Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-64.231.137.240-20140709221435/@comment-13965604-20140711023133

DManCO wrote: LadyX wrote:

It's that crappy issue of the actions not coinciding with the words he spoke. He said he wanted to be part of something, to belong, but his actions really didn't say that.

As for Erica...I completely forgot she was even there... Well, it's that classic issue that if the writers did it deliberately, then I would have to say it was a case of Boyd wanting to be a part of something, but not having the temperament for it. He was only high school ROTC. There's nothing to say that he was going to do well in the Air Force when he was older given his standoffish personality. In the military you don't get to choose who your superior officers are, or just walk away from them if you don't respect them.

On the other hand, he could have just been poorly-written. Erica certainly was. That's why she's so forgettable. Nobody at the school or the town even seemed to question it when Boyd came back, but she didn't, even though they disappeared at the same time. In real life Boyd would have been under suspicion of kidnapping and murdering her!

I'm guessing badly written. Nothing else is well written to give them the benefit of the doubt. But your rationale is sound.

I don't think she was a forgettable character, she just had some forgettable scenes