It was great! Again, the writers are injecting dialogue and adding depth. The last writing regimen would have NEVER wrote these scenes between CARSON. The dialogue was true to each others characters. Carly wants Sonny to clean up his act and Sonny says he will see what he can do. In other words, its never going to change and Carly hit the nail on the head when she stated there was no reason to leave him since they would only hurt others and eventually end up back together. Great stuff!

These scenes just made me hate them even more, they both make me sick to my stomach. I think Carly needs to spend more time raising Jocelyn.

These types of conversations where writers delve into why might not have the excitement value of shoot out, but they draw me into as a viewer, eager to listen to some real dialogue that has some depth and meaning behind it. Over at Y&R, my ears bleed listening characters scream out the same one liners every day ie. Victor– “Billy boy is no good” Summer ” I don’t want to be caught in the middle” Nikki ” You gone too far this time Victor” Phyllis ” He has to be pay” over and over and over– so thank you GH for reminding me what drama is like when it goes into the motivation of the characters and my ears thank you too.

Laura was exceptional. When Carly isn’t being annoying the character can be great.

This was just another reworded conversation they’ve had a thousand times. Carly realized their culpability in the terrible things that happen due to the mob, Sonny once again said he’d try to limit collateral damage and would protect his family. As he has promised for decades, and has always had the same results. Granted, I guess it was nice seeing them have a repeated conversation but with calmer demeanors, but nothing has changed, nor will it ever.

This is why GH is always on fire. Many dislike the constant focus on Sonny and Carly but I love this relationship because it is not about fake hero worship of each other. They both know each others weak spots and know about their personality flaws. Carly hates what Sonny does for work but loves the man she sees. Sonny knows what he does decimates his wife but he also knows it defines who he is to himself. He loves Carly like no other woman. Every time he is with another woman he is bent on proving to himself that he can wash this lady out of his system. And it always gets destroyed because he knows he can’t quite make it in the world without her. I love this couple because they are human. They are flawed in character, they are weak in parts but together they satisfy a need that is not understood by outsiders. They are the epitome of a real couple. Love is there. Family is there but also the silent understanding that not one other person, for Carly or Sonny, would put up with what they do to others and to each other. They truly belong together. I don’t know if this defines “star crossed lovers” but it does define the meaning of the phrase, “for every person there is a match”. Whether its by heaven or hell is for each individual person to consider. I love GH so much for how they portray the frailty and strength of this couple. Laura Wright and Maurice Benard know these characters so well. Kudos to both of them. Thank you for a great performance and for continuing to portray all that Sonny and Carly are. God I love this show.

I appreciate the attempt by the writers to explain their relationship, and I think much of what was said is plausible. Unfortunately, I am long past caring.

And also unfortunately, although I applaud the attempt to do a better job of defining who these two characters are and why they act as they do, what really needs to be explained is not why Carly and Sonny are attracted to one another, but why they aren’t total pariahs in Port Charles but are instead more or less accepted in Port Charles society. That’s the crux of the problem for most of us who are tired of All Things Corinthos–not a failure to understand Sonny and Carly’s complicated relationship.

All in all, an attempt to explore the characters a little more deeply can’t be a bad thing, but in this case, it leaves a bigger stone unturned. Maybe that’s coming, but I kind of doubt it.

(And why do I still think that if Brenda came back and made a credible play for Sonny, he’d still abandon Carly in a heartbeat?)

Loved seeing Sonny n Carly have a civil adult conversation about their relationship. I can see how much they have matured. This conversation was needed n both Maurice n Laura acted it perfectly!!!

I want Sonny with Ava… Fire and ice never a boring moment..
If Ava were with Sonny perhaps he would be my Sonny again, and this new monk Sonny, the love guru would die off.. yuck!

I just have need to FF through the 10 minutes a overly long conversations/ talk talk talk LOL

My favorite college professor would say;
If you can’t say what needs to be said in a solid paragraph then you are just muttering on.

Laura and Maurice are gold, both phenomenal actors!

I wish i could understand it…i like the actors but not their characters…Sonny talks about his mob stuff like its just another day at the office and Carly is Mrs June Cleaver with an anxiety disorder!!!1

Was it me, or have the viewers seen these scenes play out before? I felt as though it was Groundhog Day, watching these scenes. I’m sorry, but Carly being written as a “good mother” is beyond comprehension to me. She does not put her children’s lives or their safety first. Her needs and wants come first. She is a text book narcissist, just like Sonny. Case in point, when she was speaking with her daughter at the Metro Court, and Joss told her how appealing and glamorous that she thought her Uncle Sonny’s lifestyle was-Carly looked shocked, dumbfounded! Why, though? She has done nothing to shield her children from this dangerous man or his lifestyle. As if what happened to Michael, her first born-in prison, was not enough.

It’s a mixed bag, really. I mean, it was nice that Carly suggested no guns and I really think LW brings it every day (MB half the time), but it really is a wasted conversation (like so many others in the past) if nothing ever changes. And when it comes to Sonny on GH, nothing does. The road paved to a happily ever after for Sonny and Carly has come at the expense of so many more things: the reputation of the show, the writing quality has dropped, a loss of fans over the years, loss of both veteran and newer characters, loss of focus on other aspects of the show including its RICH LONG HISTORY (not it’s history since Sonny arrived), and the villainization of good characters.

At the end of the day, I couldn’t care less about Sonny and Carly as a couple.

Carly and Sonny have ALWAYS been my favorite couple and I am glad to see that they have matured quite a bit since their 1st marriage. I am not sure that I like Carly going to Jason and telling him that she does not want him and Sonny back together again in business, Jason is an adult and should be able to make his own decisions, but I understand where she is coming from. I am hopeful that Jason WILL reunite with Sonny and in turn make the business LEGIT…..that would be a soap first. LOL Sonny needs male friends, so does Jason and they should be allowed to re-kindle their friendship. JMO

Uh…Sonny and Carly’s relationship ‘complex and unique’…NO, NO AND MORE NO!!!!!

I liked the scene. I thought they let Carly represent the voice of the fans when she said that Sonny made violence look sexy and romantic. It’s what so many of us have been complaining about. Now the writers have to follow through. They have to show Sonny trying to rely less on violence. And they have to show Carly holding him accountable. Otherwise it will be a one-off pretty speech that was just inserted to appease fans, and not to really change the direction of the characters. But all in all I was grateful to the writers for putting the conversation out there. I don’t think Carly and Sonny have ever had a heart to heart quite like this.

I thought it was absurd and laughable. NOW Carly’s having a revelation? Not when Michael was shot and in a coma because of Sonny’s business? Not when Michael killed Claudia, was incarcerated, raped…all because of Sonny’s business? Not when he murdered AJ? Not when Jason was “killed” because of Sonny’s business? Or how ’bout when she had Jax adopt Morgan because of Sonny’s business…oh wait! She did have that revelation..,over and over and over again. So now, when she went into revelation 912 and told him…you don’t want to ask me if Im leaving you…she then answers and tells him…..Im not leaving you. Even though our son almost got Kiki killed and attempted suicide…I’m STILL not leaving you.

Oh and Sonny. Can you not take your guns to work? Okay dear…

Could someone explain to me why I should care whatsoever about a career criminal and murderer discussing why he and the woman that helped him cover up the murder of her son’s father are meant for another? Never have two people deserved each other more and never have two people given the fast forward button on my remote such a workout.

I’m a big Sonny and Carly fan, and I really enjoyed their scenes on Monday, and in fact in this whole Bipolar/ Mob storyline. Last Fridays’s scenes with Morgan were wonderful as well. I watch soaps to be entertained, I want to see complex bigger than like characters not perfect everyday people. Sonny and Carly have a lot of dysfunction but that makes them interesting to me. I love Mo and Laura’s chemistry together,we all have characters/pairings we enjoy and they are it for me. Laura Wright is fantastic, and always makes me feel for Carly. I have seen a lot of growth in Carly and I like that. I also understood where Sonny was doing from as well as he is trying to protect his business and his whole family. I always look forward to their scenes together.

What you say is very true, Melissa. I can see how the exchange between Carly and Sonny would be considered poignant by their fans.

I, on the other hand, was not moved. Carly may have superseded my expectations, but Sonny will always be Sonny. I do not think his persona will be changed. I can’t imagine GH without Sonny, as he is. I can’t say. But, I love Maurice, and I would hate for him to lose all semblance of Sonny Corinthos. He should be killed off and brought back as someone else. His good twin, perhaps?

If Sonny is now expected to remove his wolf’s clothing, we will have to wait a very long time. I find it very hard to believe Sonny’s behaviour pattern will change much from his violent lifestyle. That is all he knows.
Everyone around him, especially Carly, has always enabled him. It is no wonder he continued to wreak havoc and destroy others’ home and hearth.

It was a pretty speech, eh? We did see human qualities, somewhat.

As for Vanessa Marcil / Brenda they can’t afford her.

I’m tired of the Carly character. The actress is good but the character has become pointless. She does nothing to move the story forward at this point. If you took her out completely it would make no difference. All she does is wring her hands about her children, proclaim herself Jason’s “best friend”, & get into everyone’s business. She’s pretty judgemental for such an awful person. It’s such a shame that such a formerly great character has become so irritating.