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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2021 22:03:12 GMT -5
like to have seen addressed? Where there "breaking news stories" that were not shown but should have been?
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Post by carol on Jun 10, 2021 23:07:37 GMT -5
I would have liked to see John Boy cover the Nuremberg Trials for the newspaper.
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jun 11, 2021 12:01:39 GMT -5
Did the Waltons ever mentioned the internment camps of American citizens who happened to be Japanese.
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Post by Brenda on Jun 11, 2021 13:08:31 GMT -5
Did the Waltons ever mentioned the internment camps of American citizens who happened to be Japanese. Ni, I don’t think so, but I think an episode about a Japanese American family moving to the mountain would have been interesting. Remember the attitudes toward Willie Brimmer just because he was a German immigrant.
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Post by carol on Jun 11, 2021 14:49:13 GMT -5
Did the Waltons ever mentioned the internment camps of American citizens who happened to be Japanese. Ni, I don’t think so, but I think an episode about a Japanese American family moving to the mountain would have been interesting. Remember the attitudes toward Willie Brimmer just because he was a German immigrant. The family didn't have to be new or even immigrants. They could have been born here as many of the Japanese in interment camps were born here. It could have been explained in the opening narration that they had been living there for a while and part of the community( We just didn't see them until now) and no one thought much about it until Pearl Harbor. I think most of the Waltons would not have turned against them. I think Mary Ellen would be one who would turn against them because of Curt. She would come around by the end of the show.
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Post by Easton on Jun 11, 2021 15:30:12 GMT -5
This is just my humble opinion, but I think that was a storyline best avoided. It was a blemish on history both here in Canada and in the United States which I believe not many viewers would even have known about. Had an episode been done, I think it would be viewed as fiction by most people. Even the people old enough to have lived through it were probably unaware of how the Japanese citizens were treated by the governments of both countries, whether they were immigrants of natural-born. There would be no way to whitewash it.
Trust me. It was a sad commentary.
George Takei of Star Trek fame is most vocal about it. Not only did he memorialise it in a book ('They Called Us Enemy'), he has appeared in many interviews and documentaries.
Here is a portion of his segment on PBS's Pioneers Of Television:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 20:00:09 GMT -5
I would have liked to see John Boy cover the Nuremberg Trials for the newspaper. This would have been a good episode. JB went to the war earlier than others so it would have been plausible for him to stay after the war was over.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 20:01:12 GMT -5
Did the Waltons ever mentioned the internment camps of American citizens who happened to be Japanese. Were there any Japanese in the area? I know that most of them were on the West Coast.
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Post by carol on Jun 12, 2021 0:23:44 GMT -5
There was never an epidemic on Walton's Mountain. Olivia, it appears, was the only one in the entire county to contract polio. Makes you wonder how she got it when she rarely left home?
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Post by dayton3 on Jun 12, 2021 8:29:37 GMT -5
They seemed to go to the movies fairly often. I always wondered about them going to see "Gone With the Wind" which came out in the 1930s and according to my mom (born in 1926) was a really big deal when she went to see it. John Boy mentioned the book in the episode "The Prophecy" regarding it having been a massive best seller.
Note, that back then movies had a cartoon and a newsreel before they began. My dad said that a number of people back then went to see movies with no interest in the movie but wanted to see actual World War Two footage.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2021 8:49:14 GMT -5
I always wondered about them going to see "Gone With the Wind" which came out in the 1930s and according to my mom (born in 1926) was a really big deal when she went to see it. John Boy mentioned the book in the episode "The Prophecy" regarding it having been a massive best seller. And Olivia mentions Scarlett in a episode when she is talking with John. That is where I got my name for the board.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Jun 12, 2021 14:20:36 GMT -5
Ni, I don’t think so, but I think an episode about a Japanese American family moving to the mountain would have been interesting. Remember the attitudes toward Willie Brimmer just because he was a German immigrant. The family didn't have to be new or even immigrants. They could have been born here as many of the Japanese in interment camps were born here. It could have been explained in the opening narration that they had been living there for a while and part of the community( We just didn't see them until now) and no one thought much about it until Pearl Harbor. I think most of the Waltons would not have turned against them. I think Mary Ellen would be one who would turn against them because of Curt. She would come around by the end of the show. Ben was a POW in Japan so I'm not sure how the community would feel about this.
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Post by dayton3 on Jun 12, 2021 17:22:26 GMT -5
The family didn't have to be new or even immigrants. They could have been born here as many of the Japanese in interment camps were born here. It could have been explained in the opening narration that they had been living there for a while and part of the community( We just didn't see them until now) and no one thought much about it until Pearl Harbor. I think most of the Waltons would not have turned against them. I think Mary Ellen would be one who would turn against them because of Curt. She would come around by the end of the show. Ben was a POW in Japan so I'm not sure how the community would feel about this. Actually I thought Ben was captured and imprisoned in the Philippines. IIRC when he called home after being liberated by one of his guards he called through Manila. Thought at that point Manila had been reduced to rubble (literally).
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Post by Easton on Jun 12, 2021 18:03:07 GMT -5
Wherever he was (somewhere in the Pacific), Ben was in Japanese-occupied territory. The Japanese occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippeans from 1942 to 1945.
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Post by dayton3 on Jun 12, 2021 20:29:09 GMT -5
Wherever he was (somewhere in the Pacific), Ben was in Japanese-occupied territory. The Japanese occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippeans from 1942 to 1945. He could've been just on an isolated island that the Japanese occupied but that the U.S. didn't bother to liberate until the Japanese surrendered. That would actually make a great deal of sense.
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