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GH Writer Addresses Michael Shooting

''General Hospital'' head writer Bob Guza Jr. talks about the soap's decision to have 12-year-old Michael take a bullet as a result of all the mob violence that's infected Port Charles in recent years

By Abby West

On last Friday’s (April 4) General Hospital Michael Corinthos III, the 12-year-old son of local mob kingpin Sonny, was accidentally shot in the head, stunning even hardened GH fans, who are no strangers to gunplay on the ABC soap. Mobsters have fought over the apparently perfectly-positioned territory in the show's fictional town of Port Charles, NY for years. Still, even on a show known for violence, the shooting of a child is a risky move. But head writer Bob Guza Jr. says it plays into a larger theme he wants to promote. Read More

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What a bunch of BS!!!! What consequences? More people getting shot? That's what he calls consequences? Please!

So to punish Michael, you have him get shot in the head from a mob hit?

I so hate Bob Guza's upside down world. When is he going to get fired? :angry:

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"Violence is nothing new in Michael's life. Just recently, the boy (played by Dylan Cash since 2002) bought a gun and bullets off of street peddlers and accidentally shot his father's girlfriend. He ran away without calling 911, only to return later and have everyone, including the victim, forgive him. He was never made to admit his guilt to the authorities or get therapy."

That storyline was actually written and played out while Guza participated in the 100-day writers' strike, but when the scribe returned, he decided that the best way to address the fans' unhappiness about the lack of real repercussions for Michael's act of violence was to have Michael take a bullet himself. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's all in time for May sweeps.

''I like it from an emotional standpoint. I also like it from a responsible standpoint,'' Guza says. ''Twelve-year-olds shouldn't be picking up guns; I don't care if your father is a gangster. And if they do, there's got to be a consequence. We make directly culpable the people who love him most.''

This here just perfectly summarizes what is completely and utterly wrong with GENERAL HOSPITAL.

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but when the scribe returned, he decided that the best way to address the fans' unhappiness about the lack of real repercussions for Michael's act of violence was to have Michael take a bullet himself. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's all in time for May sweeps.

Thanks for sharing!!!!

This is the biggest illustration of how ridiculous this plot point is. Instead of dealing with the ramifications of Michael's actions in a realistic way, he decides to have him shot to tug at the viewers' heart stings and side step the real issue of violence. If this were about taking a look at the effects of a violent lifestyle, it would conclude with Sonny and Jason realizing that the sacrifices they've made to be in the mob are far too great and the safety of their loved ones is the most important thing and there'd go the mob. Instead he decided that shrouding the issue was a much better solution.

I personally don't have an issue with the mob on GH but they need to have it as another part of the landscape instead of it swallowing the landscape. And they need to either say it's a bad thing and act accordingly or say it's not such a bad thing and be consistent about that. The problem is that they want to portray it as not such a bad thing but then invoke the dangers of it for shock value, when it suits them or as in the case of Jason and Elizabeth, use it as a way of stalling.

The show is about romance during wartime, for lack of a better term.

I know he's got to be joking about this because this show has very little in the way of any kind of romance. Ghost Emily is not romantic and a sex scene here and there is not romantic either. I thought the soap opera was supposed to be an escape from the drama of life to romance and adventure. I specifically thought GH was supposed to center on the lives of the medical staff not lack of wartime romance but I guess I have that confused.

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A campaign should be launched against ALL of them, Frons, Guza and JFP. Send it to the HEAD of ABC... send a bajillion letters if you have to...

but then again it wouldnt make any difference.

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