Bold and the Beautiful writers, do better by Luna Nozawa!

The kiss between Luna Nozawa and Bill Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful has left viewers flabbergasted. Of course, that was the point. It happened in a Friday episode and it was designed to get us all talking, theorizing, and wrestling with the sharp turn the soap has made. But, honestly, in hindsight, maybe we should have seen this coming. Not the kiss itself but a major plot twist involving Luna. She made her debut on Sept. 13, 2023 and it has been a non-stop rollercoaster ever since.

We're only closing in on a year with the young intern on the daytime drama and she's burned through so many tropes and storylines it's ridiculous. Here's a list of them:

• New girl snags the young, rich bachelor
• Feuding family members
• Two men fight over her (bonus points for them being from the same family)
• Has her first experience with intimacy
• Infidelity that's not really infidelity
• Storyline involving drugs
• Pregnancy scare
• Doesn't know if the father of her (potential) baby is her boyfriend's or another man's
• Doesn't know who her own father is
• Father turns out to be a billionaire
• Mother jailed for a heinous crime (murder)
• The billionaire isn't her father and her "real" father is dead (bonus points for her mother being accused of the crime)
• Paired with a man she has an inappropriate age gap with (who also happens to be the man she thought was her father until recently)
• Infidelity that actually is infidelity

So much has happened between Luna stumbling into the Forrester Mansion with bolts of fabric and now and yet we still barely know her. The writers have painted her as sweet, kind, and honest. She hates secrets and a big part of her characterization is that she's always wanted to know her father. But we don't know anything about Luna outside of that information.

She's been working at Forrester Creations as an intern and is supposedly in design school, but we've yet to learn what she actually does at the fashion firm. Luna is quite stylish but her passion for design hasn't come up in any serious way. It's a big business and industry, there's many avenues she could take as a designer but we don't know if she wants to work in ready to wear, streetwear, couture, intimates, jewelry, or shoes and it's been almost a year since her first appearance.

Everyone keeps talking about how talented she is but we've yet to see her pick up a pencil and sketch something. She's never presented designs to anyone. Luna was apparently integral to the creation of Eric's legacy line but we didn't see her fingerprints on the collection at all. The only conversations she seems to be allowed to have are about the identity of her father and her love life unless her mom Poppy and her aunt Li are fighting, then she can complain about that.

Lisa Yamada is a wonderful actress. It's on the strength of her work that Luna doesn't come off entirely as one note. But in all this willingness to throw the character in one storyline after the next, it would help if Luna was fleshed out more and her plots weren't heavily centered on men. Even this latest twist is about a man. Luna needs some substance otherwise if she's written out of relationships, she won't have a real place on the soap.

The Bold and the Beautiful has struggled over the years with the writing around young women but so far Luna is taking the cake in that regard. No competition. She could be a great, complex character if she weren't written so vanilla. We've seen flashes of it, particularly when she stands her ground and protects the people she loves. Arguably, the kiss with Bill looks to be an attempt to break her of her "good girl" characterization but it's so out of left field that it just feels like a way to shock people without having to do the work of building her as a character in a worthwhile way.

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