EJ is an interesting character played by a great actor. However, his character is problematic. Obviously he is bad, but he seems to have little flashes of a (slightly) evolving conscience.
If he’s going to be a bad guy then he probably can never be part of a hot Super Couple in the Days tradition. No True Love for bad guys. This is kind of a waste of a gorgeous man with great Super Couple potential. On the other hand, Days of Our Lives seems to be moving away from trying to recreate their 1980s Super Couple glory days.
Then there is his history from the crazy times. Raping, beating, torturing (and enjoying it immensely) seem to best forgotten as a bad dream caused by insane writers. After all, he’s been plenty bad enough since we got reasonable writers with some reasonable direction.
If he’s going to be “redeemed”, then he really cannot run around Salem choking people or kidnapping babies and preschoolers. I thought he might be going the redemption route lately because he seemed to actually be growing a heart or soul, but no – he’s still a self-centered, selfish, “the world revolves around me” kind of guy. Which makes for good soap, but not for good romance.
