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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 158795" data-attributes="member: 27">If Knots Landing had been a daytime soap instead of primetime, they could very well have developed a story like this for Valene.&nbsp; But this sort of intricate back-story would have required a lot more screen time for JvA, and while she of course would not have objected to that at all, her co-stars (especially the ladies) would likely have been a bit ticked off for her to be taking so much time away from other (read: their) stories.&nbsp; Plus, such a storyline would be virtually all &quot;her&quot; and not the typical nighttime stories where stories involved three or more characters interacting regularly.&nbsp; I think the writers would have been forced to truncate or at the very least give short shrift to such a story that ought to be played out over a longer period of time than nighttime soap audiences were accustomed to.&nbsp; Not doing it &#039;right&#039; usually makes the end result unsatisfying---like the story Falcon Crest wrote for Morgan Fairchild.I can say for certain that such a story could be developed because something similar was done for the character of Sharlene Frame on Another World.&nbsp; She started out as a dull supporting character in the late 1970s who married the town doctor.&nbsp; She was later revealed as an ex-prostitute and left town humiliated.&nbsp; They brought her back ten years later as a quiet, repressed woman, but after some time (and a new husband) she started exhibiting multiple personality disorder--her other persona being a trampy party girl who called herself &#039;Sharly&#039;.&nbsp; Over a year or so they ironed out her issues, which arose from childhood sexual abuse.&nbsp; &quot;Sharly&quot; was the prostitute back in earlier times, but no one had realized she had split personalities (not even her).&nbsp; Much of her life was spent moving from place to place, which helped cover up the changes in her personalities.Valene could very easily have been similarly victimized as a child, what with her absentee mother and (according to back-story) a 60-something father who didn&#039;t know how to be a parent.&nbsp; They could say she had long periods of her childhood she can&#039;t remember, along with tough-to-explain behaviors as a teen (very un-Val like behavior).&nbsp; Maybe they can say that Valene kept moving around in the post-Lucy years to hide her increasing discomfort about missing chunks of time.&nbsp; Maybe the slutty creation we briefly saw during her trip to Shula is that alternate personality that kept popping up over the years.&nbsp; Heck, they could even hint that Valene could have gotten pregnant and had a baby or babies while in the throes of that alternate personality--and forgot the whole thing just like she forgot everything else that happened when she was that other personality.&nbsp; The possibilities are endless, which is probably why daytime soaps just love these Dissociative Identity Disorder stories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 158795, member: 27"] If [I]Knots Landing[/I] had been a daytime soap instead of primetime, they could very well have developed a story like this for Valene. But this sort of intricate back-story would have required a lot more screen time for JvA, and while she of course would not have objected to that [I]at all[/I], her co-stars (especially the ladies) would likely have been a bit ticked off for her to be taking so much time away from other (read: their) stories. Plus, such a storyline would be virtually all "her" and not the typical nighttime stories where stories involved three or more characters interacting regularly. I think the writers would have been forced to truncate or at the very least give short shrift to such a story that ought to be played out over a longer period of time than nighttime soap audiences were accustomed to. Not doing it 'right' usually makes the end result unsatisfying---like the story [I]Falcon Crest[/I] wrote for Morgan Fairchild. I can say for certain that such a story could be developed because something similar was done for the character of Sharlene Frame on [I]Another World.[/I] She started out as a dull supporting character in the late 1970s who married the town doctor. She was later revealed as an ex-prostitute and left town humiliated. They brought her back ten years later as a quiet, repressed woman, but after some time (and a new husband) she started exhibiting multiple personality disorder--her other persona being a trampy party girl who called herself 'Sharly'. Over a year or so they ironed out her issues, which arose from childhood sexual abuse. "Sharly" was the prostitute back in earlier times, but no one had realized she had split personalities (not even her). Much of her life was spent moving from place to place, which helped cover up the changes in her personalities. Valene could very easily have been similarly victimized as a child, what with her absentee mother and (according to back-story) a 60-something father who didn't know how to be a parent. They could say she had long periods of her childhood she can't remember, along with tough-to-explain behaviors as a teen (very un-Val like behavior). Maybe they can say that Valene kept moving around in the post-Lucy years to hide her increasing discomfort about missing chunks of time. Maybe the slutty creation we briefly saw during her trip to Shula is that alternate personality that kept popping up over the years. Heck, they could even hint that Valene could have gotten pregnant and had a baby or babies while in the throes of that alternate personality--and forgot the whole thing just like she forgot everything else that happened when she was that other personality. The possibilities are endless, which is probably why daytime soaps just love these Dissociative Identity Disorder stories. [/QUOTE]

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