Frankly, I felt the same way about Greg Sumner's biography that I did about "Capricorn Crude": why is Val writing that book, lol?
I had no qualms with Valene finding herself as a writer. IMO, however, she was better suited writing children's and young adult books than family sagas and tell-all biographies.
Plus, what could Val possibly have uncovered in researching and writing about Greg that we didn't know already? Unless she were to discover that Greg once killed a man or had a child even he didn't know about, I don't see where that particular story could've gone.
Ironically, I think one reason why Mack/Kevin Dobson was added to the show was to make Karen appear less shrill. Whether or not that turned to be the case, however, is a matter of opinion, lol.
Douglas Sheehan was another actor whose more natural approach helped separate KNOTS from the other primetime soaps - a modern day Henry Fonda or James Stewart, if you will, a type which you never saw on most other soaps, daytime OR primetime. That's why I hated Ben's exit storyline: not only was it far-fetched, but it also did not play to Sheehan's strengths.
Granted, this is just my observation as a viewer, but I sense his boredom was more a struggle with the producers over who Greg Sumner was and what he was supposed to bring to the show. Clearly, the producers wanted Greg to be their answer to J.R. Ewing or Richard Channing, but Devane likely fought that because he saw more dimensions to Greg than they did. His monologue with the late Paul Galveston's portrait, in particular, feels like the show setting him up to be the major antagonist - bigger than even Abby - but in the end, it comes across as a promise that's never quite fulfilled.
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