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We have a bad feeling about this. As Bold & Beautiful murderess Luna launches a mad scheme to “eliminate” Steffy, whom she sees as the one obstacle to a relationship with newly discovered daddy Finn, we fully expect someone to die — but not the psycho’s stepmother.
No, even though the spoilers for the week reveal that Luna manages to get her intended target in the crosshairs, we don’t buy for a second that Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is going to be killed off. (As if.) Based on a teaser for the Friday, June 6, episode, we suspect that Luna’s actual victim is going to be… Poppy.
As you may have read, Sheila’s about to open up to Luna’s mother about her concerns that the unstable young woman is going to try to off Steffy. Though Poppy has wisely sworn off Luna, she may still feel compelled to intervene, lest Finn’s life be further blown up by aftershocks from his long-ago tryst with his aunt.
Personally, I’d hate to see Poppy go; she has so much untapped potential. I’m hoping for her and Deacon to strike up a flirtation after he finds out that his wife has been sneaking visits with her maniacal granddaughter. But the show has made Poppy a pariah and rewritten the unconventional childhood that she gave Luna — which, she once said, had made them very close — to be something horrific.
The whole fling-with-nephew-Finn thing… yeah, that’s undeniably a bad look for Poppy. But they’re not blood relatives, and Finn was of age. And it isn’t like Eric hasn’t dated or even married women young enough to be his daughter. Taylor even had an affair with Rick after he broke up with Steffy’s twin, Phoebe.
Yet Poppy is still treated more shabbily than Luna, who murdered two innocent people for her own selfish reasons. What do you think? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Will Luna’s plot remove Steffy from the canvas to facilitate her portrayer’s maternity leave?