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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Feb 4, 2013 7:56:24 GMT -5
the series ?
Yeah, It really happened in the timeline that the show takes place, but I dont know...I think too may episodes concerned The war.
I dont know, maybe it is just me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 8:27:42 GMT -5
help
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Feb 4, 2013 9:05:28 GMT -5
I think that it definitely helped.
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Post by AR15 on Feb 4, 2013 9:24:59 GMT -5
I think it certainly did help. I can remember watching through for the first time (on DVD) and the war episodes gave me a real feeling of excitement and suspense. From Season 5 onward the tension just seemed to grow and grow, and I loved it ;D
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Feb 4, 2013 9:47:17 GMT -5
They should have showed some battles. That is probably why I didnt like it.
If they are gonna have a war story arc, lets see some action.
Most of the stories were romance stuff on a military base.
The POW episode was the best one. Well, I like "The day of infamy "one too, but a lot of them were boring.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 9:57:23 GMT -5
I think that they focused on the things that had really happened on the home front in the US and that the Walton family would have experienced.
There would be no point in showing battles as none of the Walton boys were fighting. Every darn one of them was in the war for something other than...fighting.
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Post by clyde on Feb 4, 2013 10:26:29 GMT -5
I think showing the war was the only choice. It would have been difficult to keep the series based in the Depression with all of the children growing into adulthood. The later years were almost a spinoff of the earlier ones. There were many good episodes, although I preferred the earlier ones to the later.
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Post by carol on Feb 4, 2013 13:40:17 GMT -5
It made the show more realistic. We saw what people lived day in and day out in that era, The boys weren't just sent off to war and not seen again until the war was over. We saw what they went through overseas. We saw how the family dealt with it. We saw Olivia struggle with every mother's worst fear when her boys are sent off to war and then she and John dealt with one of them (John Boy) being severely injured. We saw the family deal with the death of a family member in war (Curt) and another being a POW (Ben). We also saw through Jim Bob a young man who wanted to go off to war but was too young to enlist until nearly the end of the war. We also saw how the war affected others on the mountain, Jody missing at Pearl Harbor and the boy who was killed and John felt responsible for because he was on the board who drafted him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 13:50:31 GMT -5
Most of the stories were romance stuff on a military base.
-Huh? It's like Carol wrote...daily life. I only remember Erin going and visiting GW on a base and that wasn't about romance.
You sure you haven't had to much recipe and are confusing the Waltons with M.A.S.H.?
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Post by marylou01 on Feb 4, 2013 13:59:32 GMT -5
It made the show more realistic. We saw what people lived day in and day out in that era, The boys weren't just sent off to war and not seen again until the war was over. We saw how the family dealt with it. We saw Olivia struggle with every mother's worst fear when her boys are sent off to war and then she and John dealt with one of them ( John Boy) being severely injured. We saw the family deal with the death of a family member in war ( Curt) and another being a POW ( Ben). We also saw through Jim Bob a young man who wanted to go off to war but was too young to enlist until nearly the end of the war. We also saw how the war affected others on the mountain, Jody missing at Pearl Harbor and the boy who was killed and John felt responsible for because he was on the board who drafted him. Exactly Carol. While there are a few war episodes I don't enjoy as much as others they were a part of the life and story of Mr. Hamner. The series wouldn't have been as authentic if they'd left this part of history out. |
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Post by sdw on Feb 4, 2013 17:32:18 GMT -5
I think Jason was in the thick of War World II.
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Feb 4, 2013 18:09:29 GMT -5
yeah, maybe, scarlett,
It just seems everytime I watch a "war" episode, John boy is dating that french lady, or Jason is dating Toni.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 18:36:22 GMT -5
Okay awesome, so you mean towards the end of the war. Yes, there was a lot of smooching towards the end.
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Feb 4, 2013 21:02:32 GMT -5
I would have loved an episode where Jim-Bob kicked some butt in a war battle.
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Post by bucky on Feb 4, 2013 21:07:01 GMT -5
My feeling about the wartime episodes is that many were either poorly written or poorly produced. I know I didn't like those romances either - I felt they highlighted some weak acting. On the other hand, Ben's storyline was pulled off surprisingly well which is a credit to Eric (and 'Cindy'). Erin and Mary Ellen working in the factory was realistic and interesting, especially with the wonderful characterization by Lewis Arquette. The Curt story was okay until they took that weird storyline and I hated that they killed GW - so much for being a family show ): That's my take on them.
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