At least when the story started, Sonny never pulled the trigger. He just drove a car and buried a dead body. Of course, as of today, it looks like he was 13 when he did this, which is an amazing feat for a 13-year-old. Huh?
And, of course, the story was changed along the way. With no explanation, it suddenly became a story of Sonny shooting the man, not just burying him. And that is where Sonny’s dream started.
What if he never pulled the trigger he never pulled in the original telling of this story six months ago?
It seems Sonny would have gone in the completely opposite direction and become a cop because there’s no in between. He still would have gotten Olivia (Lisa LoCicero) pregnant, but he also would have married her, raised Dante, and other children, as well.
But, even being a cop would not have stopped Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) from becoming a mobster himself and marrying Sam in a sleepy upstate town known as Port Charles.
But wait, if Sonny never carried out that Scully order, he wouldn’t have become a criminal philanthropist who created an AIDS wing at GH, hence keeping Robin alive.
In a way, that does get to the crux of Sonny. Always justifying his criminality. Even in his dream, he decided if he never became a killer, Robin (Kimberly McCullough) would have died. Way to glamorize being a criminal once again, GH.
Mobsters, villains, criminals…they are all a part of soaps and we accept Sonny as one of these. They are still complex characters we can love.
But, let’s not sugarcoat what they do. And when we pay tribute to these characters, hand us the rich history we have seen ON screen, not a convoluted story created in the last six months.
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