The following characters aren’t losers, per say… they’re just perennial losers at love. It’s not clear whether some characters are privately the running jokes of their shows’ writer’s rooms or if writers just have a hard time breaking bad habits, but DAYS’ Lucas, BnB’s Bridget, and GL’s Frank are all one more bad relationship away from being institutionalized.
Days of Our Lives: Other than its classic couples, DOOL no longer does ‘love’. Now that TPTB have gotten rid of most of their classic couples, they’ve replaced them with a number of incredibly superficial, temporary,and highly sexual pairings instead. Considering Chloe’s tumultuous relationship with Brady, her brief liaison with Phillip, and her flirtations elsewhere, who actually expected her to stay with Lucas for longer than a few months? I certainly didn’t. She and Phillip were perfectly suited as the show’s top horndogs. It’s why they couldn’t stay together and why a relationship between either of them and any other person, will never work. Lucas (the show’s lovable loser) was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
How is it possible for a man as loving, kind, and as caring as Lucas to continue to fall for women who will either never love him, or who will love the devil himself before putting Lucas first? Remember when ex-wife Nicole kept him drunk so that she wouldn’t have to have sex with him? How about Sami making him think that his brother was Will’s father, so he’d never know Will was his child? Sami topped that act by ‘falling in love’ with EJ Dimera, the man who raped her (by TPTB’s own account), and left her pregnant 
with his child. She’s now had a second child with EJ. Nice. Chloe sleeps with the man who saved his mother’s life and helped her recover from cancer. While Lucas and Kate were showing Daniel their gratitude, Chloe was showing Daniel that fidelity just isn’t a word found in her vocabulary. Of course, because she was doing the naked pretzel with HIM, behind Lucas’ back? It’s all good.
When written well, Lucas is the ultimate package. So why have the writers turned the character into the show’s punchline to a not so funny joke? I wish I knew. Phillip-The-Oil-Slick has poor Melanie willing to debase herself just to have him breathe in her direction. EJ has the woman he sexually assaulted pitted against his wife, who genuinely loves him despite his sleazeball past. Daniel is the ultimate untrustworthy noncommittal jerk who started out by coming between a grandmother (Kate) and granddaughter (Chelsea), now between Kate and her once-future daughter-in-law, Chloe. Lucas? Despite his commitment and genuine affection, he gets to have what’s left over – served cold, at that.
Get on the ball DAYS, and give this guy the love he deserves. I’ve grown fond of Rafe and Sami, but I’ve been hoping that Sami comes to her senses and realizes that forced sex at gunpoint is NOT love (buh bye, EJ) and that Rafe deserves better than someone who is still hung up on her ex-husband (hello, Lucas!). While they’re at it? Cut the biological ties between Sami and her rapist, EJ. Make all of her children Lucas’ children. Do something different, let a show have soul mates whose children all have the same parents. It’s old-fashioned, I know, but I think fans could live with it.
Guiding Light: Poor Frank Cooper! Talk about a man whose love life consistents of having whatever woman is running from other relationships! Has Frank EVER had a relationship with a woman who was in love with him and only him? Loved him FIRST? Eleni, mother of his only child, was brought to the states for an arranged marriage to Frank and fell in love with Alan-Michael Spaulding, first. Olivia wasn’t really in love with him, and their relationship never felt real (though her relationship with his father, Buzz was SMOKIN’ hot). Now Frank sleeps with Natalia, and she goes home to cry about how she’s made things in her life WORSE by being with him. She CRIES? Clearly she’s in love with Olivia and Olivia was the love she was running from, poor Frank wasn’t the love she was running to! She CRIED!
Holy cow, *I* wanted to sleep with Frank after that, it was so awful.. but alas, I would only be part of the problem. I’m not in love with the guy, either… oh, and then there’s that pesky problem that he’s not real, but that’s not the point. How could Frank’s life get any worse? Women are now CRYING after having sex with him!!! Another soap character who’s become the punchline to a not so funny joke. At this point, the writers are going to have to decide if they’re committed to this character or if it’s time to either let him go, or keep him out of the GL dating pool. It’s just painful to watch.
What would take the sting out of the writers making Frank Cooper such a loser at love? How about making him a winner at life? He’s both a loser at love and probably one of the least effective police officers in daytime (and given daytime writers’ penchant for making idiots of the good guys and geniuses of the baddies, it takes some doing for Frank to be among the most ineffective). This is one fine piece of man meat, writers, why not finally give this character an edge? Why not have Frank become one of daytime’s finest? Given the Cooper’s on-again hatred for the Spauldings, isn’t it time for someone to dig up something real on Alan to take him down with? Shouldn’t Frank be that man? Love just isn’t in the cards for Frank, so adventure might as well be.
The Bold and The Beautiful: Ah, Bridget Forrester! Life has not been good to her, EVER! The man she called dad turned out not to be her father, her grandfather was her biological father. Her first love , Deacon Sharpe, was a user who married her in order to gain leverage against her family and to get custody of her nephew (his biological son). She overheard him tell her sister-in-law, Amber, that he thought of her while in bed with Bridget – this after deflowering Bridget on speakerphone to taunt her parents and brother. That little confession led to Bridget getting into an accident that nearly took her life, trying to get away from Deacon and Amber. You’d think that was bad enough, right?
HA! You don’t have the same sense of ‘humor’ as the BnB writers. Bridget’s mother, who initially hated Deacon slept with him and had his child – all while confessing her love for him to Bridget. Her mother slept with, married, and then divorced her second husband, Nick Marone. She ends up being asked to be maid of honor at her mother’s wedding to Nick, months after burying her child with him. Her mother later had a child with Nick (through a surrogate – who just happened to be Bridget’s former sister-in-law and who was married to Nick, as well). Just before she remarried Nick, her aunt slept with him, too, and also became pregnant by him.
She ends up crashing her aunt’s wedding to Nick, only to get the smackdown from Granny Logan. Her grandmother (biological mother to her mother and aunt) has sided against her and has effectively labeled her a loser who deserved to lose her husband to her aunt. Why not just strip the poor child naked and make her stand in the middle of downtown at rush hour? She couldn’t be any more exposed and exploited than she has been by members of her own family, and it’s only the beginning (thank writers)!
Bridget’s big life change doesn’t seem to be working out for her. She’s decided that saving lives isn’t exciting enough and is trading in her career as a physician for a career as a fashion designer. That much proximity to her family, through working in the same industry, can only prove to be the source of more pain for her.
“Spumors” (spoilers/rumors) suggest that the man with whom she’s shared a brief flirtation will end up with her niece, as part of a love triangle between her brother Rick, their (non-biological niece) Steffy, and hottie Owen Knight. WOWZA! Shades of Phoebe and Shane? Phoebe and Constantine? Even Bridget’s teen nieces are getting more action, from men her age who often stay devoted to them until the end. I have to believe that there’s some backstage contest in which the writer who comes up with the next tortured storyline for Bridget wins some sort of grand prize. The collected works of the Marquis de Sade, perhaps?
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I was a Sami fan from the very beginning, when Ali Sweeney was so green onscreen it was painful to watch her. I stuck by her thru thick and thin, loving every wicked plan she hatched. And rooting all the way for her to wake up and realize the only man who really KNEW what she was, and loved her anyway, was Lucas Desmond Roberts (horton). The writers FINALLY gave us a Lumi pairing, and ultimately a Lumi wedding, with babies on the way. And then they ruined it all, threw it away for something despicable. The real Sami Gene Brady shoots rapists in the junk, she doesn’t marry them. I quit watching in disgust when they made one of the twins EJ’s and then had Sami divorce Lucas to marry her rapist. Now I hear she’s had another kid by the rapist. I youtubed some of the scenes and was surprised to find myself rooting for NICOLE, of all people. I just can’t find my attachment for Sami anymore, she’s not recognisable.
Lemme know when they retcon the paternities and get rid of the Passions-refugee. Til that happens, I’m awol.
Sami truly isn’t recognizable. The real Sami would have leveled EJ by now, not had multiple children with him. I loved Rafe, at first, now I want him to move on to make room for Sami and Lucas. What a waste to have ever split them up!
You may remember that GL writers used a split paternity for twins storyline, and later corrected it… if only the writers could somehow do that with Sami and Lucas and make ALL of her children his.
I love Ej and Sami, the actors have the most powerful chemistry of the show. And the rape people it is a soap , everything is over the top, fantasy so let it be..(remember Luke and Laura, just the most iconic soap couple)