What could be worse? Losing the love of your life or your dream of being a fashion designer? Unfortunately, Sally’s schemes are making her just like Thomas!
What is it with schemes and lies in The Bold and the Beautiful? It’s crazy as the story has gone from Thomas’ schemes to make Hope fall desperately in love with him to those of Sally to woo Wyatt back to her. These two should never have broken up, to begin with. They belong together because they’re both sick and twisted, and to think we liked them both at one point. We think Sally needs help.
So, we must ask the fundamental question of whether Sally is becoming just like old Tommy boy. Will they end up on our obsessions list? This is no different to whatever is going on with Zoe. She’s not above faking illness to get what she wants.
Sally’s Schemes Because She Is Sick Of Losing
With the last name ‘Spectra’, you would think Sally would take pride in it. But, while she does admire her great-aunt of the same name, she uses schemes to get ahead. Let’s not forget she used her sister to steal Forrester Creations designs just as her aunt did all those years earlier.
Also, Sally has disliked Flo, Wyatt’s childhood sweetheart, who became involved in his niece’s kidnapping. As far as Miss Spectra is concerned, she’s worse and is beneath her. She says in today’s episode that Storm’s daughter is the middle Spencer brother’s past while she is his future.
Not to mention, her lie has given her career a chance to thrive by being added to the Forrester Couture line to preserve her ‘legacy’ after she dies. Unfortunately, she used the goodness of Katie’s concern for her to get it to happen. Sally knew the whole time that she would blab to Ridge and Steffy when they said they would give her the flick as her work wasn’t their standard. All she wanted was for people to appreciate her, but her endgame was always getting Wyatt back, even if she had to use blackmail.
Thomas Schemed To Create The Perfect Family Based On His Twisted Fantasy
Thomas’ schemes were different as he resorted to killing Emma Barber and faking his death for twenty-four hours. However, his endgame was always to woo Hope into falling in love with him. Claiming to have never gotten over her, he wanted to form the perfect family with the woman who turned down his marriage proposal years ago.
What makes this even more different to Sally’s plot to get Wyatt, Thomas manipulated his child into thinking he would lose Hope as his (adoptive) mother when his father married Zoe. But, of course, with the fake illness, there’s no kid involved. It’s just the redhead playing on her ex-fiancée’s sympathies to get him back and away from his current girlfriend.
Both have a different number of allies in their schemes. Thomas had his BFF Vinny, loyal to him but not his cause, use Douglas and his father, Ridge, who would believe anything that came out of his mouth. Sally has her doctor friend Penny who, much like the drug peddler, is reluctant and wants her to tell the truth.
Unlike Sally, Thomas thinks he can do no wrong. He’s the son of Ridge Forrester and heir to Forrester Creations, his grandparents’ company. However, he is more like his father than he thinks. He believes he is the perfect man and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. One of the things he claimed was that he wanted to create order in the family.
By doing that, Steffy had to get Liam back because, in Thomas’s twisted mind, his first family was his sister and niece, not Hope and Beth. Furthermore, he hates his stepmother Brooke and wants her gone as he blames her for influencing his father’s decisions and breaking up his parents.
Flo And Liam
Flo and Liam have more in common than you might think. Other than their link to Hope, they have similar enemies. Fulton has Sally. Spencer has Thomas. What makes this ironic is how they’ve been played.
Liam always knew Thomas was after Hope. However, he got pushed around as Steffy and Hope did in the schemes. If you can look past her keeping the Beth secret, Flo has a good heart.
Thomas and Sally think their advocacies are beneath them. Flo is a good-too-shoes which is too much for Spectra’s liking. Sally sees her as a tramp for ‘taking’ her man away from her. According to the Forrester prince, Liam is too much of a waffler who should be with Steffy.
Unlike Thomas, Sally hasn’t been doing shady shit for a while. Still, she started to feel the pressures of work. So she went to the doctor and had Penny deliver her diagnosis as being more severe than it was. By roping everyone into her scheme, she feels she has the respect she deserves, and she’s back living with Wyatt.
Flo isn’t as perfect as Sally says she is. She’s been involved with a baby swap, she’s gotten Wyatt back twice, and she’s done time in prison for the Baby Beth Swap. Yes, it was criminal, but she wanted to tell the truth. As we mentioned, Spectra has done some sketchy things, too, using her sister to steal Forrester designs.
Sickness vs. Obsession: Is Sally Using Both To Her Advantage?
Sally’s schemes to get people to respect her and to win back Wyatt were just the tip of the iceberg. She wanted Flo to suffer by losing the guy she loves just as she did. Her plan also revolves around her hatred for the former baby-snatching accomplice.
Like Thomas, Sally has an unhealthy obsession. Wyatt is meant to be the love of her life. If she truly loved him, she should consider his feelings rather than her misfortunes. Yes, she grew up with parents who abandoned her and her sister, and she was given a bad rap because of her last name.
Thomas’s obsession with Hope began when he saw how kind she was to Douglas and stated that he’s never gotten over her. This became a turning point for him as Liam, Brooke, and Bill saw through his schemes. He also manipulated his father and sister into believing everything from his mouth. However, Steffy was not easily fooled by him, even if she did kiss Liam when told to do so.
The Bold and the Beautiful is no stranger to backwards philosophies of self-interest. For example, Thomas claimed he screwed everyone over because he wanted a stable family unit for his son. However, this ultimately failed when Douglas proclaimed his father wasn’t a dad to him and Liam, Hope, and Beth were always there for him, making them his true family.
Sally used her symptoms to win Wyatt over while also being obsessed with the life they could’ve had if Flo hadn’t come back into his life. Yes, she made many mistakes, including calling him Liam, but she hadn’t meant it. Unfortunately, her hatred for the blonde from Las Vegas was intense.
No One Should Own Anyone
Yes, it’s a work of fiction. However, the characters are too clingy. Yep, that’s the word. Sally does NOT own Wyatt. Thomas NEVER had any rights over Hope. Obsession brings out feelings of possession. It’s happened so often in more recent storylines that we’re not surprised when the piece’s villain gets exposed.
We’ve seen the whole possession thing play out for a year when Thomas vowed to win over Hope. He felt he owned her, given he claimed to love her and that Liam belonged with his sister.
Steffy had long since given up her pursuit of her baby daddy, knowing that his heart was with her stepsister. However, she lost her obsession with him when she realised that Kelly might be Bill’s daughter. Do we give her credit for this, as what was the point of chasing a man who might not be the father of your child?
With Sally, her love for Wyatt makes her blind to the truth: his feelings for Flo are more potent than they are for her. Yes, she works hard and almost being fired showed her what happens when you’re a Spectra, you lose. Her obsession with the middle Spencer brother has come at a price. She might see herself as the victim, but her fault is calling him by his brother’s name and then being dumped for it. Is there nothing she learned from Thomas’ schemes?
The Bold And The Beautiful Has A Real Thing For Obsessions
Let’s let real right now. The Bold and the Beautiful has a theme going on when it comes to its characters having obsessions. So let’s review a few of them and how they relate to Sally or Thomas.
Taylor Blames Brooke For Everything
It’s no secret that Taylor Hamilton has no love for Brooke, and the feeling is mutual for the Forrester Matriarch. For years the two butted heads over Ridge, and this is something Thomas has never forgotten or forgiven. While Steffy has learned to live with it, her self-entitled brother believes their on-off stepmother ruined their family. That’s where his current schemes come in.
His plots mirror his mother and his sister, who has gone after Liam many times and always come out second best. Taylor is complacent regarding her children, just as Ridge is. She is meant to be treating Thomas for his issues, but the truth is, she’s not supposed to as he’s family.
All doctors, no matter their field, should never treat one of their own, including friends, as it becomes personal. Taylor also became an unwitting participant in Reese Buckingham’s baby swap scam. There were red flags from the beginning that she should have picked up on, like him not wanting his name on the paperwork and the massive ‘fee’ he issued for Steffy to ‘adopt’ the child she later finds out is Baby Beth Spencer.
Steffy vs. Hope
It’s no secret that Steffy was obsessed with taking Hope’s boyfriends for years. When Liam came along, the same thing applied, but this time he became the new Ridge and flip-flopped between the two women for a decade before finally realising that his two baby mamas couldn’t both have him.
For now, Steffy is single and isn’t locking her stepsister in a gondola. The last terrible thing she did was kiss her daughter’s father, prompted by her twisted brother, who wanted Hope. We also can’t forgive her for saying that all Logans do take while Forresters have to suffer. Far from the truth, but that’s for another post. Now, the situation is reversed. Where Thomas is the crazy, obsessed one and his sister is the sensible one.
Bill’s Obsession With Powerful Women (The Logans In Particular)
Bill is far from a saint. He’s used and schemed to get what he wanted in the past, but he’s had his obsessions. One of those is his need for a strong woman. The love of his life is Katie, but this hasn’t stopped him from going after the likes of Brooke and Steffy.
For a long while, he would scheme to get what he wanted. He was married to Brooke for a short time, and she called him her ‘stallion’. Not to mention, he’d also gone after Steffy a few times and even got her into bed which proved problematic as around the same, she’d slept with Liam and fell pregnant with Kelly. This had caused her marriage to Liam to sour once he found the paternity results. Since then, it was never the same, and Hope had become his beacon to trusting his ex-wife again when their daughter was born.
However, Bill has said that Brooke and Steffy were both the women for him, but he’s ended up with Katie, and they’ve played happy families with Will. But, the last thing anyone could have suspected was Shauna recording the one-time pash at the cabin and then Quinn getting her hands on it and uploading it to the digital photo frame.
Brooke With Spencer, Marone, And Forrester Men
Brooke Logan has five children with several different men. She has Rick and Bridget with Eric. Hope with Deacon. RJ with Ridge and Jack with Nick Marone. However, she’s only been pregnant four times. Long story with the Jack storyline. Brooke has become a Forrester so many times over the years that it’s hard to keep track of. She’s mainly been involved with Eric and Ridge, but she’s been involved with Bill just as often. In addition, she’s been with Nick Marone, Ridge’s paternal half-brother from his biological father Massimo’s side and Thorne, his maternal half-brother.
Let’s say she can’t stay with just one man though she claims Ridge is her ‘destiny’. Sure, she’s trying to change, but she’s never been without a man. She’s always been drawn to the men from the Forrester, Marone, and Spencer families. It’s a wonder she hasn’t gone after Liam and Wyatt like Steffy.
Where To Go From Here
With all television and film production halted due to unforeseen circumstances (COVID-19), we run out of fast-tracked episodes, so it’ll be a while before we find out what happens with Wyatt finding Flo knocked out and being stashed someplace by Sally and Penny.
We know he sees something, but what we don’t know until more is filmed, which isn’t any time soon. However, if we had to speculate, we would have to say that whatever happens isn’t going to be pretty. Wyatt will find out that Sally faked her illness to get him back and that she played everyone.
Then, there’s the whole Shauna/Ridge thing and Quinn’s ‘victory’ over Brooke and stuff like that. We hope production can start again soon as we’re dying to find out what happens next.
