r/GeneralHospital 1d ago

Please Explain The Following

WHY does Drew hate Sonny all of a sudden??? I’ve watched for over 18 years now and I don’t understand. This is reminding me of when Laura and Anna suddenly had issues w Sonny a few years ago. Maybe it’s just bad writing??? It seems so out of no where.

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u/Shabbadoo1015 1d ago

Drew’s whole villain arc has never and still doesn’t make a lick of sense. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/Gold_Repair_3557 1d ago

Drew went from zero to sixty real fast. His affair with Willow was the major turning point. Once that was revealed, he went full villain mode and hasn’t looked back since. 

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u/WearyInvestigator272 19h ago

I think we really started to see a change in when he went to jail for Carly and got out. I think something may have happened to him in jail. My mom thinks that this person is not really Drew. She thinks that someone, maybe Helena (yes, she still skeptical about Helena being dead) or someone else may have switched him with a body double.

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u/krissy3456 1d ago

I know he was such a good guy , sure he made mistakes but not like this , I don’t like when people blame the actor though , it’s not his fault he is just playing a role , but I miss the old character of Drew , Cameron Mathison is doing a great job though

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u/DavidS128 1d ago

They basically retconned the character. Not the same person as old Drew... the one who literally had Jasons memories and could've told the police where all the bodies were buried.

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u/paralleltime1840 1d ago

What’s weird no one even acknowledges he had Jason’s memories. Big retcon

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u/VirginiaUSA1964 Team OG/Legacy Characters 1d ago

CM has said repeatedly that he goes to Frank about stuff. He went to him about how long it was taking to be talking and walking again. He is very much in charge of his character.

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u/krissy3456 1d ago

But it’s still just a characther not who he is, and that’s not saying he wants his character to be bad , he is just saying he wants his character to be walking , and a lot of actors like having different roles like this from the real life personality

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u/VirginiaUSA1964 Team OG/Legacy Characters 22h ago

As I said in my other comment, it's most likely CM asked to work with Mo and that's why they made this new storyline.

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u/krissy3456 6h ago

I read what he said in an interview just now , and what he said was he can give feedback but it’s really up to the creators , producers what the character does , he has said he doesn’t like some of Drew’s storyline lately , but he’ll obviously do whatever they say because he is grateful for the part , and just cuz he gives feedback like you say he said , doesn’t mean he gets final saying , it could be any type of feedback not negative

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u/Tasty-Shoulder5511 1d ago

I don’t think the writers watch the show.

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u/Certain-Ease-8428 1d ago

😂😂😂

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u/katinboots88 this show is unserious 23h ago

Agreed!!! Especially with this recent writing!

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u/almost60inLa 22h ago

Bad writing at its finest. Sonny and Ava have been ok for years now, then out of nowhere this? She is also lying to Drew about Sonny badmouthing her in front of Avery, never happened and never would happen , Sonny is a lot of things but he wouldn’t subject Avery to such nonsense. It’s just a plot point to further the story…. And to I guess get Maura West something to do besides have martini’s with Nina. Drew needs to GO AWAY.

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u/kalyknits 21h ago

He literally just sent a bodyguard to keep her safe and now he’s saying Avery would be better off if her mother disappeared? It’s nonsense.

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u/almost60inLa 21h ago

Yes nonsense at its finest!!!

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u/Pegafer 1d ago

I said 1 million times and I’ll say it 1 million more times even though the writers never read what I write get rid of Drew and Willow and Jordan and Curtis and give us some decent storylines that aren’t all misery and unhappiness all the damn time!

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u/UMOTU 1d ago

It’s from a long time ago since I stopped watching for like 30 years but the reason Luke and Laura took off is because they were in trouble and on the run but their alter ego personas had fun and they fell in love. It seems like now, no one ever has fun.

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u/Pegafer 1d ago

Exactly

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u/aurorab12 1d ago

THIS!!!!👆👆

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u/PlainOGolfer “Team Willow”  20h ago

Or keep those characters and be better at storytelling. If they got rid of those guys it wouldn’t improve the writing, they’d just mess up other people.

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u/Acceptable_Mirror235 1d ago

The writers didn’t know what to do with Drew so they made him a villain. No reason beyond that .

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u/TreenBean85 Team We Just Can't Have Nice Things 23h ago

I'm starting to think it's more like the writers are catering to what the actors want. Cameron probably doesn't want to just get what's coming to him from the Willow storyline so he wants a big flashy new story of him getting to take down Sonny.

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u/Aggravating_Feed2411 1d ago

Why does Willow think she has to escape her marriage to Michael, why does Chase hate michael snd the Qs, why are we still on with the car crash nonsense, why is Trina now suddenly into singing. 

There are so many poorly developed stories were stuck in. 

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u/kalyknits 21h ago

Chase has been salty at Michael since Willow cheated with Michael while married to Chase (out of pity).
Somehow he’s completely forgiven Willow for the betrayal.

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u/mrgpsingh1999 19h ago

I know Chase thought that he was going to die that time but why was he so hell bent on marrying Willow when he knew she was with Michael? Or did he not know that they had fallen in love?

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u/sunnirays 13h ago edited 13h ago

If I remember, Willow and Michael needed to marry to improve their chances of keeping full custody of Wiley against Nelle (Willow would provide him with a stable mother figure) but didn't want to break up their existing relationships with Chase and Sasha. To make sure they didn't lose Wiley, Chase and Sasha staged a fake affair between themselves for Willow to walk in so they could dump them and have no qualms about a marriage of convenience.

They won custody and then Nelle died, so then Chase came clean about the fake affair and the original two couples reunited. Except during their fake marriage Willow and Michael started to fall in love for real and Willow intended to break things off with Chase except he got sick (after being poisoned by Peter) and seemed likely to die, so she stayed with him as not to hurt him and basically fulfilled his "dying wish" of marrying her. Only Chase got better and had to move in with the Quartermaines due to being wheelchair bound, and it created a whole messy situation where Chase thought the marriage was real while Willow was stuck with him and still seeing Michael on the side.

This whole Chase resents Michael for stealing Willow from him and is still in love with her thing probably should've been done years ago since he largely forgave both of them for the affair, but it's another case of the writers not doing storylines when they make sense and instead waiting years down the line to follow up on the apparent repressed issues at play. Just like Willow suddenly have a dependency issue stemming from her time at DOD, when she first came to town she was traumatized sure but largely independent and prepared to start a new life for herself

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u/sunnirays 1d ago edited 1d ago

The only reason seems to be Sonny is just close with both Jason and Michael, who he has also randomly decided he hates for some reason. I never understand this whole "I was never accepted as a true Quartermaine" thing he has because I'm pretty sure he was? When Drew was revealed to be Jason's twin there was the usual grumbling about splitting up the ELQ shares once again but they never had any issue with him until he decided to sleep with Michael's wife

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u/Dalanard 1d ago

Contrived drama

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u/katinboots88 this show is unserious 1d ago

Bad writing

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u/Actorandrew 22h ago

Inconsistent writing. Ava and Sonny at each other's throats also came out of nowhere.

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u/OkEstablishment3603 16h ago

Yeah he hates the quartermaines I remember. - and I am sure he never liked Sonny but this pure vitriol hate for Sonny and wanting to get revenge is so weird

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u/Free-Stranger1142 1d ago

Deplorable bad writing.

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u/rebelliousphase300 19h ago

Drew as this mustache twirling villain still just doesn't make any sense to me. Just a complete destruction of the character. Billy Miller's Drew laid a good foundation for the character and the writers just took this weird turn with sleeping with Willow (and now Drew must hate Michael for daring to be upset about his uncle sleeping with his wife), hard-core beef with the Qs, how nasty he is with Alexis, and now bringing down Sonny. Come on dude, really feel like the ball has been dropped with this character and I don't know what redemption arc can fix it.

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u/HighlightIll5899 18h ago

I don't think it is out of nowhere. I think it really started when the whole Aurora/ELQ thing went down. Ned went against Drew, which led to the non merger, which ended up putting Drew in prison. Then in retaliation to him sleeping with Willow, Michael tanked the stock so he could purchase the majority and kick Drew out of Aurora, the company he started. So, he hates Ned and Michael. Tracy hates him because he went against the Quartermaines. The stuff with Alexis seems crazy out of place, but who knows. Sonny he has been trying to bring down since the election and prop 32(?). I think he still holds a little resentment towards Sonny because of the Jason/Drew thing.

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u/GotShotInSchottler 1d ago

No reason at all. In fact, his whole villain arc is loosely stitched back to the asinine reason that he preemptively broke up with Carly upon Jason's return because she was ungrateful he went to prison for her. Drew had ZERO issues with Sonny.

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u/mrgpsingh1999 19h ago

And forgetting that Jason saved him in Greece

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u/paralleltime1840 1d ago

Drew worked for and carried a weapon for Sonny a little while
It’s like if Billy Miller was Drew at a given time…it never happened
The Sidwell- Sonny battle made more sense none of what I see now makes historical sense
And I don’t think Hallmark Jason is working out…

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u/Psych-nurse1979 17h ago

Makes zero sense. These storylines are crazy. Sometimes I think the writers are unaware of any previous script.

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u/youngamy Team Scorpio 22h ago

Excellent question. Also relate why do Sonny and Ava hate each other suddenly? They have been fine in the same room for months.

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u/meenadu 1d ago

Agree. I don’t know what the beef is.

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u/GeniusGemini84 1d ago

its a stall tactic till thay get this Willow story wrapped up.

Drew needs to focus on putting both Nina and Willow behind bars. Sonny is the very least of his worries its stupid.

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u/mamaperk 21h ago

The writers think we're idiots. That's my only guess.

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u/stuckintexas666 13h ago

I thought the same thing...so crazy

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u/WearyInvestigator272 1d ago

I had the same question as you. I’ve been searching my brain, trying to figure out when Drew developed such animosity towards Sonny.

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u/girlofgold762 1d ago

I've just been slotting it into the "Evil Twin Syndrome" thing. Drew hates Jason for having the life he should have had so he hates everything good in Jason's life: Carly, Sonny, The Q's, Danny, Michael, etc....

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u/EquivalentZebra1762 23h ago

By Sonny proudly proclaiming to everyone (including enemies) that he is now a solely legitimate business man isn't he in fact confessing to having been a criminal for decades? Ooops.

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u/PlainOGolfer “Team Willow”  20h ago

The writing is 💩

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u/NarrativeNerd TeamJohnJaggerJacobJingleheimerCates 1d ago

Drew has no reason to hate Sonny.

… Unless it’s because CarSon dropped him when it was discovered that he wasn’t Jason but that should’ve been dealt with years ago. He still got with Carly, Sam, and had a great life until he blew it up himself.

I’m on Sonny’s side in this case.

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u/sunnirays 1d ago

Even then they were never really against him, he just wasn't Jason and by the time Jason returned he already had decided to leave them to go start up Aurora and focus on Sam and the kids. Of course this is the same guy who now hates Danny's guts as though he didn't believe that was his son for years and was devastated when he learned he was only his nephew, but still kept an effort to be in his life and try to make peace with Jason for Danny and Jake's sakes.

They're basically just turning Drew into another AJ and it's so far from what BM established, the writers may have well just made into AJ

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u/johntaylorsbangs Team Corinthos 1d ago

It’s like they can’t decide who will “take Sonny down” so no one ever does. Which would be cool if Sonny ever did anything interesting.

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u/paralleltime1840 1d ago

He’s more interesting in the mob. I know the mob stories bug some people but now…may be the worst I’ve seen in 49 years of watching

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u/Pegafer 1d ago

It is!!!!!!!

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u/Whiskey_and_Gin_76 1d ago

Without the mob GH is just a bunch of drama. I know that’s the point of soaps but generally there are fundamental source points that then weave interconnecting stories/plots. Without a source point it’s just a bunch of petty/winy people picking fights.

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u/kayemdubs 20h ago

Agree!!! With everyone getting into business this is just going to become another version of y&r. The mob keeps gh interesting.

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u/Whiskey_and_Gin_76 18h ago

The mob is the only reason I've ever watched GH (I like the criminal element more than the romance drama). I honestly wouldn't have mind if it was an even bigger part of the overall show. I know it's an unpopular opinion but Sunny should have been preparing one of his sons to take over so then the mob storyline could have continued with a younger generation. Plus the mob element helped tie in the hospital since the violence often feed into the hospital personnel stories. If it becomes just business drama . . . goodness I'm afraid that's going to be overly boring.

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u/Important-Practice26 17h ago

DREW just into making enemies Pretty soon his daughter is gonna be one....he should have stayed in the wheelchair

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u/TerryG111 17h ago

Drew is just an idiot

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u/Icy_Raisin2004 1d ago

I wonder if they are going to rewrite history and make Drew’s prison attack somehow Sonny’s fault

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u/Winter-Brilliant3565 1d ago

I have a theory he’s just trying to hurt anyone Carly is close to. He went to prison for her and it messed up his brain. So I think subconsciously, it’s really about that.

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u/Firegecko 1d ago

The whole "Pentonville messed his brain up and turned him into an asshole" narrative is such crap. Henrik messed with the guy's brain and kept him in a far worse hellhole for 2 or 3 years, but he came back to PC as the same nice guy he was before (and with his pre-2014 memories magically restored!). But now they expect us to believe that one little dust-up in American prison alters him to the point that he just suddenly does a complete 180 as a person? Are you kidding me?

It's just more lazy, phoned in writing.

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u/mrgpsingh1999 19h ago

And you’re telling me that a former Navy SEAL couldn’t protect himself in prison?

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u/sudilly 1d ago

Drew is a bully and hates everybody. He is only cordial (on the surface) to those who can help him.

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u/Diligent-Baby-3805 Team Fizz 21h ago

I think it's supposed to be a way to get at Micheal and Jason, but it makes no sense because he said everyone he has a problem with is connected to Sonny, but outside the Qs Sonny isn't affiliated with anyone Drew doesn't like.

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u/klm1959 15h ago

They should not have recast Drew especially after Billy Miller died. I'm sick of the Drew, Nina, and Willow show. Those 3 have ruined this show. I know it's the writers and not the actors, but all 3 need to go

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u/GH-Fan-1980 1d ago

Agreed the Writer's act like we don't actually watch this... came out of nowhere and stupid

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u/Altruistic_Relief189 22h ago

The reason he gave was everyone who he has grudges with was tied to Sonny. But he mentioned Willow and never mentioned the Qs. So his logic is twisted.

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u/apaw1129 19h ago

Thank you I wondered the same. These 2 have never had any direction issues with each other, so why this random beef?

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u/Kooky_Yesterday_1073 1d ago

laura ha a problem with sonny because he beat Cyrus so bad he was in the hospital

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u/krisseems 19h ago

Wasn’t he going after Sonny with the prop thing he and Tracy were campaigning for? Now it has the added bonus of messing with Michael.

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u/Mrdanrcstpurehell 1d ago

Is it all about Sonny having Brick plant evidence that pointed at Drew possibly having killed the judge. Did Drew know Sonny was behind the plant?

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u/VirginiaUSA1964 Team OG/Legacy Characters 1d ago

They are making this stretch that his hate for Michael is Sonny's fault. It makes no sense, but maybe they don't want to have a Drew vs Michael situation.

Or CM asked to work with Mo.

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u/Gold_Repair_3557 1d ago

And I’m not even sure where his hate for Michael came from. They had a fairly good relationship until Drew slept with Willow, and that bit was Drew’s doing.

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u/No_Caramel9300 13h ago

Something to do with Aurora/ELQ, maybe? I feel like there were some weird business dealings that could have soured Drew on Michael, I don't recall.

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u/EquivalentZebra1762 23h ago

He doesn't. It's just that in Sonny's brain he is the center of the universe. Drew should hate the Q's, Carly, Willow, Sidwell, and Nina. He doesn't have any particular beef with Sonny.

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u/aprilms45 Team Valentin 23h ago

Was wondering that too

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u/OriginalHeron3576 1d ago

Sonny went at Drew in the past after he fell out with Jason and Carly. His attitude changed but it wasn't huge. Drew is jealous that Sonny gets favorable treatment from the two of them and shut him out. Jack Sonny though I'm all for Drew knocking him down a peg. I wish Scotty was around to help him.

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u/ElvisCookies 3h ago

Thank you for saying this, because I was racking my brain wondering if I forgot about something that happened.