Is Bill getting off too easily on The Bold and the Beautiful? 

On The Bold and the Beautiful, the revelation that Luna is alive has laid chaos upon the lives of everyone in Los Angeles. By faking her granddaughter's death, Li opened the door for Luna to prey upon Will Spencer, sexually assaulting him, and walk away with a weaponized pregnancy. Li should take on a large percentage of blame for Luna's devious actions, but she's not the only one who helped pave the way for her destruction. Bill Spencer started this chain of events when he played God with everyone's lives, pulling strings to have Luna pardoned. That one choice is not only one that the media titan must live with, but it's a choice that might ruin his son's life forever.

Bill's omnipresent God complex

Bill (Don Diamont) wanting to call all of the shots and supersede the opinion of anyone around him is nothing new. He's been like this for as long as viewers have known him. However, he took things to unprecedented levels when he secured a pardon for Luna (Lisa Yamada). (At least when he backed Sheila, Bill had a plan to get her to confess to even greater grimes.)

Bill risked alienating everyone close to him, namely Liam (Scott Clifton), Katie (Heather Tom), and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), because of some sort of warped duty to give Luna a second chance. She was a murderer, and despite what Bill previously believed, she wasn't his daughter, so he had no sensible allegiance to her. In typical Bill fashion, though, he felt like Dollar Bill knew best, so he made the call to secure her freedom.

Up until the moment of Luna's supposed death, Bill stood firm in his decision to free Luna. He risked his relationship with Liam by defending the choice to allow a murderer to walk the streets again. If Liam hadn't been shot and facing what everyone believed to be a terminal diagnosis, Bill likely would've never seen the light. He gave Luna the means and opportunity to continue her streak of violence. If she remained in prison for her crimes, Liam and Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) wouldn't have been shot, Steffy wouldn't have been kidnapped (again), and Will (Crew Morrow) wouldn't have been preyed upon.

Luna deserved the blame she's getting and should be held accountable to the fullest extent, and so should Li (Naomi Matsuda). She knew better and clearly didn't learn anything from the last time she played God with everyone's lives. However, keeping Finn (Tanner Novlan) alive isn't the same as keeping Luna, and it doesn't come with the same dire circumstances. All of that may be true, but why isn't anyone holding Bill's feet to the fire about the role he played? While Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) is far from unbiased because of his past with Bill, he is the only person repeatedly drawing attention to how the Spencer CEO put this in motion.

Ridge is the only person thinking clearly

There might not be anyone that Ridge dislikes more in Los Angeles than Bill, but that doesn't mean his anger is misplaced. Since learning of Luna's unwanted second chance at life, Ridge has been consistent in bringing attention to how Bill could've prevented all of it. Bill's own son is facing the consequences of his father believing himself to be above the law, and nobody is reacting or saying anything to hold him accountable. Bill is (rightfully) showing anger toward Luna for what she's done and holding her at his house (poorly), but is it enough? Should Will and Katie direct more frustration at him for enabling Luna to hurt their family?

It's possible that everyone's true feelings toward Bill won't be unleashed until after the results of the paternity test. For now, Will, Katie, and especially Electra (Laneya Grace) are holding onto hope that Luna is lying. Nobody has allowed themselves to fully give in to the idea that Luna is being honest for once, and Will is the father of her baby. Now that Finn knows his daughter is alive and pregnant, he might have choice words for Bill. Steffy has suffered several times because of Luna's demented desire for a relationship with Finn, and with Steffy returning soon, everyone may look to Bill after they get through with Luna and Li.

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Bill's done many horrific things before, though, and eventually everyone found forgiveness for him. Whether it's sleeping with his son's wife or blowing up a building with Liam inside, at some point, no matter how egregious the actions, Bill slips free of the clutches of accountability. There's no indication this will be any different, but if the pattern is ever going to cease, someone like Will needs to take his father, Bill, to task for meddling with their futures.

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