DoughGirl

Was that the doctor who is Ron Howard's real life father?Doc McGyver?

I think John and Livvie could have been lovey dovey without acting like they were ready to jump each-other's bones all the time. And John in the long underwear he'd worn all day working at the mill-just no.

Yes, and John Boy cons him into giving him the job by pretending he was interested in changing his major to library science.

I thought the doctor said ME couldn't have children because it would be dangerous due to the tear they sewed up in her uterus, but I've only seen that horrible movie once. I always wondered about the birth control method too since almost every earlier episode had one of those cringe worthy scenes of John suggestively asking when Livvie was coming to bed and then they'd make eyes at each other. What was funny about the Livvie desperate to have a baby episode was that it wasn't long after the one where she's not so happy to be pregnant because it will interfere with selling her Bubble Beautifier. Because it could buy a lot of books for John Boy.

Maybe the kids were hard to take but they didn't ask to go live with the Waltons and she was such a little snit. "Do they have to come?" "You ruin everything." If a Luftwaffe bomb dropped on Waltons Mountain and took out John and Livvie, I doubt picking out a Christmas tree would seem all that fun to Elisabeth either. Hell, she couldn't even deal with being stuck on a Ferris wheel. Ugh! Her deer in the headlights look while clutching that baby when she KNEW the adoption lady was coming. She was as bad as mad Cassie when she kidnapped John Curtis.

I just can't watch any of those movies, even the one with real John Boy. Livvie and John "in pain" because of not being able to have an eighth child is rich. And IIRC John didn't seem all that broken up about it, and I can't blame him. IMHO Livvie had some kind of emotional problem wanting to have more kids at that point.

Unbelievable. "Where is Sheriff Bridges? Don't you know?" Yep.

I agree for the most part but I think Erin and Mary Ellen were the worst of those six. Sometimes it's embarrassing how bad they are. Erin could never pull off pretending to be talking to someone on the switchboard.

Maybe this should go in Unpopular Opinions, but I'm just not "feeling" Jamie in the show like I did in the books.

In "The Burden" why was the college librarian that John Boy worked for all of a sudden professor of religious studies?

The guy running the Ferris wheel had robbed some jewellery from the Baldwins. While giving Elizabeth a ride he saw the sheriff coming and while turning to run away gets hit on the head and killed by the Ferris wheel. All seen by Elisabeth (who was traumatised and had to jump off the Ferris wheel afterwards) as was where he hid the stolen jewellery, though I'm not clear on when she saw that. But she was able to show the sheriff where the hiding place was after being "psychoanalysed" by John Boy.

The dress Livvie makes for Elizabeth in "The Yearning" is one of the ugliest dresses I've ever seen, and for being whipped up by Waltons Mountain's most talented seamstress, it looks like a home ec project.

I must be remembering it wrong because to me it seemed the men burst in and and we're not so nice. Anyway, the original scene I was thinking of is when Pa went to town and left Ma and the girls home alone for more than a day.

Yep, in The Ferris Wheel. Another time he says to an off camera Grandma, "Esther, she's gone again". It would have been funny to hear the voice of Grandma come back with "Good riddance!"

That one was just on yesterday or the day before. I never could figure out how he died. I thought maybe he had fallen from his horse and broke his neck while doped up on morphine. The flashback scenes of the battle of Shiloh are really bizarre, made doubly so as all I could see Branville (?) as is "that guy from Soap". This episode was one where Mary got too involved with a creepy older guy rather than Laura for a change. (And again Charles and Caroline weren't even phased by it.) "My friend Mr. Whipple." What business did a girl her age have being "friends" with a man old enough to be her father?

Neither Dougal or Collum look remotely like I pictured them. Both look much older. And I like my picture better.

There was a scene like you described but IIRC the men were intimidating and helped themselves to whatever they wanted from the cabin. The scene I am thinking about took place when there was a real threat to the white settlers.Edited to say I'm talking about the LHOTP pilot show, not the books.

Don't have a problem with the Grandma comes home part. Ellen Corby had difficulty speaking regardless of who wrote the script. It's the whole "Grandma is in the hospital with a vague unknown illness but is gabbing away" stuff that came before. Seems it would have made more sense to say she'd had a stroke as Ellen Corby did.

How annoying was Prisspot in the "Pride of Walnut Grove"? She whined the entire time in Minneapolis about how she just wasn't doing well. Over and over, "I'm just not doing well. They expect me to win." Caroline is so damn patient. After an hour I'd have told her she was going to withdraw and put her whiney ass back on the train. Even after she comes in second she keeps pouting.

I agree with this. You have to feel for him knowing Claire was pining away for Jamie all that time. I would have divorced her but he was thinking of Briana. And to add insult to injury, Brianna seems to forget all about him very quickly too, getting all caught up in "The Dun Bonnet".

Thank you! I already have a Ravelry account so I'll check it out now! I want Geillis' cape too.

I agree with this. Even Claire inviting Jamie to sit between her and Loaghaire did not look like she was doing it so much that J and L could be together. Rather it looked like a way to get to sit by J herself without being obvious.

I hope there will be an Outlander knitting magazine available, similar to the Jane Austen and Downton Abbey knitting books. Would love to make those shawls and mitts.

I didn't mind it. It thought it added a nice eighteenth century touch. And also that it was very "Outlander" but that's all I'll say about that here.

I'm not crazy about Laura either. Too "plucky" or something. I think she was a nervy little thing.