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Post by AR15 on Jan 31, 2013 8:47:05 GMT -5
I do think that The Cloudburst has the least happy ending of any episode. John-Boy's lost his meadow, and we're told he'll never get it back. Plus there's the implication that one day, Mr. Shelby, or at least his company, will be back.
Do any other episodes end on an especially downbeat note?
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Jan 31, 2013 10:16:38 GMT -5
If john-boy didnt get all cocky about it, he would have probably sold it back to him,
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Post by clyde on Jan 31, 2013 13:22:18 GMT -5
I thought "The Five Foot Shelf" had a fairly downbeat ending. The salesman walked off down the dusty road without his doll and without many prospects other than to keep on trying. Of course it worked out well for The Waltons = they got their books and Elizabeth kept her doll. It was sort of a mixed message.
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Post by Heather on Jan 31, 2013 17:15:01 GMT -5
As much as I love John-Boy, it was a lesson he needed to learn. I really like that episode.
clyde, I agree with you about "The Five-Foot Shelf" - it was really sad to me.
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Post by Brenda on Jan 31, 2013 18:33:21 GMT -5
I agree that both of those episodes have sort of a downbeat ending. Maybe that's what makes The Waltons so real to us. In real life, everybody doesn't live "happily ever after" like they do in fairy tales. Sometimes events have a sad ending. That's life. Another episode that I think has sort of a downbeat ending is The Unthinkable, the episode where Jason's friend, Ted Lipinsky, finds out that his grandfatherfather was put to death in an extermination camp in Poland. John called a senator in Washington who told him that the stories of extermination camps were only rumors. The ending is downbeat to me because we all know the truth. There actually were extermination camps where millions of people were killed. Another example is the episode The Gift. It is sad to me because a young person so vibrant and full of life dies at the end. On the other hand, we all saw Richie Cunningham the following week on Happy Days, so that cheered us up a bit.  |
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Jan 31, 2013 20:44:15 GMT -5
On the other hand, we all saw Richie Cunningham the following week on Happy Days, so that cheered us up a bit.
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lol good one...
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Post by kazk on Jan 31, 2013 21:03:29 GMT -5
It's interesting to remember these episodes and contemplate their endings. I was reading through Ralph Senensky's site last night and he mentioned The Gift which he directed. One of his comments was that it was about the death of someone but the episode really looked at the ways that death affected the Walton family members. If we look at the ending of that, and others, then we can see quite clearly the lessons learned by the Walton family member/s in the storyline and the growth that came from that characters experiences.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Feb 1, 2013 7:51:18 GMT -5
The Walton's were based on Earl Hamnerand his Hamner family, but was every Walton episode something that actually happened in the Hamner family, the most ridiculous of course being Curt coming back to life. I just wonder how much of the show is the Hamner reality. WnFan
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Post by River on Feb 1, 2013 9:07:46 GMT -5
I like the downbeat endings because sometimes that is how real life is.
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Post by JeriJet on Feb 1, 2013 10:14:15 GMT -5
I like the downbeat endings because sometimes that is how real life is. Agreed..... it brought some realism to what is mostly a pretty idealistic show. |
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