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Post by kevin63 on May 20, 2011 23:01:11 GMT -5
In one of the oddest episodes of the series, Elizabeth is tormented by a poltergeist that invades the Walton's home. This episode was created five years before Steven Spielberg's "Poltergeist" theatrical movie became a huge hit. Prior to "The Changeling" (which was Ellen Corby's final episode before her stroke,} I had never heard of a poltergeist before. Do you think Spielberg saw this episode and found some basis on which to make his own movie?
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Post by Marilyn on May 21, 2011 0:03:37 GMT -5
I don't know about Spielburg, but I really disliked this episode.
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Post by catindakota on May 21, 2011 8:15:39 GMT -5
Very different episode for The Waltons for sure. Who knows about Stephen Spielberg - it certainly could be possible. One thing I find interesting about "The Changeling" plot, is Elizabeth seems to have telekinesis, which was a major part of Stephen Kings's novel and movie "Carrie". "Carrie" was released in 1976, two years before The Changling, and was a major box office smash ( it still gives me the creeps to this day), so that makes me wonder if maybe one or more of the writers of The Changling were somewhat influenced by it. Wouldn't it be great to have all the answers and know for sure?! I hope in the future more books are written by the cast and even the crew of The Waltons, Oh, the things we could learn!
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Post by kevin63 on May 21, 2011 8:55:54 GMT -5
Yes it would be great just to have these people in your home for a few hours and ask them anything that came to mind. I never thought about "Carrie" but that certainly is possible. Elizabeth was always having something scary happen to her! Remember "The Ferris Wheel?" And wasn't she spooked by the figure in the woods in "The Nightwalker?" Ellen must have had her stroke during the filming of "Changeling" because she is seen in the first scene but is only referred to in the rest of the episode.
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Post by AR15 on May 21, 2011 15:18:42 GMT -5
I don't actually remember Grandma being in this episode at all because I can remember thinking how I'd like to see how she'd react to what was happening. But this is Season 7 so she'd already had her stroke, or did she have a second stroke?
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Post by bmack14 on May 22, 2011 20:28:02 GMT -5
I'm with Marilyn, I don't like that episode at all and never watch it, always skip over it. I don't know what the producers were thinking. I see that episode as completely out of place for such a wonderful show and I feel that the producers where kind of "selling out" to what was supposed to be cooll back then(in the movies). That's just my oppinion. Don't mean to offend anyone.
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Post by Marilyn on May 22, 2011 23:57:10 GMT -5
I don't think you offended anyone... you were just expressing your feelings and that's fine! The acting was great, but the storyline was off kilter!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 11:01:46 GMT -5
This episode is in the same vein as the episode in season two about the Ouija board. Maybe it really happened in Earl's family?
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Post by AR15 on May 23, 2011 14:13:19 GMT -5
I thought that with the episode with the Ouija board it was kind of left ambiguous? With the audience left to decide whether anything supernatural had happened.
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Post by sambda on May 24, 2011 15:22:49 GMT -5
I thought that with the episode with the Ouija board it was kind of left ambiguous? With the audience left to decide whether anything supernatural had happened. Yes. That's the problem with "The Changeling" in that the strange events can't be anything *but* supernatural. And that's what really makes it out of place in "The Waltons". I wrote a review of it once, which I hopes sums this problem up... The special Halloween episode "The Changeling" would have been more believable if the ghostly events weren't shown explicitly, and the viewer left guessing whether they are indeed genuine, or a plea for attention from Elizabeth, or perhaps a prank by the boys. As we actually see the supernatural happenings, the audience can only assume they are genuine poltergeist activity (!) leading this to be the strangest and most offbeat episode in the entire Waltons canon.
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Post by kevin63 on May 24, 2011 22:23:57 GMT -5
AR15 you are correct! Grandma wasn't in this episode! Sorry my mistake! I had this episode confused with "The Ferris Wheel," another Elizabeth gets spooked story! In that episode, after Elizabeth's first nightmare about the ferris wheel, Grandma walks down to the foot of the stairs and says "Somethin's botherin' that child.," and then we don't see her again for almost two years! But I agree, although "The Changeling" was a nice change of pace episode, it certainly felt out of place in a show like this!
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Post by bothepug on May 25, 2011 10:42:52 GMT -5
I think most groups of people have their dealing with the supernatural in one form or another. Even the Amish have it in some form. While it is not an episode I care for, it was interesting as maybe a glimce into a side of Mountian life most people don't think about.
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Post by AR15 on May 25, 2011 17:12:35 GMT -5
AR15 you are correct! Grandma wasn't in this episode! Sorry my mistake! I had this episode confused with "The Ferris Wheel," another Elizabeth gets spooked story! In that episode, after Elizabeth's first nightmare about the ferris wheel, Grandma walks down to the foot of the stairs and says "Somethin's botherin' that child.," and then we don't see her again for almost two years! But I agree, although "The Changeling" was a nice change of pace episode, it certainly felt out of place in a show like this! Ah I see heh. I never noticed that Grandma played such a tiny role in 'The Ferris Wheel' but now that you mention it, you're right!
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2011 11:27:18 GMT -5
"and then we don't see her again for almost two years!"
I have always wondered what was the last moment that we saw her before the stroke. Thanks bunches
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Post by davidm on May 31, 2011 0:27:41 GMT -5
I didn't care for The Changeling. It was more of a Twilight Zone episode. Like someone else here, I skip over it, it just seems so unreal to me.
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