General Hospital's Finn is gone and Elizabeth is moving on, but was it wrapped up too quickly?
For more than two years, General Hospital's Elizabeth and Finn couldn't get it together. Fans had issues with the pair during their initial incarnation, pointing out that Finn didn't respect Liz's boundaries. Even Elizabeth expressed the same feelings in the story, so the show put the couple on a break and tried again a few months later.
This time around, Finn was much more respectful of Elizabeth, but their relationship ended in June after Liz found a drunk Finn with another woman. He turned to booze to numb his grief after losing his father, which was all part of Michael Easton's exit story.
Easton's eight years as Finn came to a close on the June 26 episode when Finn faced that he had a problem and checked himself in for a three-month stint in rehab. By then, Elizabeth and Finn were officially over, but Easton thought some of what happened was out of character.
"Some of the things [I had to play] were very difficult," Easton told Soap Opera Digest. "I mean, Finn was not a cheater, he was never going to leave his daughter -- all those things were very hard for me to reckon with. He had a lot of faults. Those were not amongst them, and they developed very quickly."
Easton admitted he would have liked to take things slower and play more emotional scenes with Rebecca Herbst's Liz.
"This is just my personal feeling -- I would love to have had Finn and Elizabeth, even if it was emotional, volatile, bittersweet, I would love for them to have had it out," Easton said. "She [Herbst] is such a brilliant actress. I would loved for her to have had a scene where she found him in the room at the end of the night and I would love for her to have expressed herself, all the things, even if it was disappointment: 'I trusted you, you've done this to me.' I would love for Becky to have had that scene because she's so amazing. I don't think she gets a lot of those scenes and I thought it was a good opportunity."
Still, Easton wants what's best for GH and holds no hard feelings for the soap he called home off and on for the last twelve years.
"[I want] what's best for the show, and I really feel that way because I have so many friends over in that building, both in the cast and the crew and I want it to be so successful," Easton said. "I want it to go on for another 60 years."
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