General Hospital fans have been, let’s say, a bit divided on the subject of Finn and Elizabeth’s on-again/off-again romance. But the show itself is gung ho on the pairing… or at least now it is. “I actually thought it was done,” Michael Easton admits to Soap Opera Digest, “and then they re-engaged it.

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“I think [the writers] are trying to go all in and see what happens with it,” he continues. However, “it’s an uphill battle, because it has gone through an ebb and a flow. It had some momentum and lost it.”

Yeah, that kinda thing will happen when there’s a speed bump as big as “I just remembered that I killed your first wife… and oh yeah, sorry that I lied about being pregnant by another man.” Nevertheless, Easton has every faith in the show’s scribes and leading lady Rebecca Herbst to turn it around. “I always say the writers can do anything, it just takes some work,” he says, “and I know Becky will be good.

“Hopefully,” he adds, “I’ll be nearly as good, and maybe we’ll make it good to watch. And if not, they’ll do something else. But I think it was just time to be all in” with the couple. “You can only play [the ‘Will they or won’t they?’ tension] for so long.”

As Finn and Liz write a new chapter of their tumultuous love story, check out the below photo gallery to catch up on the relationship status of every couple on General Hospital.