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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, Superclam said:

    The one where Harriet is judging Rev. Oleson for having a romance and the head priest is Patty Duke's father and he used to go out with Harriet? That one's ok. I've only seen it a few times. 

    As opposed to "Laura goes up the mountain with Ernest Borgnine" which is on right now, and I've seen 300 times. 

    That one doesn't hold the appeal anymore except Ernest was from my state/town and I like him. I did like seeing Harriet having a past and how it must have stung that he had a choice to marry but chose not to marry her. Nel's didn't seem to know but she did well with him too.

    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Superclam said:

    The story is fairly mediocre, but the WAY over the top Irish stereotype of Nels' girlfriend gets me every time! 

    I meant the preacher one was "ehh", the Irish one was funny enough to make me smile too...her Irish sayings every other sentence. How could Nel's not be drawn in. Well maybe not THIS drawn in.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Superclam said:

    I can skip the Blind Painter one, the Albert has a pen-pal in a wheelchair one, and the message in a bottle one. 

    I'm always down for the Nels has an Irish girlfriend one. 

    .  I liked seeing the ending with him and Harriet too taking a walk. . I liked seeing her soft underbelly with Preacher takes a Wife with her old beau and some past history   The rest of that episode was ehh though.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    7 hours ago, Egg McMuffin said:

    I don’t remember seeing that one all the way through. So the painter was blind and an orphan? A Landon wet dream.

    How did you know he helped write that one and The Silent Cry before it?? 😉

    He must have been so excited....at least this young woman was adopted by a kind, albeit older couple who didn't mind she was going blind at 2. Usually they have to go through awful prospects first.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    6 hours ago, Zella said:

    Yeah back in the 70s, one of my grandmother's brothers was not in a good place. He and his wife had 4 kids. Someone needed to take them, but nobody else in the family could afford to take all 4 of them or even had space for that many extra people. The compromise that was reached so that they could still be together as much as possible is one sister who had 3 girls took the 2 girls and the other sister (my grandmother) who had 2 boys took the 2 boys. All the cousins spent a lot of time together, so the siblings all still got to see each other a lot throughout the week. It wasn't as ideal as them all being together, but it was better than the alternative. During another family crisis with that same side of the family, my grandparents had moved into a bigger house and my grandfather's business had taken off, so they took all 4 kids then for a while. 

    I agree the potentially adoptive family in that episode is really insensitive and unrealistic to think the kid is going to get over that. 

    Yes and they weren't as mean and gruff as the usual adoptive family but I guess in LHOP, they normally don't get to keep the kids. They were I guess just clueless because they were.

    The next episode had the blind painter and it wasn't horrible (although it was nice to see Ma sans kids the whole episode) Caroline was used a lot, traveled about and and no mention of Carrie or Grace. I think it was understandable what happened re the adoption but the bio mom's reluctance to tell her daughter she was blind was odd. I guess the show would have ended early but that drama to me was silly. Then everyone kept calling her the "mom" and I felt sorry for her adoptive mom. Maybe bio mom wasn't a term then but even the painting which was sweet of her and her bio mom at the end, nothing was said of the woman who raised her and they never showed her again. I'm sure she loved both but I wish they showed it.

    Was nice to have no Laura, little of Charles and more Caroline.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    Watching the sweet one with the orphans. Seemed odd to my daughter, but I told her they separate families even today when adopting 3 might not be doable. Not ideal though. The thought that they felt the boy they wanted would ever just adjust knowing his mute brother was at the orphanage alone was head-shaking sad. So adorable though.

    Houston to Mr Ingall's "You don't think separating orphans is right do you? Charles "Of course not" Never met one I didn't take (we'll forget the Sanderson's though)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0633124/mediaviewer/rm1440233472/?ref_=tt_md_6

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    Thanks, I've heard her discuss that before, not sure why Michael wanted to get rid of her and the baby, (she could have been hurt but not killed) but I always skip that episode if on. Seemed more glaring than others (except rape) to get ratings boost that week. I didn't blame Melissa Sue for wanting to leave soon after, how much more was she going to do? She wasn't allowed a child, every time they got ahead, they fell back again. She couldn't even share her blindness with Adam anymore.  Michael sometimes listened to costars but wouldn't on this one even though it made no sense at all.

    Excerpt from interview with Melissa Sue on that horrible scene:

    “Adam bursts through the bedroom door,” Anderson wrote in The Way I See It. “I am still sitting on the edge of the bed, cooing at the baby in the cradle. He urges, ‘Mary, come on. There’s a fire. We have to get the kids out.’ He pulls me with him.”

    The Little House alum felt it was unrealistic that a mother would leave her baby’s side in the face of danger.

    “I must of had some sort of discussion with Mike [Landon] about this scene because I am right in front of that cradle,” Anderson remarked. “Why don’t I grab the baby when Adam tells me about the fire?”

    Despite Anderson’s opinion on the pivotal placement in the scene, Landon kept the original blocking in place.

    “These are the kind of arguments you don’t win,” she said. “I must not have, because Mike did not move me to another part of the room where I wouldn’t have been so close to that baby.”

    Anderson also disagreed with the scene where Alice goes in to save the infant but is distracted by cries from down the hall and “leaves the baby”.

    “Again, I have a real problem with this,” Anderson wrote. “This just would not happen.”

    When Alice goes back to rescue the child, she tries to break a window to escape. Some viewers thought she was trying to use the baby to shatter the glass — a scene that is still debated to this day. Both Alice and the baby boy perish in the flames.

    After the devastating fire, Mary goes into a catatonic state from grief and spends much of the second part of the plot humming to herself. Anderson admitted she grew weary of the overly dramatic storylines.

    “I could tell that the writers were having trouble coming up with ideas for Mary and Adam,” she explained. “You know you’re in trouble when your character is suffering more tragedies than on a soap opera. This was the problem: It was either feast or famine"

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    9 hours ago, Blergh said:

    Not unless his name's Methuselah!

    lol, yes, but I meant and didn't write it well, that the father killed him when he heard what he did. Those dads all had the etched in gruff/mean look and said "boy" instead of "son" when talking and you could feel the pent up explosive anger. I didn't blame the kid for running and I didn't think you'd see him again.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    I'm off work and it's raining so sorting through clothes to give away and watching LHOP. The one where Albert runs away after helping burn down the blind school. I understand Jonathan saying he was wrong to blame God but why did he keep telling Albert it wasn't his fault, while he kept saying it was? Things happen, saying he forgave him, he didn't mean it, etc but he kept saying, "It wasn't" and he was as wrong as he was blaming God. Just odd to me. They were smoking, stole pipe and left it to smolder. It's not quite the same as when I almost (thank God realized it) put a plug in for Xmas tree and later smelled something fishy. The outlet was faulty and if it did make a fire, I didn't do it recklessly.

    Just something I didn't quite catch before. A lot of unbelievable things in the episode but that seemed a bit too glossed over. Forgiveness is wonderful but accepting responsibility is too.

    I found myself wondering about the other boy, he wasn't there at dedication from what I saw and his dad seemed the typical mean and gruff parent of other children in WG. He might still be alive.....

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    All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?

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    3 hours ago, GiandujaPie said:

    I agree that ER has aged well, even though it first aired almost 30 years ago. Wow, has it really been that long? The main thing that immediately sets it in the past is the lack of cell phones but they started getting those in the next few seasons although not everyone used them and they were of the old flip style. 

    I got the DVD box set and my husband and I are working our way through it, watching about one episode per night. I watched the show in real time when it was on whereas he did not so he is seeing most of the episodes for the first time. Some of the episodes I don't remember at all, and I always remark to him that I must have gone out that night or had plans with friends which is why I didn't see the episode and back then we didn't have a DVR. Other episodes are very memorable to me and I can remember watching them and which apartment I was in when I watched it or if I watched it with friends. 

    We just started Season 10 which is the start of Neela. She ends up taking over so much of the show the last few seasons but only started in season 10? It seems like she was on for many more seasons. 

     

    I rewatched it on Hulu, was fun to see it when I wanted and like you, some of it I remembered, some was blurry and some I didn't. When it got less good later, (before it got better) I had twins and wasn't watching as religiously and could only catch them on summer reruns. I'm glad I forgot ANYTHING with a helicopter and how they ruined so many episodes. I did like the last few with growth from some new people and seeing some "oldies" come back. : ) No medical show ever came close and some still bring laughs and tears. The FB and Instagram site are kept up well and they did a nice youtube reunion worth watching.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    Most of these events are never in the NE where I live but if anyone is interested this page has a list of some of them. I would like to see Alison and if Karen came to CT to sell her book, I'd stop by if I could but most of them left were not on long or babies. Melissa Sue is living her life in Canada but I wouldn't mind meeting her if it wasn't too far.  Sadly, the ones I'd love to have met have long passed. Katherine and Richard (but I can't see her liking it)

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/893761798323874/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=947089779657742

    Suits - General Discussion

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    17 hours ago, deaja said:

    I don’t like Louis. He has moments where I feel sorry for him and moments he’s hilarious, but overall, he brings so many problems on himself and then plays the victim for those same problems. 
     

    Also, I feel the writers didn’t know what to do with him. He was a cutthroat lawyer at first, then he alternated between being a good lawyer and being an incompetent buffoon who could be foiled by someone not reading letters to a cat.

    Did you finish? I didn't like him often but at the end I did. The kindness with the three of them, Harvey especially. I didn't like his wife as much and the stuff with some of the staff and cats were silly, but I thought he seemed redeemed.

    That's the trouble when they can't blur the lines with a "bad" character who is also a close friend one episode and then an enemy and then a "I'd do anything for you" type again.  All in all, I bought the deep friendship by the end.

    Suits - General Discussion

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    22 hours ago, Kiki777 said:

    I am on Season 8 and yeah Louis is definitely my favorite to watch.  Apparently there are 9 seasons but Netflix only goes up to season 8 - wtf is up with that???

    Something with a contract but Amazon prime has it. Do you have Prime?  I didn't like the first "Mike is back" episode but later in the season  it's better, I thought it was very good. Louis goes through so much, some things kind of silly but he rises to the occasion more and more

    Suits - General Discussion

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    I binged when I didn't feel well and it was something to watch when bored. I did find a site where it gave synopsis of each episode and did FF through some trials and I really disliked some costars or guests (one of Harvey's ladies for instance) but all and all, enjoyed it. The end was worth it. They threw in enough to keep me watching but it was a love/hate watch for a bit. I miss it I must say. I really loved Louis by the end. : )

    Last binge I felt that way about was The Good Wife which I loved and watched few years ago when  home with laryngitis. It gave me many weeks of pleasure and I'm glad I didn't see it earlier because I could watch it as I pleased and no commercials.

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    All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?

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    It really boosted the ratings at the time. From one site on his arrival

    " Turns out "ER" didn't need another George Clooneyesque hunk or another shocking storyline. It needed Alan Alda, adored by millions young and old for his turn as sarcastic Dr. Hawkeye Pierce of "M*A*S*H." Adding Alda to the "ER" cast last week added 2 million viewers. The studio has signed him for five episodes and the writers are intent on giving his doctor character Alzheimer's disease--so that he can't possibly return to the ER for more episodes. Smart thinking, guys."

    In an interview he said they wanted him back but with dementia, to show him like that, would be too sad. Should have had it take longer.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    7 hours ago, jason88cubs said:

    Now The Long Road Home is on..I love this episode!

     

    5 hours ago, jason88cubs said:

    Yes I can't imagine teacher jobs were easy to come by back then

    That was a good one and showed how there was always bias against someone.

    Miss Beadle probably lived like all the other single/widows, quite well. I started to think they had a fund for food and guys just helped with chores because many women lived alone in homes. Renting just a room would be cramped, Doc Baker lived above his office, but I don't think they thought fans tracked things like where the teacher lived back then. They were on once a week and reruns if you caught them in the summer. ; )

    Granted Charles had room in barn/sod house when it wasn't occupied by spoiled rich kids, angry grandson's of neighbors, suicidal fathers, runaway black child (that I wish could have stayed) or hurt Native Americans. Did I forget someone??

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    Yes I read Rev Alden's wife died during the show or was at least sick.

    They had quite a few single/widows in WG. Anna who later married Rev Alden, Mrs Foster I think, Grace, Miss. Beadle for a bit,  Mrs. Whipple, Kezia, Widow Thurmond,Mrs Sanderson, Amy Hearn, (who faked death)

    I'm sure more but mostly all had a nice home, nicely decorated, they somehow ate well, dressed well , took care of home themselves and had money to eat at Nellies. ; )

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    All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?

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    On 7/13/2023 at 11:18 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:

    I’m up to Alan Alda’s guest arc now; I believe the next episode or two is his last one actually. I feel overwhelmed just watching him realize he’s losing it but not yet aware that he has Alzheimer’s. I can’t imagine what it’s actually like.

     

    I loved, being MASH fan that they wrote little references in, like "a technique I learned in the war."

    He does the part well and it's heartbreaking to see how it effects him but he isn't like some that need a lot of help to step back.

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    Noted, but poor Mrs Whipple probably raised him okay and he got PTSD and tons of guilt from the war. I was surprised how many soldiers got hooked on morphine or people back then but I guess the effect was the same. They (like us) just gave it out too much not knowing. Well we knew, but that's another thread. Codependency is alive and well today too.

    Cassandra could have learned to sew, good food and somehow Mrs. Whipple took care of herself alone with a very nice home. No mention of Mr Whipple  : )

     

     

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