Bold and the Beautiful writers are taking Will Spencer’s (Crew Morrow) character way out into left field. All of a sudden, he is being made out to be some unhinged, violent guy on a villainous arc. Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) thinks that R.J. Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti) is in danger and somehow also has decided that Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) is too.
We’re going to get into how B&B is doing this bizarre twist and turning Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) and Katie Logan‘s (Heather Tom)’s son into somebody we don’t recognize and that they think Electra should be afraid of.
Bold and the Beautiful: Will’s Mysterious Villain Arc
Right now, we’re getting a completely different version of Will. The way he’s acting lately is totally unlike we’ve seen him before. The only time we saw him hit somebody in the past was in defense of Electra. Remember when Will smacked Remy Pryce (Christian Weissmann) down when he was stalking and terrorizing Electra? It was heroic.
But this whole thing started with R.J. just instigating stuff at the Bikini Bar, smack-talking Will while putting his hands on Electra. That was the first time that Will punched R.J. And even then, it seemed very out of character. Will has always been a sweetheart. And then again, got to say R.J. inspires a lot of fans to want to face punch him. So, there’s that.
And then when he was trespassing at Will’s house and refused to leave after being told repeatedly to go, I will say that R.J. was in the wrong to stay, but Will hit him too many times. But R.J. shouldn’t have busted in there. He was trespassing.
The Forresters love to go busting into places uninvited and making outrageous demands. They do it at Logan all the time. This is something they all do. And we’ve got Katie freaking out when Will said he hit R.J. again. And even Dollar Bill told Will to use his head and not his fists. As if that’s advice that Bill would really give.
Will the New Villain on B&B?!
So, they’re obviously going to keep going down this rabbit hole of Will coming into some sort of villain era. We’ve got Ridge with this wild speculation that Will is a danger to Electra. B&B even suggesting Will hit Electra is insane. But Brad Bell is clearly making Will the bad guy, a violent bad guy. Before, if you remember, Will was clean cut, clean shaven, and preppy.
And now Bold and the Beautiful is making Will look like a bad guy. They’ve let his hair get shaggy, gave him scruff, put him in clothes that make him look thuggish. It’s so obvious. Like Brad Bell’s told the costume department make him look like trouble. And it might carry more weight if the person Will hit was somebody that fans liked, but he’s not. R.J. is without a doubt one of the most despised characters on B&B and an extremely unpopular recast.
Bold and the Beautiful History of Violent Characters
And we just got them making Will out as this monster out of nowhere. Yet, there are countless other Bold and the Beautiful characters that have done terribly violent things. Very recently, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) slapped the starch out of Katie. A few years back, Ridge threw Bill off a balcony, and Bill had Justin Barber (Aaron D. Spears) toss Ridge out of a helicopter.
Back in the Hunter Tylo days, Taylor Hayes shot Bill in the back because he slept with her daughter Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), and she took minimal heat for that. And come on, Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) was way more physically threatening than Will ever has been.
But Ridge didn’t mention his son doing bad things, just Bill’s son. I mean, Thomas and Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) brawled on a rooftop when Thomas tried to basically kidnap Hope Logan (Annika Noelle).
Thomas punched Rick Forrester (Jacob Young) and his own father, Ridge. Thomas once tried to set Rick’s house on fire and did blow up Rick’s car. That is way worse than Will punching R.J. the trespasser. Those were actual felonies.
But Will’s being made out to be the bad guy here. And don’t forget Electra herself punched a pregnant woman. But then she was telling Ridge she doesn’t like violence. Electra assaulted Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) when she was pregnant with Will’s baby.
And yes, Luna was awful. But Electra hit a pregnant woman so hard she knocked Luna all the way to the ground. If anybody’s going to be hitting a woman, it’s not Will. But unfortunately, this seems to be where Bold is going, making Will into a violent, crazy person. And this week, he also told Bill he was starting to scare himself. Come on.
And Will said he doesn’t know why he’s acting like this. Plus, he did that whole big weird screaming thing when he collapsed to his knees, shouting Electra’s name after she took off with R.J. So, it really does seem like they’re going to have Will with more anger issues and doing more violence.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge’s Ultimatum and Future Conflict
And moving forward, I’m wondering what Ridge may do next now that he’s told Electra she needs to walk away from Will. Actually, Ridge, I think, is bullying Electra at this point. Ridge is already telling her to block Will from her phone, to block him from her life, and he gave Electra an ultimatum, saying she has to choose sides between Will and her family, between the Spencers and the Forresters.
Ridge is so convinced that Will is a danger to Electra simply because he hit R.J. now. By that logic, Ridge is a danger because he’s hit Bill and Brooke’s a danger since she hit Katie. And at this point, I expect Ridge and R.J. to hype up things about Will being unhinged and to keep ramping this all up and them making it look like Electra is a possible victim of some imagined future potential domestic violence is all nuts and I expect to see R.J. acting out.
I think he will taunt Will about Electra ditching him. And since Ridge basically told Electra she has to ditch Will, she’s probably going to head in that direction. But if R.J. provokes Will deliberately, I can see him smacking R.J. again.
Only this time, we could see Electra calling the cops on him because Ridge tells her to. Or we could have R.J. deliberately provoke Will in front of witnesses like at the Bikini Bar. You know, a scene where R.J. is goading him and being nasty, knowing if he pushes the right button, then Will is going to lash out. And then R.J. could have him arrested to protect poor pouty Electra.
Bold and the Beautiful: Will Leans on Dylan?
I also expect we’re going to see Will opening up to Melissa Dylan (Sydney Bullock) about all this. And I think she’ll be sympathetic to Will because she adores him and she knows he’s not unhinged. Dylan might even be around to see R.J. barging into Will’s house again, refusing to leave, trespassing again.
You know, Dylan might be the one to defend Will to the cops if he pops R.J. again when he won’t leave his home. I know some fans are wondering if Ridge is going to threaten legal action against Will. Maybe to try and blackmail Bill, but honestly, that seems too high stakes for Brad Bell’s writing, if I’m being honest.
Now, here’s how I expect this big bad Will story to peak. I think there’s going to be a situation where Electra seems to be in danger from Will and R.J. attacks Will and really hurts him and then tries to claim it with self-defense.
Remember like when Brooke saw Thomas and Hope, they were talking behind Steffy’s cliff house and Brooke totally misread the situation and she shoved Thomas off a cliff. Hope was horrified. Now thankfully Thomas survived, but since B&B likes to repeat plots and Will lives in Malibu where there’s lots of cliffs, I could see something like that happening again.
We could also see Ridge bringing back toxic, terrible Ivy Forrester (Ashleigh Brewer) once Ashleigh Brewer’s maternity leave is over so that she can defend poor Electra from monstrous Will. The bottom line is he’s never been violent before and this is just out of character, but it’s what we’re getting.
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