Barb Wakes Up

[momacat]

Hi all. I am new to this board but not to Big Love. Like most, I love Big Love. I am feeling the burn towards Bill along with everyone else. My hope is for Barb to wake up and realize what has happened to her family. When Bill tells her that Ben is leaving, I want her to explode.
He is not going to pull a Juniper Creek and oust their son.
She will oust Bill. Divorce him. Crush him. She's the legal wife.
Barb will have a connecting-the-dots epiphany showing how the slide into polygamy has led to the downfall of her family, especially her son. I've got the montage running in my head right now. She gets sick. Nicki shows up to help. Nicki joins the family. Margene babysits. Margene joins the family. Ben shows interest in the principle. He dates those twins from the compound. Ben shows interest in the hottie wife number two. Bill wants to put him out on the ice to preserve harem.
Barb WILL see what has happened to her family.
She WILL see that Bill is not turning into Frank, he's turning into Roman starting his own Juniper Creek in suburban Sandy, Utah.
She WILL throw Bill to the wolves.
Hell, Bill is a wolf. He's got that alpha male thing going and will only suffer beta males in his pack.
The King is dead. Long live Barb

[aliensummer]

As much as I'd love to see Barb stand up to Bill like that, I really doubt it will happen.

I was thinking about what Barb will probably end up doing, and I think she'll get mad at Bill and Margene, and send Ben to live with her mother.

[liz3564]

In the previews for this weeks episode, it shows Barb breaking down, and Margene comforting her. Could this be about Ben leaving?

[BigLoveRocks!]

If Barb is going to blast Bill like that, I see it as something happening towards the end of the season...That might be the cliffhanger... Her leaving him once and for all and crushing him.

I would love to see it...But like others...Barb seems so under his control it is hard to imagine it happening for real.

I am sure Barb is going to break down about Ben leaving and might seek comfort from Lois.

[JJ77]

It's actually Nicki who we see comforting Barb in the previews - putting her arms around her in what lopks like an effor tto both comfort and restrain her from tearing down posters of Bill asa young man.

I think the tranformation of barb that has been eluded to is actually going to be a negative rather than positive change... atleast temporarily.