by Ron
Now as we all know, almost everyone in the town of Salem is connected in someway whether it be by blood, adoption, friendship, saving someone’s life, etc. Despite a lot of the connections certain people have in Salem, you hardly ever see them together. Example, Sami & Stephanie are cousins, yet how many scenes have they had in the past two years? Rafe & Carly save each other’s lives yet I doubt they’ll be on each other’s Christmas card list. Abe & Roman have been best friends forever but now its almost as if they have restraining orders against each other. There’s one connection that has yet to be explored at all in the past year and it involves Brady. As we can all see, young Mr. Black seems to be approaching a downward spiral. I wouldn’t say he’s about to jump off the ledge yet but he does appear to be stumbling up the stairs, heading towards the roof.
And of course Brady’s nosedive stems from Nicole. He once again trusted her for reasons unbeknownst to me, apparently being lied to is just a turn on for him. But I guess this time putting his trust in Nicole and being let down yet again was the straw that broke the camel’s back because he’s now turned to something that’s just as addictive and dangerous as Nicole. He’s turned to the booze, and unlike the 99% of the people of Salem, Brady doesn’t seem to hold his liquor that well. Obviously the liquor is to mask the pain he’s feeling as well as the disappointment in himself for yet another failed relationship and another failed attempt at love with Nicole.
To me if there is one thing that Brady needs right now its guidance. Brady does have family he could talk to but Philip isn’t the best person to take advice from and Victor is a little too blunt at times for his liking. Then on the other side Brady doesn’t really have many females to talk about his issues that can be somewhat impartial when the topic of Nicole comes up. Him and Sami are closer than they were years ago but I can’t see them having a conversation without one of them yelling about EJ or Nicole. The closest female in Brady’s life for the past year and a half has probably been Melanie, who also isn’t a fan of Nicole and would probably just try to push him back into a relationship with Ari.
So who does this leave in town for Brady to really open up to? His mother is unfortunately dead and his father is unfortunately not(sorry John Black fans) but something that I learned from this little movie no one has ever heard of that starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, & James Caan is that your godparents are supposed to watch over you as well. If only Brady had godparents….OH WAIT HE DOES!!!!! I got home last night and felt like watching cartoons from when I was little(don’t ask me why) so I went to YouTube, somehow I went from cartoons to Days clips and I found a clip of Carly & Bo being named godparents of Isabella’s baby boy, and I thought to myself “Why haven’t the writers even attempted to establish a relationship between Brady and his godparents.” Of course Bo somewhat has a relationship with Brady being that he’s Bo’s nephew and if you count Bo as a Brady they’d also be cousins I guess. But other than a few words in passing and Brady snitching on Victor & Philip during the Kiriakis/DiMera feud, its rare that you get a sense that they are anything more than associates.
Other than being in the same room when Victor & Vivian got married I don’t think I’ve seen Brady & Carly together. I don’t think I ever heard her speak about him or vice versa which is weird considering she’s his godmother. If and when Brady does become a full fledge alcoholic and its time for an intervention, I hope that the writers decide to use CarBo in the godparent roles they were chosen for 19 years ago. It’d be nice to see Carly start to establish a motherly/friendship with her godson especially since her daughter Melanie is already like a sister to Brady. And for selfish reasons anything that can get CarBo more scenes together and bring them closer is something that I’m all for. Plus it’d be nice to see some an interaction between Salemites that we don’t see everyday seeing as how it seems like the town of Salem is split into two different sides and those sides rarely interact with each other.
So even though Brady is an adult am I the only one who’d be interested in seeing Bo & Carly embrace their roles as godparents? And what other interactions between characters or connections would you like to see the writers bring to light and explore more?
See the baptism ceremony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6PdriDv4VM