Anyone else rooting for Sheila?

Riley, 6/15/2022, 9:40AM(682 days ago) @Cendrillon

Karma is unfortunately almost a moot point in soap operas like this. Brooke will always be forgiven by the men she sleeps with because they enjoy having sex with her too much - and although she has transgressed EVERY CONCEIVABLE MORAL LAW, the writers don't have her suffer any consequences because she hasn't broken "the law". While Taylor has lost years of her life after being presumed dead, and ALSO LOST ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS, Brooke has always got to enjoy her Bel Air life in the house Ridge bought for her, and has NEVER suffered the death of a child the way Taylor and Ridge have. It even looks like 'Bridge' is going to reunite, so Brad Bell ALWAYS gives Brooke EVERYTHING SHE WANTS - while other characters like Taylor have things taken away from them (including children).

Taylor losing years of her life had nothing to do with Bell wanting the character to suffer but only with the actress's career choices. So this can't be blamed on the writing.

And how is Brooke always given what she wants or nothing is ever taken away from her when not just her marriages to Ridge were taken away from her several times for different reasons that mostly weren't even her own fault, but when she also lost her mother, her brother and at least two unborn babies? Even if you think a miscarriage isn't the same as losing a teenage daughter, it's still the loss of a child. And Brooke's first miscarriage actually took much more away from her than just the baby, it changed the course of her whole life for the worse, because it was the only reason why she didn't get married to Ridge the next day and Caroline ever became an option for him again.
I'm not saying this Bridge marriage would have lasted forever, since no soap marriage ever does. But I don't think anyone truly believes that Brooke would suddenly have fallen in love with Eric and cheated on Ridge with him or that Ridge would have left a loyal wife and his new baby to get married to Caroline before she died. Sure he would still have loved Caroline too and would have been there for her together with Brooke when she was terminally ill. Maybe he would even have crossed paths with her oncologist Taylor as well. But there's no way he and Taylor would have gotten that close right after Caroline's death if Brooke had already been his wife and the mother of his child instead of being engaged to his father and pregnant with his father's baby.
Even if Ridge had eventually fallen in love with Taylor despite being married to Brooke or after breaking up with her for whatever reason, Brooke being the mother of his first child would totally have changed the dynamics within that triangle right from the start, with Taylor being the interloper and homewrecker, not Brooke.

Phoebe's death however didn't cause any subsequent losses for Taylor. On the contrary, it even made Ridge return to her for a while in 2009, when the only reason he moved back in with her and proposed to her was that he thought the family needed to heal after losing Phoebe, not that he loved her more than Brooke.
And hasn't Taylor also been forgiven by almost every man she has ever slept with just like Brooke, no matter how much she has hurt them? I think Rick is the only exception. For example, Blake still wanted her back even after she had used him to get through college. Whip gave her an easy, amicable annulment even though she had humiliated him twice by calling him Ridge and had never really loved him. Thorne forgave her for making him a widower and making his daughter lose her mom. Ridge forgave her for cheating on him and for letting him go to jail for a crime she had committed herself. And she didn't even need to sleep with Bill to be forgiven for shooting him!

The worst thing Brooke has ever done to anyone was cheating and lying, yet losing two babies and being left by her husband for another woman several times isn't enough karma, while Taylor got away with nothing but a pat on the wrist after shooting someone in the back?
Actually I wouldn't even mind Brooke losing an adult child too, since it would give KKL some dramatic material to play. But it's simply not true that Brooke has never suffered any significant losses like Taylor so far or that she has suffered less consequences for her moral transgressions than Taylor has for her moral AND legal transgressions.

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