Love Interest Check-Up: Rebecca
Love interests haven’t been high on the plotline list for Rebecca, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still do a bit of a check-up. What romantic misery does the Walker half-sis have in her past and future?
Older Married Guy
When Rebecca’s existence was first discovered by the Walkers, Holly said she was away at school. But really, as she confessed to Justin later, she had gone after her married lover — a man she had started dating at 16, when he was her teacher — and was coming home because he got found out by his wife for the second time and killed himself. That’s back when Rebecca was bad news, and not a boring scold. Prognosis: Becca told this story on herself to confess her complicity in the kiss with Joe. We’ve never heard anything about it since, though. Will it ever spin a plot in which some of this guy’s kin crop up? Or in which she goes for another older married guy? Or in which Holly gets the kid some counseling? It seems like kind of a big thing to never mention again.
Joe
Speaking of older married guys. There was never anything romantic between Rebecca and Joe, although she would have taken things further than a kiss if Joe hadn’t chickened out come to his senses. Later, she admitted she mostly went after the guy to get back at Sarah. Maybe she likes her older married guys a little more well-groomed. Prognosis: Since Joe’s probably gone from the show, there’s not likely to be any further interaction from these two. But if Sarah ever wants to cause trouble in Joe’s relationship with his ex/current wife, maybe she could send Rebecca over for some guitar lessons.
Justin
Yeah, yeah, we already went over this dreadful do-NOT-go-there possibility in the listing of Justin’s love interests. But since then, I’ve seen this spoiler from Kristin at E! and … oh, dear. The way this potential romance is being talked about — coming as the result of something shocking — really makes it seem as though Justin’s Walker-dom is at risk. But it’s still hard to reconcile all these different stories, because though it would be dumbfounding that they would pursue a plotline so disruptive and tacky, it’s certainly not something that no one’s thought about or suspected (with dismay, sure, but still). Prognosis: So who knows. Maybe it’s just misinformation. Or maybe they’ve figured out a way to transmit mass hypnosis over the airways so that we love a Justin and Rebecca romance. Better be powerful.
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, Emily Van Camp, Rebecca, Dave Annable, John Pyper-Ferguson
April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
“Oh dear” is right. There better be some misleading intel, or otherwise…well, let’s just say I won’t be a happy camper.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:13 am
I’m with you on that Scott. The whole R/J storyline is just icky and I hope it will turn out to be a ‘misunderstanding’.
April 12th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Am I the only one who expected this to happen since the set up date between Justin and Rebecca’s friends? It seemed obvious then and later that there was an attraction between the two?
I like this idea, because I never saw them as brother and sister….