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He had no chance of getting on The Sopranos

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I’m in NYC, and I can’t help but wonder if NYC prosecutors, politicians, etc. ever felt the way that Laura did, back in the 80s-90s when they were taking down the mob. 

“Oooh, don’t put John Gotti in prison. The guy who comes in after him might be worse” 

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I'll be brief with this response because it is veering into Classic thread territory, but I agree about the Taggert writing especially when the show revealed he worked with/was mentored by Deke and knew Sonny killed him.  It gave Taggert a bias that was unnecessary and made it seem like he was a poor judge of character, so the audience was already primed to dislike him even if Taggert was right.

Plus, Garcia and Taggert were pretty obnoxious, especially early on lol.

 

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Well, Mo should have tried harder lol

GH has had the narrative for years that Sonny is "good" mob and everyone else is "bad" mob.  It's never made any sense no matter how many characters tell us that.  How about no mob?  That's the best kind of mob 

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It also helps that he's no longer married to a religious hypocrite.

Well, I've always believed that if the mob is going to be a regular presence on your soap, then you can't portray them honestly.  Instead, you have to make them more Runyonesque figures, objects of humor and parody, rather than the vicious sociopaths they truly are.

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Lol!  I know nothing about the ex-wife except, you know, the whole pregnancy thing 

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Steve does appear to be happier or at least more relaxed after the divorce.

Or maybe working on Days showed him things could be worse

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Lucky and Alexis covering up Kristina's crime is disgusting. It makes no sense he'd be covering for Kristina.

 

Drew's plan to get custody of Michael's children was laughable and lame.

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