General Hospital tried something new and daring in 2021 and it may not be paying off the way the show had wanted. It broke up most of its core couples to try them in new pairings, and while some of these new love stories are working, some are just not and it’s time for the soap to cut its losses.
General Hospital’s Finn And Elizabeth Do Not Work
Hamilton Finn (Michael E. Knight) has lost himself a lot of fans over the last few months as GH forced the character into an unworkable pairing with widowed Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst). Many fans could have accepted Liz in a new romance in good time if the character had been allowed to actually mourn her husband, Franco Baldwin. While we will never truly understand why Franco had to be killed off, it is what it is, but it didn’t do any favors for Finn or Liz.
All we know now is that Finn has berated one of Elizabeth’s sons, Jake Webber (Hudson West), has told Elizabeth he doesn’t approve of her going to Shadybrook (why does his opinion count?), chastised her for believing in ghosts, and taken her sons on a camping trip after she told him to leave her and her family alone for now. When you make the male in a new pairing seem like a stalker, it just doesn’t fly.
Austin And Maxie Also Do Not Work
While Maxie Jones needed to no longer be with Peter August because he was one of the most hated characters in General Hospital history, her latest pairing is a dud for one big reason. Kirsten Storms and Roger Howarth do not have any chemistry. While both of these actors have rarely had any problem generating chemistry with others before, it doesn’t work now.
One reason may be that many still see him as Franco, again, a character who never should have been killed off. Sticking him in the same scene as Franco’s stepsons didn’t help the matter at all and made Austin and Maxie even more unlikable.
Willow And Michael Need To End It
And then where is Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) and Michael Corinthos (Chad Duell). Like Finn was ruined to pair with Elizabeth, Willow has been ruined in her pairing with Michael, going from sympathetic sweet heroine to shrill and high and mighty in a little over a year. When she married Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) on his deathbed and looked like she was going to be sick when she learned he would live, that was the end of the character’s heroine status.
With Michael essentially telling her what to do every minute of the day and Willow listening to all of it without connecting the dots that her self-righteous self is now part of a crime family, this pairing reeks of rot and needs to end. Stay tuned to General Hospital weekdays to see if the soap finally gives up on these non-love stories.
