Post by stargazer1682 on Apr 17, 2020 22:08:43 GMT
If the show really expects us to accept Ben as a permanent character and romance for Ciara, they seriously need to do more work on distancing him from the... what do you call it.... serial killer who strangled people?
It's bad enough when you have people who shouldn't be in the right, like Evan's scumbag lawyer, making perfectly valid points along the lines of how, while Ben might not committed the murder he was nearly executed for, he did commit a few he arguably should have been; or at least spent the rest of his life in prison. It's impossible to escape that fact about him, so long as it still is a fact;and especially when they keep bringing it up at every opportunity when they have him and Ciara talk endlessly about finding a job. Then to compound it you have him fly off the handle and start to strangle Evan and Ciara has to talk him down.
Obviously, a lot of these soap characters tend to have poor anger management skills and frequently do some pretty stupid things, but when you have an allegedly rehabilitated serial killer doing those things, it undermines any pretense that he actually has reformed.
It may be a cheat, but they seriously need to find a way to retcon his character and find out that he somehow never actually committed the murders he and everyone else thinks he's responsible for. They probably wouldn't be able to have it be Clyde, like I once thought they might try to do, but they had the perfect opportunity to pin it all on Jordan at any point before she died, and arguably still could. They could say she snuck into his apartment after each murder and confessed everything to him while he slept and the details seeped into his subconscious or something; and that's why, combined with his other, still actual mental health struggles, he convinced himself and others that he'd actually done it.
I still think another factor they could add in would be the revelation that Jordan was actually his mother after Clyde forced himself on her when she was a teenager. Cylde was her a step father, and we know he was violent with them growing up; it could add some layers to Jordan's background and explain how they mixed up Ben's DNA results for David's. Sure, Jordan and Ben are supposedly half siblings, but the screw up might make a little more sense if it actually turned out that Ben and David shared a mother.
It's bad enough when you have people who shouldn't be in the right, like Evan's scumbag lawyer, making perfectly valid points along the lines of how, while Ben might not committed the murder he was nearly executed for, he did commit a few he arguably should have been; or at least spent the rest of his life in prison. It's impossible to escape that fact about him, so long as it still is a fact;and especially when they keep bringing it up at every opportunity when they have him and Ciara talk endlessly about finding a job. Then to compound it you have him fly off the handle and start to strangle Evan and Ciara has to talk him down.
Obviously, a lot of these soap characters tend to have poor anger management skills and frequently do some pretty stupid things, but when you have an allegedly rehabilitated serial killer doing those things, it undermines any pretense that he actually has reformed.
It may be a cheat, but they seriously need to find a way to retcon his character and find out that he somehow never actually committed the murders he and everyone else thinks he's responsible for. They probably wouldn't be able to have it be Clyde, like I once thought they might try to do, but they had the perfect opportunity to pin it all on Jordan at any point before she died, and arguably still could. They could say she snuck into his apartment after each murder and confessed everything to him while he slept and the details seeped into his subconscious or something; and that's why, combined with his other, still actual mental health struggles, he convinced himself and others that he'd actually done it.
I still think another factor they could add in would be the revelation that Jordan was actually his mother after Clyde forced himself on her when she was a teenager. Cylde was her a step father, and we know he was violent with them growing up; it could add some layers to Jordan's background and explain how they mixed up Ben's DNA results for David's. Sure, Jordan and Ben are supposedly half siblings, but the screw up might make a little more sense if it actually turned out that Ben and David shared a mother.