So TPTB have decided to give us a less than riveting murder mystery. 
I guess my problem is that Richie wasn’t given enough screen time for me to care who killed him. Billy Miller had the talent to make this character so evil we were routing for his downfall. Instead while the writers, old or new have been looking for a direction to take the show and the opportunity was missed. My money is on Annie as the killer. Sorry but there you have it. I would be severely shocked if the killer turned out to be anyone else. Well other than Dre (remember he hit something with Colby’s car). But I think that will just be the soap version of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
Annie’s character has been lost in the Ryan’s got amnesia but now I’m cured and in love with Greenlee again because that wasn’t done to death…much! Annie would have been better suited having had a storyline with her brother Richie. Plus Annie’s character has no ties in Pine Valley once her life is severed from the albatross that is Ryan Lavery. Sure there’s cute as a button Emma but it’s not enough to save this character from being sacrificed by the new Head Writer.
I really don’t feel that Richie was evil enough for the towns people to be so outraged they’d commit a crime. I’ve used Michael Cambias in a previous post about a true evil character. Once Michael was outed as a bad guy the character was developed to go down a really dark path leaving a wake of destruction. And his reasons for being this evil rapist made sense. He could never live up to his father’s love of Alex, Jr. He was never quite good enough. Over his lifetime after Alex “died” his father’s disappointment made him into the lunatic and evil do-er we saw on screen. It’s a simple back story that could be added to whenever needed. Unlike that fiasco last year of Alexander Cambias’ rising from the dead to kill the women of Fusion. That was just plain stupid!!!! There aren’t enough words to explain just how stupid the whole plot was.
In the end Richie was a shell of his once scary self. Zach beat him with a baseball and JR scared him with a hypodermic needle. So he kidnapped Babe…just as he became menacing the amazing Kenlee duo swooped in to save the girl and thus ended any ability for me to be emotionally invested in this character being brought to some kind of justice.
It’s like getting a gift all wrapped up and when the person hands it to you they tell you what’s inside. What was the point of the wrapping. Yes…I’m all about analogies.
Anyway….Here Endth My Rant!
