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Big hole in the Val's-Babies-Are-Kidnapped plot


Wouldn't Val have wanted a funeral for those children? Didn't anyone wonder where the bodies were?

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I agree!

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"Wouldn't Val have wanted a funeral for those children?"

Why? Val never believed her children were dead. In fact Val was declared insane by the others because she knew and remembered that her babies were taken away just after the birth despite the drugs they gave her and the lie that they died.
Val then really became insane or fled the realiy - as Verna Ellers working as a waitress somewhere else. But when Gary brought her back she still insisted that the babies were not dead. And she always stayed with that - so much that in the end at least Karen believed her and set the events with Mack in action.

"Didn't anyone wonder where the bodies were?"

As far as I remember Ben or Gary asked and they were told a lie by the staff in the hospital. And Val didn't believe they were dead - see the other answer - she always said they were "taken" from her.

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Come on. If someone insists that your children are dead and you believe they're alive, then you're going to insist that the authorities prove their death with the bodies.

Big hole.

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Well, one would think, but Poor Val doesn't spend very much time in Church, perhaps because she's legally insane by that point in time, and too many other characters are proven very vile, so many often wonder why she sees the minister once or twice and then runs around the Hospital and all over Knots Landing, screaming about "the Babies, her Babies, where are my Babies?"

Now, a gentleman whom I knew in a discussion group at the time would often roll his eyes over this Poor-Val's-Missing-Babies-Are-They-Or-Aren't-They plot, also familiarly known as "Poor Val's-Babies-Are-Kidnapped plot" and said that he kept wondering how long his wife could last glued to that television set on Thursday evenings.

But, then again, what else was there to do on Thursday evenings but to worry about Poor Val and "the Babies, her Babies, where are my Babies?" Such a high point of those very, very difficult 1980's, to be sure.

Well, times have certainly gotten worse since those bad old days, and so has television, so it's better to recall the past than to turn on the set anymore.

So, she somehow has that maternal instinct that her Babies are still around somewhere even though she cares nothing about her other daughter, Lucy, whom she leaves back in Dallas, and refuses to allow anywhere near Knots Landing because that there Lucy (no, not the real Lucy) would make her seem elder a mother than one who somehow misplaces her Babies, a plot somehow resolved by her arch enemies of the season, that Poor Val.

If Sheridan were here, he'd be appalled.

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