Given enough time, any soap character worth keeping will do bad things. Sometimes, interesting characters are introduced doing bad things. Like Sam, Britt, Ava, Obrecht, Jax, Cody, and a host of others — it’s kind of a soap staple. If the actor sticks around, the character will almost always be redeemed. And when they attempt to redeem a character played by an actor I like, I’ll play along.
I hate Drew because he is played by an actor I can’t stand and his character is a smug, smarmy jackhole. I felt that way before he kissed Willow. I like the actor who plays Cody, so his character could drown kittens and I would pull for him vs. Drew every time. Okay, that’s an exaggeration. I will stop liking him if he drowns kittens. 😁
Is that going to seem fair or make sense to everyone? Certainly not, and that’s okay. It doesn’t have to.
