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Post by wetherwacky on Mar 30, 2009 19:00:23 GMT -5
In about a month, the 9th and final season of "The Waltons" will be released on DVD from Warner Bros. For many fans, myself included, this grand event evokes mixed feelings. Those who have never seen these episodes, or those who haven't seen them in a long time, may be dreading the dip in story-line quality. I, for one, believe that any episode of "The Waltons," no matter the quality, is still much more wholesome than the junk on TV currently. Still, I'm wondering what others think about it. Those who've seen the season, tell us your takes on it, but don't give us too many details. (You know... spoil it.) If you haven't seen it, tell us your perceptions from talk you've heard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2009 21:50:01 GMT -5
My only beef is that it is the LAST season, that it did not last longer.
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Post by ncwaltonsfan on Mar 31, 2009 0:30:06 GMT -5
I like the last season,with the exception of "The Tempest" and "The Whirlwind". It's neat watching World War 2 end and the Walton family,like the rest of the nation,adjusting to the changes of the postwar years.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 5, 2009 14:52:27 GMT -5
Well, I haven't seen Season 9....So, I'll buy it, someday....I think, my mom saw season 9 or has been long time, she seen Season 9.
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Post by TomV on Apr 16, 2009 18:52:05 GMT -5
I agree with you wetherwacky, that even a weak episode of "The Waltons" is much better than most of the current TV dramas on the air. The 9th season is good, except for the least popular episodes of the entire series that ncwaltonsfan mentioned: The Whirlwind and The Tempest. I like to think that the Curt is alive storyline was just a bad dream that Mary Ellen had! The opening theme is lacking in pictures of all the kids; only their names are plastered on a shadow of a tree background. To me, that was pretty cheap. Ralph Waite has his picture shown in the opening theme, but that's only until he leaves the show after episode #8. Earl Hamner has said that the show underwent budget cuts in it's final year after a long writer's strike delayed production in the fall of 1980. One way to save money was to use "library music" from other sources for episodes 1 thru 11. Thankfully Alexander Courage returns to do the episodic music for the remaining episodes! Another was axing the characters of Serena and Jeffrey. Still, the stories of the end of World War II and the Walton family returning to "normal" after the war are worth watching. I especially like when Jim-Bob opens his repair garage across the way from Ike's store. Of course there's Elizabeth and Drew, but I'll stop there!  |
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Apr 16, 2009 19:20:20 GMT -5
There is The Carousel episode where Cindy finds out that she was adopted.
The season begins with The Outrage. This was initially scheduled I am sure for a Labor Day opening but
due to the writers strike we do not see it until Thanksgiving. Perhaps that was better, because the
European war ends just before Christmas.and Johnboy falls in love with a French girl but the news about
Ben becoming a POW in the Pacific puts an end to their romance--- but then in the first episode of the New Year Jennifer
Jason-Leigh who would later that year star as an anorexic in a movie I could never watch all the way
through--would 'bait a juicy trap' for Jimbob and she has him ensnared until Mary Ellen probes the fact that her pregnancy is not showing nor is she showing any of the other symptoms. A week later we
see the end of the War with the last Ten Days and then Ben makes it home but Mary Ellen finds out about
Curt---on the day the Dew Drop Inn reopens and in history time it is October 3,1945---the day it looked like the Chicago Cubs would finally end the jinx that had hauted them since Germany had a Kaiser and
Russia had a Czar, but the Tigers came back and the jinx continues now for 100 years and counting---
then Ben wants to go to engineering school and Mary Ellen wants to be a Doctor ---so the
series ends with a program that we find out took place on June 4,1946, which was initially shown
35 years later on June 4,1981!
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Post by Marilyn on Apr 25, 2009 16:40:50 GMT -5
It just kills me to see them all grow up, some die, and some leave the show. It's sad, like losing a member of the family. The Waltons was the best show of my entire life. I have the whole set except the Season 9. I'm afraid to order it because I know it's the end of an era.
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