{"id":994,"date":"2025-01-03T23:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T04:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2025-01-04T07:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:48:01","slug":"general-hospital-commentary-bad-company-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/general-hospital-commentary-bad-company-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"General Hospital Commentary: Bad company in the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Things are quite messy in Port Charles as friends and family ring in the New Year with bad company. 2025 kicks off with adultery, vengeance, dirty deeds and a possible serial killer. Let\u2019s discuss that and more in the latest General Hospital commentary for the week ending January 03, 2025.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n

Happy New Year, dear readers and fellow General Hospital fans. I hope 2025 is filled with good health, prosperity, and blessings for each of you. Sadly, it didn\u2019t get off to a good start for the poor souls in New Orleans. My heart goes out to the victims and their families of that senseless terrorist attack. I will never understand the mental gymnastics it takes to plot something that evil on innocent people, especially in the name of religion. That sounds more like the devil\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the terrorist attack dominated the news, so we had an unexpected pre-emption of General Hospital on Wednesday, leaving us with just three new episodes for the week. But, boy were those episodes filled with juicy developments.<\/p>\n\n\n

The tainted lovers<\/h2>\n\n\n

Willow and Drew have zero shame. Worse, they see themselves as victims even though their nasty little romp on the nursery floor — not to mention their months long emotional affair — imploded Willow\u2019s marriage to Michael. Nope, in their delusional world, Michael is the bad guy. He is the one who put the nanny cam in the nursery — to monitor the new nanny — which captured Drew and Willow having illicit sex. Willow is mad that Michael didn\u2019t immediately tell her about the recording, and she blames him for Tracy inadvertently playing the recording for all to see at the Christmas party.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Willow needs for Michael to be the bad guy because it lessens the sting of her own misdeeds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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Willow and Drew are being pitched as a supercouple in the making, but General Hospital viewers aren’t buying it. | PHOTO: ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A good spin on a bad sin<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a recent Soap Opera Digest<\/a><\/em> interview, Katelyn MacMullen (Willow Corinthos) spoke about the end of Willow\u2019s marriage. I realize that the actors are going to put the best spin on things, and that they often parrot what the show\u2019s powers that be say. I have nothing but respect for Katelyn, but I don\u2019t see things the way that she does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katelyn said of Willow, \u201cShe\u2019s in the frame of mind of not ever having dealt with this kind of thing; she\u2019s a little in over her head and overwhelmed.\u201d According to Katelyn, \u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018Whoa, whoa, whoa, I\u2019m not ready for a lawyer. Michael and I will work this out, we\u2019ll talk about it, we\u2019ve always been able to figure things out and I know we can make this fair.\u2019 But then, of course, events transpire to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never a good time for bad news<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not what I saw unfold. Willow knew her tryst in the nursery with Drew would be the end of her marriage, so she decided to give her kids one last happy family Christmas before coming clean to Michael. But who knows if she would have. She spent months waffling between confessing about the kisses and keeping mum for the sake of her marriage. She might have done the same about her infidelity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think Willow ever wanted to save her marriage. She was just biding her time waiting for an excuse to leave Michael where she could play the wronged party. When Tracy accidentally outed the affair during the Quartermaine Christmas party, Willow went straight home. It didn’t take much for Nina to persuade her to pack up the kids and leave. The next day, Nina hired Willow an attorney, and Willow greenlighted Martin filing for divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was never any conversation with Michael. Never any attempt to save her marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actions have consequences, even on General Hospital<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I realize that both Katelyn and Cameron Mathison are at the mercy of the writers, but it\u2019s a bad romance. Drew comes across as calculating, selfish, and overall gross for pursuing a relationship with his nephew\u2019s wife. Willow might be naive about Drew\u2019s true character, but she is not innocent. She was quick to judge and condemn Michael, while taking no accountability for her own transgressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow acts like her affair with Drew couldn’t be helped, and that they should get credit for trying to fight their feelings. She makes excuses for allowing her lover to spend Christmas Eve with kids, while relegating Michael to a measly Christmas morning breakfast in a hotel with Wiley and Amelia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved Lucas storming in and calling Willow out like that. He spoke for so many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow spent months being dishonest by hiding her growing feelings for Drew and twice acting on them. Actions have consequences, so seeing Willow play the victim feels a bit like gaslighting. The writers are not winning viewers like me over by doing this. I can only speak for myself, but I don’t see a whole lot of support for Drew and Willow online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mommy dearest isn\u2019t much better<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nina is just as manipulative as Drew. Nina isn\u2019t looking out for Willow or the children\u2019s best interests by pushing Willow to file for divorce and custody of Wiley and Amelia. That benefits Nina because she has always resented having to share her daughter and grandchildren with Michael. Having been robbed of raising her twins, Nina is desperate to have Willow, Wiley, and Amelia all to herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Nina is doing is all about Nina. If it was about Willow and the kids, Nina would have been honest with Willow about sleeping with Drew the moment Willow told her about the kiss. She would have helped Willow see Drew for the sleazy dirtbag he is and given Willow a real chance to save her marriage. Willow wouldn\u2019t have been mad because Nina was sleeping with Drew long before he kissed Willow. Had Nina been honest then, she would have spared herself all the heartache that is to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t wait for the day that Willow learns Nina lied to her too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s good for the goose is good for the gander<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I realize that Michael isn\u2019t without sin. He had a tequila fueled one-night stand with Sasha that resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. However, he wouldn\u2019t have been sitting in that bar in the first place if he hadn\u2019t been blindsided by Willow\u2019s infidelity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Willow, Michael decided to wait to tell Willow about Sasha until after Christmas. He wanted to give their children one last happy family holiday. As a parent, I understand that. In this instance, both Willow and Michael put their children\u2019s happiness first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Willow, Michael continues to do that. Well, he did up until he learned that Willow took Wiley to Washington, DC for Drew\u2019s swearing in ceremony. Not only that, but she posed for pictures with Drew, which were plastered all over the news websites. Talk about flaunting your affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking the cycle<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Michael explained that he didn\u2019t want to take the children away from Willow because she was a good mother. He also didn\u2019t want his kids to endure what Michael, and his siblings went through during Sonny and Carly\u2019s tumultuous breakups. I commend him for that. I also respected Michael for not being vindictive toward Willow. He offered her far more grace than she did him. Unfortunately, Willow’s latest move was the last straw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Michael owe Willow the truth about what happened with Sasha? No. Not anymore. Willow walked out on the marriage and has filed for divorce. He owes her nothing. Willow burned that bridge when she had served Michael with legal papers without so much as a conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will Sasha ever be happy for more than 2.3 seconds? It’s General Hospital… so probably not. | PHOTO: ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sasha\u2019s choice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Folks, I adore Sasha. She\u2019s flawed, but she owns it. She also makes an effort to do better. That said, I hate that she wants to cut Michael out of their baby\u2019s life. It\u2019s not right, and it\u2019s not what is best for the baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sasha\u2019s arguments ring hollow to me. Michael has shown in the last couple of weeks that he puts his children first, and that he\u2019s a good man. He\u2019s not vilifying Willow or talking about her disparagingly. He respects her as a mother and wants what\u2019s best for his kids. Why would Sasha not want a man like that as a father for her baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was wrong of Sasha to tell Michael that she doesn\u2019t want him to be a part of their child\u2019s life because of his father and his family. She\u2019s punishing him for the actions of others. He can\u2019t help that he was born a Quartermaine and raised a Corinthos any more than Sasha could help being Holly and Robert\u2019s daughter. Given Holly\u2019s history — and the fact that Sidwell was recently seen seated in church behind Sasha — I would say the baby is in far more danger from Sasha\u2019s family\u2019s enemies than Michael\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know much of this is being dictated by Chad Duell\u2019s exit from General Hospital in the coming weeks, but the writing makes Sasha look selfish and unfair. A child is not a procession, and Michael has as much right to be a part of the baby\u2019s life as Sasha does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children need both parents to step up and do right by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Braedyn Bruner is the new Emma Drake on General Hospital. She made her debut on December 23, 2024. | PHOTO: ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n