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Unholy Princess, I respectfully disagree with what you said about the couple failing despite what the show throws at them. I've seen no evidence of GH giving Jason & Elizabeth a fair opportunity to succeed. It's not like GH pulled out all the stops and gave the couple a fighting chance. It was just the opposite. Every single time Jason and Elizabeth decided to be together, GH scripted something - within the very same episode - that would keep them apart. How is that the fault of the couple if the writing isn't on their side? Their lives would fit together just fine if it was scripted as such.

There are countless classic love stories of two people whose lifestlyes seemingly don't fit, falling in love despite the odds and succeeding. The story writes itself, but the inept and creatively stunted writers at General Hospital chose not to explore it.

I can totally understand why Liason fans feel like somehow they have been cheated out on their couple. But I think it says alot about the characters that no matter what the show throws at this couple their ability to be a true functioning couple fails.

This two characters do not fit each others life. The whole my life is to dangerous is silly in my opinion. Liz is not some delicate flower that would faint at the fir sight of blood. She is a nurse who works well under pressure, she can keep a level and calm head and make things work. To me the place where they fail is who are as a person.

Jason Morgan does not have a pinch of guilt for the things that he does. His first instinct is to conceal and scheme. The Liz Webber character has some moral fiber. I think a perfect example of this was during the TMK hit and run story. Liz wanted to go to the police, she wanted to do the right thing. Jason told her to not do anything, he would take care of it. Lucky even commented on that Liz and him wanted to do the right thing, to which Jason said no. That is where this couple fails... the traits and morals that make up the core of Jason and Liz are to far apart to have a lasting relationship.

I have been watching GH since 1994 and it was one of the best. That was a time when people would watch the show regardless of who is or whose not together. All this I will not watch if this certain couple does not get together is crazy. What you people do not understand is that if people do not watch the show it may get cancelled regardless who is or whose not together. While people are saying they will not watch the show have you thought about what if certain people get together and it is too late the show will be cancelled. Your not watching caused it to be cancel.
I like Jasam because it fits into Jason's lifestyle and I think they are good together. Give Jason and Sam a chance and see if you like it before you judge the relationship maybe it will be different this time around. I know people are like Jason should not forgive her but i think Jason should forgive Sam. Why don't people say don't forgive Sonny who started a war with the Russian and that almost got Jake killed. Who saved Jake? Not Carly? Not his mother? It was Sam.
Liason I gave it a chance during the ten year span and it has never appealled to me because they do not have any chemistry. Now if Jason gets out of the mob than I can say they have a chance but while he is in the mob they should not be together. Liason fans need to think what predicament would Liz be in if she had been with Jason for 10 years. She probably would have been shot or probably not able to have children. I don't think people should be together just because they have children together and love is sometimes not enough for things to work. Lets be realistic for a minute people we all know people who goes through similar things like this at least I do. I don't think children should be raised around the mob because it is very dangerous. Give Liz somebody new who can be with her and not put her and her children in danger. She is thinking like a mother if she does not get back with Jason. Now if Jason gets out of the mob maybe they will have a chance to be together.I like Liz and Jason just not together.
I like Jasam. Don't really like Liason. My favorite couple of all time is Sonny and Brenda. I love them together even though Sonny put Brenda through it they were good. Early Sonny and Carly was good as well.
P.S. I wanted to know how could have the ratings increased when Liason got together because in 2004& 2005 ratings of GH were 3.0 mil or above but in 2006,2007& 2008 the numbers slowly decline watch lead to now 1.2 mil or above. Also I don't think it is fair that other characters of GH suffer loss of viewers because certain people are not together. All this Jasam and Liason hatred is crazy. You can have a preference but watch the show. I did People.

Liason fans need to stick together and quit watching this show. Also, I have quit going to any of the message boards other than Liason only boards. Next week, be sure to keep the televisions turned off during General Hospital next week - when we are subjected to the sickening sight of the reunion of Jason and Sam. Yuk!

I can appericate Liason fans wanting to see their couple given a fair shot at being a "real" couple. But honestly maybe they have been given a chance. The two characters just do not fit with one another. It has nothing to do one character being better with another or loving another chacter.. it's like Liz said their choices have taken them in different directions, its just that simple.

I'm so sick and tried of all this bull shit about Jason and liz should not be together because of Jason is the mob that is bs to me. But Sam can. Liz is a mom, she can't be with the man she loved. Jason and liz had this Love story. And it worked. Sam is not the loved of Jason life sorry.Jason and Sam fans. but Liz is the love of Jason life. and so what if alot more risky. She should have the right to make a choice. Jason is the man for Liz. Lucky need to go away or be be dead or back with Sam. I liked sam but she not with with Jason. Liason was not give the changed. period.

Elizabeth is one of the strongest characters on the show because of all her circumstances she does not chose to let it hinder her growth and stop her from being a great mother. Recently, we have been subjected to a whiney and judgmental version of this character so they can get absolution for two characters that wronged both Elizabeth and Jason. You have put Elizabeth in relationships that are abusive verbally and physically plus emotionally. Why is it that she can’t be in a relationship with a man that does actually love her for who she is and not what she can do for him or someone else?
I know this letter started out as a Fan letter to Steve Burton, unfortunately the more I wrote the more I got upset with the fact that General Hospital really does not care about their fans. If rumors are true from what I have read in Soaps in depth or Soap opera digest, then I am so disappointed in this show. Can you tell me why you have Jason Morgan not caring if the mother of his only child will live or die or the fact that is mother is also sick? I don’t understand how you want your viewers to believe after over a decade Lucky Spencer can be Elizabeth’s hero just to put that abusive relationship back together. We are viewers we see and listen to what actually goes on the screen, but yet the producers and writers want us to forget what Lucky did to Elizabeth and how much he hates and is jealous of Jason. He has verbally abused Elizabeth since he has come back after that fire in 1999. Please give the viewers what they want. We would like to see Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber become the Morgan family. Do not have Lucky Spencer with Elizabeth at the end of the sweeps it is unrealistic and it shows that you as writers and producers have no foresight of what the future of GH really needs.
I could go on with the sorry story line of Nicholas and Nadine but that would be about 10 more pages. It’s sad that you give us these horrible story lines and want us to watch. Those two should never have been. Same with Sonny and Claudia, you have the man marry the woman who had his kid put into a coma wow.
Oh and the worst you have done, STOP KILLING OFF THE CHARACTERS JUST TO BRING THEM BACK AS A GHOST OR SOMEONE ELSE. Get some imagination or get new writers what is wrong with you. Send the character away if you want to bring them back. Send them on vacation or to school. I mean really you kill off Emily, Alan, Georgie, and Logan (I didn’t even like him) and then you kill off Cooper with so many others but you keep the ones that shouldn’t be. Hell Kill off LULU no one likes her.
SO I ASK AGAIN GIVE US THE MORGAN FAMILY AND STOP TEASING AND TAUNTING THE LIASON FANS BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN IF YOU WANT TOO. I WILL NOT BE WATCHING UNTIL THAT HAPPENS. I WILL ALSO ASK EVERYONE I KNOW TO STOP SUPPORTING GH UNTIL YOU GIVE US A GOOD REASON TO WATCH.
Ps. I know what the viewers want doesn’t matter if it did I wouldn’t still be writing you. This is my last letter to you. I no longer watch GH and I don’t plan on it until I see Liason together as a family.

Can you explain the concept of what we as viewers are suppose to experience in the character you have as Sonny Corinthos, because he is the most egotistical, arrogant, selfish disloyal character on the show that also does not take responsibility for his actions? How are you making Jason be the scapegoat to every problem on this show? Jason gets blamed for the Russians shooting Kate (though they didn’t). Jason gets blamed for Sonny losing his kids (though Sonny wanted him to take the business). Jason gets blamed for Maxie being attacked (though if she would have stayed out of his business she wouldn’t have been seen). Jason gets blamed for Jake being kidnapped again (though I believe if it weren’t for Sam and Lucky investigating the Russians they wouldn’t have followed them to the cabin). Jason gets blamed for Sam being shot (though she is the one who ran to him and wouldn’t stay away). Jason gets blamed for Elizabeth shooting someone to protect Sam ( though if they would have went to the safe house he suggested instead of following Lucky’s dumbass idea Neither Jake’s kidnapping or Elizabeth shooting someone would not have happened). Jason was blamed for Emily dying (though if it weren’t for Sonny he wouldn’t have gone after Lorenzo). Jason gets blamed for everything that happens in Port Charles how one man has become responsible for a whole damn town is beyond me, yet you can’t let him take responsibility for his son. Amazing is it not.
Then we have the fact that Jason Morgan does have a son, now unless the producers plan on doing another paternity test to say that Jacob Martin is not Jason’s son ( which would make almost two years of dialogue useless and meaningless) and he is Lucky’s son. I don’t see how he or Elizabeth can continue to let Lucky play daddy to Jake when he hates his biological father and the simple fact that Lucky is seeing Sam it should not have happened. I just don’t understand half of these stories anymore because how is it that you allow so many contradictions in your characters and your story lines to go on screen is beyond me and most of the fans. I get that you guys are trying to have Lucky and Elizabeth be the next so called Luke and Laura (hello, Luke was her rapist and Laura was a misguided delusional nutcase) why would you want Elizabeth to worship a man who Raped his wife (when Elizabeth was victim of such a crime herself) even if Laura did forgive him. Luke is not the idol model of a good father and he never was, he is a straight out alcoholic and he is also a criminal. So why should Lucky be the one to raise Jason’s son and not Jason himself.
Jason and Elizabeth are what soaps are made of where we have the (not so) good girl meeting the very bad boy. How is that not a love story waiting to happen? We as Liason fans have been waiting for nearly 10 years to see these to people together. They have had an amazing chemistry from the beginning, they are so much alike and yet so different. I can see this couple as being the next Lila and Edward Quartermaine, in a different time with different circumstances. You could give them adventure and yet still make them a strong family together. How many times have Jason and Elizabeth saved each other and helped each other over the years? Jason saves Elizabeth at Jakes. Elizabeth saves Jason in the snow. Jason saves Elizabeth from a bomb in the studio. Elizabeth hides Jason out in her studio when he comes back. Jason helps Elizabeth when she gets into trouble with the dead Ted storyline. Elizabeth gives Jason a place to be himself. Jason rescues Elizabeth from the Crypt. Jason teaches Elizabeth to protect herself. Elizabeth and Jason are able to maintain their friendship until the writers decide to hire a bad blonde actor who couldn’t stand on her own. So they put Courtney with Jason. Then brought in Ric, the psycho, to marry Elizabeth and make all their lives hell. The writers and producers tried to make the friendship and more than friendship they had be meaningless to prompt up other characters like Courtney and Ric. Even after you allowed them to treat each other like strangers and yell and scream at one another they again came together to form their friendship again. Once again Jason saves Elizabeth from Manny. Elizabeth destroys Jason’s police file. Jason helps Elizabeth with her bills because Elizabeth helped Jason with Sam’s surgery. They come together when their significant others decide to cheat on them and they conceive a baby that makes there bond stronger than before. Jason gives Elizabeth a shoulder to cry on. Elizabeth saves Jason again at the church when he is shot again. I could go on and on with how much they come together and help each other. Why is it that the writers and producers don’t see this on screen? They have always been able to be each other’s support system with no judging each other. Yet, again the writers and producers want us to believe they cannot work.

I am sorry to say that I am now no longer watching GH because of the story lines that they have been putting on my screen and the main reason is how they treat the Liason fan base. I have enjoyed watching you and Rebecca Herbst together on my screen. Unfortunately, they have teased and toyed with the fans of the two of you for 10 years and now if the rumors are correct the two of you will never be together so you can go back to unbelievable relationships. (Don’t worry I am so talking mainly about the characters of Jason and Elizabeth). I have been waiting for you guys to finally get together and assumed it would now happen since you have a child together. Yet, it seems the writers and producers used your son together to push you further apart. I have watched you with all of your relationships as both Jason Q and Morgan. Since you are now Jason Morgan I can say I enjoyed watching the growth of your relationships over the years.
Unfortunately I can’t stand Carly so the relationship past and present was and not a good one to me. How your character has been allowed to coexist with her all these years is amazing and borderline crazy. Especially, when the writers allow her to take over your life and every woman in it, because of a promise made over 10 years ago to a baby. Apparently the writers want the viewers to believe that Michael and Morgan and CARLY mean more to you than your own biological son Jake. I don’t know maybe that’s how your character is suppose to be shown now, because back then I couldn’t see you as abandoning your own child yet, you would have taken care of all of Sonny’s children if asked with no regard to your own. Can you explain that, because the more I watch the more I have seriously noticed the writers and producers compromised your character for the benefits of other characters that can’t stand on their own?
They compromised your integrity and your loyalty as Jason Morgan when you were with Courtney. In my opinion that is a relationship that should have never have happened along with the one you had with Sam. One was your brother’s wife and the other was your best friend’s mistress from what we learned of your character back then you never would have done that. Yet again you are helping out Michael and Morgan to keep their family, so you are with a whore who is a con artist. A woman who has played games and would have aborted her baby because Sonny didn’t want to come back to her or the woman who ran away to a convent so she can give her baby away and wanted you to find her so she could get attention. They have allowed this character to come in and implant her in story lines she should not have been in. I am not trying to bash the character of Sam, I actually liked her when she first came on the show, she was a more independent person before she lost her baby and found out Alexis was her mother. After she lost her baby is when I stopped liking this character. She became this whiney irritating person who I just wanted to slap really and after she found out Alexis was her mother she just got worse. Oh and don’t forget when she got shot and now she can’t have any kids. She became not even the person you love to hate. I loathe her more than I do Carly because she takes no blame for her action just like Carly doesn’t and she is all for revenge no matter who gets hurt children included which is morally wrong. Yet, the producers and writers want us to believe that Jason Morgan is going to eventually go back to her after all of this, Please.

To the poster who said BH made bad acting choices, are you serious? Can you point in the direction of the article or articles you read about the writers trying to make her sympathetic? BH is one of the best actresses on the show, and so underrated and underused. I would just love to read this comment from the writers.

exactly how long do they expect loyal viewers to wait for them to give us Liason

Great article...and what a lot of Liz and Jason fans feel and have felt for years. Steve and Becky have amazing chemistry and the characters have a fantastic history that could have yielded great storylines...but they were shortchanged and written badly and pushed to the back burner...they were never given a chance and their fans have been totally dismissed as unimportant to GH!

I'm not giving up on liason and don't think anyone else should either. liason 09 will happend and just belive in that.

Liz and Jason sizzle when they are together. They really evoke emotions when they are together they make you hot or make your heart break. I have to be honest, that this is the first time that I have ever had this much connection to a couple but the this push-pull is driving me crazy. If they put him back with Sam I will stop watching - she is beautiful no doubt, but they are boring!

If that is the highest rating GH has had in 9 months, then the other 4 soaps (ATWT, DAYS, B&B and Y&R)that came in ahead must have had their hightest as well. GH has not been able to break free of their #4 or #5 spot for sometime now and all three of ABC's soaps are in the bottom. Yeah, they are doing so well.

To the Jasam fan and mother of four. Ah you might want to do a spellcheck next time you post. *COMPLAINING* UMMM (not compaining)

What's needed on GH right is a good storyline for all the characters on this show. Not just throwing one particular character in every scene so she can get more screen time. The show isn't even worth watching now because nothing is flowing. And as the saying goes "to each it's own" if we chose not to watch that's our every right.

totally agree

and btw wubs just posted that gh just had the highest
ratings in 9 months

totally agree

oh and i just read on wubs that GH ratings are the
highest in 9 months

I am a huge Jasam fan and am so happy to see my fav couple back in action! i am so sick of liason fans compaining and saying they are going to turn off the tv and blah blah blah just do it then!! This 30 year old mother of four is still going to support my show and i am just lucky that mine is a neilson family so my rating counts!!

I won't ever give up on liason because they will be together again and people should have faith in jason and liz love. i think they will be back together, and i won't never boycaught Gh that is a worng way to go on this place. call and write and don't give up on this couple. Jake is too Jason son, and he need to be with him, and I'm so sick and tried of people saying that liz should not be with Jason because of the mob, that is crap you don't chose who you fall in love with sometimes you heart does, and lucky is a loser. and wake and smell the coffee, this couple will come back stronger then ever and i wish Lucky would go back to sam

It's called the entertainment business smart one! Liasons fans, and any fan of GH have every right to stop watching for whatever reason they choose. That's how it works! If they don't create a watchable product, viewers tune out. That's life. Get over it!

yah put all the supporting make-up, lighting, tech ppl out of work

oh yeah and it will DEF be a death nail for jiz
no show
no hope

duh

After 11 years, I stopped watching GH in October of '08 (and it's been even longer since I posted at this site! I haven't been here in forever). I always watched in spurts, but I never deliberately tuned out for more than about six weeks at a time. Sometimes real life got in the way and made it impossible for me to watch, but I always wondered what was going on in Port Charles and I'd tune in again as soon as I could.

But after this latest round of f*ckery regarding Liason, I've thrown in the towel. I never, in a million years, thought I'd turn off GH because a story didn't play out the way I wanted. In fact, I’d thumb my nose at folks who proclaimed to do just that. What kind of GH "fan" must they be, I'd wonder. How can ONE storyline cause someone to walk away from a show that’s been a part of their lives for so long?

Unfortunately, all those questions have been answered for me in the last six months. Sometimes a person just gets tired of having their @ss whooped, so they pack up and hightail it out there. That's me.

GH has beat me down. They've taken all the love I had for the show and the characters and they set fire to it.

For the past eleven years, I've been in a relationship of sorts with GH. They provided a product and I voluntarily bought it. I watched it and I spread the word of this product to family and friends. I'd vote for them in polls and support the characters on ballots (like the SOD Awards when that was still going on).

GH was very special to me and for some reason, I thought I mattered to them. Not on a personal level, per se. But as a fan who'd fallen in love with the characters they created and brought to life. I thought that's what they wanted.

Anyway.

Even though GH was an important part of my life, I never once asked for anything from them. I didn't have any expectations and I didn't hold them to any standards. Whatever they felt comfortable with sharing - I accepted it.

There was ONE time in eleven years where I asked something of them: a real love story for Jason and Elizabeth. And they essentially told me, "EFF YOU."

I'm not suggesting that each and every fan is owed the pairing and storyline of their choice (that would be impossible to achieve), but GH laid my request out on the table as if to say, "Is this what you want?" Yes! "Are you sure?" Yes! "You want Jason and Elizabeth?" Yes! "What if they have a baby? Would that sweeten the deal?" Yes! Yes! "Well that's too d@mned bad. You're not getting what you want."

I felt like they had slapped me in the face, kicked me in the gut and whacked me over the head with a pipe. Why lay a feast before a starving woman only to tell her she can't have anything? Why even go there with Liason if they weren't dedicated enough to follow through?

Why on God's green earth would I stick around for more of that torture? Why?!

Do I tuck my tail between my legs and go back to being a good little fan and lapping up whatever they choose to serve me? I can't. I've progressed past that. It's been over a decade. I want more from our "relationship" than the same song and dance I've been privy to for the last ten years. Do I and others like me, not deserve more? According to GH, no - we don't.

So rather than sit around and wait for the next whack across the head, I've packed my sh!t and moved on.

What I hate more than not getting a story for Liason is the wariness I feel towards soaps in general. I've pretty much given up on the entire genre. I've allowed GH to destroy the trust I had regarding soaps. I’m afraid to invest in another show. I'm afraid to believe in another character or their story. I can't take the chance of feeling this disappointed again.

I think I might just stick to books and movies. At least I'm guaranteed a beginning, middle and an end. Even if I don't like the outcome, I know I'll have gotten an entire story when all is said and done. GH doesn't guarantee their fans anything except major f*ckery if you dare be a supporter of Jason and Elizabeth.

No thanks.

Normally when I decide to no longer watch a show I simply stop watching. I don’t write letters to studio executives to explain my reasons I just turn the channel and move on. This time though I can’t. I have been a fan of General Hospital for over thirty years. I got hooked at the tender age of four while watching Scotty and Laura get married and this show has stuck with me throughout the years. I watched as couples fell in love, families grew, through all of Alan and Monica’s divorces and reunions, through Stone’s death and seeing Robin realize her dream of becoming a mother even though she is HIV positive.

Last week I decided that I could no longer watch this show. Through the years I have rushed home from school and work because I couldn’t wait to see General Hospital. In college I made sure that I was home from school by 3:00 so that I wouldn’t miss a thing, but lately I fast forward through more than 80% of this show. I began to wonder why I was even bothering to record it and further more I wondered what had changed.

I did spend some time on this, since this show has been part of my daily viewing routine for so long, and I came to the conclusion that your show is no longer giving me any reason to watch. Sure the mounting death, graphic violence, and the constant endangering of a small child to keep his parents apart are appalling. Not to mention the fact that the inconsistencies in the storytelling and the idiotic plot points to try and steer intelligent viewers to follow a trend they are not interested in. But what has really lead to this decision to not watch your show is the deplorable depictions of women on your show.

I grew up watching women like Monica Quartermaine, Leslie Webber, Laura Spencer, Felicia Jones and Anna Devane. These women are good people. They make mistakes, but they also tried to make amends. And I cannot remember a single scene in which any of them committed or were part of an act to endanger or harm a child. I can even say that Bobbie Spencer was a role model. She grew up in a desperate situation, broke free of prostitution, and became a nurse, a wife, a mother, and most importantly a survivor. I watched Robin Scorpio grow up into a good woman, and even though Elizabeth Webber came on as a teenager, I have seen this character grow into a good woman and mother. Have all of these women make mistakes, yes they have. As a viewer have I been able to understand and forgive those mistakes, yes the writing on the show had made that possible.

Unfortunately today, the men and women in charge of General Hospital are throwing two women at me on a daily basis, trying to force me to like them, when in my own life, I would never give them the time of day. Worst of all they are ruining other characters and storylines to keep these two women in the front and center of your show.

Sam McCall and Claudia Zacchara are the two most offensive female characters that I have ever had the displeasure of watching. These two women are written daily as willing and able to use their bodies and sex as a means to an end. Both are willing to flaunt themselves, seduce, and even sleep with whomever to meet their goals. Also, it appears that both women have their wardrobes painted on their bodies. I am not at all a prude, and I am more than willing to accept that not all women need to fit into a mold that resembles me, but these two are insulting. Sam has watched a child get kidnapped and paid men to hold up that child, his mother and older brother at gunpoint. Claudia was behind a young boy getting shot in the head. Somehow though, the people in charge of writing and producing this show are expecting me to not only accept this awful behavior, but they want me to root for these women as heroines as well. That is simply not something that I can do.

I watch All My Children and One Life to Live as well, and notice that you do not have such characters as these two women on either of those shows. Certainly there are less than moral men and women on both shows, but no one that is considered a hero like Sam McCall is. I will continue to support both of these shows, but no longer General Hospital.

In ending this letter, I would also like to state that I am your key demographic. I am a 35-year old, single, head of household. I am the person with disposable income that in this desperate economy your advertisers want to attract. I am also educated and I make my living as a writer. I hope that all of this combined with the many years that I have watched your show makes an impression upon you, who is also an educated professional woman. General Hospital is no longer representing strong, independent, good women.

Thank you for your time,

If you are not wasting your valuable time on this show, you are smart, but you should also tune into All My Children and As the World Turns. Even if you don't like them, put them on as background noise. They are both very close to passing GH in ratings and HH demos. If you decrease GH's ratings by not watching and increase the shows under them then they will sink even faster.

Don't forget to write mail, email, comment cards and call in to the comment line to them EXACTLY why you are not watching. Therefore they know what changes they should be making to save the show.

I cannot agree enough with previous posts encouraging us to turn off the TV and stop recording the show. I have not watched the show since December and I live overseas! I used to watch it by getting onto Youtube. So if you MUST see it, do it on Youtube, but don't GIVE them the ratings. Or, just drop in on forums from time to time to see what's going on. Either way, I am done with GH. There is nothing else on the show that excites me enough to stay, so if Liason is not going to happen, I have MANY other things I can do with my time.

Turn the tv's off and don't tape the show on your DVR's. I've read on another mb that your dvr's are also being counting as ratings. So take GH off of there ASAP. I said let's show them who we really won't to see and if Liason is a done deal then why watch the show. Why reward GH for taking our couple away. "Yes We Can" Be Heard By Not Watching this garbage of s/l' there showing.

How can they expect us to believe that Jason would FORGET what scam did to those children. Yes, he can forgive her but "FORGET" never. How could any man consider loving a woman that has done what she's done and how can those IIC think this is something we want to watch?

Don't watch GH anymore! Do not give them anymore of your ratings. They slipped in a Liason scene in a promo to get you to watch but Liason are not getting back together. All that happens is Jason sees Liz with Lucktard once again. Don't let them sucker you for your ratings again. Kill GH for what they've done to Liason fans! Turn off your TV's!

No matter how you look at this situation, this is not about Sam vs Liz or Jasam vs Liason, it is about those in charge of the decision making at General Hospital getting the viewers invested, and for many reinvested in Liason's story by restarting them in 2006, leading us through the breakup's of two couples, the rekindling of Jason and Elizabeth's love, giving them a child, then just dropping the story without any closure or payoff.
Bait and switch, the oldest con game in the book.

Yet many couples, just since Jason and Liz's 2006 NOP have come together, had a relationship which included cute couple-ly moments, drama and lovemaking and some have made it to the altar while Jason and Elizabeth's non-relationship was unmercifully stretched out and consisted, after Jason's trial, of a few happy moments after which something always written specifically to keep them apart, which then dropped down to 7 or 8 minute "moments" of Jason giving Elizabeth the boring, never ending, "my life is too dangerous for us to be involved" mantra.

From my perspective, The writers never intended to put them together at all, the whole breaking up of Jasam and Liz and Lucky was for dramatic story purposes only, which won GH an Emmy for that year, so it worked.
We were baited into investing in this story then the rug was yanked away with no payoff. I feel tricked.

I just wanted to see Liason have a real storyline, a real relationship like Jasam had. Jasam had three years together, Lucky and Liz had years together of a real relationship. But Liason got nothing but a few moments of sex.

No creativity, no storyline, just two wonderful actors repeating the same tired lines over and over again,just in a different setting each time, completely frustrating and wearing down the fans of this couple.
Which after awhile it became obvious that those moments were ploys designed to keep the Liason fans from walking away in droves.
What happened to Liason's story was a despicable way to treat the fans of this couple.

The Owners of ABC & GH should take a page from the NFL.. Usually when the team isn't winning or performing up to par the top man has to go.. In this case that would be Mr. Fronskenstein. Especially since he was the one who called for the ending of Liason, at least the ratings were alot higher then what they are now; Frons is the one that have the viewers watching these horrific storylines that are on screen now just to give one actress more screen time to boost her career and since he's done that the ratings are steadily falling; I say call a huddle in the Boardroom and CAN Mr. Frons. He needs to GO! Now he wants to downgrade the greatest agency in America "Our FBI" by saying a con-artist can infiltrate it. What a mockery of everything great this country stands for. GH treats woman, children & our war vets like dirt on this show and this is what they expect us to tune in and watch.. I don't think so. GH Your Going Down!

Soap Opera Ratings for January 5-9
Posted on 16 January 2009 by Bill Gorman

(Compared to Last Week/Compared to Last Year)
All numbers Live+SD

Total Viewers
1. Y&R 5,330,000 (-55,000/-191,000)
2. B&B 3,704,000 (-77,000/-145,000)
3. DAYS 2,882,000 (-400,000/+44,000)
4. GH 2,756,000 (-109,000/-283,000)
5. ATWT 2,744,000 (-94,000/-294,000)
6. AMC 2,715,000 (-61,000/+73,000)
7. OLTL 2,654,000 (-56,000/-89,000)
8. GL 2,046,000 (-186,000/-513,000)

It's too bad that the fans are being ignored and Liason continues to shelved like a old DVD that has now become outdated and dusty. There is a huge fan base out there that has been loyal GH fan because of this coupling. Yet TPTB continue to jerk the fans around. I for one do not have any desire to watch the show as it stands and being a GH supporter for over 30 years it's hard to walk away. So until we get LIASON, I am boycotting the show, and watching the rating continue to drop. I hope the Executives on the show come to their senses and put the two best actors on the show Steve and Becky together as a family. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME THAT RATINGS ARE DOING POOR BECAUSE OF LIASON??? YEP YOU ARE CORRECT!!! BECAUSE MANY OF US FANS OF LIASON REFUSE TO WATCH YOUR SH!T UNTIL YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER!!! I am a long time fan and am sick of recycled pairings. PLEASE dont try to sell us off with a Sam and Jason then Liz and Lucky pairing! ITS BULLSH!T

THank you for this wonderful article regarding our favorite couple. I am still so disappointed and still unclear as to why TPTB would break a couple up that has such a fan following. While I realize in SoapLand, there is always need for drama and angst with a couple, these two characters were never given a chance. Thee actors work so beautifully together and I just hope we will see some positive results in 2009.

Hey FuGH...hehe (I'm a little slow, I just realized what your screen name ment) hehe.. Anyway, I agree with your post... they will have to pry my remote out of my dead cold hands before I look at GH again.. I'm boycotting Soapnet too.. I don't want to even see a GH promo!

GH will have to pry my remote from my dead, cold fingers before they ever get another rating from me again. I've been played the fool for the last time from them. They pretty much spit in Jason and Elizabeth fans faces. I'm raising my middle finger and walking away.

Thanks so much for your "positive" recognition and for Jason and Elizabeth fans which hasn't been seen on General Hospital

They have been scribed well since the scabbies run which is for me the best part of last year. Anyone can see they were purposely scribed "against." Even though I saw early on it wasn't going well.

I couldn't believe they would bait their fans with promos, rag mag articles and all that went with it then suddenly pull the rug from under us this way this is the annoyance for me personally...the baiting then switching of a nine year fanbase.

Our storyline was bombarded with other characters from first to last. We never caught a break. I no longer watch the show these characters are not my "only reason" for giving up on General Hospital. Its tge pimping and propping if their "chosen few" Many characters can't catch a break either and I for one am tired of waiting for a Jason/Elizabeth to "star" in thier storyline. I'm tired of watching Jason being a deadbeat dad but moreover, I'm just tired of GH period. I'm done. I think instead of "purposely stopping" popular couples they should just ride the wave, not, hold them back this is how supercouple powerhouse pairings are realized...GH stops them they don't want this I guess...even though they are a pairing driven soap opera and promote these pairings as soon as I get interested they break them up.

I can honestly say that I have only continued to watch General hospital only for the characters Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber. It amazes me that the writers and producers of this show will only allow Jason Morgan to be with Sonny’s left over women. Yet, the one woman that has enough class and taste to not have anything for Sonny you won’t let Jason be happy with. Is it written in the script somewhere that says that Jason Morgan is only allowed to have Sonny’s old women? Is he not supposed to be happy on the show at all unless it’s with some whiny slut or loud mouth obsessive tramp? Why bother to torture the viewers yet again with the angst that goes on with this couple. I have watched Young and the Restless, One Life to Live, Bold and the Beautiful and many others, but I have never seen where there has been a couple that the writers and producers were not giving a chance to be in a relationship no matter how long or short. They all seem to have a real relationship, but General Hospital will not allow Jason be a family with the MOTHER of his only child. Jason and Elizabeth have never been given the chance to explore a real relationship or courtship with one another. This has gone on long enough it’s been ten years already why not give their fan base the romance and adventure that they can have together as a family. Though it really doesn’t matter how their fans feel you will not allow them to be together so you can give us the dysfunctional relationships of the drug addicted, abusive cheating idiotic so called ex-husband. You really want your viewers to believe that Elizabeth not less than a few weeks ago was totally in love with Jason Morgan, but now she is falling all over herself w/Lucky Spencer who is an idiotic cop who still treats her badly. I am really starting to get the impression that the writers and producers love to see women being abused and the really sad part it’s not even the women who look for the danger that gets the verbal abuse or any type of abuse, but it’s a mother of two you want to be with an abusive control freak.



Then you would like your viewers to believe that Jason Morgan has forgiven everything that Sam McCall has done to Elizabeth and her children just because she was there to bring him out of an exploding building that he would not have probably been in if it weren’t for Sam and Lucky. Because the viewers are still trying to figure out when and where were Jason and Elizabeth seen together for the Russian mob to take her son, unless they were actually following Sam who worked with them and then shows up with Jason at Elizabeth’s house and to think they didn’t notice her as well. Give me a break already, how stupid do you think your viewers are. Yet you want us to believe you are now going to allow Jason and Sam a chance to get back together. Really, is the recycling of relationships all you have to do, instead of giving new couples or rather couples that should be together a chance? I can’t buy that Jason would ever go back to Sam or rather take her back under any circumstances as well as Elizabeth going back to Lucky. Now, I am hearing rumors or so that the actors are unhappy that they weren’t given a chance to become a family. The fans are greatly disappointed I know I am as a fan. Then there is the new sweeps coming where you have Jason running in to try and help the people he is suppose to care about, but you give him the choice between going to the mother of his only child which he is in love with over his so called best friend who has a husband. You allow him to go to Carly. You really are trying to have the Liason fans lose interest in this couple.



I seriously believe the producers and the writers of General Hospital should LOOK UP ON THE WEBSITE AT THE FANFICTION WRITERS FOR LIASON AND EMPLOY SOME OF THEM, because the writers you have for Jason and Elizabeth that are being paid are horrible writers. The writers that are writing fan fiction for Liason have better stories and they have many ideas and new directions to take these characters in. How is it that the paid writers you actually employ can’t seem to write a good story line for them?



So again I state, I will no longer be watching General Hospital until I at least know that Jason and Elizabeth are given a chance to be a family together. Though I know you don’t care about the fans but you have just lost a huge fan. I will always watch for updates for Steve Burton and Rebecca Herbst that are great at their jobs. Too bad you don’t see the chemistry for them.

Thank you for writing this article. Thank you for expressing the frustration that I feel about the current state of this story.

You call going down to number 5 show, losing over 142,000 viewers in a year, and losing points in every Demo but one "good and steady ratings". I think you need to build up those analyzing skills of yours.

What really scares me honstly is where the show is headed. It's taken this more than usual dark turn, less hosptial, less love, no family, killing of core characters. Even if they aren't dead they write them so far off they are unrecognizable. Repeated dialogue is all Liason got, I literally would be interested to see an mvid showing every conversation these two have had, REPETITIVE and redundent. Steve and Becky's chemistry doesn't come along very often. You can't pay for the spark btwn these two, their history long, both original portayers of core characters come together, make love for the first time, make a baby in that single night, come through the obstacles that they have come through, FOR THIS? It's not only an insult, it's not GH. Where's the romance and adventure? It's a sad day when the "scab writers" wrote far better stuff than supposed trained profressionals. I saw more passion in that short time than I had in years. Sad and I haven't watched since Sam got in the car when Jake was taken. I refuse to watch until Liason is on my screen TOGETHER.

If you look at the ratings since November sweeps they have steadily gone down. Sweeps was the lowest sweeps in years, and they have also lost points in demos. Demos are VERY important to them. I could care less if the show goes off the air because as a long time viewer who has supported the show for over 15 years, I have been played around with like a puppet. GH does not respect their viewers. They could care less what we want, because after all of it they still get paid. I would rather have no GH then have the crap they've been shoveling to us the past couple months. GH deserves to go off the air after how they have treated their fans.

This is so true, After 45 years of watching GH. I stopped watching in September after writing writing long letters to every member of the Disney Board of Directors and ABC execs.
I have not and will not watch until and unless Frons and Guza are gone.
May the ratings continue to decline til the viewers are acknowledged

Hi Sink em, I with you!

I definitely agree with your post. Let's send GH ratings to the bottom of the basement 1.8. Turn those Televisions off and especially during this upcoming supposingly sweeps. I mean after all what's in for us Liason fans "NOTHING". We've been loyal and faithful fans long enough and what has it gotten us "NOTHING" There's an old saying that goes "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" well we've been scratching GH's back and @ss long enough we've been scratching so long we no longer have fingernails. Well I say use those hands to change the channel or turn the television completely off. Let's find out if "RATINGS" really do matter. Let's send them to 1.8! LIASON FANS TURN THE TELEVISION OFF EVEN IF IT'S JUST FOR ONE WEEK. I know it will be hard but why should you give GH your ratings when they care nothing about what their viewership want... Why? Folks Turn the Channel...

I love this "almost" couple! I think that they deserve a REAL chance! I can't understand why it is not relaized that the boys and Elizabeth would be safer with Jason making it known that Jake is his son. They would have FULL time guards and things like kidnappings would not happen (at least not without a major struggle). I hope that TPTB reunite these two, because until they do GH has been taken off my recording schedule. I have watched this show for SO many years and I can say that I am so DONE!

Loyal fans to the Jason and Liz pairing (like myself) have been hanging on for almost 10 years only to get jerked around at every turn. Liason have been given more angst than any other couple. The problem with that? They have never been given the happiness they deserve. I thought things would turn around when they made a child together. But alas, the writers screwed that up as well. And what's worse? The characters are being written completely out of...well...character. Liz is loyal and fiesty. Where are those qualities? When was the last time we saw them? Jason stands by what he believes in. He would never not be a real and present father to his son. He would protect Jake, Liz, and Cam with his life. Yet he is hiding behind this danger storyline. Please Jason Morgan is a mob enforcer. Anyone would be stupid to dare cross the line with him. But hey, it makes for an awesome story. So why don't Guza & company give that a try? Why not put Liz and Jason TOGETHER handling ALL obstacles that come their way. Give Liz back her fiesty determination and let her fight for the man she loves and give Jason back his backbone.

I tried for as long as I could to hang in there for Liason. I have been wanting this couple since 1999 and until 2007, I stopped watching because Jason and Elizabeth were paired with other people. I started watching again when I heard from a friend that they were going to have a child together.
The push and pull of the past year has been miserable. I feel as though the writers pull us in and tease us, only to later dash our hopes. I have stopped watching again and I refuse to watch again until things change for Liason. I don't understand why this couple cannot be given a real chance. GH seems to enjoy messing with the fans and messing with their couples. All the show contains now is misery and the mob. The writing is terrible and it's so sad because Steve and Becky have amazing chemistry together. How is it the writers are so blind to that fact?

I've waited years for Jason and Elizabeth to get together. They have a son, but still GH won't give us a romantic storyline that lasts between the two. It sucks.

Dude, where are my Liason? They got cut off! It really makes no sense, because one minute, there talking about becoming a family because life is too short to waste, then its like they don't even exist. The writers are taking EVERYONE, at least in the quad, way out of character right now. You can't just pretend stuff didn't happen writers! We saw it! Its sad when you have to take people out of character to end them, just goes to show that they are meant to be. This last Jakenapping storyline was as contrived as they come, and I'm so disappointed that after 10 years of waiting, this is the best the writers can do.

I quit watching after 26 years. i know you dont always get your couple and even when you do they almost never last BUT never in all my 26 years of watching gh have I seen them drag out any other story line just to end it with no pay off what so ever. IT seams to me that the back and forth"now I want you, now I dont" it the only rabbit in the gh hat. They did it with robin and patrick and Lulu/logan/Johnny, and are still doing it with carly/jax, spinelli/maxie. `How bout less mob and more hospital story lines? How about not killing off long time characters such as emily Q, tony Jones, Aj Q and georgie jones? I feel no lack of loyalty for leaving gh because the show I loved for so long is gone. Time is precious and I cant see wasting nearly 260 hrs a year Watching a show I just no longer enjoy!

I am support Jason and Elizabeth Fan. I am writing to say I miss my couple Jason and Elizabeth.. It's a New Year lets start it off with the Morgan Family. Lets start New Year the best Jason and Elizabeth forever.. I demand a Jason and Elizabeth wedding in 2009...All I want for the New Year is Jason and Elizabeth to raise Jake and Cam together...The only reason I watch General Hospital is for Jason and Elizabeth…I want them together, they need to be together, they love each other and they have to raise their children together..

I want and the only holiday miracle, I am interesting in seeing is Jason getting back together with Elizabeth and onscreen together. I have waited 10 years for Jason and Elizabeth to finally be together and Jason and Elizabeth are amazing, great and once in a lifetime type love story. They have been through more not being together than most couples on the show and yet they still have this deep and undeniable connection. The beautiful memories we have of Liason cannot not be taken away-Thank for giving us Jason and Elizabeth. To finally see that Jason and Elizabeth had family tuned the world out, given in to their love and desire to be the family that all their fans knew they could do. Jason and Elizabeth, Cam and Jake belong together as a family. Jason loves Elizabeth always has and always will. We want more Elizabeth and Jason as a family with their boys Cam and Jake an the Morgan involved in Jason family life. We want to watch them do family things together, and finally acknowledge to everyone that Jacob Martin Morgan is Jason Morgan’s son. We want to watch Moncia and Edwards face as they realize that the Quartermaine line has not died. It continues with Jake. We want to watch Jason experience sheer joy when he walks in the door and Elizabeth and the boys are waiting for him with open arms. I want a Morgan Family Reunion.

Please give Liason a “real” chance at love.

Thank you
Liason4Forever

Thank you for writing this article, right on point and clearly says why Liason fans are upset. I removed GH from my DVR when I heard about the Jake kidnapping because I knew it was only a plot point to drive Liason apart. I'm going to SALE and unless I hear something encouraging (which I don't think I will) my moratorium on GH will become indefinite. I'm not going to give my rating to show whose writers obviously doesn't care about what the viewers want enough to give Liason a fair chance. That is what frustrates me more than anything. I wonder how low the ratings for before Guza/Frons get a clue--people want Liason!! From what I've heard November Sweeps sucked and things have only gotten worse. But I am happy to see Liason fans mobilize and come together to speak out for our couple.

Liason fans have been played with for the last time. Let your voices be heard and hit them where it hurts: THE RATINGS! Sweeps sunk and the past couple of weeks have still been sinking. So keep it going. Turn off your TV's and kill their ratings, then write and call in to GH in support of Stecky/Liason (and mention ONLY THEM/CaKe)and tell them exactly why your not watching. The only way they'll feel the heat is if they crash and burn. Liason fans have more power then they know. Use it!

What I find truely interesting about everything I'm reading online is that GH had only one demo ratings go up last week when every other soap had massive gains GH had a loss along with OLTL, and the only group that watched more was the 12-17 year old girls, tell me again that the stories that GH is writing isn't in an attempt to cater to the tweens and teens? I mean this almost 30 year old had no idea that we were supposed to out grow a Soap, isn't that supposed to be part of the draw, there is supposed to be something to keep Grandma tuning in, something to keep Mom tuning in and something to snag the Tween and teen daughters attention. And as the generations grow the audience follows, My mother should be watching Luke/Laura and Bobbie, and Monica, and Anna.... I should be watching Liz, Jason, Sonny, Carly, Nic, Lucky, even Sam, and the teens should be looking to Spin, Maxie, Lulu, Johnny.... but nope instead GH eliminates my mothers demo by not showing any of the above, they insult my generation when they write Sam to act and think as a teenager does, but makes her the center focus for "our" demographic, along with trying to keep Jason acting like a teen, the characters that have actually grown with my generation is being sold as boring and useless and hypocrites and only the ones with no redeeming qualities are focused on because its better to shove them on us then actually write for the ones we hold genuine interest in, and the younger group the females are being written the exact same as the 30 somethings, where impulse and immaturity is rewarded above selflessness and self control.

So far GH is compairable to the new "90210" where the tweens and teens think its great and fresh while the more mature audience doesn't tune in simply because we all know it was better when Kelly, Brenda, Dylan and Brandon were the center to the same storylines, and my mothers age group just stays away because watching teenage girls have trains ran on them isn't entertainment, it only makes them miss teenagers actually having morals on TV and Happy Days.

Thank you for that awesome article. And I'm sure I speak for Liason fans all over that your article speaks exactly what we're all feeling. It's too bad the Exec's don't respect the wishes of their loyal and longtime viewership. The majority of all polls show that the viewership wants Jason & Liz to be together; In the latest Snap Poll 62%, yes 62% of the viewership wants Jason & Elizabeth TOGETHER, yet tptb refuse to honor that. It's so transparent that Liason was pulled to enhance another actress career. Shouldn't the Execs be in business of boosting all their employees careers? I guess not on GH. After 10+ years I've turned GH off as well. I refuse to give a soap opera my ratings when they clearing don't care one way or the other about the Liason fanbase. We gave them our loyalty and they gave us their backsides to kiss. Well this is one fan you want have to worry about anymore. You can promote all the fake Liason magazine ads & promos but unless there is a 100% Jason & Liz reunion I don't think your ratings will ever get above 2.0. Actually that's too high, I'm hoping we sink you guys to 1.8.

Great aticle...thanks for writing it. I have watched GH for about 20 years, along with most other soaps, grew up with all of them frankly and none has sunk so far so fast as GH. The writing used to be fun and exciting and compelling...now the story's are boring and repetitive. This is highlighted for me with the Liz and Jason storyline. I became an instant obsessed fan of theirs the second they laid eyes on each other...Lucky never stood a chance as far as I was concerned...and prior to that I was a big Liz and Lucky and Jason and Robin fan...but Liz and Jason had it all...fire, passion, sweetness, romance, excitement.

I was very thrilled a few years ago with the start of their affair and the conception of Jake that these two amazing actors were finally going to be put together as a real couple with a strong story. And even with some badly played out and written bumps in the road it still seemed that way...until summer 2008...when for some unexplainable reason the amazing Becky Herbst was sidelined and written off the show and therefore out of the couple. And it has gone down hill since then...viewers got a brief reprieve when Liz came back as her old strong feisty self fighting for the life she wanted. UNTIL once again the couple was destroyed, and the characters as well, all to promote other weaker characters. Now Liz and Jason fans have also been kicked to the curb..basically told by GH that our viewership and long time commitment mean nothing to the producers and writers. VERY DISAPPOINTING.

I finally stopped watching during the latest kidnapping when it was obvious the show was going to ruin Liz in order to promote others and finally ruin Liz and Jason all to promote what the producers of the show wanted to watch and not what viewers want...which is just what they did. It is sad but apparent the producers and writers are making GH for themselves and not for viewers.

Completely agree with this article. But unfortunately I expected this from GH. No worries though... I have stopped watching GH.

Admitted I've only been a fan of this couple for 8 years. But the moment I started watching GH in 2002, this couple solidified my viewing. The first thing that struck me was the amazing chemistry and ease with which they used to converse with one another. Another thing was the sincere affection Jason (Steve) used to portray when speaking or even looking at Elizabeth (Becky) - maybe it had to do with them being friends in real life or maybe they are just that good as actors. Whatever the reason Jason & Liz "brought it" when it came to their scenes with one another.

I don't think I'm being biased when I say that they should get their shot at being a solid couple. Everybody else on this show has gotten a sustained pairing, even for a little while. example:Jason & Robin (big love which ended when Robin "betrayed" him) Carly & Jason (breakup why? betrayal) ; Courtney & Jason (1 yr breakup why? Sam obligation) Jason & Sam (3 yrs breakup why? betrayal/watch son get kidnapped etc) - everybody has gotten a shot but Jason & Liz - heck even BRENDA got married to him! Now Liz & Jason share a CHILD and they're still not paired. I don't care what anyone else says NO OTHER FANBASE ON GH HAS BEEN TREATED LIKE WE HAVE! Even EmSon (as ridiculous as that pairing was) got their chance!

It's Jason & Elizabeth's turn now and until they start writing for them, I've stopped watching. I signed on for GH with the Quatermaines / Cassidines / Spencers (Luke / Bobby) not the "Sam Show"

I would first like to give kudo's to JasonLovesElizabeth and Sugar for your awesome and right on point analogy of Liason's s/l. I believe your article speaks for all the Liason fans, no one could have said it any better. I feel absolutely honored to be apart of the Liason family right now. Even though we're hurting from the terrible way our couple was pulled apart and destroyed, I love that all the fanbases are coming together to support one another as well as our couple. Let's not give-up, let's continue to show Becky & Steve our love and support.

Thanks again for this amazing article.

Jason and Elizabeth are what pulled me into watching GH and their destruction is what made me turn the show OFF! I have not watched a single episode since the horrid Jake-napping stuff shown the week before Thanksgiving and I have no plans to ever watch again.

If Jason and Elizabeth were given a story truly worthy of their history, their relationship, worthy of the talents of Steve and Becky, worthy of the fans who have been nothing but loyal to this show for YEARS, then I might consider watching again! But, I have no faith in the writers to do justice by this amazing couple.

What a disappointment. I feel that my viewing loyalty has been repaid with a slap in the face.

Perfectly written to express the frustrations felt by so many. Liason has never been given a fair chance, and I for one will not watch until the writers start listening to what the fans want.

I have watched General Hospital for 10 years, but I have been a soap watcher for forty. What pulled me into GH was the story written for Jason and Elizabeth after Lucky died in the fire. I was like -- this couple sizzles... they have this "heart" and "honesty" -- they will be a signature couple. Then, one thing after another --- Steve Burton leaves; the writers resurrect Lucky, who is a shade of his former character.. and they throw Jason and Elizabeth into each other's orbit. Then .. well, that becomes the Elizabeth and Jason story -- close, but no cigar. (sorry, no Monica Lewinsky allusion intended) At this point, I'm done with GH. There is no reason why the Jason and Elizabeth story should not be told. They have chemistry, they have history, they have the same two actors in the roles -- yet, the writers, or the people in charge, continue to jerk them apart. Well, this time.. I'm through... I will not come back to GH this time unless Jason and Elizabeth's story is told. I don't think I'm alone.
BTW: I don't understand how professional writers or people whose job it is to see what works -- don't write their stories. It makes me wonder if there really is just a monkey at Prospect Studio hitting random keys on a typewriter and someone is calling this writing.

I used to watch General Hospital all the time, I believed it was the only show with a quality story line and a great legendary base of characters. I have only consistently watched for one couple to be paired together and that's Liz and Jason. It has become increasingly harder for me to take and interest in the show since the story has never been give the opportunity to take hold. The couple that I believe could be legendary in daytime TV has never been written for, they have given them scenes and scraps of stories but never have been written for all out as in the Luke and Laura or present Johnny and Lulu stories. I watch and like to identify with a character and Liz is the character I identify with, not sam the fraud committing, loose moraled character but with Liz the basically kind and strong passionate woman who is in love with an dangerous sexy man. If the writers are not writing for the normal woman who are they writing for? When they decide to write for me I will watch till then I am on hiatus. I want to see romance in the afternoon and I want the romantic pairing of Liz and Jason.

While I'm upset with what's happened to Liason, I've turned off GH over the writing in general.
Jason Morgan has ALWAYS been my favorite soap character, and the writers have completely destroyed him. COMPLETELY.
TIIC don't care what we as the viewers want, so I no longer care about GH and have turned it OFF.

Thank you. I quit watching GH since they broke my Liason up. If only TIIC would see that they have a great story in Liz and Jason....maybe they would actually get some people to watch. I can only hold out hope for a reunion. Thanks for putting into words what the fans are feeling.

This is a great article. Thank you. It says all the things I feel about the state of General Hospital right now in general, and how I feel about the break-up of Jason and Elizabeth. It's enormously frustrating to watch this beautiful love story unfold, and finally think there will be the ultimate payoff only to have it snatched away yet again. It amazes me that with the sizzling chemistry of Steve Burton and Rebecca Herbst, and the history and connection of Jason and Elizabeth that the show still drags its feet on what is one of most enchanting love stories in soaps today. They have a goldmine in Jason and Elizabeth and refuse to use it and see the love story through. The kidnapping of Jake should have brought Jason and Elizabeth together, in my opinion. Instead, the show went another way, leaving me terribly disappointed once again. It's also fascinating to see the recent praise in magazines during December for Herbst's performances and also for the Jason and Elizabeth pairing on some "Best of 2008" lists, yet this kind of praise never translates to air time for the actress or the story, when in all logic it should.

Thank you again for the article.

ICAM with what you have both stated regarding Jason/Elizabeth. I really wish TPTB would give them a FULL CHANCE like all of jasons other pairings have gotten in the past. This push/pull crap has gone on long enough with this tortured couple. Maybe instead of giving them ONLY 28 seconds of happiness and actually let them be a family more viewers would tune in.

ITA with your article. I started watching GH as a result of an accident that kept me homebound for several months but I kept watching after I recovered because of Jason and Elizabeth. They captivated me like no couple since Bo & Hope years ago. They have everything you want in a soap couple, absolutely gorgeous classic star-crossd lovers, with that rare combination of smoking hot chemistry combined with a totally sweet and romantic ease in scenes together. Rebecca Herbst and Steve Burton have really been stellar and have brought magic to this couple. I believe that when you invest the amount of time that a soap requires and when you have invested in a couple or story over a period of years that yes the show owes you the same loyalty and investment. That doesn't mean that a couple lasts forever or is drama free, but it does mean that they give you the whole story with a beginning, a middle and an end and somewhere in there they give you some fun, romance, and happiness and I am not talking about a 30 sec proposal or a couple of minutes of discussion about a trip to Italy or yet another decision to be together that ends moments later. This fanbase has been incredibly loyal to GH. I don't think that any of us are being unrealistic or unreasonable but I have decided that this time, I am not waiting around for years for this show to tease me with this couple only to snatch them away again before really giving them a chance.

Right now GH has a lot of problems; it is choppy, it is mob obsessed, it is depressing and most certainly the most unromantic soap in daytime and that is too bad because there is a wealth of talent there, the best cast in daytime in my opinion but this fan will not settle for less this time. Either the show repays me for the loyalty I have shown and that includes a real chance and a real story for Liason as a couple or I won't be back, certainly not under the current regime. They may not care but they have lost a viewer of 9 years who watched every day either live, a recording or on Soapnet later that evening.

I love the article and agree that Liason is an amazing couple, but TPTB are obviously not interested in telling a great story. They have been dragging fans of this couple along for two years and it is just ridiculous. I for one am no longer interested in watching because not only is Liason not on but the show has been choppy and the storylines are pointless there is no follow through stories get started and dropped like no ones business. When TPTB decide to fix GH and our couple I will watch again.

It's apparent that TIIC are just that "the idiots in charge!" If they had any idea what sells, what brings in the viewers, what longtime fans wanted, they wouldn't be in this mess. Liason was/is a staple in GH history, as are Luke/Laura, Sonny/Brenda and so on. These couples are what brought GH to the frontlines and held them there. They only real differnce in those couple compared to us Liason fans is that they actual had years of storylines filled with not only angst but LOVE. Being together, having interactions that kept the viewers/fans of these couples on the edge of their seats longing for the weekends to be over quickly so we could see what was going to happen next. Now, like many other 20+year long viewers I have shut off my TV. Took it off my DVR list of shows I love and have become bitter to the fact that no matter what, I can never look at GH the same way. They ruined an amazing storyline to facilate their own agendas and that's fine, they have that right, it's their show but I hope they understand fully what they have done. Perhaps this was their plan all along, get GH cancelled.
Great Job Guza&Co...enjoy the unemployment lines.

I love the article because it has everything in it I feel about liason and the frustration I feel being led on since 2006 with the false hope that they would be married, be together , and be with Jake. This is all I want them to do with Jason and Elizabeth. This is what they have failed to do. I feel so hurt by the lastest breakup because of how they did it. I don't understand why or what GH has against Liason. I am left with unfinished story when all I want is more. Thats what this couple does to you. Leaves you with wanting more from them and then suddenly the writers end them. Then you are left with what happened here and confused and mostly hurt. Thanks for writing an article for all of us.

Why Liason doesn't get a chance.......... Frankly, the writing on GH has disintergrated at best. They have killed or written off almost all the Key families we have loved for years (Webbers, Quartermaines, Jones) or they tease us with those families for short stints (Spencers, Scorpios, Drakes, Cassidines, Barretts (Cooper?) Baldwins (Logan?))and then they give us families we never cared about or heard off(Zacharras, Russians)or they keep expanding families we do not want any bigger (Can we say the ultimate Sonny reproduction show). Reason being they really do not know how to write for legacy characters. And that includes Jason 'Quartermaine' Morgan and Elizabeth 'Webber.' These two characters and actors shine together and shine in well written stories. The current story lines just want them and several other characters one dimensional, which does not work in the world of soaps. What we love/hate so much about the characters of Sonny and Carly are they are three dimensional. They are parents, friends, children, they do bad, they do good, they are selfish, they are caring, they are front and center, they can(rarely) be on the back burner. Of course in Sonny and Carly's situation they ahve had years to build these character and they started off in more golden years of GH writing. The problem with the way Liason is being written is they aren't really being written as 3 -D characters or a couple. Constant push and pull should have rewards and consequences, a characters life should revolve around work, family, leisure, friends, happy, sad, good and bad times. I love Liason and I see a lot of potential to be a super couple like those we love that come together and got torn apart(Luke and Laura, Laura and Scott, Carly and Sonny, Lila and Edward, Audry and Tom, Lucy and Kevin, Bobbie and Tony, Brenda and Sonny, Jax and Brenda, Robert and Anna, Frisco and Felicia, (I think I made my point) and I could go on for every soap. Problem that Liason and many other current 'couples' fall into is that since the Nineties GH has not written for super couples/families/characters, they have written angst, mob, violence, action stories. They have in general forgotten about the hospital and can't seem to write stories about law, businesses, families, couples, friends, hospitals unless violence and mob is involved. I love liason but I fear that they will never have a story because the writers can't see past the one dimension.

I totally agree Liason are pure gold and def pull in viewers.Their chemistry is amazing , since their so called break up gh has been dull and not worth watching,( but that is only my opinion)Steve and becky are brilliant together on screen and i love them.I hope tptb wake up and utilise the magic that is Liason

Thanks for writing the article and giving us a forum to voice our opnion. Per Steve Burton, Liason deserves a chance. There is lots of potential there for them. Jake is a Quartermaine/Morgan by blood. Lucky does not have blonde hair and blue eyes. That would be Jason Morgan.

Fans
written by Fan of GH, January 09, 2009

Oh there will be an audience left cause there are more Jasam, Carson, Carjax, etc. fans than just Liason fans. Liason never had a story cause they were never really going to put them together. Jake is a SPENCER and once a Spencer always a Spencer.

If that is true Why did Guza select Elizabeth to be Jason'sa baby's mother. If these fans that you speak of are so visible why haven't they increased the ratings. Ratings equate to more money via advertisement.

Apparently, those fans are not in droves as you would suggest. Liason was meant to be together. Guza is the creator of the couple. He have written them quite well up until the Writer's strike two years ago.

if Jasam were driving the ratings why did Noevember sweeps tank when they were featured. Maybe you are watching a different General Hospital. Jasam obviously does not drive the ratings if they were BIG. As for Carson and Carjax, I never hear anything about their fans bomabared 4151 Prospect Ave with campaigns. I never read about them getting recognition in the mags. NEVER. Where are these fans that keeps GH afloat when they are in dire straits and in need of high ratings. They didn't come out then the ratings count the most during November sweeps.Give me a break. Liason had a huge fan base and that has been proven by Steve, Rebecca and Legitimate insiders. You like TIIC have underestimated the liason fanbase.

Liason fans are finally doing something that TIIC thought they'd never do. They turned off their television sets. Thus the sweeps ratings tank. Liz and Lucky are dead and buried. Your first love isn't always your true love. We saw this with Liz and Jason. An adult love between a self loathing mobster who knows that Liz makes him a better man, and a woman who has much to offer this man in terms of redemption. But the writers took the easy way out. Instead of writing these complex characters as working through the issues that were keeping them apart, and showing a man, who at the age of almost 40, evolve and want to become the sort of man his son could be proud of, they reverted back to the silly action gangster persona that has been failing with this character and the fans for quite some time. Steve Burton has finally said Jason must evolve to survive, but the writers are stuck in 1999 it seems. Now Jason is written into a corner. He can have no more children as how will they write him walking away due to the danger aimed at his first born, yet it's acceptable for another child to be exposed, and the same goes for any future relationships. Any other pairing with him will look as though he only cares about the danger surrounding Liz, but any other woman is fair game. This was just done so badly. Had they put them actually together, let them try to work it out, and had it failed, you would not see the loss of viewership they're seeing now. There is no way at this point to fix this mess.

I have never been a big fan of this couple, but I will say that the lack of follow through for this couple has left this non-fan feeling exhausted and I can only imagine what the lovers of this couple feel like. It's hard to trust a writing regime that strings viewers along and facilitates emotional investment in a couple or a story and then drops it.

I have no doubt that the GH writers have good storyline ideas for couples and the show alike, but it has been proven, time and again, that they don't know how to execute on those ideas.

I am sorry Liason fans. This sucks for you and I'd be pissed to if it were me.

Thank you so much for writing this article--it says every thing that the rest of the Liason fans would love to say to any one who will listen. I have stopped watching GH, as many Liason fans have. I read on a message board that Guza will be throwing out another "bone" for Liason fans during a hospital crisis. I am not following for that tactic just to get me to watch the show again. I look at the picture used with the article and remember that scene. Only two people who truly love each other would be okay with the pink flannel robe. I am slowly moving away from reading the message boards. My heart can not take any more!!! This article, however, was worth reading--I just wish the GH writers would read it!!

Liason has more storyline then Guza realizes! He just don't want to see it. Steve and Becky both are great actors that make the couple come alive on the screen!

I couldn't agree more with your article, nicely written! I haven't watched GH since Dec. 12 when Liason had this latest breakup. If the writers were telling good stories to keep me hooked I would be more likely to stay but as a decade long Liason fan who's just wanted them to have some time in the sun and a story that doesn't reek of "how many ways can we keep them apart with no real payoff in the end" I couldn't stomach supporting the show anymore.

When my A story isn't delivering and my B/C stories aren't entertaining why subject myself to the frustration. I realized that being annoyed for 40 minutes a day wasn't the best usage of my time. I have little hope TPTB will give us Liason or improve GH in any meaningful ways and won't be back until I hear of those things happening. Thanks for your perspective and the Liason love!