Okay genuinely and not in a bitchy way.
people that dislike Bobby because he didnāt credit the boys. What did you want him to do?
Be like oh, I know I suffered a terrible tragedy that Iām still in therapy for 25 years later. My best friends all died on what was supposed to be the night of our lives and Iām alone now. I got back into music and I released music we already had been playing as a band under my new name. The music that we had been playing as a band that Iām the sole survivor of. This music was written by my best friend whoās dead now. Let me open myself up to being hounded by the media about the tragedy and my loss and 10 years from now Iām going to get invasive questions from reporters.
Like was he supposed to be āshout-out to my boy luke for writing this song for our band. Heās dead now, the rest of my band is also dead now and Iām traumatized. Anyways thanks luke, youāre a real one. No questions please.ā
Canon: Bobby was close with his friends and band mates. They had inside jokes and Luke was hanging off Bobby just as much as he was the other boys.
Canon: Bobby stayed behind to flirt with Rose, they stayed close enough that their kids were close
Canon: Bobby released some of the bands music, he left at least unsaid Emily, bright and finally free, maybe edge of great I canāt remember. Itās logical to assume he only released the music the band was already playing/was on the demo
Canon: Trevor has a therapist that he can go to at the drop of a hat. Carrie is used to this. He panics often enough that itās not odd that heās flying off to visit his therapist all of a sudden, she just embarrassed that people are seeing him.
Canon: he loves and supports Carrie very much.
Canon: he never mentioned the boys to julie.
Canon: rose and Trevor were still close recently.
Canon: Luke and the boys felt betrayed that he didnāt mention them. Luke is mad about the music as he wrote the songs. Reggie is more mad about the money. Alex seems uncomfortable. They want to talk to him and confront him to see why he did it.
Canon: the boys are dealing with the trauma of dying and coming back 25 years later.
Canon: trevor and Carrie live in the hills, secluded where itās safe and they have a hardcore gate to keep people out.
Canon: rose also knew about the boys and the music and she also never told Julie
Canon: Julie is 16, rose has been dead for a year, following this. The most recent Julie could have spent a lot of time around Trevor, she was 14-15 at the oldest. The trauma of losing his band and the technicalities of who wrote the songs arenāt really appropriate to discuss with a 14-15 year old, her mom knew, if she thought it was important she would have told Julie, and if Trevor had convinced her not to and she was uncomfortable, she wouldnāt have let julie be around him which thereās no evidence of.
Canon: Bobby was a 17 year old kid who lost his best friends, then went on to record the music the band had performed together. He has not obviously stated the songs were written by Luke in his conversations with Julie.
We donāt know why. We donāt know if it was strictly because it wasnāt something he wanted to talk about with a child as itās a heavy topic. We donāt know if he didnāt want to bring up trauma and open old wounds? We donāt know if he got roped into a contract with a clause that he couldnāt talk about the band. There arenāt enough canon clues to understand what actually happened or his intentions.
There are two main theories
Bobby chose to profit off of the music his bandmate and friend luke had written. He changed his name and avoided all mentions of his past life. He is a liar and a cheat and the boys are right in their hatred of him and feelings of betrayal.
Bobby was a traumatized kid. He was probably taken advantage of by a cutthroat industry. He also probably didnāt want to discuss that with his daughters best friend, a literal child, or share his trauma and grief.
One of these theories is not any more canon than the other. Itās totally okay to not like Bobby, you donāt have to like any character, do what you want. But itās not fair to act like youāre simply following canon and that your posistion as an anti is more valid and ācanonā than a stan.
