General Hospital’s Carly is trying to protect Joss from the WSB, but the harder she pushes, the more determined Joss becomes to stay exactly where she is. Jax handing her control of JJE was already supposed to give her a reason to walk away. And now Carly is recruiting Hudson to help finish the job. Lucas spotted the problem immediately: trying to force Joss into the life her family picked for her is probably the fastest way to make sure she rejects it.
Key Takeaways
- Carly keeps pushing Joss toward JJE in hopes of getting her away from the WSB.
- Joss is already looking for someone else to run JJE because she has no plans to leave the WSB.
- Lucas warns Carly that trying to control Joss will only make her resist harder.
- Hudson’s attempts to sell Joss on the CEO job do little to change her mind.
- Carly’s efforts to protect Joss may be making her even more determined to choose her own path.
Carly Keeps Pushing Joss Toward JJE
Carly (Laura Wright) called Hudson (Troy Lennon Appel) over to her house after Joss (Eden McCoy) refused to take the CEO job at JJE and made it clear she wanted someone else to run the company. Hudson pointed out that the business needed a real leader before more damage was done. But Carly was less interested in saving JJE than in using it to pull Joss away from the WSB. She even told Hudson that Jax (Ingo Rademacher) sent him to save his daughter, not the company.
That is where Carly’s plan starts tripping over itself. Joss already knows her parents are trying to manipulate her into leaving the WSB. So every new maneuver simply gives her another reason to suddenly thank everyone for the intervention.
Joss even went to Michael (Rory Gibson) for help vetting replacement candidates because she had no intention of giving up the WSB. Michael understood why Carly and Jax were worried, but Joss had already made up her mind and was looking for someone she could trust to run JJE instead.
Turning Hudson into another person trying to push her toward the CEO job was only likely to make her dig in harder. Her goal was to solve the business problem without giving up the career she had chosen.
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Lucas Understands Joss Better Than Carly Wants to Admit
Lucas (Van Hansis) walked in while Carly was plotting with Hudson and immediately recognized what was happening. Carly defended herself by saying she was only trying to protect Joss, but Lucas pointed out that Joss is very much like her mother. Tell her she has to do something, and she is likely to head in the opposite direction on principle.
That warning hit home because Carly knew he was right. Lucas told her she eventually had to back off and let Joss live her own life, even if that meant accepting choices Carly hated. Carly may see meddling as protection, but Joss sees it as one more attempt to take the decision away from her.
Hudson later tried one more argument, telling Joss that Jax believed she was the right person for the CEO job and challenging her to prove the doubters wrong. Joss admitted that kind of challenge would normally work on her, then refused anyway because she wanted to stay with the WSB.
Carly may keep looking for new ways to pull her daughter back from danger, but Lucas understood the real problem: every attempt to choose Joss’ future for her only makes her more determined to choose it herself.
