Whoomp! There It Is: General Hospital Has Already Revealed the Way Sonny’s Storyline Will End

Nope. We’re not buying what General Hospital is selling. The show wants us to believe that Sonny and Jason are going to leave the Mob, and this time they really, really mean it. Mm-hmm. And we have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya cheap!

For years — hell, decades — we’ve been told over and over again that Sonny can never quit the Mob. If he does, his enemies would still come after him and his loved ones. Plus, he’s a “good” mafioso… who just occasionally shoots undercover cops in cold blood (Dante), violently assaults those who cross him (Dex) and murders federal agents (Cates). In Sonny’s mind, he has to remain a made man in order to protect Port Charles.

He’s a hero, doncha know? Yes, despite his mile-long rap sheet.

So it makes zero sense that the show is having Sonny even consider the offer to buy the piers that’s been made by card-carrying, mustache-twirling villain Sidwell. Are we supposed to fall for this? What’s Sonny gonna do if he sells, go strong-arm his way around ELQ? Sit around the Broken Barware Home for Retired Mafiosos and relive his glory days while comparing gunshot scars with other dons? 

Nah. We’ve been beaten over the head too many times with “I can never quit being a kingpin!” to act as if we don’t know how this storyline ends. We do. We all do. At the 11th hour, Sonny will give his version of the “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” speech.

Now, to be clear, we’d like to see what Port Charles would be like if Sonny wasn’t running the Mob. Would it finally give Selina a chance to really flex her muscle (and maybe bring back Brad, however reluctantly, to help)? Would corrupt-to-his-core Drew surreptitiously take charge of the Five Families? Would amoral Brennan annex the Mafia to the WSB as a sensible means to many ends?

It would be fascinating. But it leaves a problem that the soap has never been able to solve. What does it do with Sonny if he isn’t the godfather of Port Charles? We have some thoughts about that, actually.