r/GeneralHospital • u/love_intechnicolor • 14h ago
Every character they’ve ruined to prop up Willow
Characters who used to be very likable are being sacrificed at the altar of GH’s patron saint of Teflon, Willow Tait and it’s driving me up the wall.
(No, these characters aren’t irredeemably ruined. But it’s certainly making them hella unlikable for the time being.)
Here are the characters who have done total 180s to prop up Willow:
Chase
This one is the most obvious and egregious. Chase was once an upstanding gentleman who wanted nothing more than to do right by the people he loved. He was a great son to Gregory, a caring brother to Finn, a loving uncle to Violet and a loving husband to Brook Lynn. And despite the show’s recent attempts to retcon history, Chase had moved on from Willow with no lingering feelings for years after their relationship ended.
The only reason Chase and Willow ever got married was because Willow thought he was dying and felt like she had to marry him out of obligation, even though she had fallen out of love with him and was in love and cheating with Michael at the time. But now Chase is Willow‘s #1 cheerleader who cartoonishly and blindly supports every single thing that Willow does, even though they have both been over one another for years.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth has been suspicious about Willow for several months. So suspicious in fact that she had the health department go to Willow‘s house to inspect it for mold because she could not make sense of the fact that both Drew and Jack ended up locked in after being at Willow‘s house. She also was baffled as to why Willow kept rejecting her offers to get Drew communication devices. But now she is defending Willow saying that Willow could lose her kids because of the allegations in Lulu‘s article when she has been suspicious of Willow the whole time.
Lucas
Lucas has never seen it for Willow. In fact Lucas and Willow’s last interaction with each other was in May 2025 when Willow was still working as a nurse at GH and Willow slapped Lucas after Lucas chewed her out for her obsession with Drew. Yet now even Lucas is defending Willow and throwing his own cousin Lulu under the bus in the process. Make it make sense.
Sidwell
Sidwell is in prison for attempted murder. What more does he have to lose by confessing that he gave Willow the paralytic? He already confessed (offscreen) to poisoning Maxie so why isn’t he confessing to giving Willow the drugs to paralyze Drew? That’s right we know why. Because TPTB will ruin every character to before they hold
Willow accountable.
ADA Turner
Justine has been gunning for Willow ever since she was on trial for shooting Drew. She always believed that Willow was guilty and was pissed that she got away with it. Now Justine has the perfect opportunity to prosecute her for another crime and she just… doesn’t seem to care to? Justine should be chomping at the bit to prosecute Willow and she’s just indifferent. It’s a complete 180 and yet another slap in the face to the viewers.
Britt
Britt was experiencing character development after learning she did not have Huntington’s. She had a great conciliatory conversation with Anna after she tried to kill her that showed us Britt was moving in the direction of forgiveness and honesty.
And now the writers are undoing her progress to have her lie to protect Willow, her cousin who she only started hanging out with a week or two ago and previously had no real relationship with. Given everything Britt has been through recently, she should have learned something about withholding the truth to protect criminals but here she is regressing to prop up Willow.
Nina
Her only storyline for the past couple of years has been being Willow’s enabler. All she ever does is desperately grovel at Willow‘s feet to have a relationship with her and I wish they would do more with her character.
Brook Lynn
Brook Lynn used to be a confident self-assured heiress who lived up to her Quartermaine name. Now she is a groveling mopey pick me for Chase. Brook Lynn makes the slightest mistake and Chase can’t trust her but he never questions Willow’s sketchy behavior and yet Brook Lynn still wants to make her marriage work. I’m tired of BLQ’s furrowed brow, mopey “why does Chase always side with Willow?” face. Brook Lynn has been made to look weak in service of propping up Willow.
Dante
Dante has been annoying since he went on his “I hate Gio” tour after Rocco’s alcohol poisoning incident and even more so with him not believing Sonny about the Pentonville beating. But somehow they managed to make him even more annoying with him asking Lulu to retract her story about Willow paralyzing Drew. Dante, the detective and acting police commissioner can’t detect the mountain of evidence that clearly shows that Willow was responsible for drugging Drew? Instead, he’s only focused on the methods that Lulu used to obtain the information and not the actual information in Lulu’s story.
Michael
Michael still insists that Willow is a good mother who would never hurt their kids. Despite the fact that just a few months ago, she was willing to frame Michael for attempting to murder Drew. Willow was also willing to make Michael look like a drug addict to steal the kids from him. She also continued to defend Drew after he manipulated Wiley to try to turn him against Michael. None of these are actions of a “good mother who would never hurt her kids.” But yet they’ve made Michael totally feckless when it comes to Willow. Why can’t a supposed billionaire CEO who is a Quartermaine, Corinthos AND a Spencer defeat a lowly jr. congresswoman? All he’s done is move her into the gatehouse which has done nothing to knock her off her high horse. And Michael has been pushed to the sidelines as a character for several months.
Honorable mention: Daisy
Ok so this one is not so serious but it also is because Sasha left town with Daisy because Willow was messing with her (a crime that Willow will probably never answer for) and Michael and Sasha were worried about Daisy’s safety. Now Michael looks like a deadbeat dad because why are Daisy and Sasha still out of town after all this time? (I know it’s because Sofia Mattison left the show and she’s joining DOOL so she won’t be back but the character has to be recast because Michael should be an active father to his daughter). Willow being the reason that Michael doesn’t get to raise his daughter just doesn’t sit right with me.
And that concludes my list.
The writers are twisting themselves in knots and jumping through Texas-sized hoops to protect Willow and it’s just not good TV. When you have to ruin every character’s reputation to prop up one character who keeps doing bad things, you’re making the a large chunk of the cast unlikable.
We get it. TPTB want Willow to be a central character on the show but ruining other characters to allow her to get away with everything is making the show insufferable. When a large chunk of the cast is unlikable, there is no one to root for and therefore people wanna tune out.
Let me know if I missed any characters they’ve ruined to prop up Willow.