Pirpana

Yeah, but actually that house wasn't the house they used as blind school but the house Laura inherited later from that old lady, the one where she and Almanzo founded their boarding house. I know, for an old, lifelong bachelor, Hanson sure had many enormous houses. And in fact, they used that house earlier already as the house where Albert and James find shelter from rain in the episode where James first breaks Albert's razor and then steals one from the mercantile. I sometimes wonder if using of same buildings was some kind of inside joke for filmmakers, of course in addition to it was a question of practicality.

^Well, stupid if that's really the reason because, as we know, the character did have lines in the final version.

^Sorry if I misunderstand you somehow but she actually did sing The Wearing of the Green when Nels got there for the first time.

^Ha ha, me too! I even had to skip back to beginning and check if it had the LH intro or not. But it was a very cool way to open an episode. And for me, as a Finnish guy, it was funny when the woman complained their truck was hot like a sauna. They also used that same plot device later in season 9 when Landon said in voiceover those famous words about LIW's books: "This time, no one made any changes." He would have shown nice self-irony had he added "except for me, of course".

Like? No, no one ever just likes on Little House, they only love everybody. Just like new kids we saw on one episode and never heard about again. They weren't ever just Laura's friends, they were always her best friends.

A couple of things more about that episode I forgot while ranting... lol. While I was watching it with my parents, my mom was sure Molly the innkeeper would turn out to be a hooker. Well, it would have been an interesting plot twist for sure but writing wasn't that boldy yet. Thylvia was still just incoming. And when the other man was revealed to be Molly's father, the dialog between them earlier and their dancing together seemed a bit strange.

One time we see Oleson's kitchen is in the episode Second Spring (S6E21) where Nels feds up with being a door mat to all of his family, starts up his mobile emporium and meets that Irish girl running a boarding house. That was a good episode, by the way, especially dialog at the beginning between the Olesons was funny. Nels: "God, deliver me from my family. And other fools." Harriet; "Who are you calling a fool?" Nels: "I thought I made it clear." The part involving the Ingallses was quite irrelevant and annoying, though. I don't know, overall it sometimes annoys me how they portray Caroline. In this case she's gotten upset to Charles for forgetting their anniversary. Charles is complementing the supper and Caroline goes like "I'm glad you appreciate something!" She comes across as very shallow, like "Oh, you don't love me anymore 'cause you didn't say it yesterday." Nevermind he says it every single day otherwise. I don't know, maybe that wasn't the best example of my case and Charles indeed should have remembered it that time. But that wasn't the only time when Caroline gets upset to Charles for not complementing her cooking or not telling he loves her. Maybe it's because I'm not American. I'm from Finland where we don't have to tell our spouses we love them every single day. We even have a joke around that: Wife: "Do you love me still?" Husband: "I'll tell you when the situation changes." Whoa, that was quite a rant! If you managed to the end I complement you.

^Just like her absence from the episodes where her son suffers from morphine addiction and later dies of leukemia. You'd think Caroline would be interested of his situation(s).

^Nice to be able to enlighten you. 🙂 Yeah, he wrote and directed it. And was executive producer, behind-the-scenes material of Outlander series has taught me about the power of that position. Sometimes it really feels like ML had too much power.

And ML wrote that episode himself (as you probably already knew). I recall on Blu-ray documentary Charlotte Stewart told that Landon sometimes wrote next episode in-between the takes of episode being shot at the time. She presented it as a good thing, like "oh, what superman!" but I think this one has to be one of those and it would have benefitted of writing in it's own time.

And in the same episode, if you've ever wondered how they were able to shoot characters on driver seat of a wagon without camera wobbling, the answer can be seen reflecting on a window. Picture quality restoration has it's downsides! 😄

I wonder how much Landon himself appreciated the pilot movie. It may be his best work as a director, keeping in mind his other directorial efforts were on tv shows which were made in conveyer belt style, more or less. I think he only made one feature film besides his tv work and that one wasn't a very good one, I have heard.

I just watched episode with Perley Day Wilder. It's funny how in previous pair of episodes Albert practically killed Andy's mom and now they bicker over affection of some random girl like nothing's happened. And moreover, it's Albert really who is anrgy a Andy, you'd think he would be still sorry for what he did. And at the beginning of that episode Jonathan tells Charles he won't be able to participate town picnic because Alice's mother got birthday and he's gonna visit her. However, Andy is there. Why Jonathan left without him? A bit strange considering the boy just lost his mother. And not a single line of dialog to Charles asking if Andy could stay at the Ingalls. Was he home alone or what? EDIT: The episode had a nice piece of continuity from deaf-Dylan episode at the beginning, though. Carrie runs out of the house on her way to the outhouse (What else?) and now Bandit is in doghouse Albert built for him. Although now it is Carrie's playhouse. And this time it's not a mistake made by writer but actually funny turn of event.

To be fair to Hester-Sue, she did attend church services twice (!), or three times as in one episode she attended twice. Episode being the one where Toby Noe visits Walnut Grove and falls for that spinster lady (and of course we never hear from them again!). First she sings Rock of Ages and next time they sing Amazing Grace. This episode was also the only time we see Mary in church after she goes blind. Funny how the only time the blind ones of town attend Sunday services is when they sing "was blind but now I see". Maybe they thought that was a bad joke and got upset. The third time Hester-Sue, Mary and Adam attended was when service was held by the smouldering ruins of blind school. Hester-Sue sang once again Rock of Ages in that strange stre-e-tching style of hers.

Well, now you know what I meant earlier when I said you were in for a treat, within quotation marks. 😄

^Those kind of inaccuracies are indeed very annoying. It's same kind of carelessness I pointed out once about the sea-enthusiastic, leukemia-dying Dylan who didn't know that the sea god of Ancient Greece was Poseidon, not Neptune (S5E24).

Actually, it's not just Amazon. Amazon uses Lionsgate's restored DVDs/Blu-rays as their source and that episode is about five minutes shorter than it should on those as well. Scene(s) are intact on that abysmal old DVD release, though. There was a lot of talk about it when Lionsgate released their Remastered Editions how they were supposed to be "uncut" version and yet there was this kind of omissions. This wasn't the only one although but by far most crucial.

^Yeah, it's strange how even when they say it's been weeks or months I rarely actually believe it. Maybe it got something to do with the fact that the characters always have exactly the same clothes on. Mr. Edwards has his red checked shirt etc... and Charles has his nipples.

I watched the infamous May we Bake them Brown episode yesterday but won't say anything about the beginning because everything has been said already, hah. But besides that it's also a bit annoying and unrealistic how, when Jonathan is in depths of despair after losing his wife, the saint Charles is able to snap him out of it just like that by shedding his manly tears. Merlin Olsen's crying isn't as convincing to say the least. But I do have to give credit to ML for using same actor as before as judge Adams. It's so rare a character returns in this show (and in same incarnation) it's worth mentioning. Even the actress playing his secretary is the same. And watching Patrick Labyorteaux in emotional scenes it's a bit mindboggling to me he was able to pursue a career in acting. In those type of scenes it's almost as cringeworthy as Greenbush sisters. Uh! Especially compared to Matthew. But maybe Matthew didn't want to like someone of you said earlier.

One funny thing about that blind girl episode. When I first was it, when the show was released on Blu ray, I had gotten so used to this show only having a handful of directors, I actually thought the episode's director's name Victor Lobl was a typo and it should had been Victor French!

^Oh, you're in for quite a "treat" in that regard but I won't spoil it to you. For me, being a massive James Bond fan, his two introductory episodes are a somewhat guilty pleasure. The actor who plays the man traveling and showing him off played one of Franz Sanchez' henchmen, Milton Krest, in Licence to kill.

^No way, we quite like it! 😄 That and your previous post are schoolbook examples of show's writers' way to write anything that would fit for given particular scene, no matter if it's in conflict with what's happened or said earlier. Mind you, it's not just for this show. Don't know if you guys have ever watched a Canadian series called Road to Avonlea. It had a character called Aunt Eliza who always remembered to say she's only had one beau in her life. Except the guy always had different name and completely different life story!

^Yeah, and it's funny how at the beginning of the movie they try to give an explanation why there's not a single flake of snow to be seen although Christmas is coming. "Winter of 1896 was a strange one, it was hot." Oh, no kidding! As hot as in a valley in Southern California. PS. I think I need to emphasize, I do actually like this show even though all my posts are complaining of their nature more or less. It's funnier to be nitpicky, I guess!

Well, in a way we can. For using a camera angle from which we can see that! 🙂

^Whoa, lol! Guess their philosophy was "why to reinvent the wheel". Or why fix something that ain't broken.