Am I the only one here who HATED the return of Willie Loomis?
Didn't any one else throw something at the TV?
Never saw this stuff before. Wish I still hadn't.
The nature of Willie's relationship to Barnabas Collins ALWAYS makes me want to shriek.....but this was beyond endurance.
That Willie would even for an instant consider staying and helping the man who: enslaved him, beat him, tormented him, threatened him, framed him, belittled him, betrayed him......isn't just stupid. It's sickening.
If they had wanted to, they could have written Willie's return in much different terms. He could have come back older and wiser, angry and vengeful, with something of his original personality, determined to let Barnabas and Julia know he was no longer afraid. He could have demanded admissions of guilt and apologies all round, and only when Barnabas had admitted to both contrition and helplessness, should Willie have thought about remaining to help. In one conversation (this IS a soap opera, after all) they could have changed the nature of the entire relationship in a way that would have resolved past issues and opened up new possibilities for the interactions of all three characters. Instead of being needed merely to babysit the contents of a casket, he could have brought some of the original hoodlum's talents to the fight against the Leviathans. They could have made REAL use of one of the most talented actors in the studio.
But no. They brought him back the same simpering, pathetic child...still hoping to please his abusive parent....even to the point of destroying the first chance at happiness he's ever had. One can only assume the mail indicated this was the way the fans liked Willie. Or maybe TPTB were just too damned lazy.
Better he had stayed away¢â‚¬¦
How much longer to William Hollingshead Loomis?