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Post by Rhonda on Oct 14, 2012 21:42:56 GMT -5
When I watched the Marathon last, I could have sworn Daisy said something about growing up in foster homes. Did I imagine it? Goodnight, you are corret. She did tell John Boy that she had been in foster care. She said something like she was taken in by people who were just in it for the money.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Oct 14, 2012 22:05:22 GMT -5
I guess dance studio was the wrong term. Dancing Hall? wmfan sportwriter
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Post by JeriJet on Oct 15, 2012 5:40:55 GMT -5
I guess I was using different terms. Yes it was a place for lonely men, but I guess a dance studio is more of a place where you would go to take dancing lessons. I guess the best term for the place Daisy worked was a dance place. For all we know, she may have taught in a studio a few days a week..... and also worked a few nights at a dime-a-dance dive !!! I just didn't remember if they ever said "studio."
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Oct 15, 2012 8:16:33 GMT -5
I guess I was using different terms. Yes it was a place for lonely men, but I guess a dance studio is more of a place where you would go to take dancing lessons. I guess the best term for the place Daisy worked was a dance place. For all we know, she may have taught in a studio a few days a week..... and also worked a few nights at a dime-a-dance dive !!! I just didn't remember if they ever said "studio." Probably not, just using the term loosely
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Post by kimmy77 on Oct 16, 2012 19:46:39 GMT -5
I agree with some of the others above, I really don't like this episode either. I really brings out the worst in Olivia, (and I love her character). Also, I really don't like Daisy. I can see her working in one of those dime a dance places!LOL
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Post by sambda on Oct 19, 2012 0:29:21 GMT -5
I like the episode. The writer/s played against audience expectation and, by gads, did "The Waltons" need that from time to time! When I first saw it, I thought, "Here we go - they're going to win. Yawn." But it's good that JB dropped out, and we never know (I think) whether Daisy wins or not. That's cleverer writing than usual.
It would have been great if "The Waltons" had killed one of, say, the kids off. Let say, "The Ordeal" play exactly as it does (after all it was a straight rehash of the "legs" story with Olivia), except at the end Elizabeth gets septicemia and dies. Roll credits in silence. No mawkish sentimentality to soften things, just life as it sometimes is.
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Post by Marilyn on Oct 19, 2012 0:51:11 GMT -5
Zeb leaving was hard enough...
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Post by sambda on Oct 19, 2012 0:53:19 GMT -5
Zeb leaving was hard enough... Yes, but people knew that was coming as Will Geer had died in the break between the seasons. I meant a surprise death, like it sometimes is in real life.
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Post by JeriJet on Oct 19, 2012 6:24:20 GMT -5
I like the episode. The writer/s played against audience expectation and, by gads, did "The Waltons" need that from time to time! When I first saw it, I thought, "Here we go - they're going to win. Yawn." But it's good that JB dropped out, and we never know (I think) whether Daisy wins or not. That's cleverer writing than usual. It would have been great if "The Waltons" had killed one of, say, the kids off. Let say, "The Ordeal" play exactly as it does (after all it was a straight rehash of the "legs" story with Olivia), except at the end Elizabeth gets septicemia and dies. Roll credits in silence. No mawkish sentimentality to soften things, just life as it sometimes is. Have always loved your humor, sambda! To an extent, I agree with you. Sometimes the idealism in The Waltons gets to me, too..... which is why I keep referring to the show as a "fantasy." But, it's a nice fantasy -- something we need, I think, and it's why we love it !! Still, I wish John-Boy had kept going a while longer, or that the writer/director/producers had made him look much worse (physically and emotionally) when they had him quit..... it didn't "feel" like our John-Boy to me.....
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