If I hadn’t been around for Brenda and the wire, I would say JoLu’s end was the saddest, most senseless break-up possible.  That’s how this blog began last night after re-watching JoLu’s breakup about 4 times.  But then I had 2 epiphanies. 

 

Before I share, I want all the Lulu haters to know that Johnny picked vengeance over her.  She practically begged him to give her a reason to stay and he wouldn’t.  Yes, Lulu hangs with Sonny’s boys, but they hide the brutality from her.  Johnny wouldn’t do that, which makes him more noble, and more cruel because Lulu will always know that she chose to be with someone like that – no delusions. He said it was her choice, and I think he was playing the same card as Logan (only with less manipulation), he was letting her go knowing what he was and hoping she’d come back anyway because then she’d be his.

 

I felt bad for him, but she was just as hurt.  The last time they truly spoke face to face he told her he was out of the business, now he’s back in and gunning for the father of her young cousins, a man who has occasionally stood in for her own father in her life.  She could not stand by Johnny in that situation and even though the beating was deserved, even Claudia thinks Johnny is going too far.  And I think Johnny is uncertain of himself too.  His face literally fell at the hospital when Claudia said he was still the John she remembered.  Like Lulu, I think he thought that side of himself was gone too.

 

In real life it would be as over as I thought JoLu was yesterday.  But…..

 

Then I realized something: You don’t tell a story where the heart is overruled by the head using Luke and Laura’s daughter.  Once I realized that, it was easy to see what comments were red herrings and what ones held meaning. 

 

Fake outs

 

Logan’s faith Lulu will come back to him

Johnny certainty he was destined to lose her

Lulu’s assurance she and Johnny were over

Lulu’s insistence that she will not let her heart rule

 

Truths

 

Scott’s warning about loving a girl that doesn’t love you back.  This was a prophecy.

Scott saying Logan was like him and I think he will be once Lulu returns to Johnny.

Luke’s reactions to his dad to suitor talks.  Logan = player, Johnny = truthful.

Lulu said Logan wasn’t the love of her life.

Lucky said Lulu didn’t love Logan.

Lulu is very scared that following her heart will lead to loss of self or discovery that she is like Luke (drawn to darkness since she liked crazy Johnny).

 

And the most truthful comment of the day, that had one wrong word in it to throw us off: Johnny said his meeting with Lulu was an accident.  Luke calls it magic.  Most people call it fate, but when watching a scripted show, it’s part of the writers’ purpose in storytelling (which is hopefully not to anger us all as we fear). It was his fate to meet her on the road instead of turning back.  It was her fate to find him in the warehouse when his men and Sonny’s failed to when he was hurt.  It is Logan’s fate to play his father’s role as the jilted man.  It is Lulu’s fate to find you can’t run from love.  It is Johnny’s fate to learn to have faith.

 

See if the writers are as clever as I hope, they are retelling Luke and Laura to get it right this time.  This is the phase where after months of dancing around each other Luke raped Laura, but since that so wouldn’t fly these days, the violence that scares off Lulu is Johnny’s temper.  Lulu’s path wasn’t to clear Laura’s name of murder, it was to clear it of making what many see as the wrong choice in love.  Lulu is supposed to finally understand why Laura chose Luke, something that has haunted her and Lucky since they learned the truth.

 

The next phase for L/L/S was a period where Scott was understanding and gave his injured wife time, while Laura and Luke were plagued by thoughts of each other.  Laura saved Luke’s life by preventing the hit and they wound up on the run.  Well Logan is giving Lulu time (though I think he has an angle) and with all the mob stuff going on, Johnny is probably going to be in need of a rescue from someone’s plot (even if it’s from his own to kill Sonny).  With May sweeps approaching, the save could be sooner than expected and they could spend the summer on the run and falling in love.  Neither one has said the “L” word yet.

 

So I’m content to wait and see if the writers are willing to stay with this.  The only thing that looms as a potential dark day is if Lulu has to learn the miseries of being with someone she doesn’t love by falling back in Logan’s bed.  I hope they leave her single until she’s back with Johnny.  She needs to grow up and Johnny doesn’t need the hurt of her being with another guy.

 

Sweetest moment of the week:  Johnny and Lulu’s hug at the cannery when he literally sighed with relief to be back in her arms.

 

Saddest moment of the week:  The look on Johnny’s face when Claudia asked him who else he had to listen to him and he realized that person was gone. 

 

Don’t forget to remind the writers we do expect compensation for Thursday’s pain.  Go to www.blanksheetmusic.net , print off some sheet music and send it to GH with a pro-JoLu note at:

General Hospital

C/o ABC-TV

4151 Prospect Ave.

Hollywood, CA 90027

 

P.S. – I never got the simian-one nickname until I saw Logan with that bandage sticking his ears out.  He looks like a chimp this week.