The Unwritten Commandment

I just finished watching this episode and it was better than I expected. There's some episodes you read the description and you're thinking it's gonna be a dud. Yeah, there's some people that want to have the mute button ready for the singing scenes but the actual storyline itself is interesting.

I come away with the feeling that the father wasn't one of these 'Devil on her Shoulder' characters where everything is sinful and a gift from satan. I look at the father and honestly see myself. Maybe I'm getting too raw with this review but I'm giving my honest account of the episode. I see somebody sucked dry. You doing what needs to be done for the day. You don't have the ability to do outside of the schedule and stuff like fun, smiling and laughing are foreign concepts. The endless hole of depression is one that constantly smothers and never lets go. The bad thing is this father has a son and whether he's doing it intentionally or not, he's pulling that son down into this hole with him. The son enjoys singing. He doesn't care where he's singing at, he just gets pleasure doing it. Until his father ruins it for him. He's starting to go down to that same dark place his father's in. No more joy. Thankfully you have the Cartwrights around to come up with an idea to get the son to sing again and even get the father to come out and hear his son sing.

For all us Adam fans, he gets a mention! He's currently traveling through Paris. I wish they made references about Adam's character throughout the rest of the series because it's my feeling Adam eventually gets erased. Somebody watching later seasons would just assume Ben only has the two sons instead of three.

Not sure if they ever explained why Adam left to begin with? Big pow wow at the Ponderosa? Tired of staying in one place for all this time? Curious.