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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio
There are definite signs pointing to a horizontal tango with Carly at the very least, but Franco has been creeping on just about everyone in Port Charles at this point. And Todd...that is an interesting character. Watching some critical back episodes led me to the gang rape saga, which is jaw-dropping. The actual gang rape itself was terrifying. The focus on the stuffed animal made it wholly sickening to watch.
I actually read that the reason Howarth isn't so keen on interviews anymore is related to that storyline. He was doing an interview, and a female fan screamed, "Rape me!" and he was utterly horrified, wanted to separate from the show and character, and really hasn't done a great deal in terms of interviews since.
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Really? I remember hearing that mentioned, but what actually happened? I don't have cable so all I have to go on is the episodes from November when I started watching up till now. I definitely get the feeling that there is a darker side to Todd's character than was shown since I've been watching. The way he was ready to have Connie killed at the drop of a hat was rather chilling.
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The way I figured it out...my sister and I are watching GH, and they say that Danny has leukemia. I'm trying to figure out how Silas knew, as my little sister asks, "What kind of cancer is leukemia?" and my mom, a nurse, says, "It's blood cancer." Then I was like, "HOLY ****! SILAS IS A GODDAMNED VAMPIRE!!!"
Today cemented it, when Lucy accused him of being a vampire, and I am pretty certain she didn't mean it figuratively, because it's ****ing Lucy. Then Silas is all, "Yeah, we're staying in Port Charles now."
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I always knew he was a vampire. Like I said, the scene in the morgue was impossible to interpret wrong. Caleb was dead on the slab, and then the doctor brought out the ring and instantaneously the doctor became Caleb and the guy on the slab became the doctor. If he isn't a vampire then he's a wizard.
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He's almost definitely going to **** Sam, though.
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I can see that too. All these old actors playing new characters like Robert playing Franco, Lauren Katherine playing Kiki, and Michael Easton playing Caleb/Silas all seem to be having storylines with their old flames. And with Kiki kissing Michael (which had me totally cracking up) I definitely think that they're all going to end up having weird, dysfunctional romances with them.
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Yeah, Benard really stepped it up. Carly had really crossed the line, because it seems that Sonny had never stopped loving Olivia, only realizing this when she was shot, predominately in his name. It was a botched hit, and Sonny is taking hella accountability for it, and with these realizations that Olivia is so important to him, taking everything out on Shawn and Carly. The way he's playing it is almost perfect.
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Yeah, he's definitely playing it like James Gandolfini-lite. Emotionally closed off, and he deals with tragedy by turning his sadness and pain into anger and violence.
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He's also smart enough to have seen through Carly to know the hit was meant for him, and almost seemed to have some sense of the hit from the get-go, even before Olivia was shot.
I feel there's a very good chance that Franco knows Jason is alive, and is exploiting it for some reason.
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Yeah, he's obviously got an ulterior motive. Poisoning the relish (seriously? a storyline about relish?) was obviously meant as a way to weaken ELQ. Along with him being involved with AJ and Tracy with ELQ, something dastardly is about to go down. I just can't figure it out. Why he would want to hurt a company that would be providing him with him income through his shares in the company? He has to know that no one would ever in a million years let him anywhere near a position in the company, so I don't know that he's gunning for CEO. Of course with AJ being CEO who knows? Still, I think that something much bigger is going on, and with all the hints to some great conspiracy with Jerry Jacks I can see him somehow being involved.
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I feel like Shawn is going to try to skip town, possibly even packing TJ up with him - or trying to do so...but it seems like Shawn is really in it for himself, and wouldn't ultimately see leaving TJ behind as a bad thing; he'd probably think it was in both of their best interests.
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I've been wondering about that. What with the storyline about Felix's sister and TJ breaking up with Molly I think he's definitely about to go off the rails, at least for the summer, and Shawn leaving would definitely exacerbate that.
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Yeah, he seems to have some particular mission to **** with Morgan. He's been doing it quite a bit, and Morgan's just a dumb kid. I'm pretty interested to see what his exact motivation is here, because ****ing with Michael would be so much more damaging, ostensibly.
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I think that's just his screwed up way of being a good dad. He's gonna play the overprotective father just because it's fun to screw with Morgan, and if it serves his weird, but somehow kind of genuine desire to be Kiki's dad then all the better.
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so looking forward to how he reacts to Michael's kissing Kiki. I never saw the old episodes with James Franco as Franco so I don't really have that great a feel for Franco's character, but he seems unstable enough that his reaction is anyone's guess. But considering the screwed up nature of cousin-on-cousin lovin', then I'm sure his response will be suitably screwed up as well.
I was also disappointed that they didn't immediately follow up with that storyline yesterday. I was hoping to see AJ's reaction to Franco just dropping the rape bombshell in casual conversation like a true psycho, and I'm hoping he goes ballistic. AJ is a quality douche. He's totally consequence-phobic and he was only concerned with his amusement at Carly and Sonny's reaction to Brenda supposedly sleeping with Miachel, so he's obviously almost completely self-absorbed. Not to mention that he's been kissing the ass of the guy who got his son raped. This whole him-finding-out-about-the-rape thing seems like a good opportunity to see if he can actually grow as a character, especially after the last scene at the mansion. I mean come on, if AJ doesn't flip out over that then I think that his character might be unredeemable.
P.S. Another character that bothers me. Spinelli. I can never be sure if he's a lovingly silly spoof of an uber-geek, or just evidence that whoever is the target audience for GH have probably never spoken with an actual geek in their lives. Seriously, if Spinelli were black he'd have an afro ten feet in diameter and he'd walk into every scene with a TV under one arm and a bucket of KFC under the other. And he'd probably announce his arrival with, "What's crackalackin wit' all you honkies?! Spin L.E. all up in dis biatch!"