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Remember the Golden Age of ABC Daytime and its Love In the Afternoon campaign? (If so, this photo gallery will make you nostalgic as hell.) It seems like an eternity ago, right?Especially if you tune into General Hospital these days. More often than not, the show leaves us asking, “Where is the love?”
General Hospital has couples, sure. But where is the kind of heart-stopping yearning that made us long for Robert and Holly to confess their real feelings for one another, that left us on the edge of our seats waiting for Frisco and Felicia to share their first kiss, that kept us tuning in through every wacky twist and turn of Luke and Laura’s adventures?
The Gio storyline has sucked all the joy out of Brook Lynn and Chase’s relationship. Ava and Ric, and Carly and Jack, are fun, but they’re all card-carrying connivers, not ride-or-die true loves. Trina and Kai, and Jordan and Isaiah, are doing such slow burns, we’re not sure the oven is even on. Lucky and Liz were working gangbusters… until he kept the secret that Kristina nearly got her killed!
Oh, and the less said about Drew and Willow, the better. They’re basically what hate-watching was invented for.
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General Hospital has couples with potential, too, but they’re being bungled. Why aren’t sparks flying between Sasha and pretend babydaddy Jason? Why are Lulu and Cody spending more time trying to upend her ex-husband and his best friend’s life than they are trying to see if they click romantically? Why, just as Lucas and Marco got together, was their most logical and sympathetic obstacle removed from the canvas? (Miss you, Brad.)
While we’re on the subject of romance, or lack thereof, why doesn’t Sonny have a love interest? The show wasted an eternity trying to make a thing of him and (ugh) Natalia, and now, pfft. Nothing. Has the dimpled don sowed his last wild oat? (He has been with just about every woman in Port Charles.) For that matter, why does Nina not have a love interest? Or Anna? These are General Hospital A-listers, yet they meander around the canvas failing to do what soap characters must first and foremost: make. Us. Feel. Make. Us. Swoon. Make. Us. Fall.
