General Hospital: Perkie's Observations

Wow, Perkie, that wasn't very...perky. Sorry, couldn't help it.

Okay, I actually really liked the episode. I thought that Sonny and Jax bitched and moaned, just like you said, but isn't that their characters?

I have no problem with Michael going out to look for his mother, if I had been in his boat, whether I had a broken leg or some weird form of dain bramage, I would be trying to find her, because as much as I like cops, the cops in that town, minus Dante, are Keystone cops to me. And Michael, being the son of a Corinthos, knows that. The way he came in their to protect his mom, to hell with the consequences, will provide him with guilt, that he didn't see the baby until it was too late, and help him transition to the heir apparent, so that when Dante is revealed, it will be much more conflict between the two.

Dante/Lulu was actually kinda boring for me. However, yes Perkie, towards the end of Wed Episode, they tried to pull Lulu out and her ankle was trapped and she screamed in pain. That is when Johnny went for help. And I think he may have went to Llanview to find it, but then that would have brought good story back with him, so maybe it was Canada.

Carjax, its a little off to me, that right after finding out that Jax didn't tell her about Claudia shooting Michael that Carly would trust him with the truth about Michael killing Claudia. I have only been watching for a few months, but I want to see Carly and Sonny start up an affair. I am sure for long time viewers, that would be a retread, but the chemistry those two have, at least to me, is better than Todd and Tea on OLTL.

All in all, this was good soapy drama, and I loved it.

didn't see it, but wow, they just wouldn't stop until they had michael actually kill someone. congratulations gh, you suck.

plus why the cover up if it was self defense. i like alot of the characters on the show, but the "hero-thugs" really can be stupid. if you have half the cast privy to what happened, call it negligent homicide with self defense. michael gets community service and much needed therapy.

maybe someone should just 'fess up now and admit michael would have been better off raised by aj and the quartermaines...

This episode was good and bad for me. I liked the scene when Michael came in and hit Claudia. I thought it was very dramatic loved the music they played during everything happening. When Claudia was taking the baby it had me feeling kind of bad for her...I know she's a psycho. But i seriously felt bad because of her losing the baby. Yes I know trying to kidnap Carly's baby was crazy but I felt bad for her. I wish they would've went more into her childhood while she was on the show to show why she is the way she is.

That being said I so wish they didn't have Michael kill Claudia. I wish it would've been a murder mystery with Claudia not really being dead. I understand Michael was protecting his mom but why him. Plus Perkie...I don't think he went off to find the woman I think he was trying to runaway and he saw the car ditched on the side of the road.

Can't wait for Carly to get mad at Jax for keeping Jerry's involvement quiet.

oh Sonny, Sonny Sonny...seriously he's proud of /michael for killing Claudia. Him telling Michael he did good was so wrong so Sonny shouldn't be surprised when Michael follows in his footsteps.

I felt bad for Johnny because he already knows what happened to Claudia. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

Loved Maxie's new hair.

Blackjack while we may never agree on all things the above post is why I will never skip over one of your posts and why I have mad love for you.

You preach it because my God the PTB finally got a story where Michael kills, bravo you finally managed to kill the last ounce of goodness that this kid may have had.

I for one will stand up and say AJ might have been crazy but no where near as bad as Sonny at this point.

Overall I thought it was a good episode...the whole thing with Sonny commending Michael though I really had an issue with. "You did good" Really? Last time I checked, no 17 year old kid is supposed to bludgeon their step mother to death no matter the cause, much less get a pat on the back for it.

I'm rooting like mad for Domidante to take Sonny down now.

Also, in case anyone liked the music in yesterday's episode...the song featured throughout was "Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance. Awesome track.

Ok Look will have to say that this time will be hard to praise Jason and Sonny today But as their fan and GH I will try , forgive me please !!

First I didn't really like the idea that Michael killed Claudia , But it was justified as much as any killing is , When Michael came to the cabin he didn't see anything all he he did was hearing Carly yelling for Claudia don't , he thought Carly is in danger he didn't see what happened so he took the axe and hit her I don't think he though of killing her,he just wanted to get her from his mother,he didn't see that Claudia was holding the baby.
Michael was in shock !!!
Jason entered the cabin - the all scenes for me was bizarre the way he and Carly told Michael go see your sis.
Now why didn't they call the police? , simply Jason and Sonny don't trust them !!
they never will! if they would it will be unrealistic!!
we can't know that Mac and the judge will believe Michael's , think the kid is Sonny and Jason son , he is a son of criminals , who kill people who hurt them.
the people who were eye witness were Michael family , his mother uncle , and uncle's girlfriend , is there any evidence of Claudia taking the baby? her gun was not with her.
Just a thought .....
Sonny tell him he did good was disturbing , maybe he said that because he thought Michael was protecting his mom and little sis, if not it was bad!
Jason destroy the cabin so there will be no DNA evidence of Claudia's death and keep her body out so there won't be any link..

The all Lante scenes were boring and to much Titanic !!!!!!!!!!

Can I hit Jax please please all he think about was getting Sonny , JAX ALSO HAVE A PART OF THIS , He knew Claudia involvement and let her be near the kids he is sucks like Sonny and Jason Can't wait for Calry to kick him..

Sam I don't care what you say I love love her , I loved how she cared for Michael when she entered the cabin, and how she cared for Carly.
I want CarSan friendship!!

Ok Something else yesterday show was super dark and not real soap, they showed the bad side of Jason who I think is something I didn't see in a long time he was so hot when he told Max and Milo what to do , more mob boss than Sonny LOL
maybe it was more dark but I didn't care , I loved the action and I loved the mob characters ..
My opinion

Forgot to mention this, but when the camera panned over to Claudia's body, and especially her hand, I was hoping the hand would move.  And that when Jason and the boobsy twins came back to bury her, she'd be gone.

Now, wouldn't that be soapy?!!

A lot of people wanted that ... me too

WOW....I guess I couldn't disagree more......Yesterday's show was AWESOME!!!!!!!!IMO.....The scene where Michael killed Claudia was really well done, my jaw was on the floor for the entire thing....

Sonny and Jax's behavior, while annoying, was quite typical so that didn't bother me....

Michael didn't go looking for Carly and Claudia...he was actually running away to Canada and happened upon Claudia's car...he actually did the right thing and called Sam and Jason but, due to a bad connection, didn't get through....

The Lulu/Dante scenes were a bit tedious but not that bad...I though that it was understandable that on a stormy night like that they had a lot to deal with and that's why the paramedics/rescue workers took so long....Lulu's leg was apparently stuck somewhere...

I also don't know what people would have had Sonny say to his son???? Asides from the obvious hypocrisy it certainly wasn't the time for him to say what he did was wrong and reprimand him for it, I automatically assumed that "you did good" meant that it was a good thing that he protected his mother and baby sister...he was trying to prevent his son from being consumed with guilt, which is what any parent would have done....I really don't see the need for a cover up since it was a form of self defense but GH wouldn't be a soap if it didn't have one so c'est la vie.....

GH may not be diarrhea anymore, but it is still solid crap!
Why does Guza makes these awful storyline choices is beyond me. He could have redeemed Claudia, since saving Carly's baby's life could have made up for what happened to Michael. Having done that, she could have called 911 and ran away. But no, Guza had to make her a psycho bitch instead.
And now Michael is a killer and everyone applauds. Who's next for him, Kiefer?

I personally would have loved to have seen that, but for soap writers, sometimes you want people to be dead beyond a shadow of a doubt. They don't want this to be the catalyst that changes Michael and then in 10 years when SB wants to come back again, be retconned. You know, like a certain unabortion stroyline on another soap. This was pure death. She is gone.

I have to say to all of the people who are complaining that Michael has no good left, I call bullshit.

He is going to be the antihero on this soap, that it needs. He will start acting more like his dad, but he will still have his mother's concience, which Sonny never had.

I may be giving the writers too much credit, but I think that doing this was genious, and I can't wait to see where it leads.

I liked the episode as a whole, but that weird music they were playing when Michael killed Claudia and when they were getting rid of the body just didn’t do it for me. I also hated that Sonny commended Michael for committing murder. I also want to know how the baby wasn’t hurt if Claudia was holding her when she fell. The poor little girl didn’t even cry.

My mom and I don’t agree with the cover up, but I seem to understand it more than my mom does. Sonny and Jason are criminals; there’s no way they’re gonna trust the cops with anything! Jason would never have even gotten the police involved when Devlin was killed, but Maxie called Mack, taking the choice out of Jason’s hands.

Don’t you just love how Sonny claims to be all about keeping his children safe and then never learns from his mistakes? “You looked at me the wrong way, so I’m gonna have you killed, then a bigger and badder than me mobster is gonna try to get revenge on me an my kids will be in danger, but I’ll keep them safe. It doesn’t matter that my son got shot; it’ll never happen again. Besides, he’s killed someone now, so he can handle anything. I’ll just make sure the truth is covered up and he won’t have to feel guilty because he killed someone who needed to die, anyway!” I can’t stand Sonny!

I wasn’t watching when Michael was born. Why exactly did Carly think mobster Sonny would be a better father to him than AJ?

I didn’t like Sonny or Jax this week, but I would definitely have to say that Sonny is wrong in this situation, and not just because I don’t like him and I can take or leave Jax. Yeah, yeah, I know he’s the kids’ father. But he gave away his legal rights, which makes Jax legally responsible for them. Also, if Sonny hadn’t done what he did the way he did it Carly would not have gotten into that mess with Claudia. Jax is to blame for keeping the secret, but Sonny deliberately provoked a psycho. No one could ever convince me that he didn’t know exactly what he was doing and that he didn’t know Claudia would go crazy and do something desperate. Sonny never thinks about how his actions will hurt others until it’s too late and then he thinks he has the right to play the victim. “Poor little me. I hurt someone I love again and I get to feel pain more than they do because I’m the cause.” Dante, please, do your job and take him down before you find out he’s your father!

Yesterdays episode actually turned back the clock on any progress GH has made over the past 2 months. We go from writing a story about a child being shot, to that slightly older child (teenager) being a killer. Raise your hand if this storyline makes you proud of GH!

The Dante/Lulu in a well? What was THAT?? Useless drivel IMHO. Yes, I get it was a way to bring them closer, but there are more original and better story ideas they could have come up with. This soap drops the ball every time once they get a quarter of the way into something.

Someone on here made a comment recently that they hope James Franco just stands there and doesn't say anything so the writers don't slaughter his skills... I kind of hope so too. I'm not sure the GH writing staff has the intellect to handle an A list star. I won't hold it against Franco though, we all know where GH's problems lay!

Can I say one thing Jax knew that Claudia was involved with Michael shooting he knew that since he saw the DVD Jerry sent him the day of his second marriage to Carly ,,,
that was in march ...........
since than he didn't say a word , when Michael went trough his surgery, Claudia was there as a " part of the family " he didn't say a word just told her to get put cos she makes his wife mad , he stood there let have her say telling Jason he has no say ...
Jax was there when he heard that Claudia is getting close to Michael , he let her be near Morgan , as he said he loves those boys so much , if he loves them so much why did he let Claudia be near them ......
when Michael wanted to live at Sonny's he didn't say a word to any one ...
Jason had a feeling she was involve he tied to keep her put of the way more than Jax ....

Jax could have say to Jason , Claudia is dangerous , say something to Mac no he just sit there and let her be more involve with what he says his kids ..

In my opinion GH is amazing yesterday episode was juts amazing and kept me at the edge of my seat

I am really enjoying reading your comments scoboot, you are a straight shooter. I personally enjoyed the show, yes, I had to suspend reality at times but that is why I watch soap operas; I like to escape my reality once in a while. I too think that the writers are setting the stage for future Michael and how conflicted he will be, he is being raised by Jason, Sonny, Carly and Jax all with very different ideas about what kid needs. I wasn't at all suprised by Sonny's reaction to Michael killing Claudia.

"I wasn’t watching when Michael was born. Why exactly did Carly think mobster Sonny would be a better father to him than AJ?"

Sonny wasn't Carly's first choice, Jason was; in fact, Carly hated Sonny for quite a while, even after Michael was born. Throughout her pregnancy, Carly had no idea who the father of her baby was, and she moved heaven and earth to keep AJ from remembering that they'd slept together so that she could stay firmly ensconced on the Tony Jones Gravy Train. AJ finally remembered, realized the possibility that he could be the father, and said that if he was, he was taking the baby as soon as it was born. Then she had to continue working overtime to keep AJ from cluing in poor clueless Tony. Her subsequent behavior was so erratic that Tony started to get concerned about her mental state, and when they finally broke up, he took steps to make sure that he got custody of what he still believed to be his child when it was born. Carly found out about that and blew a gasket, then told both Tony and AJ that neither of them was the father, Jason was. Jason was NOT happy about Carly's lie, and while he said that he wouldn't bust her, he wouldn't lie for her either, if anyone asked him for the truth. Both Tony and AJ came to him, but neither of them asked the right question. Instead of asking if there was a chance that Carly was telling the truth, they both asked if he and Carly had ever slept together, and he truthfully said that they had, neglecting to add that their affair had ended so long before Carly's baby was conceived that it was impossible for him to be the father. When the baby was born after Carly had a placental abruption and had to have an emergency C-section, it was discovered that he had a heart defect and when his blood was typed for the surgery, Bobbie was with Tony when the results came in. Tony knew immediately that he couldn't possibly be the father, since he was O+ and the baby was B-; AJ erroneously concluded that Carly had to be telling the truth since he was B+ and Jason was B-. Jason then pretty much took over as Michael's only parent, since Carly left the hospital and left town shortly after he was born, and then when she eventually came back, she abdicated all child-raising responsibility to Jason before she landed in Ferncliff for psychiatric evaluation after she shot Tony in open court.

Sonny didn't enter the picture until more than a year later. After the truth came out, Carly accused Jason of abuse, then married AJ and moved into the Quartermaine mansion as part of a half-assed plan to make sure that she, Michael, and Jason all ended up together in the happy little family that she wanted. She and Sonny had hate sex one night after Carly had seen Jason with Elizabeth and misconstrued the situation, she got pregnant again, once again tried to pass the kid off as AJ's. Jason had left town in the meantime, but he kept long-distance track of what was going on, and gave Sonny the information that he needed to blackmail the Quartermaines and get Carly away from AJ. Sonny then moved her and Michael into the penthouse. They got married the first time so that Carly wouldn't have to testify against Sonny after she learned some incriminating information that could have been used to send him to prison. Carly eventually fell for Sonny and decided that he was good father material and asked him to adopt Michael, which Sonny did, after coercing AJ into signing away his parental rights

I am mostly with GHAddict on this. I thought yesterdays show was great. Yes, tptb WASTED SJB's return. They never should have killed off Claudia, they never should have had her involved in the Michael shooting, they should have delved into her background etc. etc. and no they shouldnt have had Michael kill Claudia just from a do we really want to have child killers on soaps standpoint.

That said, yesterdays show was well written and exciting. Going back to the Jax/Sonny not looking for Carly stuff ICAM. I wrote that the other day because their actions, their choices and really historically their actions and choices put so much on Jason. Carly wasnt expecting her hubby through those doors, she was expecting Jason. Why they werent out and about (which would have resolved the where do they stay issue, because the compromise could have been Sonny's father staying with them at Jax's house)???

As some have posted, Michael was running away. This kid is messed up and I am not really sure what more his parents could have done. Certainly Carly and to a lesser extent Jason and Sonny and even Jax have been reaching out to him. So lets put his actions into context here - he is a teenager with a brain injury. He ran which is often what kids do when something goes this wrong. He finds his mom in danger and acts. He didnt have time to think about Claudia holding the baby, or how he would feel about it later - he was thinking I caused this and I have to fix this because my mom is in danger. Under the law he was justified in his actions.

As for Sonny, I am with GHAddict. What was he suppose to say? He wasn't congratulating him for heavens sake - you could see on his face that he felt terrible that it was Michael that found them, but Michael protected his mother and in Sonny's eyes thats not just justifiable, its downright honorable. Lets not forget, for most of his youth, sonny watched his mother getting regularly beaten and he COULDNT protect HIS mother until he sold his soul to the mob. In that context, this makes total sense. He has talked about how his mob choice was all about saving Adele in the beginning.

Going to the police - wasnt their a story at one point where someone innocent (maybe Michael accidentally shooting kate) I cant remember, where the prosecutors said that if SaSon didnt confess to mob activities they would railroad the person. They also wanted to protect Michael from being cross examined by a disbelieving and aggressive prosecutor.

I also didnt mind the Lante scenes and I FLove Maxie's new do. Oh and Lulu - I dont think she is asking for SOnny's benefit. She is thinking like Carly will - Sonny going down will hurt the boys. This is Lulu's FAMILY.

Michael could have dropped the axe and punched Claudia, this was not justifiable homicide, it might be temporary insanity but the fact that Michael isn't in therapy though he's been violent in the recent past would probably go against that argument as well.

And let's not forget, when Michael shot Kate, by accident sure but there was no intervention, no punishment, just another coverup. I think Guza is trying to create Jason II but he is missing an important component, Jason felt like he had 2 choices: the Qs or Sonny, and Sonny wanted Jason in his business. Michael has more family on the canvas than any other cast member and none of them want him in the business, rather than opening doors for Michael, I think by murdering Claudia Guza puts him in mob purgatory.

Also regarding the coverup, I kept wondering when they were going to mention the car which led Michael to the cabin, how exactly are they going to get it out of the ditch without a towtruck? And while it's true that Michael just happened to be driving by, according to Jason's directions to Sonny the spot didn't seem to be out of the way, Sonny got there quickly, so in addition to wondering why noone else found the spot, won't someone notice that the cabin burned to the ground during a storm.

So, let me get this straight. Michael has now killed two people? TWO?!?!?! First AJ and now Claudia. And now Lulu is a mob apologist? WTF? Why, this show? Just, why?

I had a teenager who was similar in disposition to Michael, they don't need brain injuries to be determined to go off track, and Sonny and Carly are not doing all they can do to help him. Michael would not get the same treatment that Sonny and Jason have received at the hands of police and prosecutors, they are unrepentent other than lip service, mobsters, they have made choices. Micheal is a child and I would guess that the prosecutors and police would feel sorry for him on some level, Sonny, Carly, and Jason would be dragged through the mud but Michael would be able to get the psychiatric help he needs.

I couldn't believe that Michael was swinging the axe with Claudia holding the baby. And what I really didn't understand that it just seemed okay that he killed a woman in a very brutal way. His father walks up to him and says "you did good"? WTH? Isn't that the last clue normal parents would need to get their TEENAGE son some professional help??? In the end of the day they are handling it just like he has become his father's son? Oh please.....
I hated that part. In fact, I hated that Michael was the one who had to kill Claudia. And that in this really extreme way.

And Lulu wanting to protect Sonny from Dante? Why? Why has anyone to become an apologist for the mob? And if you're not you just look as stupid as Jax or the entire Port Charles Police Department for that matter.

Wasn't a good episode...

I can usually suspend belief on so much, I mean I am a DOOLS fan but yesterday's episode was beyond anything I care to think about.

I don't care how Sonny intended his comment to be conveyed there is no denying that he is probably very proud of his boy for taking out his enemy. "You did good son" are words that should only be uttered when you child does something noteworthy and to me killing someone even when that someone is Claudia is not reason to speak those words.

I am sure all of the aftermath will be must see TV but I cannot stand how far this show continues to lower the bar on disgusting. Bullets in a kids head, and unrepentent father and now a murdering son. So much for not wanting your life to touch your kids.

Sorry but to me there is no redeeming quality in a Michael that could kill and be so non-chalant about it, he is not Jason he is a dain bramaged (thanks Scoboot) angry young man who was never given the help he should of had. But its good to know that when Jason retires and sonny dies a horrible death (one can dream) Michael will be there to take over the reins and live the life he wants so bad.

Bullets in a kids head, and unrepentent father and now a murdering son. So much for not wanting your life to touch your kids.
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And PTC is calling out "Gossip Girl" for having a threesome storyline. You can have teens murdering on a daytime soap, but better don't show sex between teenagers at all. It's such a strange world sometimes.

WHERE IS BOBBIE? She is involved in the raising of Eliesalot's kids, but she can't show up at the dramatic birth of her granddaughter?

I actually would like to see Bobbie's reaction to all of this regarding Michael. She damn near took Luke and Laura's heads off when Lucky ate breakfast under her table.

Wednesday's episode was NOT awesome. It was disgusting.

Michael has taken that all consuming step to become like his father. So reminiscent of Anakin Skywalker and his substitute father, Emperor Palantine.

If Michael isn't redeemed soon then it would have been better had he died of the bullet to the head.

Now we enter the next phase of the story: Sonny whining with self-blame but doing nothing to remedy the situation he himself is responsible for. Hey Mr. MobMan, decisions/actions have consequences. There ain't no such things as a free lunch, Sonny. All your sins are going to come home to roost.

OK, I haven't read through all the comments yet but I had to say something before I screamed at my computer. MICHAEL KILLED CLAUDIA IN DEFENSE OF HIS MOTHER AND INFANT SISTER! Whew, that feels better. Killing someone in defense of another does not make the person who killed a murderer. In fact, whoever does the legal research for this show needs a new job because today Jax said that Michael committed involuntary manslaughter and that's so not the case. This would normally be ruled a justifiable homicide. HUGE difference! Certainly, this does not make Michael like Jason or his father. I really wish the mob-haters would get off that bandwagon.

So, let me get this straight. Michael has now killed two people? TWO?!?!?! First AJ and now Claudia.

Michael didn't kill AJ. His corrupt shrink did it and made Michael think he did.

GH Addict and EET, I think I love you both! You two have posted the only reasonable and logical reviews of this really great episode I've read. My only point of disagreement is that I don't think Jax gives much of a damn about Michael. He sees him as a problem and impediment to his "happy family." I have a great deal less respect for him today than I did a year ago. I hope Carly leaves his sorry ass, especially once she learns Jerry Jax kidnapped Michael and Kristina in Mexico--and that Claudia sent him to do it. Jax knew about that episode as well and didn't tell her. Hit the road, Jax, and don't ya come back no more.

Uhmmm Taa before you go slamming Jax but his definition is dead on

in·vol·un·tar·y man·slaugh·ter

Definition:

accidental killing: the unintentional and unlawful killing of one person by another in an act that the killer knew was dangerous or could be a threat to the lives of others

jus·ti·fi·a·ble hom·i·cide

Definition:

lawful killing: killing that is deemed to be lawful, especially because it is carried out in self-defense or as the only way to prevent a crime

Hard to claim in self defense as Claudia had her back turned to Michael and if you want to use the excuse that she was screaming did the moron not remember that his mother was in labor when she was kidnapped by the mentally ill woman, was he 100% sure that a crime was being committed outside of the kidnapping