You know what they say: A leopard can’t change its spots. That’s not technically true since a leopard’s spots do change over the course of its

life… but that’s not the point. The meaning of the adage is that people — like The Bold and the Beautiful’s Sheila — can’t ever truly change

who they are. But for a brief moment there, we actually thought Sheila may have proved that wrong!

 

 

But now that she’s broken Deacon’s trust and gotten mixed up with her psychotic granddaughter, Luna, the couple’s love is on the rocks. And now that Deacon’s seeing Taylor, and Sheila caught the two of them in an embrace (after Deacon told his shrink how attractive she was…), we feel dark, vengeful, psycho Sheila is just around the corner.

She’s been behaving so long as she had a steady anchor in her life, like her relationship with Deacon, but with that about to go out the window, it has to be just a matter of time before Evil Sheila is back. The problem is, once she returns, Deacon and Taylor aren’t the only two who could be in trouble. There are still grudges against Li, Steffy, Ridge, Bill… There are a lot of people she could hurt!

 

 

Over on the Soaps Facebook page, we asked how everyone was feeling about the idea of evil Sheila resurfacing. We knew there’d be a ton of opinions, but what we weren’t expecting was how evenly split it would be!

As Doreen Dunphy Ayers commented, “We have to have a villain. Sheila’s not going to stand for Taylor and Deacon getting close.”

“I like both sides of Sheila,” shared Frannie Schmitzer, “but I knew the evil side would come out when she saw both Taylor and Deacon hugging. I think she’s going to team up with Luna now.”

On the other side of things are folks like Katie Jauncey who lamented, “I like Sheila as she is now. She’s trying to stay settled but has an inappropriately morbid humor that makes me laugh.”

“Why couldn’t they let Deacon and Sheila be?” Diane Frenz Holmes lamented. “They were an unusual, interesting couple. This whole breakup seems so forced.”

Others, like Donna Culler, just seemed resigned. “I knew it would happen,” she wrote. “I like the redeemed/nice Sheila and Devon and Sheila together. I am glad Luna is gone; hopefully for good. I doubt it though.”

In the end, though, Phyllis Haney probably put it best as to the real reason Sheila’s dark side is guaranteed to return: “I like Sheila and Deacon together. They’re a good couple, but there’s no storyline, no drama. This thing with Taylor and Deacon could wake up the bad side of Shelia; would make for some good drama.”

Well, if there’s one thing Sheila is good at, it’s causing drama! And murder. And mayhem. And… Well, you get the point.