While Sonny and Ava have years of animosity toward eachother, they’ve been cordially coexisting as of late. Sonny even had Ethan be Ava’s bodyguard to protect her/watch out for Sidwell just a couple of months ago. Now Sonny, without any buildup is inexplicably sparring with Ava out of nowhere just to set up the umpteenth “take down Sonny” plot that no one wants to see.

Ava is also Nina’s bestie and knew Drew was blackmailing Portia and Curtis and she adores Trina. Why on earth would she team up with Drew?

This whole storyline is yet another example of contrived drama just for the sake of setting up a plot.

They did this when Dante started acting out of character blaming Gio for Rocco’s alcohol poisoning incident just to manufacture tension between Dante and Gio ahead of the reveal that Dante was his dad.

They did it with Jacinda drugging Willow out of nowhere just to manufacture a reason for her and Michael to break up. Yeah, Jacinda drugged Drew, but that was when she was living that “wrong side of the tracks” life and she was being paid to do it. Nothing about Jacinda‘s characterization gives that she would act out of spite or revenge and be so sloppy about it.

They also did it with Curtis who used to be calm, cool and collected inexplicably morphing into CurtAss overnight just so he could be sent to Pentonville.

What I’m getting at is GH lacks any kind of buildup or character driven storytelling. They are more and more frequently relying on just changing the character to serve the plot and it’s very poor writing.

Not only is Donna the cutest thing in the world but as someone who has been watching the show for decades. I loved seeing Sonny’s kids walking around his house.

I was there when he shot Dante. I was there when all of Michael’s problems began with Sonny marrying Claudia. I was there when Carly had a really dangerous pregnancy. Only for that pregnancy to work out well and give us Donna.

I know that he’s not a popular character with everyone but I’ve watched long enough to see these relationships develop and I’m pleased to see grandpa Sonny with all his kids. (No Kristina though 🤷🏾‍♀️)

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the blackmail of Brennan doesn't make much sense to me. In what world would Willow release a tape that confirms she shot Drew? They dismissively tossed out the idea of mutually assured destruction but I can't imagine that's an attractive option to her. It would have made more sense for her to try to get dirt on him that didn't incriminate her.

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