Most awful waste of time I've had in years, had to try 3 times to get through this. Now they have a nice house and grandparents don't live with them? MaryEllen likes to sing, since when? Olivia an entirely different person. Pa calls them "walnuts"? Elizabeth less mature and more babyish than she was. Erin, whiney and pathetic. Who would take this family to heart? None of us and story so crazy, forced, without the Waltons' heart. This was pointless since the movies are still fairly current. Making me go on and on to fill in required characters to say this is just bad, and waste of time, yours and mine.