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I know I just wrote about how fed up I am with this whole Karpov storyline (and don't get me started on Sonny being all "Drugs! OMG!!! We may be mobsters who shoot people but DRUGS ARE TEH EVOL!!!!111"). I believe I said something along the lines of, "The only mobster I want to see coming to Port Charles is Lorenzo Alcazar returning from the dead."

 

And now there's the news that there's yet another mobster joining the show, and no, sadly, Ted King is not coming back. It's Vincent Pastore of the Sopranos! I'd say someone shoot me now, except with the current mob climate on GH, somebody just might take me up on that offer.

 

As if the "My Something" commercial wasn't annoying enough, now we're going to have to see this guy on a regular basis? *headdesk*

 

Oh, Bob Guza. If I wanted to watch the Sopranos, I'd rent the DVDs. How out of touch with your audience can you get? Oh, yeah, more mobsters and less Genie Francis (A few weeks of Laura is not enough!!!), that's what the viewers want... Grrr.

 

The only bright side to any of this is that Pastore is playing Max and Milo's father, which I can only hope means more screentime for Max.

It's been over a month since I last wrote in this blog. I'm a horrible blogger/diarist, I know, but what can I say? Things have been hectic around here! (Either that or I just get incredibly lazy during summer, you take your pick.) Anywho, a little General Hospital chat.

 

So what's up with this Russian dude, Karpov? I mean, I know Bob Guza is in love with the mob, but aren't Jason, Sonny, and the Zaccharas enough mobsters? Right now it's like 1 in every 3 Port Charles citizens is a member of the mob. Seriously, the last thing we need is another freaking mobster. The only way I would possibly be interested in another mobster coming to town would be if Lorenzo Alcazar were to come back from the dead.

 

But I guess there could be a silver lining to this Karpov business, if a) it causes Jason to realize (as it seems he is beginning to) that Sonny is no longer the man he considered a brother/father, and b) it makes Kate realize that Sonny has indeed gone back to the mob lifestyle and is not the saint she thinks he is. Which would, hopefully, cause Kate to get over her endless love for Sonny and mob apologizing and go back to the sassy, kick ass business woman she started out as.

 

I mean, really, right now I'm so sick of Kate that it's hard to remember that I ever actually liked her, but I know I did. She was new and smart and independent and had great hair... oh, how things have changed. Seriously, could she be any more naive about Sonny? She's so naive that she waltzes right past naivete and lands straight in the realm of stupidity. I mean, first she doesn't think anything of coming home to find Sonny meeting with some strange, thuggish Russian dude. And then she thinks Jason is trying to convince Sonny to come back to the mob and believes Sonny when he says that Jason is turning against him? Give me a break. If I have to listen to lines like this:

 

Sonny: Because he -- I -- Jason doesn't know me as well as i thought he did. He doesn't -- he doesn't know how I think anymore or how I -- how I do things.

Kate: It sounds like he hurt you somehow.

Sonny: He's under a lot of pressure, and he jumped -- he's jumping to conclusions. He thought that... He thinks that i undermine him.

Kate: But you wouldn't do that.

Sonny: No, I wouldn't do that. Thank God that somebody realizes that.

 

Oh, yes, thank God you have Kate, Sonny! She's the only one who understands what a saint you are. As I said to my mother (my GH watching companion), "I know you don't like Carly as much as I do..." (I am an unapologetic Carly fan, while my mom thinks she's stupid most of the time) "...but, for all her faults, she doesn't take any of Sonny's shit. Not only would she have suspected he was back in the business as soon as she saw him meeting with Karpov, she'd have some foolish plan to spy on Karpov in place by now."

 

Speaking of Carly, I will probably discuss the (possible) demise of Carly and Jax's marriage in a later post. Right now I have to go watch today's episode of GH! More later.