Brothers & Sisters

Justin can’t hold a job, but he’s never been short of female companionship. Ladies love slackers, don’t you know? Today, the series of Walker check-ups continues with a look at Justin’s love interests.

Fawn
Talk about a low-maintenance relationship. Keep her in drugs and sex, and Fawn was happy. No talking, no expectations, no responsibility. Plus, bringing her to a family party is guaranteed to rattle your mother and sisters. Prognosis: I’m surprised we didn’t see the Return of Fawn when Justin went on the pain pills — she’s sort of a human symbol of his addiction. I guess he thought Lena would do, but she was kind of a downer. I expect Fawn’s long gone, but I remember her fondly, if only because she was so very inappropriate.

Tyler
Tyler, on the other hand, was the very definition of appropriate. Beautiful, ambitious, and inexplicably tolerant of Justin’s slackerdom, she was a girl you could bring home to Mom and Mom would cook breakfast for. Apparently, that was more appropriateness than Justin could handle, because he decided he had too much going on with rehabbing and war prep to have the kind of relationship Tyler deserved. Prognosis: The door was surely left open for Tyler to return in the uncertain event that Justin ever gets his act together. All the more reason to hope that the writers let this lost boy find himself.

Lena
For proof that Justin can’t handle an appropriate relationship, look no further than his follow-up girl. He and Rebecca’s old pal Lena bonded over pills in a bar, commisserated over her mistreatment at the hands of a married man, and continued to sleep together after Justin found out that the married man was his brother Tommy. Where are we, Pine Valley? Still, for that “piss off the family effect,” Lena was possibly even better than Fawn. Prognosis: Unlike Fawn, though, I have no residual affection for Lena. She seriously needs to go away and never come back. I mentioned in her mini-profile under Tommy’s love interests that maybe she’d be back with a baby, which would necessarily be Justin’s. That might pull a small good thing — Justin’s having to man up to be a dad — out of a colossal bad thing — that whole godforsaken dual-affair storyline — but only if Lena dumps the kid and runs.

Rebecca
Oh, I know, blecch. No incest storylines, please, since even if they’re not related by blood, they’ve come to be family. Still, with spoiler speculation out there, and topics on the ABC forums like “When are Justin and Rebecca going to make out? When?!” I suppose we need to check up on the possibility. Prognosis: Or not. Really, there are so many more appealing possibilities for both Justin and Rebecca, including having a nice brother-sister friendship. Justin has a good relationship with his other sisters, but it’s more a motherly than a peer one. He and Rebecca have a really cute rapport, and I don’t think it’s at all necessary to make it romantic. Don’t force it to, writers, hear?

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