All of the post-2015 villains are like this. They hem and haw and stay forever because Frank or his pet writers fall in love with a character actor they hired (Jeff Kober, Wes Ramsey, Carlo Rota, etc.) and want to keep them, so after a big violent splash they do nothing but make vague moves for months or years and somehow Sonny and Jason do nothing against them either, because Frank wants to keep these actors around. And it makes Sonny, Jason and their crew, to say nothing of Anna and the PCPD, look pathetic.
That's a big part of why you have Sonny (and often Jason) reduced to a talk-to these days. Sonny's major role on the show is being a sounding board or recap device for other people's storylines or commenting on what other people (Britt, Lucas, etc.) are planning to do about Sidwell. Even Jason finally making a (failed) move of his own on Cullum was merely Jason taking his own initiative to try and help the woman he's sleeping with. It was not a mob operation and did not strike directly at Sidwell. Given recent times I think a couple rumors may be true that they very nearly put Jason officially into the WSB before deciding to bring Britt back and pivoting the story to focus on her and her annoying family. For all intents and purposes major story focuses on these villains and the WSB, not the mob. Sonny and the mob are an afterthought.
That's not to say I want Sonny Hospital again. I think there can be some mob drama from time to time but I don't want it to consume the show anew. And I don't think Mo can really handle any heavy lifting at this point, so I'm not weeping for the lack of heavy Sonny action. But the way they hang the show on these antagonists just makes the lead characters look pathetic and ineffectual. I knew it would happen with Sidwell too once he came to town. It's been over a year since this man deep-fried Michael and they've done nothing.
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