I'm afraid I must announce that as of today, I have turned against the character of Peter Bradford, after having lukewarmly defended him for several years. Once the witch trial starts, he (and I'm repeating my WP remarks here) turns into one of those intolerable, insufferable yappy little dogs who are always nipping at your heels, under the delusion that they're really pit bulls. Arf, grrr, yap, bite, nip bark. He gives being the good guy a bad name. I almost want Trask to tie him up with whatever's handy, a curtain maybe, and kick him thus disabled roughly to the floor, in the corner of the room. A Vicki conviction might seem like a small price to pay for this.
Welcome to the club, Magnus!
One of my favorite moments in all DS is in hoDS, [spoiler]when Jeff is trying to talk Maggie out of her Josette-trance and Willie, after letting him natter on for a moment or so, conks him out with something large blunt object.[/spoiler]
I love that moment as well. And oh, if only someone had done the same to any number of his characters on the show!
My fantasy ending for hoDS is actually that after[spoiler]Jeff woke up he was horrified to see that he was too late, Barnabas had already turned Maggie into his vampire bride, and she attacked and drained Jeff to nothing more than a dried up husk!
[/spoiler]But unfortunately that wasn't the way they went in the script.
Peter is the most incompetent defense attorney ever.
Just one of the many reasons we created this back in 2006:
In fact, based on Peter's lawyering skills, or should we say lack thereof, back in August of 2003 we'd rechristened him Bozo Bradford.