Fascinating because I was 11 or 12 years old watching live when Viki started splitting into Niki Smith, going out and having fun and flirting with Vinnie. My older sister explained that Viki had a "split personality" and the little that was known at that time -- there was no internet for me to research on. This was when there was a storyline about Victor disapproving of the Larry/Meredith romance, and somehow that stressed out Viki? That didn't make sense but that's why they said Viki was stressed, that her father was so controlling of Meredith, or something like that, and then also Meredith got sick. Lots of family stress impacting Viki who loved her sister Meredith. Or at least that's how my sister understood it, that Viki was worried about Merry (Meredith). I didn't know anything about multiple personalities (and it wasn't "multiple" then, only one alter on the show at that time) . . . so I just accepted the explanations given by the dialogue and my sister. And in the 1970s I knew that Nancy Pinkerton's Dorian let Victor die. It was clear she was guilty of causing his death. I was at a friend's house watching the day that aired. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, I tried to learn what I had missed. I was stunned to learn of the whole Victor molesting Viki backstory and that Viki had multiple alters. That seemed so very far away from the Ernest Graves' portrayal of Victor Lord that I remembered. I just couldn't accept it. Maybe that's why I didn't dive back into watching OLTL?
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