They just wanted to get rid of Charisma after her not disclosing the pregnancy.
That is the why of the whole thing. And they did it, not by killing her, but by *destroying* her. It was vile. Women. Get. Pregnant. Whether she disclosed or not -- she kinda had a choice -- have her baby or abort it. I'm sorry, but aborting my child to make a show runner happy isn't in the cards. If she hid it, she may have felt she had no other choice.
What we do know is that they turned someone we loved and cheered for and
respected into the lowest form of life most of us despise: they turned her into an incestuous near-pedophile, and a cheat and betrayer.
HEROES don't:
- sleep with children
- sleep with their own/adopted children even when they are adults. (and I'm not sure Connor qualified)
- cheat on the men they love
Yes, male heroes sometimes cheat on their women and come back from it (but even they are usually considered bad boys unless there's an extenuating circumstance).
By contrast, women seldom can cheat on their men and remain 'heroic'. A woman who cheats (or even one who has multiple partners) is usually one who is being painted as being a bit amoral by the writers.
Men who have sex with several partners (Bond, James Bond) are hot and manly, though even that is beginning to change a bit.
Women who have sex with several partners are... slutty, whorish... (there are actually dozens of names for 'loose' women. Note that there is no male equivalent manslut or manwhore. You never hear about a 'trashy' or loose man or a 'man of low morals' or a 'tramp' referring to a straight man. You hear 'womanizer' and there's no equivalent 'manizer'.
Women simply aren't judged by the same standards.
And of course, no attempt was made to redeem her, anyway.
The fact that they showed the events on screen, and
left as little to the imagination as was practically allowable on a show aimed primarily at young adults tells us they wanted us never to forget what we saw.
The only network shows where I've seen an adult sleeping with a teen, the adult has been an unsub/criminal, and the teen has been the victim.
Usually when that unsub is a woman, she's also unbalanced and sociopathic.