An Instagram post by finolafilona @finola.Hughes with a photo of a heart-shaped cake covered in white shredded coconut and the caption “When one is so lucky to have friends that bake delicious Valentines Day cakes! Thank you for a lovely evening @antonio.hendricks1970 and @ian.buchanan love you both xxx pink heart, cake slice, tulip emojis”

Magazine page with black and white photo of General Hospital heroine Anna Devane with her arms raised and wrapped sensually around the neck of Duke Lavery with pink cursive-font headline “Love Is in the Air”; black all-caps subhed “VALENTINE’S SPECIAL”; and caption “Romance is soap opera’s main ingredient. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we present an album filled with passionate, tender photos of television’s most cherished couples. Anna and Duke, GENERAL HOSPITAL (Finola Hughes and Ian Buchanan)”

Diptych of General Hospital supercouple Duke and Anna. On the left, wearing his suit jacket, she rests her head on his upper arm as he rests his chin in the curve of her swan-like neck. They are suffused in golden late-afternoon light. On the right, he stands to her left, grinning broadly through his Van Dyck goatee, with his arm wrapped around her shoulder as she smizes.

General Hospital actors Finola Hughes and Ian Buchanan smile widely as they show off a Soap Opera Digest magazine cover photo of their characters Duke and Anna Lavery in which he wears a navy blue wool suit coat and white lace jabot and she wears a white lace bridal gown and veil, with the pink headline “The Making of TV Weddings”

I’m lodging a formal complaint. My iconic #GH supercouple ship spent Valentine’s Day together IRL (platonically, but still) but I can’t get #DnA4ever onscreen together even though Anna’s current storyline would be improved by #DukeLives. #FinIan #WhyRatingsAreLow #FireFrank

Didn't watch either, or see clips yet... but he was barely able to walk to the stage last yr he was so out of it 😂

I thought it was Ketamine tho. Not that it matters, he's clearly always on something 🤣🤣

But another win means he's definitely going down with this ship 🤦‍♀️ #GH #FireFrank

Absolutely. The writing is horrendous and one of many reasons I stopped watching. And #FireFrank

he's been here for well over a decade and, not coincidentally, overseen the worst creative run in the soap's history

unfortunately, it seems absolutely nothing will make ABC #FireFrank #GH

"Toxic, borderline sinister backstage politics".

That's the reason Kelly M, Lexi, Billy (RIP) et al were let go.

Now you have it from an unimpeachable source.

#FireFrank #GH

#FireFrank

#GH - a show that has built viewer loyalty through multiple generations - is barely beating #BTG, a show that just started

My goodness, ABC - what the hell does it take to #FireFrank ???

I miss the days when Laura rightly hated Sonny. #WhyRatingsAreLow #FireFrank #GH

When ratings free-fall started and they didn't #FireFrank, just assumed they were passively letting show die. Better EPs have been fired for less

Once they cancel #GH they'll likely give timeslot over to affiliates. So for now status quo is easier... esp if Disney wants to unload ABC, and they do

#FireFrank It's LONG past time. #GH

This is the pattern

Anytime a popular couple (or character) emerges organically, based solely on chemistry or talent, and takes even the slightest attention away from the Corinthos-Benson pets, they get tanked

We're at the stage now where viewers are in an abusive relationship w/ #GH

#FireFrank

🥴 OK but I hate this version of Anna. Both the one that did that stuff and the one who lies about it now. I never would’ve watched #GH if she’d always been like this. There’s a reason I haven’t watched in 10 years. #WhyRatingsAreLow #FireFrank

The PCPD is playing softball with a company they know is a front for the mob? SMDH. #WhyRatingsAreLow #FireFrank #GH

He ONLY casts w/ his d*ck! I thought that was already known information 😂😂😂

I hate that I still (barely) watch this 💩show 🤣🤦‍♀️ #GH #FireFrank

I miss real Lucy. Tho I'm sure Lynn has had a rough few yrs and is prob having fun w/ this. So I'll give her this silliness, esp bc it gives her more days on set

But OMG is this insanely painful to watch. I hate what they've done to this show 🤦‍♀️ #GH #FireFrank

And that's exactly it. It's not just doing soaps or TV wrong, but not getting the very foundation and structure of story! They fail on every level of Storytelling 101

It's also entirely a top-down issue. You can only replace so many HWs and not see the EP as the constant problem 🙄 #GH #FireFrank

Oh, of course not! 😂

But the Historian was there when it was established (and re-established many, many times lol). There are no excuses

It's really the lowest bar if you expect audience to buy in. I can follow it and I'm not even getting paid to keep track of all this nonsense! 🙄🤣 #GH #FireFrank

#gh - soooo much Sonny worship writing AGAIN, over and over. #FireFrank #FireVarni

Did anyone think otherwise? lol

Also the name on his corp credit card was JS & assoc. They're not being even slightly subtle about it, or his connection to Sidwell 🤦‍♀️🤣

But the more they keep doubling down on 💩 like this, the more we know the show is over

#GH #FireFrank

Synergy 🤣

#GH #ABC #FireFrank

But what you're talking about are actual dramatic stakes. They hate those and avoid them like the plague 😂

Established relationships and organic beats like this are literally how you build story. I seriously don't get why they refuse to follow even the simplest storytelling rules 🤦‍♀️

#GH #FireFrank

Brought to you by the same people who thought Krissy's DNA contribution was a good idea 🤣🤣🤣

#GH #FireFrank

I'm more than a week behind. But I have caught some of the Rava scenes (maybe all of them?) on YT. They're barely scenes tho. They rarely get more than 3mins total, ie. all scenes spliced together

Such a waste #GH #FireFrank

#firefrank

#GH - MiniCujo just keeps getting more and more screen time and stories while sooooo many have nothing but scraps. Make it make sense. #FireVarni #FireFrank

Pretty. But boring 😂

Nathan was fairly green flag, esp for Maxie lol... but SO dull and one-note

Don't mind this helpful partner/dad iteration of Spin. Tho I'd love some heat and actual intimacy. They used to be a very rootable couple... When this show did actual relationships 🙄 #GH #FireFrank

Exactly. Totally forgot Austin was even a thing. His death/murderer are already irrelevant to the canon of #GH

...like much of the contributions from this regime 🙄 #FireFrank

Frank constantly fails to understand how characters who are screaming, judgemental, narcissist shrews can't be viable leading ladies

There's no room for chemistry w/ anyone (romantic or otherwise) bc they don't listen or connect or react, beyond just yelling loudly at people 😂 #GH #FireFrank

I'm using #FireFrank

This is literally the one thing Frank knows how to do. And you know it's him, and not one of revolving door of writers, bc it's been nothing but plot hole shock-and-awe trash since he started in 2012

After 13yrs of this, only shocking twist would be a cohesive and compelling story 😂 #GH #FireFrank