graciously accepts and then asks if she can leave now. heh. tiny scene, but cute. Lady Jane also leaves.
GH: awesomely, two cops sit the eff down right by Sonny in one of the eleventy million waiting rooms. They are dressed UP these cops. I love little else in the world but the vigor with which cops get down ON IT when a cop is shot. I mean, I hate it b/c it means a cop was shot, but I appreciate the passionate loyalty.
House of Lemon Pledges: Carly opens gifts. Loo rushes out the door. Carly opens a DVD. which I can only assume is a stupid bag of puzzle pieces. Also, when does Survivor Heroes V Villains start? I'm so annoyed I'm going to get sucked back into that show.
Tearful Hospital Bedside: Olivia sits vigil over her son and has like 3 PAGES of dialogue. Good night, nurse, that must have been exhausting to memorize. Dante rouses. He mutter something, but I can't make it out.
Chapel of Hypocritical Nonsense: Sonny lights a candle. We don't see it, but my guess is the candle puts itself out, saying "dude, I'm hear for people who have a need they didn't create." Sonny says "our Father." Here's how much of a narcisist Sonny is. He can't even be bothered to simply take the 43 seconds it takes to bust out an Our Father. Nope. Just the first two words, and then he immediately goes into "making it about me" mode. To his credit he does concede that he loves to kill. He mutters "pull the trigger" like one of those guys Chris Hanson busts will say Power Puff Girls.
Dante's room: Sonny shows up to take Olivia's place. Oh, good heavens, hell to me would be getting stuck in a coma in Port Charles. You fight as best you can to wake up, but these selfish idiots keep showing up to unload all their nonsense on you. Sonny blathers a bit and then sighs that he can't believe Dante is his son. Dante partially opens his eyes.
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House of Lemon Pledges: Sam smiles conspiratorially as Jason totally dirty whispers into her ear. I mean, watch that scene and tell me he isn't talking about her panties, or something close to her panties. Morgan wants to look at the stupid bag of puzzle pieces right now, but Carly says it will be baby pics of Jax from Lady Jane or of Michael from the Q's. That makes Morgan even more interested. Carly insists they'll look at it later. Super close up of this DVD for like 18 years. Morgan and Molly, who I now realize is wearing what would happen if Project Runwayians were told "update a hideous mother of the bride dress into a flower girl dress." This would be one of the bottom three, but they would be the first person saved. Morgan and Molly go out to get the handy laptop that Morgan stashes in the foyer. the hell? Of all the stupid things I've seen on this show, this is entirely innocuous, but sooo dorky. They put in the DVD and it's Franco, muttering about going to prison at 18. I think he's just reciting to the lyrics of a Johnny Cash song. Jason hears it and goes into the Foyer. Carly soon follows.
Meanwhile we hear a phone ringing. Shots of the mess at Corinthaus. bloodied rugs, bloodied towels, bloodied coat and shirt. Loo walks in the front door, phone uselessly pressed against her ear in that desperate way we all do sometimes "maybe they aren't answering not b/c something is wrong but b/c I'm just not doing my part to will them to answer" While it's completely idiotic that this is not a crime scene filled with every cop in the tri state area, Loo just waltzes in. The moment is dramatic enough, however, that in a rare moment on this show, I appreciate the dramatic license they took. She instantly sees the gore before her and whispers "oh no" She still has the phone ringing in her ear, and she can hear it ringing from Dante's bloodied coat. She's too stunned to hang up.
Dante's room: We still hear his phone ringing as bells go off in his head about what Sonny just said. He asks if he heard right. Olivia watches from the doorway as Sonny says he is his father.
:the end
Sonny gets all maury povich about it and asks if Olivia is sure Dante is his son.
giggles!
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Jax gulps and makes a mental note to put little bells on all the pillows in the house.
BWaaaaaaaaaaaaah I almost p'd reading that.
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"I'm not bragging, but I'm pretty effing sure if I wanted to kill someone, and was standing THREE FEET AWAY and had a big ol' gun of the sort the kind a greasy shrimp would buy to prove a point....I could shoot to kill. But Sonny? Worst Mobster Ever. So Dante still has a chance to pull through. Shot in the center of the chest. All but point blank"
It's kinda scary Mad, almost verbatim to my post on GH message board. How could he still be alive.... puhleeze? Sonny sucks at being a mobstah
The "little bells on the pillows" almost caused an accident here
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Also, when does Survivor Heroes V Villains start? I'm so annoyed I'm going to get sucked back into that show.
February 11, 2010. I will be sucked right in there too.
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"I don't care what he's done"....only that idiot Sonny could say something so effing stupid.
How many storylines does GH tell ending with me hating Sonny more? All of them!!
Good caps! I light candles regularly also....that Sonny gets his just deserts. Leave the gun....take the canolis!!!
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Someone please tell me why the hell Olivia is letting Sonny anywhere near Dante and why she hasn't beaten the shit out of him so bad that HE's in the ER right now? She didn't tell him for Dante's whole life just for this reason, and now Dante DOES get shot and it's BY SONNY and she's all "we're the parents"?
And yet I'm sure GH will find a way to make it even stupider than this, like "I never realized just how much I loved you until you shot our son and he nearly died"
coniption coming on, must leave computer
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Yep, and we had hints of this today when she looked at him with admiration over the "send 20 cops, I'm not leaving my son!" claptrap. Oy.
That Liv will take all the blame for this angers me to no end.
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