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What Happened: Baby Avery

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Sabrina, Michael, Morgan, Kiki, Ava & Avery What Happened: To get Baby Avery back in Sonny's hands, Morgan (Bryan Craig) swapped out Michael's allergy meds for pills that would interact more significantly with alcohol, causing him to appear as a drunken, unfit guardian. A wobbling Michael (Chad Duell) knocked over Avery's stroller while she was in it (4/8). Michael eventually caught Morgan and pressed charges (4/24), which he dropped after Sonny (Maurice Benard) promised to stop his appeal for Avery's custody (4/28). Dr. Silas (Michael Easton) rescues a wounded Ava (Maura West) and helps her heal while everyone thinks she's dead. He finds she has cancer and kidnaps Avery from Kiki on 4/13 to take her bone marrow (6/3). To elude previous murder …show more content…

He was making a public fool of himself, getting crass with everyone, including the police and his lawyer...poor Alexis. It was great watching "off-the-hinges" Michael--mouthy, insubordinate, persistent and emotional--that's the Michael I know. This white-knight, white-washed thing has gone so far, they even had him being the 1st to stop sex with new girlfriend Sabrina, to "take things slow." Sabrina, the character who's walking holy water, and at the time was worried about her criminal 1st love being hurt by law enforcement. Absurd. The essential writing problem with M&M (I just had to use that) is imbalance and extremities-Michael's a spotless angel, Morgan's an ignorant devil-which ignores and contradicts their character histories and every precedent set. They deserve their own tailor-made narrative, versus being forced into being AJ and Jason part deux, which was a completely different situation. Michael is the clear winner, when it should be muddier and more complicated than that. I might do a more exhaustive piece on this later. Square pegs are being forced into round holes all around; the prime reason we have to suffer through a needless "MorKi" redux and the ill-pairing of Michael and Sabrina is because there aren't enough young people on GH and soap writers seem too afraid to explore angles that aren't romance-based. Heaven forbid a character is single. Who cares if it's awful for the storyline, redundant or feigned, right? I object to Sabrina and Michael in part because I'm sick of Sabrina (Teresa Castillo) being used as a romantic bridge for other characters and not having a storyline that's all about her. That's why, in hindsight, I hate that her baby didn't live. I hate the Ava poisoning plot was thrown away so quickly and that "Carlina" (Carlos and Sabrina) was so short-lived. Carlos was from her past, and with him, she's wasn't this saccharine

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