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Thank you. I honestly don't remember everyone that Carly has slept with. Life is too damn short for that, and I've got my own problems, lol.

I know I would think that was out of character, lol. Again, though, I'd love to know why Jason and Carly are so...obsessed with each other. (Just like I'm still waiting for GH to tell me why Heather has always been so damn crazy - and no, no "poisoned hip" explanation will do, lol). Jason and Carly don't need to acknowledge it for themselves. In fact, it's probably more intriguing if they DON'T acknowledge it. But I feel like the audience should have some sort of idea, so, at the very least, we won't get so annoyed every time Jason rushes to Carly's aid at the expense of everyone else.

I'd still love to know why this show thinks Alexis can't do both (practice law and run a newspaper). I'd also love to know WHY Jason constantly puts Carly's needs and safety above most everyone else's. What makes him do it? Does he feel sorry for Carly? Is she that good in bed? Have they even BEEN to bed, lol?

There better be a discount, or else what's the point?

I’d sooner believe he was Lucky’s fraternal twin and that Luke sold him for a bottle of scotch and a home perm.

ICAM! With everything!

You know what you are, @John? You're like that writer in the writers' room who brings up all the grammatical and spelling errors in the script at 3am, when all the rest of the room's concerned with is wrapping things up and going home. I've no idea what your response about Dex and Stone's ages has to do with my post which you have quoted, or with anything else.

Right, but according to John... Granted, highly functioning autistic individuals do exist in society, but I think suggesting that Dex is himself autistic, without any prior indication, is a bridge too far for me.

SORASing or not: Stone is autistic. Dex is not. Ergo, it wouldn't have made sense for Dex (or any individual who isn't on the spectrum) to be Stone.

Why did people think Dex would turn out to be Stone? Did they think Stone's autism could magically cure itself?

Gina Tognoni's like Candyman: say her name five times on a message board, she's bound to appear again somewhere. If not for the fact that his daughter remains on the canvas, it's almost as if Jasper Jacks and his family never existed. Which is fine by me, lol!

They're twins. Demarco is a doctor, and Demetrius is a bouncer. And Deniece, their kid sister, is following in their dad, Desmond's, footsteps by going to law school.

Wait a minute! That's the kid who played Jack's son on "Will & Grace," lol! What was even the point of Franco back then, except to give James Franco license to mock soaps as an "artistic experiment"?

All that's missing is a Mr. Bill-like image of a clay "Abby" being crushed to death by a gigantic crane.

Now that's what I call diabolical, lol! I still can't believe they killed someone (off-screen) by dropping a crane on them. That's Monty Python-level absurd.

You and me both, lol!

OMG, lol!

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Mobsters can and do "retire" from the organization. (They never call it "the mob" or "the Mafia"). And in Sonny's case, you could make the argument that he SHOULD retire, due to his mental health posing a challenge to the stability of his organization. And you also could make the argument that he needs to be...eliminated for the very same reason. But, my point is, even when mobsters retire from running their outfits, they're never truly out of them. Many crime families have pension plans and 401k's for their retirees, which means the retirees still profit from the extorting of others. What does the "mob life" entail? You name it: drugs, prostitution, bookmaking, racketeering and yes, even infiltrating unions. Wherever mobsters see an angle they can exploit financially, they will; and they will say, in so many words, "You will use my men, my merchandise, my equipment, etc., to move what I tell you to move; and for every dollar you make, my organization gets x percentage. And if you don't pay up...? Well. You've got a lovely business here. I sure would hate to see something bad happen to it." (Sound familiar? It should, because not too long ago, we had someone in our WH make a very similar threat.) Remember Johnny Friendly in "On the Waterfront"? He used the longshoremen's labor union to control the docks. The men who handed out daily work assignments to the dockworkers had to use Friendly's men each day, "or else." That practice placed Friendly in the crosshairs of the Waterfront Crime Commission, which meant that any of his men who chose to testify against him would face certain death. It's witnessing one such death - and realizing the part he played in setting it up - that makes Terry Malloy (Brando) realize for the first time that the man he's been enforcing for is a "cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug!" (By the way, Friendly, by way of Terry's brother and his own right-hand man, also made Terry lose a pivotal boxing match years before, which is where the famous "I coulda been a contender" speech to Charley Malloy comes from). So, don't laugh too hard whenever you hear about Sonny, Jason and their "coffee importing/exporting business." They could very well be importing and exporting coffee. It's the methods they employ to import and export the stuff, while bullying and intimidating their competitors in order to have the advantage in their market, that makes them sociopaths and criminals. Two other, important points: 1) Theoretically, each "family" controls a neighborhood or section of a city or town, so "mob wars" are essentially turf wars, where one "family," sensing vulnerability in a rival organization, uses threats, intimidation and especially physical violence to seize control of the other family's territory; and 2) mob killings are Never. Personal. Even GH can get that wrong sometimes. When mobsters kill, or order someone to be killed, it's strictly business. So, for example, if your spouse is beating the holy hell out of you, you're not gonna go to the local family and put out a hit on them, because that's not what they are in business for. Even if your spouse works for the organization, the most they will do is talk to them and tell 'em to "knock it off," because if their spouse gets bold enough, they're gonna talk to the cops, and the cops are gonna start poking their noses where they don't belong. As a matter of fact, there's a very famous story about a woman (whose name I'm blanking on atm) who helped bring down one such "family" after they refused to help her go after the hoods who attacked and raped her one evening in a store basement. Wow! Thanks, @DRW50, for finding it for me! Natalia could hire someone to "stalk" Blaze in order to increase her visibility (and drive a wedge between her daughter and Kristina). In turn, that could be the catalyst for Kristina's losing the baby, as Blaze's stalker gets carried away and ends up putting Kristina in serious, mortal jeopardy.

I thought the same thing this morning. Not that it's a joke, per se, but that it's ironic how almost everyone on this show is changing professions except the two people who need to change their professions the most. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that EK/PM were, in fact, making some kind of statement there, but that's being too cynical, lol.

Suddenly, I'm wondering whether Tobias actually exists, or whether Aiden's just stalking the poor lad, lol. Oh, I absolutely agree with you. The fact that MB remains popular, even as his character represents a lifestyle that is no longer seen as glamorous or envious to the average person, puts GH in the toughest of spots. IOW, getting rid of him through whatever means is really the right thing to do but, for obvious reasons, they can't. That's why I struggle to embrace the good things that EK/PM have done thus far, because I just can't get past the fact that two of this show's leading characters are sociopathic criminals who (IMO) belong behind bars or in the ground. Like Minnie Driver says in "Grosse Pointe Blank," there are things that you do not do in a civilized society, but men like Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan do many of those things. In fact, they profit from them; and this show is asking me to gaf about them!? I don't think so!

Sonny Corinthos is like every other, real-life mobster: he could never run a business that was "largely legit" or "white collar." If he could, he wouldn't be where he is atm. If Sonny were removed from the organization - and provided, he doesn't encounter any sort of threat, either from his enemies, or from his "employees," who fear his running to the government for protection - he'd go back to being what he was when he assumed control of Frank Smith's empire: a low-level hood, running a seedy strip joint, keeping "his girls" strung out on pills so they will do his bidding. Even then, under those circumstances, he'd struggle to keep up, partly b/c the sex worker industry has changed, and partly b/c time and age have taken their toll on him; leading Sonny to the inevitable moment when he takes his own life rather than become a "wizened old man." If it were up to me, this current storyline with Pikeman would be the true Fall of the House of Corinthos, ending either with Sonny being murdered, or (reluctantly) agreeing to enter the Federal Witness Relocation Program - along with others who are in his family - in order to protect everyone from Pikeman, whose global reach likely exceeds that of Sonny and his "coffee empire." (Would people like Dante, Sam, Michael, Willow, Kristina, etc. be furious at Sonny that they all have been placed in a position where they must leave behind their entire lives in PC and start over somewhere else, with new identities, in order to protect themselves and especially their children? You bet!). And Jason, as Sonny's one-time right-hand man, would be left behind with the unenviable task of legitimizing his former boss' businesses, but that would be a constant struggle, as well as living with the ever-constant threat he could be walking one day, "and a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift."

I've always said there are only two options for Sonny and Jason: either they die, or they get out of the mob forever. And even if they were to "go straight," as it were, they still are bound to face recriminations from others from within the criminal underworld out of fears that they'll turn state's evidence. Is that available on YT? I haven't actually watched those scenes, but I'd like to very much!

I agree! I was all for a same-sex couple on GL, but dear God!

Yeah, I don't care for them either, especially when I personally don't know anyone who goes walking in the park like it's still 1900, lol. You could accomplish the same goal just by having characters run into each other at the town diner and it would make more sense.