Has the new writers started yet? I am ready to see this "Smart TV"!!

Has the new writers started yet? I am ready to see this "Smart TV"!!

 

There you go

 

I don't think the new writing team's work appears for a few weeks yet, but the pace does seem different.  I think they've cut some scenes to rearrange some of the plots, and maybe end some of the sagas sooner. 

I have not watched regularly since the Pope Sonny visitation began shortly after the shooting. Watching everyone and their cousin weep and genuflect at Sonny's bedside, with Michael completely reversing himself and all his own evolution as a white-collar Quartermaine boss, turned my stomach. I have patience for Sonny in the right role on this show, but this isn't something I can tolerate. I've watched maybe a day in two weeks - I'm only going to check out the rest of the material with Richard Burgi and Maura, and then I'm off until Genie gets back. When she's gone, I probably am too.

 

In an odd way, there is one thing Ron got kind of right with the mob even though he clearly had no idea how to write for them - because of his natural disinterest, he was able to introduce some sort of moral debate about Sonny and what he'd done to people over the years. I suspect the whole Avery tug of war would have gone much longer had he not been removed, and I am not at all convinced the current material with Michael completely rolling over for Sonny is all his. That's not to say Ron didn't need to be taken down, because he did. Almost everything he left behind in the last six months was embarrassing, and people trying to blame all his mistakes on Frank or some inexperienced junior exec with no real power at the network (Nathan Varni) have no idea how TV actually works. That being said, the debate about Sonny always ended for Ron when his Plot needed to move, and he had no real interest in fully engaging with the issue or being honest about it any longer than it took him to drop a new story point. Still, it was more interesting than this and what I expect much more of in the coming months - everyone bowing before Sonny's greatness and refocusing the entire show on his great heroism, with all his children and family back in line under his yoke.

 

Richard Burgi has always played great villains, and it makes some sense for Paul to still be deeply embedded in business like the old Faison cartel, but I think it would be much more interesting if the character had stayed what he apparently was when he first returned - somewhat shady, but still viable for romance with either Tracy or (supposedly planned but scrapped, by Frank no doubt) Laura. Are Burgi and West great together? Yes; like Hornsby, Ava is someone who is, in the end, all about power, and it's good to see at least two honest criminals who know who they are. I just have little patience for watching another round of New Villain #720 who Sonny will fight for a few months and then kill off.

 

I said this over on PTV a while ago, but if you really wanted to play with real stakes in this mob [!@#$%^&*], you have to take a hard look at what matters. Sonny does not need another kid.

 

Here's an idea - Have Ava discover Hornsby's real backer: Faison (because we all know Ron planned for it to go back to those people anyway, and the history is there). Ava doesn't like being under Paul's thumb and makes a backstage deal with Faison - she'll kill Sonny Corinthos and take his territory for the supervillains if Faison eliminates Paul for her afterwards. Ava is a snake and this is the kind of [!@#$%^&*] she would do. Ava then goes to Sonny, threatens him, tells him she knows he's only with Carly because he can't have Brenda Barrett. Threatens Brenda and her son and says her new friends have global reach. Sonny decides it's time to take out Ava for good.

 

Sonny decides to send Carly and baby Avery to the island, then makes plans to bomb the Jerome penthouse, believing Julian and Ava to be in it together. He thinks no one's home but his people blow it up with Kiki inside. Meanwhile, a Corinthos limo takes off for the airport, Ava has her people ambush it on the road. Both the useless Cheetwood twins (Max and Milo) are brutally slain and the limo goes off the road, but unbeknownst to Ava, only Carly and Avery were in it. Carly is alive, but Avery is dead. And all this time, Carly was keeping the secret that she changed Avery's paternity results - she was going to raise her son's child and keep her from Ava Jerome until she felt Morgan was ready to be a father.

That's how you do a real mob story. Both sides do awful things and make horrible mistakes that destroy both sides. And realistically, that's exactly what would happen to that baby.

Morgan does not need to be Avery's father. He is too young to be tied to a woman old enough to be his mother for life . That entire character needs a revamp and giving him a child he isn't ready for is not the solution.

Morgan does not need to be Avery's father. He is too young to be tied to a woman old enough to be his mother for life . That entire character needs a revamp and giving him a child he isn't ready for is not the solution.

a recast would be nice

Morgan does not need to be Avery's father.

 

 

Sure he does, if the baby is dead. Read the post. It's good drama.

Edited September 24, 201510 yr by Vee

Morgan does not need to be Avery's father. He is too young to be tied to a woman old enough to be his mother for life . That entire character needs a revamp and giving him a child he isn't ready for is not the solution.

a recast would be nice

They need to send him offscreen. Maybe later down the line if GH is still on air they can bring him back with a recast as a more mature character. Hard to believe Morgan is the child who used to be the good kid and spent years in military school.

And no, they are not going to rehire underage scrawny Aaron Refvem to play a dude who has fucked Maura West all over town

And no, they are not going to rehire underage scrawny Aaron Refvem to play a dude who has fucked Maura West all over town

Who the hell said that? I didn't like him in the role either. He was so miscast. I havent liked the casting off Morgan since he was that cute little boy who hardly spoke. 

Call it a preemptive strike. Unrelated to you.

An entire episode centered around Jason and Sonny, the mob, and Michael Quartermaine no longer exist.  It feels like Guza is back. Ugh. 

Well, what were the alternatives? Nina, Ava, and Franco? It's a lose/lose either way. 

Tracey, and Anna would be better to watch/entertain.  I know it's slim pickins...