Will insists that he thought he was sleeping with Electra the night his life was upended by 180 proof alcohol and Luna. But it seems The Bold and the Beautiful might be holding a card close to the vest that’ll prove him either to be a liar or mistaken. It all comes down to what happened after he pushed Electra’s mask off Luna’s face.
Luna remembers the moment. It’s her smoking gun. The proof she’s touted that he did know he wasn’t in bed with his girlfriend. He says it didn’t happen. But the audience saw the night Luna assaulted him play through. Will did remove the mask, and Luna’s face was visible. But he was too occupied kissing her to notice. Luna has also daydreamed about the moment. It happened, so what does that mean for the soap? Let’s get into it.
The Plot Thickens And Gets Dubious
There’s no other way to slice this pear: Luna (Lisa Yamada) assaulted Will (Crew Morrow) the night of his party. She put him in a position to be vulnerable and less inhibited so she could take advantage of him. That’s indisputable. However, B&B is likely going to blur the lines of this story by revealing there’s more to that night than Will is willing to admit.
The plot keeps circling back to the mask. Electra (Laneya Grace) questioned why the only thing tethering Will to the idea that he’d been with her was the mask she’d discarded. She and Luna aren’t similar in body type. He’s kissed both girls and should know the difference between them. And Electra had never been intimate with anyone, while Luna had. So the scenario Will has presented that Electra would initiate her first time while he was drunk and in a spare apartment at Il Giardino doesn’t ring true for her.
He can’t explain it himself beyond saying he was too out of it to connect those dots. But Luna wasn’t lying about his passion. Will wasn’t acting like someone aware that his partner hadn’t slept with anyone before. Fans questioned why the scene was staged like it was, and it might be because there is a moment where Will knew he wasn’t with Electra and perhaps fantasized it was Luna.
If that’s the case, B&B would be laying the groundwork for Will’s feelings to become complicated.
An Unwanted Attraction
When Will said he hated Luna on Monday, September 29’s episode of B&B, it reminded me of a line Katherine Pierce (Nina Dobrev) has in The Vampire Diaries: “You hate me, huh? That sounds like the beginning of a love story, Stefan. Not the end of one.”
Soap operas have no qualms about creating love stories in the wake of terrible actions. Despite Luna’s behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising if Will finds himself falling for her as her pregnancy progresses. He’s been adamant that his heart belongs to Electra, but we’ve seen his attraction to Luna. He entertained her advances, didn’t block her number when she was sending him flirty texts, and even his attempt at entrapment involved seducing her.
Will wants her locked up. He’s been clear on that. But when she revealed to him that she was the one he was with the night of the party, he sat on her bed as he processed the news. He also let her touch him. Luna has been overly familiar with Will from their first scene together post-her character rewrite, and that hasn’t changed in the aftermath of the assault.
Fans have rightfully been calling out what happened, and the writing around it, but it looks like we’ll need to buckle up. There’s always room for error, but it does seem like the B&B writers are leaving the door open for a possible twist to this story. One that’ll shift Will’s perspective of that night and likely vindicate Luna and her belief that Will does want her, even if he won’t admit it.
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