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Post by wanton87 on Jun 21, 2017 3:53:29 GMT
Are you guys aware that practically all of the threads from the little house IMDB board made it over to MovieChat.org? So you can post there as well. www.moviechat.org/movies/tt0071007Yeah but you can't reply to anybody or you're replying to people that aren't even members on the site. You still can jayhn1111, just take note of the date. Anything beyond 4 months from today’s date is likely an IMDB archive, but it’s real easy to check. If you click on a users name, and nothing happens, it’s an archive. If you click on a name and it’s an active account over there, their entire posting history at MovieChat will come up, so that’s how you can tell real easy. I post at 3 different sites regularly, and I like it here too. But as far as little house is concerned, there’s more activity at Previously TV and at MovieChat for this series.
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 21, 2017 15:31:15 GMT
I loved this show. I loved Landon though, so go figure. While I did enjoy Nellie. We got to see her grow up, physical & mature-wise. Nancy was adopted, so she unfortunately had that WITH Mrs Oleson to overcome. It is amazing looking back at all the people who were on there, especially the kids. I'm a JAG fan, so everytime I see Patrick Labyorteaux, I fondly remember Andrew Garvey. Funny too, how Albert(Matthew Labyorteaux) & him are brothers in real life. Though both adopted.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 22, 2017 22:38:54 GMT
So anybody enjoy this show ?
I think season 1-4 are really good but goes downhill fast after that. And the last few seasons are just plain boring in my opinion. Just a few of the episodes.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 22, 2017 23:41:17 GMT
Sloppy sentimentality. A travesty of the books!
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Post by wanton87 on Aug 23, 2017 18:36:28 GMT
Feologild OakesI’m a big fan. As you’ve mentioned, the earlier seasons were the best, but I’m easy to please and liked it the whole way through. I’ve even seen a few episodes of Little House: A New Beginning, and thought it wasn’t all that bad. Willie’s wife was kind of hot too.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 23, 2017 20:11:32 GMT
How else can you tug at the heartstrings of America back in the 70's and 80's.
But mostly, because he stuck his yenta nose into places it didn't belong.
But besides that... I find it very interesting that the majority of the public who watched the show base this show on reality. In reality, there were countless times where Charles proved himself to be a complete and utter douchebag.
check out a previous post on Oimdb I wrote... "i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again]
i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again... by deem_bastille » 9 months ago(Nov. 23, 2016, 6:22 p.m.) Reply the books don't go into detail because charles really wasn't the goody goody he was portrayed on the show. Laura wrote him as 'nicer' because that was how she wanted him to be. in reality he was bizarre to say the least. like lifetime movie bizarre.
real charles: kept on a moving the family because 'his foot gets a-itching.'
made ma continue to help with the building of the house when she had already broken her ankle. -- that she broke from building the house in the first place.
twice, tried to 'lose' the dog during their cross country journeys. he actually was hoping jack would drown in that rapid river.
treated the second dog similarly -- and that dog got the hint and went and stayed with the horses when they were traded.
he actually DID what Mrs Oelson said in the pilot episode: people rack up big bills and then when they can't pay, skip town in the middle of the night... he actually DID THAT! MORE THAN ONCE!
a good injun is a dead injun.
Mary had scarlet fever and because pa is too much of an asswhole he makes her get up out of her sick bed and help on the farm before she is completely well. she has a relapse and then she has a freaking stroke and then the stroke damaged her optic nerves and then she needed a braille writer.
all of Laura's teaching money before marriage went to pa. good ole, I-can't-make-it-and-there's-no-such-thing-as-THE-DOLE-yet-so-my-kids-have-to-work Pa.
Laura wrote a final memoir called pioneer girl...
Pioneer Girl is reportedly so upsetting that Wilder couldn’t find a market for the memoir during her lifetime, instead using a censored version of her experiences to write the Little House series. The Christian Science Monitor describes some of the (horrifying) true events that will be featured in the autobiography:
the real books should have included this:
The primary source includes scenes and characters that never appeared in the children’s book series. One notable group of characters presented to the public for the first time is the Masters family, who stayed with the Ingalls during the winter of 1880-1881 (the same winter featured in Wilder’s “The Long Winter”)[…] they are not portrayed flatteringly in “Pioneer Girl.” Also featured in the book are love triangles, domestic abuse, and even a drunk man who manages to set himself on fire.
so this was their reality. the long winter should have included this masters family who was up to some seriously scary shi7. like :waking up one night to a drunk Will Masters standing over her bed. "Lie down and be still," Masters told Wilder. He left her alone after Wilder threatened to scream.Wilder later in the book described Masters as "good for nothing," who drank in excess. [/i]
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Post by OmegaWolf747 on Aug 23, 2017 20:27:34 GMT
How else can you tug at the heartstrings of America back in the 70's and 80's. But mostly, because he stuck his yenta nose into places it didn't belong. But besides that... I find it very interesting that the majority of the public who watched the show base this show on reality. In reality, there were countless times where Charles proved himself to be a complete and utter douchebag. check out a previous post on Oimdb I wrote... "i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again]
i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again... by deem_bastille » 9 months ago(Nov. 23, 2016, 6:22 p.m.) Reply the books don't go into detail because charles really wasn't the goody goody he was portrayed on the show. Laura wrote him as 'nicer' because that was how she wanted him to be. in reality he was bizarre to say the least. like lifetime movie bizarre.
real charles: kept on a moving the family because 'his foot gets a-itching.'
made ma continue to help with the building of the house when she had already broken her ankle. -- that she broke from building the house in the first place.
twice, tried to 'lose' the dog during their cross country journeys. he actually was hoping jack would drown in that rapid river.
treated the second dog similarly -- and that dog got the hint and went and stayed with the horses when they were traded.
he actually DID what Mrs Oelson said in the pilot episode: people rack up big bills and then when they can't pay, skip town in the middle of the night... he actually DID THAT! MORE THAN ONCE!
a good injun is a dead injun.
Mary had scarlet fever and because pa is too much of an asswhole he makes her get up out of her sick bed and help on the farm before she is completely well. she has a relapse and then she has a freaking stroke and then the stroke damaged her optic nerves and then she needed a braille writer.
all of Laura's teaching money before marriage went to pa. good ole, I-can't-make-it-and-there's-no-such-thing-as-THE-DOLE-yet-so-my-kids-have-to-work Pa.
Laura wrote a final memoir called pioneer girl...
Pioneer Girl is reportedly so upsetting that Wilder couldn’t find a market for the memoir during her lifetime, instead using a censored version of her experiences to write the Little House series. The Christian Science Monitor describes some of the (horrifying) true events that will be featured in the autobiography:
the real books should have included this:
The primary source includes scenes and characters that never appeared in the children’s book series. One notable group of characters presented to the public for the first time is the Masters family, who stayed with the Ingalls during the winter of 1880-1881 (the same winter featured in Wilder’s “The Long Winter”)[…] they are not portrayed flatteringly in “Pioneer Girl.” Also featured in the book are love triangles, domestic abuse, and even a drunk man who manages to set himself on fire.
so this was their reality. the long winter should have included this masters family who was up to some seriously scary shi7. like :waking up one night to a drunk Will Masters standing over her bed. "Lie down and be still," Masters told Wilder. He left her alone after Wilder threatened to scream.Wilder later in the book described Masters as "good for nothing," who drank in excess. [/i][/quote]Not quite as sweet and innocent as the books we read in junior high.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 26, 2017 0:50:56 GMT
How else can you tug at the heartstrings of America back in the 70's and 80's. But mostly, because he stuck his yenta nose into places it didn't belong. But besides that... I find it very interesting that the majority of the public who watched the show base this show on reality. In reality, there were countless times where Charles proved himself to be a complete and utter douchebag. check out a previous post on Oimdb I wrote... "i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again]
i am getting tired of writing this sick shi7 over and over again... by deem_bastille » 9 months ago(Nov. 23, 2016, 6:22 p.m.) Reply the books don't go into detail because charles really wasn't the goody goody he was portrayed on the show. Laura wrote him as 'nicer' because that was how she wanted him to be. in reality he was bizarre to say the least. like lifetime movie bizarre.
real charles: kept on a moving the family because 'his foot gets a-itching.'
made ma continue to help with the building of the house when she had already broken her ankle. -- that she broke from building the house in the first place.
twice, tried to 'lose' the dog during their cross country journeys. he actually was hoping jack would drown in that rapid river.
treated the second dog similarly -- and that dog got the hint and went and stayed with the horses when they were traded.
he actually DID what Mrs Oelson said in the pilot episode: people rack up big bills and then when they can't pay, skip town in the middle of the night... he actually DID THAT! MORE THAN ONCE!
a good injun is a dead injun.
Mary had scarlet fever and because pa is too much of an asswhole he makes her get up out of her sick bed and help on the farm before she is completely well. she has a relapse and then she has a freaking stroke and then the stroke damaged her optic nerves and then she needed a braille writer.
all of Laura's teaching money before marriage went to pa. good ole, I-can't-make-it-and-there's-no-such-thing-as-THE-DOLE-yet-so-my-kids-have-to-work Pa.
Laura wrote a final memoir called pioneer girl...
Pioneer Girl is reportedly so upsetting that Wilder couldn’t find a market for the memoir during her lifetime, instead using a censored version of her experiences to write the Little House series. The Christian Science Monitor describes some of the (horrifying) true events that will be featured in the autobiography:
the real books should have included this:
The primary source includes scenes and characters that never appeared in the children’s book series. One notable group of characters presented to the public for the first time is the Masters family, who stayed with the Ingalls during the winter of 1880-1881 (the same winter featured in Wilder’s “The Long Winter”)[…] they are not portrayed flatteringly in “Pioneer Girl.” Also featured in the book are love triangles, domestic abuse, and even a drunk man who manages to set himself on fire.
so this was their reality. the long winter should have included this masters family who was up to some seriously scary shi7. like :waking up one night to a drunk Will Masters standing over her bed. "Lie down and be still," Masters told Wilder. He left her alone after Wilder threatened to scream.Wilder later in the book described Masters as "good for nothing," who drank in excess. [/i][/quote]Not quite as sweet and innocent as the books we read in junior high. [/quote] well, you know the books were watered down, right? and that Jack IRL did not go with them during their first big move [either he was no longer alive at the time or pa had lost him in the move] but adult Laura had always wished in her heart of hearts that Jack could have made the trip with them. great, job, douchebag pa!
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Post by ellynmacg on Apr 28, 2018 0:02:51 GMT
I wouldn't call the books "watered down"--"fictionalized" would be a better term, I believe. After all, when one goes to a library, where does one find the "Little House" series--in Non-Fiction? No. They're shelved with Fiction, because that's what they are. Authors have a way of using material from their own lives and "sweetening" it to make it more palatable, not just for their publishers or their readers, but for themselves. Another example of a beloved author who drew from her own experiences to write unforgettable fiction was Louisa May Alcott. In Little Women, the four March sisters are modeled in many ways after the four Alcott girls (though only one shares the same name--Daughter #3, Elizabeth, who was called "Lizzie" Alcott and "Beth" March). "Marmee" (Mrs. March) may be a somewhat idealized picture of Ms. Alcott's own beloved and revered mother...but the character who was changed the most drastically was the paterfamilias--Mr. March is a gentle man and a gentleman (if somewhat, well, improvident), but (Amos) Bronson Alcott was...don't get me started. Not that he was abusive, or philandering. But he was the sort of philosopher who was apparently perfectly willing to let his own family starve for the sake of proving his philosophy. He was, of course, a member of the Transcendentalist Movement, but others participated in that movement without allowing their families to suffer so severely--Ralph Waldo Emerson for one. Here's a link to a Wikipedia article on one of Bronson Alcott's many failed experiments: /https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitlands_(transcendental_center)I guess all I'm saying is, if I have a choice between "pure" nonfiction that results in muddled, depressing accounts, and "sweetened" fiction that results in well-plotted stories with sympathetic characters, I'll almost always pick the latter--at least for entertainment purposes. But then, that's consistent with my tastes, since I've always been a huge fan of Disney.
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Post by louise on May 1, 2018 20:46:58 GMT
I remember quite enjoying it, though it was a little bland. I remember being amused when I read The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford, and he related how when he visited the Ingalls museum in de Smet, the ladies in charge told him you can always tell which are the ones who have only seen the Tv series and not read the books - their obvious dismay when they see the portrait of the real Charles Ingalls - a bearded Victorian nothing like the hunky Michael Landon.
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Post by 🇩 🇷 🇦 🇰 🇪 on May 2, 2018 0:05:57 GMT
I liked Nellie Oleson as a "bete-noir" far more than her successor. At least, Nellie matured into a compassionate woman, while Nancy remained a spoiled brat throughout the series. Mary was the real brat on the set. Laura and Nellie got along fine off-screen, but neither liked Mary!
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 2:50:23 GMT
I always liked the episode with the overweight kid named Elmer. Nancy pretends to like him so that he will do stuff for her. He finally gets sick of her bullcrap and tells her to start taking care of herself. The episode is funny and inspirational at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 23:32:03 GMT
I always loved this showed too. My biggest complaint is Nancy. She was crazy! Nellie was more realistic as a spoiled brat bully. I loved seeing her character grow and mature. Nancy was a pure psychopath. She was also an completely unnecessary character
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Post by amyghost on Aug 14, 2018 18:49:30 GMT
The sort of show that plays better in nostalgic memory than it does when you actually watch an episode again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 19:00:41 GMT
The sort of show that plays better in nostalgic memory than it does when you actually watch an episode again. That may be true for some people, but not for everybody.
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Post by amyghost on Aug 14, 2018 20:28:02 GMT
The sort of show that plays better in nostalgic memory than it does when you actually watch an episode again. That may be true for some people, but not for everybody. Probably so, but it is for me.
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Post by snsurone on Nov 15, 2018 18:43:06 GMT
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, who played the insufferable Mrs. Oleson, passed away at age 93.
May she RIP.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 5, 2020 22:59:11 GMT
I watched this show back in the 90s, and started to watch it again in 2015. i finished season 8 and 9 and the last 3 movies a few days ago.
The first four seasons are in my personal opinion very good, i also think season 5 and 6 are pretty good but not close to being as good as season 1-4. The seventh season is average but the drop in quality is showing, and season 8-9 is very hit and miss mostly miss. And i think Look Back to Yesterday and the Last Farewell are good movies, but i did not enjoy Bless All the Dear Children i am not going to say it was bad, but the plot of the movie was way to obvious.
But all in all i do think the show is good and i will rate it 7/10.
I am actually re watching season 1 and i still really enjoy it.
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Post by amyghost on Feb 6, 2020 14:25:42 GMT
Sloppy sentimentality. A travesty of the books! Agreed. The series was shamelessly sentimentalized and given proper PC deodorizing to make it primetime audience friendly. The books were emphatically not sugar-coated tripe.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 6, 2020 19:15:15 GMT
Sloppy sentimentality. A travesty of the books! Agreed. The series was shamelessly sentimentalized and given proper PC deodorizing to make it primetime audience friendly. The books were emphatically not sugar-coated tripe. The series is based on the books, its not an adaptation of the books.
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