They had a fire under their ass after ABC canceled All My Children and One Life to Live for some sucky show with Tim Gunn that got canceled after three months and The Chew, which had some bloated guy in clogs cooking and having the most forced banter I’ve ever seen with Dr. And 2011 was just the beginning of the suffering.Įxecutive producer Frank Valentini and then-head writer Ron Carlivati joined the show in 2012 and indisputably saved GH from certain cancellation. Liz fans would sacrifice a goat to get the kind of writing she had in 2003 now. I know some of you would argue it started sooner in the 2000s, but Elizabeth had a point of view, story, and love interests during that decade. This was the real start of the disrespect to the character and the actress. Liz felt like a day player in the death of her own son as it played out, likely because the show never intended for this to be her story. The story continued as planned with only Liz’s exit removed.

Unfortunately for fans, it was too late to stop the dreaded “Let’s kill a kid to win an Emmy!” emotional manipulation train.

It didn’t even happen for legends like Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn who were off of Days of Our Lives for two years after they were fired. Can you please stop hitting us and taking our lunch money?” There’s only been a few quick un-firings in recent soap history: Daniel Goddard on The Young and the Restless when fans of his literally hired a plane to fly a message above the studio to get his job back (Daniel’s luck eventually ran out in 2019 when they fired him again and no planes saved him) and William deVry on GH a few years back. A soap star has to be very popular for a show to release a statement that basically amounts to “We’re sorry! She’s staying. Thankfully the backlash from the news of Rebecca’s firing was big enough to un-fire her a month later. It was a giant middle finger to fans to have Jake getting turned into a speed bump just so they could get Anthony another Daytime Emmy he didn’t deserve.

They had never given those two a proper chance to be a real couple, so Liason fans were thrilled when Liz walked up 15 flights of stairs during a blackout and got knocked up thanks to Jason’s super sperm and a malfunctioning condom. It meant a lot to Liason (Liz/Jason) fans that those characters had a child together. It was a cruel plan for the character and the fans. GH was just going to shove Liz into the looney bin and go ahead with all the grieving without her. Soaps do it just because they want Daytime Emmy bait, so they torture viewers with months of “Oh, no! Not little Timmy! Why not take me God?! This cruel world is too much!” as actors squeeze out tears to varying success.Īt least in all those stories the mother got to be a part of the whole Emmy bait gambit. The whole thing was a retread of the famous BJ’s heart, which has been ripped off to the point of it being comical. Little Josslyn got his kidney, and Liz was going to end up in the mental institution Shady Brook. What made it even worse was the plan to write Liz out: Luke, played by Anthony Geary, who was then considered the king of GH for some ungodly reason, running over Liz’s son Jake and Jake dying. To say that fans were shocked and enraged would be like saying that being stabbed is a bit alarming. It was announced that Rebecca had been fired. Januwill forever be a day that will live in soap opera infamy. When you explore the poor treatment of Liz and her portrayer, you have to start with what the real flashpoint was. It is baffling that she’s treated like this. She’s playing a popular legacy character with three children. Rebecca is well-liked amongst her co-stars and has never caused any behind-the-scenes trouble that I’ve heard of, which is saying something when you know how many BTS feuds there have been in soap history. She’s had chemistry with almost every man she’s been paired with. It is just a sentiment you see on Twitter and message boards every day for years. Should we call 911?” It isn’t news to anyone who watches GH. This homosexual on the internet is claiming that the soap opera that is allegedly about a hospital doesn’t care about that pretty woman with the great hair! You know I’m bad with names, Barbara. There were no glasses of red wine that dramatically dropped in slow motion while “O Fortuna” played. No one audibly gasped reading that sentence. General Hospital does not care about Elizabeth Webber at all.

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