I’ve always wondered, if Hope likes farm life so much, why didn’t Victor just *BUY* her a new farm near GC where they could live. It’s not like farms can only exist in Kansas. I mean geez, look at that huge ranch where his ex nikki lives!!
Ah. Yet another thing in that story line that made no sense; another conflict that seemed to have *no* solution other than the one we got. The reason? Obviously, TPTB wanted to end that marriage by hook and/or by crook, so they made up all these bogus reasons, most of which were infinitely solvable.
Someone correct me if my memory is faulty. I, too, wondered why Victor didn’t just buy Hope a farm. After all, Nikki has the ranch, so there must be some rural areas near Genoa City. But when Victor went to Kansas for Victor Jr.’s christening, I seem to recall Hope talking to Victor about not just the farm, but the people in that area in Kansas who had known Hope all her life, that made her decide to stay there. It appeared that just any old farm wouldn’t do–it had to be Hope’s farm.
But as the dissolution of that marriage came from the same *mind* that gave us the Nick Newman Trial, the disappearance of Mamie, the Mari Jo/Keemo lookalike hooker switch, the Danny non-divorce, the Redemption of Malcolm, and the Luan Soap Mystery Disease, why should we have expected more?
I agree those were some pretty bizarre storylines. It seems everyone in Genoa City can get a divorce at whim except Danny Romilotti. I would have thought that, after watching John and Jill duke it out in divorce court and then change their minds at the last minute, the
judge in that case would have made them go to marriage counselling. But Danny and Phyllis get a court-ordered family counselling session just because of a two-minute testimony from Phyllis.
