And Ben planted evidence and framed Chad for MURDER!
So how will Days handle it when Ciarra finds out about Tripp planting evidence? Will they bring up the fact that Ben did that, and in a far more serious way? Will they confront Ciarra with those facts? I doubt it very much, because the whole Ciarra-Ben story depends upon nobody properly confronting her with the hard truths about Ben!

Days only seem to care about pushing Ben and the Ciara-Ben relationship. They even had Commissioner Hope NOT THINKING TO CHECK Ben’s previous crime scenes when she had reason to believe Ben had taken her daughter, despite the fact the place where Ben held Abigail was WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE of where Ciarra crashed her bike!!! This is the level of not-giving-a-damn about rationality the show is at!

And in all this, the scripts are playing for sympathy for the murderer, whilst the reasonable people are put in the roles of the villains. No thanks Days! No, just NO.

No thank you Days, I’m not buying!

This is formula that soaps have been writing for years. Bad boy (or girl) turns good and a main character falls for him or her. The fan base for Sonny on GH, a murderer who killed AJ, who just admitted he killed another man 30 years ago who he never knew but was ordered to do so and boasts that he “has no regrets” is put up as the center of the show. Every crime he commits or has committed is justified by his fans. He’s a “good guy” with a “heart of gold” who “only” kills when he has to. “Has to” includes when the guy steals his territory, knows too much or wants his own biological son back. Luke was made into a hero after the “rape” which isn’t a rape anymore. Franco was a serial killer on GH but had a tumor. (I’m buying that one; that he was ill and wasn’t in control of his abberrant behavior. It’s the only way to accept Roger as Franco and keep him on the show so I went with it and I’ve been able to put his “alter” past in the past.

Ben is gorgeous and that’s a great recipe for these “passionate” love stories. (In no way justifying it; just citing the history of it.) If his murderous spree is explained away due to a medical condition and not from diabolical evil, then one can see how Ciara sees him; as the sexy, misunderstood, wrongly accused hot guy who saved her life and needs her. Again, not defending it but these stories had a place on soaps. Not sure if it’ll fly in today’s world.

Then again, people voted for and still support a man who was accused of sexual misconduct, who defended a pedophile and is currently disparaging/mocking/humiliating the woman who accused him. And his crowd roars approval.

Soaps aren’t half as sad as parts of reality.

Ciara will probably get pregnant…Trip’s or Ben’s!!!!