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Post by april on Feb 24, 2015 20:13:44 GMT -5
GW was one of my favorite characters... In the First Causality they killed him off! Was he based on a real life person who really did pass away? Does anyone know? Thanks!
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Post by Brenda on Feb 24, 2015 20:56:10 GMT -5
I have no idea if he was based on a real life character or not, but I agree with you. He was also one of my favorite characters. I'm sitting here watching The First Casualty right now, and the scene where Curt brings his body to the parents gets to me every time.
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Post by Jan on Feb 24, 2015 21:11:12 GMT -5
We are both sitting here teary eyed after this episode, as we do every time we watch it. The person that played GW was such a wonderful actor. I loved the character and sure hated to see him killed off.
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Post by carol on Feb 24, 2015 21:39:37 GMT -5
I have no idea if he was based on a real life character or not, but I agree with you. He was also one of my favorite characters. I'm sitting here watching The First Casualty right now, and the scene where Curt brings his body to the parents gets to me every time. Day of Infamy is when Curt died. The First Casualty is where GW dies and Curt brings his body home. |
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Post by april on Feb 24, 2015 21:43:19 GMT -5
Yes I cry every time! Erin and John at the end....wow! Mary and Ralph did a great job....
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Post by clyde on Feb 24, 2015 22:55:51 GMT -5
One of the most poignant episodes in the entire series.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Feb 24, 2015 23:35:17 GMT -5
We are both sitting here teary eyed after this episode, as we do every time we watch it. The person that played GW was such a wonderful actor. I loved the character and sure hated to see him killed off.
David Doremus played G.W. I got to meet him and get his autograph at the California Walton events in 2012.
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Post by River on Feb 25, 2015 18:59:36 GMT -5
I liked GW too. I never thought of him as one of "Mary Ellen's old things." I remember Erin saying that in one of the episodes and always thought how nice it would have been for Erin and GW to get married and live on the mountain. That could have been a spin off.
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Post by twinkle on Mar 3, 2015 8:35:15 GMT -5
I liked GW too - but did anyone else find it very un-GW the way he took Erin back to her bedroom at the guest house on her trip to Camp Lee and expected her to sleep with him?
Or was he just a typical country boy first time in the big(gish) smoke trying to go along with what the other guys were doing...?
I mean he must have known that, since being such a friend of the family, as a Walton girl Erin would never have agreed to sex?
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Post by Brenda on Mar 3, 2015 9:47:34 GMT -5
I liked GW too - but did anyone else find it very un-GW the way he took Erin back to her bedroom at the guest house on her trip to Camp Lee and expected her to sleep with him? Or was he just a typical country boy first time in the big(gish) smoke trying to go along with what the other guys were doing...? I mean he must have known that, since being such a friend of the family, as a Walton girl Erin would never have agreed to sex? I think it was a peer pressure thing. When he returned to the barracks, he could have made up a story when the other guy was questioning him about what happened, but he didn't. He had enough respect for Erin to tell him that "she's not that kind of girl." |
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Post by willie on Mar 3, 2015 11:15:40 GMT -5
Yes I cry every time! Erin and John at the end....wow! Mary and Ralph did a great job.... I agree. One of the most moving and poignant scenes ever filmed was that ending with Mary and Ralph. Brilliant acting by both!
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Post by rickking on Sept 6, 2020 15:34:16 GMT -5
G.W. was another of Erin's hand-me-downs from Mary Ellen!
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