I hated Lily. But the show was so good back then that when she died it did feel shocking and was I was sad for her. She was no angel, she manipulated things several times while pretending to be the better person. The men were all clueless!
In hindsight though, I think Lily was the better choice for Sonny as a wife. She wanted to be close to power but she really didn’t want it for herself. She was manipulative but not headstrong. She understood the game having grown up in it. She would have been a stabilizing influence on him rather than creating chaos. She even accepted his feelings for Brenda with resignation that their marriage would just not be that kind of relationship. Even with all that I think Sonny would have continued to be pulled towards Brenda. Maybe people that didn’t watch back then don’t understand it, but it was very dramatic, toxic, and yet you still wanted them together. They paired all that angst beautifully with a couple of 90’s Chris Isaak songs for their end of show music montages GH used to do so well.
Brenda was always complicated when it came to Sonny being in the mob. It’s part of the wire storyline, she made illogical decisions because she wanted to be part of Sonny’s whole life and resented he was keeping things from her. During her last return we saw a Brenda who finally realized that her basically until then unspoken dream that he would give it all up for her wasn’t enough for him. He wanted power more than anything, even Brenda, the love of his life. And Carly was just impulsive, reckless, and volatile and a terrible choice to be that close to danger all the time. Carly, especially SJB and TB were like introducing an unstable element to an already volatile mix.
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