It’s the kind of complex stuff soaps now just don’t focus on. Bobbie and Luke loved Ruby dearly, and yet Ruby allowed both of them to endure horrible things while all of them were trying to survive. Geary alluded to Luke also being victimized later in his second run, as opposed to being the muscle and just a card shark, street kid and hustler.
When Bobbie’s baby Carly flashbacks started, before the story fully took off, she had scenes with Luke where she expressed anger at Ruby and Luke for not having agency over her own body/decisions. It came out in subtle ways later when she told Carly what it was like to give up her baby in the scenes at the penthouse during the snowstorm before Carly admitted she was Caroline and had a breakthrough about her own postpartum towards Michael. Zeman played it really beautifully.
It would have been very interesting had they told a story involving trafficking when Bobbie was still alive in the later years like revisiting Luke/Laura assault. Letting her really vocalize what the audience knows now about that kind of trauma. It’s complex, because the trauma was there, but also a fierce loyalty between Luke/Bobbie/Ruby.
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