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Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve: Part 1 (1982)
Truly sensational, 10 points to this classic western
The two parts of this episode are perfectly differentiated: This first part deserves 10 points, it is a classic western with all the letters, with cantinas, thugs, banks, robberies, shootings and chases. You already know that James is shot when he enters the bank at the worst possible moment and one of the criminals (the cruelest of the gang, Coy) shoots him at point-blank range. Then comes the persecution of the 5 criminals by Charles, Edwards and Albert, who was instrumental in being able to defeat them even though their father did not want them to accompany them. Truly sensational, 10 points, and it is difficult to find actors of the quality of Victor French and Michael Landon, a single gesture, a single look from them, is enough to say more than a thousand words.
The second part enters the mystical terrain of religion, faith, miracles and religious beliefs of little credible veracity and it does not attract me. But this first part was great.
Little House on the Prairie: A Faraway Cry (1982)
I am surprised that the dissemination of this chapter was approved based on this crime.
By the way, these chapters about pandemics and contagious diseases that have Dr. Baker as their hero bore me. It is a miracle that none of them have been infected.
The role of Horacio, Luisa's husband, is so despicable! A horror of a person.
Even so, it is a crime to give Luisa's baby to another family by making the latter believe that the baby came from the womb of the woman who had lost hers. It's a crime. It is good that they wanted a better destiny for that baby than the one he would have with his biological father. But even so, they had to tell the surviving couple that the baby was not their biological child. I am surprised that the dissemination of this chapter was approved based on this crime.
Little House on the Prairie: A Promise to Keep (1982)
Why on earth did Grace write that letter to Edwards?
Bright. The mere intervention of the great actor Victor French already gives shine to the chapter, whatever the topic is. He is so expressive, he conveys his feelings so clearly with a single look, which makes him lovable even in the worst circumstances.
I really liked Laura's role this time. I generally don't sympathize with his whims and stubbornness, but here he took on a truly human role. Good for her, although it is really risky to put your little daughter in the hands of a person who is recovering from a vice as harmful as alcohol.-
Why on earth did Grace write that letter to Edwards? To ruin what was left of his life? Also, did Edward learn to read? I remember that someone had to read the notes to him.
Little House on the Prairie: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow: Part One (1982)
Laura's stubbornness is something that surpasses the normal, being constant is a merit, being stubborn is a defect.
I summarize both parts in a comment.
It is a good example of life, what happens to Almanzo (falling into a depressive pit and resigning prematurely) is something common and requires a lot of patience to reverse. Generally, the change in attitude can be motivated by a chance event, such as reflecting on the geranium that survives the tornado.
Eliza Jean's attitude is regrettable, contravening medical advice and interfering in Laura and Almanzo's private matters. I thought she married Mort after the literature teacher episode. But it seems that it was not like that and that his life has plenty of time to enter the lives of others.
Laura's stubbornness is something that surpasses the normal, being constant is a merit, being stubborn is a defect.
Little House on the Prairie: Second Chance (1982)
It is the second time that Esther Sue cancels a wedding at the moment of going up the altar.
The chapter is good, although as always happens, the ending is fanciful. That precisely on the day of the wedding, Sam's real wife, who made an extensive search and a long journey just to ruin Sam's new wedding, appears in a town like Walnut Grove, it does not seem like it could happen anywhere else but a novel.
I think that if Sam's problem is his addiction to gambling and alcohol and, as he is trying to be presented, he is a recoverable person, I think that Ester Sue, if she really loves him, should help him overcome those addictions, and not separate himself from he. Much more so if you say goodbye in a loving way and without apparent resentment.
It is the second time that Esther Sue cancels a wedding at the moment of going up the altar. It's not often that that happens once, much less happens twice.
Little House on the Prairie: Uncle Jed (1982)
Uncle Jed was loved by the entire town for his humility despite being the owner of so much money.
Extraordinary chapter.
Although the plot is not new (the eternal struggle between the power of money and feelings), the theme was very well covered, and the performances of everyone (Uncle Jed, the INgalls, the Cooper children) have been extraordinary .
Everything that happened is credible and worthy of being accepted as real.
Perhaps the dramatic solution at the end (Jed's health ends up defining a case that legally had had another ending) was not appropriate.
Although they were secondary, the very good performances of Harriet and Dr. Baker did not go unnoticed either.
Uncle Jed was loved by the entire town for his humility despite being the owner of so much money.
10 points.-
Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy (1982)
"Free competition"
This chapter shows how unfair the fight can be within the so-called "free competition", where inexorably the big fish eats the small fish. The bad thing is that Charles seems to accept it willingly at the end of the chapter, when he was the victim of a crime, for which he had to fight in court, not to fight alone against 20 people as SuperIngalls pretended to feel.
How easily couples of that time separated for 2 or 3 months! Today it would create scope for infidelity. Much more so when a man enters the house, like the drunken bum they hired who just ate and ate. Of course, this bum is far from being attractive to Caroline, but let's remember that in the first seasons, there was a younger and more hard-working man who did attract Caroline's attention, and even Mary herself came to distrust her mother.
Little House on the Prairie: Stone Soup (1982)
Boring, repetitive, monotonous...
A chapter that has absolutely nothing of plot. Boring, repetitive, monotonous... No fact worth telling. One of the worst.-
The chapter shows the stubbornness of Laura, a tough woman who does not understand reasons and who apparently does not know that when pregnant she must take extreme precautions. And the mother should have made him understand that he needed help. But we see that it makes no sense to talk to a stubborn, stubborn, capricious, bossy woman who doesn't listen.
I also found the story that Caroline told in class boring and very long (she finally replaced Laura temporarily). Shouldn't Caroline be in the restaurant?
Little House on the Prairie: No Beast So Fierce (1982)
Maybe the wolf attacks the Ingalls and the Coopers but not the Hales?
Everything is a little predictable, but there are inconsistencies. Quite rightly, Charles forces James to get rid of that wild wolf, since he is not fit to live together as a family. Why then do Gideon's parents think differently and accept him? Maybe the wolf attacks the Ingalls and the Coopers but not the Hales? This duality is not understood.
The attitude of those who make fun of Gideon's stuttering is the same as that of many in many places, it is a reflection of a sad reality. Gideon must learn to live with that, unfortunately, and that is the solution offered to him by those who appreciate him: not to let the ridicule affect him. Of course, at Gideon's age that is very difficult to achieve.
All the performances are very good as always, beyond the aforementioned plot errors.-
Little House on the Prairie: For the Love of Nancy (1981)
Everyone here gets on with Nancy, but they say little about the others' mockery of Elmer,
Everyone here gets on with Nancy, but they say little about the others' mockery of Elmer, who apparently many enjoyed making fun of when he saw him eat so quickly and abundantly. That's where Albert, Willy, and other students come in. - Nancy is just a spoiled girl who always seeks to evade her obligations and it doesn't matter to her whether the person she manipulates for this purpose is a woman, a man, fat, skinny, and middle-aged. She is always like that, she didn't mistreat Elmer because of his fatness, it didn't matter to her if the person who fell in love with her was a thin boy.-
Those who have discriminated against him because of his fatness are the other children, but they all prefer to fall on Nancy who, of course, is the villain.-
Little House on the Prairie: Chicago (1981)
Victor French's performance was sensational.
Let's start with the best: Victor French's performance was sensational. He is a character who was greatly missed in his long absence from the plot of the series.
Then, it seems strange to me that Charles was so moved by the death of someone who played a very dirty trick on his daughter Mary when she was still enjoying the vision: he deceived her, wrote love letters to her while in Chicago he had affairs with another. After such contempt and causing so much pain to your daughter, can you be moved by what happens to someone like that?
I never really liked the character of John, he was not a lovable person even for Edwards himself, whom he did not accompany in his peasant customs as only his son Carl did.
It's slapstick that the newspaper's editor invites Charles and Edwards "to dinner" and that dinner consists of a couple of glasses of whiskey (since Charles doesn't drink). And the food?
Little House on the Prairie: The Legend of Black Jake (1981)
A really stupid, absurd and inappropriate chapter
A really stupid, absurd and inappropriate chapter of Little House on the prairie, and on top of that the story is repeated that the victims end up sympathizing and living with the criminals. - Very bad plot and really boring. I have nothing more to say, but since they require a minimum of characters I am going to repeat the paragraph.-
A really stupid, absurd and inappropriate chapter of Little House on the prairie, and on top of that the story is repeated that the victims end up sympathizing and living with the criminals. - Very bad plot and really boring. I have nothing more to say, but since they require a minimum of characters I am going to repeat the paragraph.-
Little House on the Prairie: Gambini, the Great (1981)
It's unfortunate that there are people with that character.
Gambini is intended to be a name changed from Houdini, to reference him without mentioning him. I find it very unfortunate that an older man has to do such risky things to make a living, based on the morbidity shown by others who pay his entrance fee because they are waiting for something bad to happen. They don't enjoy acrobatics, but rather the risk of others, which is why they are hoping that they don't use the internet. They want to see blood, that's what motivates them to pay. Finally, Gambini has the consequence of his absurd actions and the price of an unlimited ego for a merit that is not as great as he believed, an ego that even makes him distance himself from a son. It's unfortunate that there are people with that character.
Little House on the Prairie: A Wiser Heart (1981)
reality must be shown
It was a realistic episode. From now on, it is out of the question for the professor to use his weapon of grading exams as a tool to seduce a young woman, even though he is married and so is Laura. In any case, reality must be shown, just because these things should not happen does not mean that they do not happen.
However, this is what society seems to be like: in the eyes of most women, the professor was an attractive man and most would fall in love with him rather than the seemingly dim-witted Mort. Eliza Jane is the example. But other women in the chapter too. On the other hand, no one, absolutely no one, seems to notice Mort as an attractive man, despite his pleasant human conditions and his knowledge and friendliness.
I loved Laura's kitchen foreman... She is seen as a demanding but fair woman.
Little House on the Prairie: The Reincarnation of Nellie (Part I) (1981)
Nancy becomes the new Nellie, and she plays her role perfectly.-
I find it reasonable that the series replaces the children as they grow up, and they cannot continue interpreting children's themes. For this reason, Nancy becomes the new Nellie, and she plays her role perfectly.-
Mrs. Oleson proves to be a kind-hearted woman in adopting her and raising her in the best way, which is demonstrated when she herself punishes her when, acting as a mermaid, she makes her fall into the water, telling her not to lie to her again.
That Adam took Mary to New York was more than predictable, strange that they did not think that Walnut Grove is not a suitable place to succeed as a lawyer before doing the stupid thing of going to settle there, surely guided by family love and not for professional success.-
The state removes support from the school for the blind that disappears... It was logical in the dynamics of the series. That school was never more than an excuse for Mary to be more than just a sad housewife. Found another solution, to hell with the school. Furthermore, Ester Sue renewed her contract and had to settle somewhere else. How to be a waitress at Harriet's restaurant.-
Little House on the Prairie: Dark Sage (1981)
A black man can be a good man... Farmer, transporter... But doctor?
This was an extraordinary episode. As usual, all the performances were magnificent, including the main protagonists: Caleb Ledoux, very serious and convincing, and his wife Nattie, a truly adorable woman. But even more so was Dr. Baker, whose confession in the church moved me very much. - It is a pity that later nothing was seen or heard from this well-to-do and honest couple who would have caused a lot of good to Walnut Grove. -
I believe that Dr. Baker was not racist, but simply understood that the "more than predominantly white" community would not accept Caleb and that is why he did not want to make things easy for him. He said it himself: A black man can be a good man... Farmer, transporter... But doctor? It is the community that did not accept Caleb, who with good judgment decided to leave despite the sweetness and humility of his wife Nati.
I was sad that they never participated in the series again.
Little House on the Prairie: Growin' Pains (1981)
Charles and Caroline seem ready to open an orphanage.
It is a good chapter, which shows that coexistence is not easy, and that problems that at first seem not to matter, later, in practice and over time, become very uncomfortable.-
Albert was the one who convinced Charles to bring the Coopers home, so now he can't complain about the inconvenience that James causes him, both in terms of space, things he uses for him, and even interfering with a relationship with a young lady who Albert (he soon forgot about Silvia) began to explore.
Do runaway children always find a huge, semi-abandoned house or one occupied by a lonely elderly person willing to take them in? It already happened with Albert when he ran away with Andrew, then with Laura and now with Albert and James... It's curious how lucky these children are. Besides, apparently at LHOP everything is resolved by running away.
I think Charles should have been tougher on James for his double bad act: damaging his brother's knife, and then stealing to make up for the mistake in a very naive way. "I didn't mean to," James repeats. Like that wasn't your intention? Both things were on purpose, using Albert's knife and then stealing.
It was known that the Cooper thing was not going to work. But Charles and Caroline seem ready to open an orphanage.
Little House on the Prairie: The Lost Ones (Part One) (1981)
Too many inconsistencies.-
All the performances are convincing.
What is difficult to believe, beyond their enormous love and charity being laudable, is that Charles Ingalls and Caroline agree to adopt any boy or girl who crosses their path in a situation of abandonment. That's impossible.
Everyone washes their hands, even his blood uncle. It seems the only one who can't do that is Charles. Even in the Sleepy Eye orphanage they say they have no place!
I think Albert could have been a little more understanding with his adoptive father, in the wagon talk his attitude and comments seemed to load a 200 kilo backpack on Charles's back, to the point of taking them on the unusual return to stop a train. In progress.
The children are already victims of a dramatic situation, but Casandra seems not to understand their delicate situation and intends at all costs to be adopted by Caroline. Yes, it's a girl. But James is too and always seemed to be more understanding and put aside his whims.-
Albert pushes his father to do something that he knows is very complicated, living with 5 children in a modest cabin, but then he will regret it when he sees that coexistence becomes difficult. Well, that's what he should have thought about before pushing his father into a decision that is understandable from a sentimental point of view but impossible from a functional and economic point of view.-
It doesn't look good to the Torkins either. They seem like a family with a tough but fair father, so much so that he agreed to adopt both boys when they were only looking for a girl, and also refused to receive money. Did you ask them to work hard? The work is dignified, and the example is magnificent. Torkins is right when, when the children ran away, he said, "I gave them a home and they didn't know how to appreciate it." It's the pure truth. On the other hand, Mrs. Torkins seemed really kind and affectionate, I don't understand why Cassandra didn't fall in love with her like she did at first sight of Caroline.-
It is true that James received undeserved punishment for being falsely accused of theft, following a trap by his short-lived brother Seth. But it is good that children learn that throughout their lives we will all suffer many unfair circumstances that we will end up tolerating. You cannot jump into the void at the first setback and run away as they do irresponsibly.-
I found the funeral of the Coopers in charge of Charles and with the only presence of Albert and the little ones pathetic... Did no one think of going to look for a doctor and a policeman to certify the death of the Coopers and summon other family members or friends at the funeral? Yes, I know, we are in 1890... But it still seems too grotesque to me that two people die and two strangers bury them anywhere without telling anyone, especially with two children involved.-
Anyway, too many inconsistencies.-
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Justice (1981)
the first thing to Adam does is get rid of that silly school to look at higher goals, dragging Mary.-
As I was saying: 1) The school for the blind, far from being carried out with the intention of benefiting the community, has or had the sole objective of satisfying Mary and Adam's inner need to be teachers, and that is why their relatives must work to maintain it even if it is economically deficient, so strictly speaking it cannot be said that it is truly a job. It was fully demonstrated in this chapter: Adam miraculously recovers his sight and the first thing he does is get rid of that silly school to look at higher goals, dragging Mary behind his will and forcing her to stop doing the only thing that he did to her, although be it wrongly, to feel useful.-
2) Isn't it too quick for Adam to show himself as an established lawyer? For now, under normal conditions, the study of a legal career takes 5 years on average, and it does not seem that the characters in the series have aged in that time between the day Adam regained his sight and this chapter. Beyond that, even if he has received it, a lawyer may need years of career to reach his full potential, and Adam seems to be a prodigy who received his degree in one day and learned everything the next day. The change is very fast, gentlemen directors.-
3) As for the chapter itself, Adam commits a very serious professional error when he ventures into the defense without having found out what the prosecutor discovered: that Adam's client knew perfectly well about the poor condition of the land he was selling. And to make matters worse, when he is embarrassed in court by that revelation, he recklessly says, "I need a recess to reassess my position in the case, if I have any." A lawyer should never publicly admit the weakness of his position, he should always appear confident. Showing weakness is highly inadvisable. It must be said that Adam showed a lot of courage in defending the man accused of defrauding the entire town, which caused many to turn against him and even his father-in-law Charles lost business because of that position.
As many others here said, I share that Mary's position is very sad: she is dragged by Adam to be confined as a secretary, having to give up overnight what was an important placebo for her: being a teacher.
Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia (Part Two) (1981)
This chapter is the most dramatic of the series and the one with the most tragic ending.
This chapter is the most dramatic of the series and the one with the most tragic ending. I begin by highlighting that it has been excellently performed by everyone, especially by the young Mathew Laborteaux (Albert), who is without a doubt one of the best child actors of all time. , and Olivia Barash (Sylvia), who I regret did not have more performances in the series given the tragic ending that was chosen for her. Its argument is quite daring for what the series is and the time in which it was filmed, since rape is a more than delicate topic for a family schedule, and above all, the psychological analysis of how a subjected woman should be clinically treated. To such a traumatic trance. However, it is plotted quite well, with very well-characterized characters and the horrible Mr. Irtvig who turns out to be the rapist wearing a clown mask.
What I regret is that it was chosen to end the double chapter with the death of Silvia. It would have been very good to closely follow his social reintegration after the bitter ordeal. But it is clear that we could no longer count on the effective Olivia Barash, who earned a 10 for her performance.
I have to point out one little credible detail. The raping blacksmith allows Albert to "take" (Albert once again was willing to steal) some money, apparently with the sole purpose of allowing him to go home to look for his things and have time to go to the farm where he lives. Silvia was hiding, in order to carry out a second attack. Although we know that the minds of rapists are not at all organized and the mere fact of their inclination towards this activity already implies poor mental functioning, it is a temporary maneuver that is too risky, since they know perfectly well that in a very short time Albert will go through his beloved Silvia, meaning that he had very little time to carry out his disastrous plan. And luckily, not only Albert, but Silvia's father and Charles arrived quickly, and Mr. Webb took justice into his own hands by killing the rapist with a shot in the back. But unfortunately, in her attempt to escape, Silvia climbed a ladder that was about to collapse, and when she was at the top, she fell to the floor, causing her death. Very sad ending.
I was impressed by the resignation and little hope with which Charles said "I'm going to get the doctor" when he saw Silvia on the floor after the fall. It is assumed that he must have run out to fetch him, if there was any hope of survival. The camla with which Charles said "I'm going to get the doctor" is a sign that it was a useless resource.
Great chapter, and the most tragic. There are many deaths in The Ingalls Family, but they are generally the product of illness and gradual arrival. Rarely does a protagonist die like this, suddenly, in an accident. Yes, I know, James and Cassandra's biological parents died in an accident when the stagecoach fell, but they were not central characters in the play. Silvia could well have been Albert's wife, in other circumstances.-
Little House on the Prairie: Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder (1981)
Always Laura and her whims
Always Laura and her whims, her haughty and haughty attitude leads her to give up what she wants most, which is to be a teacher. He believed that another person could not measure up to him. But Mrs. Oleson gave her a real lesson in humility by being her superior in teaching and getting the state to subsidize the school, which by the way has been greatly improved with the addition of the uniform.
Pathetic is Laura's attitude of leaving the table where she is having dinner with her husband and parents for not being able to hide her anger at her failed plan of waiting for the failure of whoever succeeds her in office. And the moral of the series is also pathetic: Laura returns and with her the uniforms (called ridiculous by Laura herself) and art and French studies end.
Little House on the Prairie: Make a Joyful Noise (1981)
simply absurd and ridiculous
It is simply absurd and ridiculous for a bride to leave her future husband just at the moment when they are in front of the altar with the reverend about to finalize the wedding. That only happens in movies. And the way in which such an outcome occurs is also absurd: the insistent and annoying Joe Keagan takes the blind children to the wedding singing a song, ridiculing the ceremony and creating the occasion for Ester Sue to leave the person she even does. A few minutes I loved. Joe Keagan is one of the worst characters in the series. He used the blind children for his personal interest behind a woman who told him in a thousand ways that she doesn't love him. No one believes it is a coincidence that she moved from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye where Ester Sue happens to live. And as soon as she announces her marriage to another person, she decides to go "east." Luckily this is the last time we will see him in the series.
More interesting was the secondary content, where Timoty manages to accept his blindness and try to adapt to living with it.
Little House on the Prairie: The Nephews (1981)
it is simply about two very naughty and spoiled children used to doing whatever they want without any limits.
Like the previous chapter, a crazy chapter. Without a plot, there is no plot, it is simply about two very naughty and spoiled children used to doing whatever they want without any limits. - That's all.
No background content or moral.
Furthermore, later, in the last season, Almanso's brother, Royal (at least the name matches) appears again but played by another actor, much older, without his wife, and curiously with an only daughter (Jenny). ). Nothing is said about Rupert and Marion, the children in this chapter.
LHOP has us accustomed to these changes in stories and characters, going backwards with what was previously presented.
Little House on the Prairie: Come Let Us Reason Together (1981)
Benjamin Cohen's religious fanaticism is intolerable.
This is a crazy episode.
Benjamin Cohen's religious fanaticism is intolerable. He tries to impose his religion on everyone, and instead of making his misplacement noted, he is presented as "a proud man."
Of course, everything is different when it comes to Harriet, who is unceremoniously dropped on her.
It bothers me a lot that Nels never pays attention to his wife's position and always appears to disapprove, even when reason supports him.
The solution is tragicomic that if the child is a boy he is Jewish and if it is a girl he is Christian, and even more clownish is that, having born mixed twins, the Jewish family only celebrates the arrival of the boy child and the Christian family that of the girl, woman, and the other grandson is ignored, as if he were from another family!
The children's parents, Nellie and Percival/Isaac, provide the small amount of sanity in the subject, they do not seem too moved by this topic. And the most sensible words are those of Percival: "Is this religion? Fights, arguments, hatred? In that case, we will not take part." The only sensible thing about the chapter.
Without a doubt, starting with season 7, the episodes have been getting worse and worse.
Night Games (1974)
Great pilot episode, with sensational performances
Great pilot episode, with sensational performances, especially from Barry Newman and the beautiful Joanna Cameron in her role as stewardess Thelma Latimer.
There are overwhelmed characters and many issues of infidelity, which occurred between the couple's friends of the couple (The Hannigans) and their clumsy friends (the Kenedisis). - Apparently, the deceased had previously had relations with the woman Jenny Kenedisis, from which his husband found out in court from his wife. The deceased had also been unfaithful to the accused, by having relations with Telma Lattimer, who shamelessly confessed it in her testimony.-
Beautiful woman Joanna Cameron, a shame she passed away.- She really played evil and cheeky here, along with her partner DD Franklin (Luke Askew). Extortionist, prostitute and shameless... yet she is charming.
In all the movies someone tries to kill Petrocelli, so I took the scene where he is taken off the road as usual, although it was something very serious and unforgivable.
We are getting to know the characters. However, from this episode, only the main trio (Petrocelli, Maggi, Pete) would continue in the series.
The way Petrocelli discovers the crime is fantastic!