<p>As a loyal and passionate, dedicated General Hospital viewer since 1981, I can no longer sit by and watch my show, our show get flushed down the proverbial toilet. Like so many daytime dramas before it, on ABC specifically, GH is suffering from sabotage by a continued revolving door of one incompetent executive, producer, writer, etc after another. I watched GH in its success, when the ratings were high, when it was number one, when it was number two. GH held on. In the 90's, the main center of the show, like it had been for 30 years had still been the hospital. But, when the late great John Beradino, our beloved Dr. Steve Hardy, the last remaining original cast member died in 1996 and executive producer Wendy Riche left, (who by the way won the Daytime Emmy for best show almost every year during her tenure) the show began switching gears. No more were great writers like Claire Labine driving tear jerker stories like B.j.'s heart or Monica's breast cancer. Now a writer named Bob Guza came in and revamped the show to be completely mob-centric. The center of the show was no longer the hospital, it was Luke and Sonny or Sonny and Jason and their band of merry misfits like Carly, Jason, Courtney and their long list of foes....Luis, Rivera, Joe, Faith, Lorenzo, Manny....it goes on and on. Jill Farren Phelps was the executive producer and although she won the show a couple Emmys, the ratings rapidly declined and like she did with Another World and One Life To Live, she put GH on the cusp of cancellation. So, with the destruction, yes destruction (BRIAN FRONS!) of AMC and OLTL, ABC decided to bring Frank Valentini over from OLTL as executive producer to help save GH's rapid ratings decline and also Ron Carlivati as head writer, also from OLTL. Both had great successes over there. They started off with a bang, Ron really listened to what the viewers were saying and asking for and brought back all the vets JFP and Guza had axed. He created, exciting, edgy, sometimes campy, yet thrilling, action packed stories and the ratings began to rise. The focus of the show began to shift once again away from the mob, which I think put a lot of noses out of joint, if you will. Tony Geary, who had been with the show on and off since the late 70's announced he was retiring. Ron wrote him a wonderfully beautiful exit story which made Luke the center of the show during that time period. When all was said and done and Geary left, during an exit interview, he threw people under the bus in a very unprofessional and unappreciative way, namely Ron, addressing him as, "the writer". Soon after, Ron Carlivati was fired from GH and replaced with the two hacks we have now Jean P and Shelly Altman. Neither one know how to writer anything that doesn't belong on C-Span. But, anyways, once Ron was gone, the focus turned back to the mob, ratings began to rapidly decline. They did try to fire Becky Herbst, but thank goodness her fans saved her, again! They did win the Emmy, for Ron's work people! Not the crap on now, lets be clear! The ratings are tanking, fans and viewers are complaining on every message board I am reading, and on social media, yet it goes on deaf ears. Is this intentional sabotage by ABC, Vicki Drummer, Nathan Varni, Frank Valentini and the two hacks in the writer's room? This is our last chance to save the last soap on ABC! This might not even work, but its worth a try, these people are incompetent, they need to be removed from their positions, the show needs to stop the mob stories and for God sakes Frank Valentini during your Emmy speech, Maurice Benard is NOT THE STAR OF GENERAL HOSPITAL!!! Please sign, thank you.</p>
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