Okay, we’ve waited patiently (not really). We’ve been nice (hardly). We’ve been accepting (as if we had any other choice). But now it’s beginning to look a lot like a Reveal is in the wind. Well, all I can say is this: It’s about damn time!

Remember back when Kristina was born – how we all speculated about when Sonny would find out that he’s her father? Well, I was beginning to think that the jokes about ‘when Kristina returns from Yale’ would be right. I mean, really. How long should this have taken? And, in the meantime, did we really need baby Morgan (he who is named after Sonny’s wife’s former lover) and this new baby-to-be with Sam the Strumpet? The answer is no on both counts.

Had the story been given its true due, the scenario could have gone something like this: Sonny sleeps with Alexis one night, Carly pretends to be dead to break them apart and it works, Alexis tells Sonny to go home to his wife (which is really what happened on the tape and how come only a few of us remember that?), he does, Alexis finds out that she’s pregnant, tries to tell Sonny but doesn’t before deciding not to, Carly finds out the truth and still can’t have a baby, Alexis moves out of the penthouse, months go by, and then Sonny finds out. That’s where this story could really have taken flight!



Sonny confronts Alexis, they fight, she explains why she didn’t tell him, she betrayed him, she’s nothing to him – you know the drill. Then Sonny feels torn between his marriage to Carly and Alexis and his one and only child and whether or not he should try to make a life with them instead. Meanwhile Alexis is vehemently opposed to anything even remotely similar to a life with Sonny and tells him so, mostly because her common sense is still fully operational but also partly due to hurt feelings from his leaving her to drop back down into the gutter (oops! I mean go back to Carly…) and is also still the same commitment-phobe that we’ve all known and loved for years. But after much soul-searching Alexis acknowledges that no one will love her baby more than her father Sonny and agrees that he should play a part in the baby’s life. And so for every visit Sonny makes to check up on Alexis, for every mention of her name, Little Miss Carly's nose is pushed squarely out of joint, completely green with envy is she that Alexis can give Sonny the child that she cannot and worried over what that fact will do to her marriage. Another consideration here is that Alexis' sister Kristina can continue to live (unless dear Helena pays one of her infamous visits) because there's no need to drive a wedge between Alexis and Sonny. If anything, the opposite is needed here for a good, old fashioned triangle.

At the same time, we see a Sonny and Alexis very much like before - bonding over her pregnancy, worrying about the baby’s safety, remembering what led them to that night in the first place, and coming to terms with all that happened afterward. This would naturally result in Sonny trying to walk an emotional tightrope between his emotionally immature and morally challenged wife and the real woman who is carrying his child.

When Alexis goes into labor, it is Sonny in the delivery room with her - NOT NED ASHTON!!! It is Sonny and Alexis who are holding onto each other, waiting and worrying about their baby daughter while she’s in intensive care after her birth, driving Carly to even more hysterically psychotic behavior, splitting Sonny even further in two. And then all of those incredibly precious and tender scenes with Sonny and the infant Morgan – scenes where it looked as if the baby in his arms actually listened and understood him – would rightfully happen with Sonny and Kristina - his FIRST BORN!



Of course, going forward, Alexis would have decided again that Sonny’s life is no place to raise a baby - probably due to a shoot-out or a car explosion or two. There could be a custody battle, with Sonny and his wife being awarded custody of little Kristina over Alexis by virtue of being (get this!) a stable, two-parent home. Alexis would behave as any mother would at such a decision and predictably enough would be denied visitation rights. Meanwhile the still unable to have children Carly finds herself growing closer to Sonny’s daughter with another woman. And then later Alexis could regain her visitation rights, Sonny insisting on being present when she does visit, and the two former friends and now bitter combatants begin to feel less and less combatant and more and more like two loving parents of a little girl. Over time Sonny could decide that Kristina truly belongs with her mother, even though Carly has formed a strong emotional attachment to her. And then, for the sake of both Alexis and Kristina, Sonny could relinquish custody, giving Kristina back to Alexis, breaking his wife’s heart in the process and driving her to her customary petulant and self-destructive behavior in retaliation. Ah, so many possibilities, so many missed opportunities. But there’s no sense crying over spilled milk, is there? We were cheated out of all of that. No matter how furious I become whenever I think about it, it's time for me to move on, dammit (she told herself)!

Time to concentrate on what’s ahead.

Now I may be in the minority here but I do not see a need for Ric in this storyline. Frankly, I don’t see a need for Ric – period. Am I the only one who remembers when Carly and Jason were in jail with Ric way back at the beginning of his story? Remember all of those flashbacks he kept having about explosions and the like? Remember how everyone thought that he was a relative of Lily’s or something? Well, that’s how this character should have been used – as a relative of the Rivera clan who wanted revenge on Sonny because of what happened to Lily and for what happened to her father. But, no! Ric had to be Sonny’s brother, of all things – a brother that his practically sainted mother had during an affair with a wealthy whatever, a brother that she turned her back on when this wealthy man wanted her to send her son Sonny away. Puh-leese!

Now there’s this ‘I-want-my-brother’s-approval/I-want-to-destroy-my-brother’ thing that Ric vacillates between, which had him kidnap Carly (bet he was sorry for that one, wasn’t he?), drug Elizabeth, and now has him cozying up to Alexis without telling her his real reason, which is that he knows Sonny is her daughter’s biological father and has figured out, yet, another way to stick it to the brother he loves/the brother he hates.



That said, I wouldn’t mind terribly if Ric served to help this reveal along. I absolutely LOATHE what’s been happening on GH this past week and the spoilers I've read about this (sorry but you'll have to consult another source if you don't already know what those spoilers are...) so, if I had my choice, it would happen this way. Ric tries to force Alexis to reveal something to him about Sonny that will help send him to prison, a move that will make her see him for the snake he really is. She could refuse to comply and then he could reveal himself to be a true viper by becoming the next person in line to blackmail her with the knowledge about Kristina’s connection to Sonny. And then that’s when it could happen.

That’s when Alexis, sick and tired of being victimized by everyone in town with a memory, access to hospital records, a calendar, and at least three of the standard five senses, marches herself over to the penthouse and tells Sonny the absolute truth and that his precious Carly knew the truth and used it for her own purposes. Sonny yells at Alexis – she betrayed him, she’s nothing to him - she yells back, they argue, they rant, they rave, he sues for custody, he wins, he and Alexis connect over their love for Kristina, he eventually gives her back to Alexis, and their relationship takes on a whole new dimension, driving both Ric and Carly completely insane and pushing them into a desperate dual suicide pact where they take a flying leap off of the same bridge that Carly “died” beneath just two years ago, drowning in the waters below (I just threw that one in because I like the way it sounds…).

You may have noticed in all of this that I’ve neglected to address two key points of today’s General Hospital, namely this attraction that Alexis has for Ric and this situation between Sonny, Sam, Jason, and Carly and yet another of Sonny’s offspring in the oven. Well, there’s a reason for that. Why would Alexis be attracted to a man she hardly knows – a man who has been shadowing her and who has pushed himself into her life out of the clear blue sky, a man who kidnapped a pregnant woman with the intention of stealing her unborn child and keeping it for himself? Now, I know that this opinion won’t sit well with those of you who’ve been chomping at the bit for Alexis to finally have a little romance in her life but clearly, for me at least, Sonny’s brother is not it (this sleep with one brother and then sleep with the other thing on GH has got to stop…). I still want a relationship with Alexis and Sonny in all of its volatile, on-again/off-again glory but I would settle for an Alexis-Kevin Collins interlude – albeit a brief one. They tried to pair her with Stalker Shrink last year and, thankfully, that fizzled since the pair hadn’t even a smattering of chemistry. So if they want to go shrink, why not bring back good ol’ Doc Kevin? Anybody but the slimy Ric Lansing! And as far as Sam the perpetually dewy-eyed helpless and dependent air-head of a female character who is now pregnant with another one of Sonny’s children (after not quite being sure of who her baby’s father was without a DNA test – ewww!), I’m not sure I have enough bandwidth to explain all that’s wrong with that picture but I’ll try to summarize. IT’S PREPOSTEROUS! I mean, really. How many more children will Sonny father? By how many more women (yeah, I know. I shouldn’t have asked…)? Whatever happened to the man for whom things like that mattered – the man who cared about the women he slept with – THE MAN WHO COULDN’T BECOME A FATHER NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIED? In their never-ending effort to sweep Alexis and her daughter under the rug in favor of far less interesting stories for Sonny (featuring far less interesting characters), could the powers that be have been any more obvious than to have trumped up another unexpected pregnancy with Sonny as the male donor? Oh, and by the way - the unborn child just happens to be a girl, too - just like another little girl we all know and love. Coincidence? I think not.

Now having absolutely no faith whatsoever in the ability of GH’s writers to script The Reveal in a way that will satisfy, I’m still eager for it to happen – if only to see the explosion when Sonny finds out and comes face to face with a frightened yet unrepentant Alexis. I hate seeing her paired with the overrated Ric Lansing and I hate it that, once again, Carly knows the truth and can blow the lid off Alexis’ lie whenever she chooses to. I hate it that the writers have had Sonny dismiss his time with Alexis as “high maintenance” and I hate it that Alexis has decided to help Ric “bring Sonny down once and for all”. Still it sounds to me like these next weeks just might mean Emmy material for Maurice and Nancy – long awaited Emmy material, featuring them together - just as it did two years ago. I don't know about any of you but I, for one, am keeping my fingers crossed!



But believe it or not, I do notice other things on GH. For example, Heather Webber? Really? Was this necessary? And why does no one remember what a one-woman wrecking crew she was back then? Instead everyone she comes in contact with welcomes her into their lives with open arms. Murder, stalking, poisoning Lesley Webber. How did she manage to get Luke locked up? And now she wants Edward? What’s she got against Skye? More importantly, what have the GH writers got against us?

And finally (yes, I’m about to run out of gas…) after treating the wonderful Anna Lee so incredibly shabbily by forcing the end of her GH career so that they wouldn’t have to write anything for her, further skewing the show to the under 30 crowd, GH tried to make up for it by piecing together a memorial for Lila Quartermaine/tribute to Anna Lee.

Jed Allan aka NuEddieQ was touching as the scoundrel whose life partner left the party without him. Stuart Damon and Wally Kurth broke my heart. Jane Elliot’s Tracy, however, just made me want to smack her. Can she be any more of a screaming, hysterical harpy? Had GH not been Re-Cast Central for the past several months, the tribute might have been that much more powerful.

Still it was nice to see so many familiar faces turn up for Lila’s service – Lee and Gail Baldwin, the aforementioned Doc Kevin, Lucy, and the much missed Robin. I loved seeing Robin with Sonny again. Her scene with Jason was even tolerable, considering that Jason never really loved Robin, which he didn’t realize until he met Courtney (remember that line of dreck?). Gee, I wonder whether or not he even remembers Courtney these days…Oh and, for consistency's sake, why was Ric there? Answer: to stalk Alexis, of course. Can you say "Stalker DA"?

The flashbacks were a nice touch. We got to see Amber Tamblyn, John Ingle, and – my favorite Edward – David Lewis. But what about those who were missing in action – Anna Devane, Amy Vining? Anyone remember Audrey Hardy? Where was she? Wait a minute! Lila had another grandson, didn’t she? Now let me see…Oh, that’s right! He’s called A.J., isn’t he? Couldn’t make it either, huh? I mean do the folks in charge hate the character so much that not only did they refuse to write for Billy Warlock in the role, they wouldn’t even consider having the character come back (played by anyone at all) for his grandmother’s service? However, for me, the most glaring absence was that of Luke Spencer. Now I realize that plotlines be damned, the Emmy-winning Mr. Geary must have his weeks off throughout the year and nothing and no one will stand in the way. But, really now. Couldn’t he have shown up for a few minutes to pay televised respects to this special actress and her beloved character? Thank goodness for flashbacks ‘cause, without them, Luke Spencer would never have been seen at all, regardless of whether he adored Lila or not. Tsk, tsk!

All in all, though, it was a sweet homage to an irreplaceable actress and character. Anna Lee’s warmth, style, and elegance will certainly be missed.

And yes -
Sonny and Alexis: are STILL Simply A Revelation!!

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