r/littlehouseonprairie

Rewatching little house in the prairie and the amount of times Laura is alone with some man is wild! Like obviously it’s fake it’s Hollywood and a diffent time but I’m just like Ma and Pa were
Very trusting of the world and didn’t know where she was half the time 😭 as a grown woman with a daughter now I’m like Laura what are you doing.

She was my favorite before she went blind, her character development abruptly stopped after that, they rarely incorporated her into the episodes anymore unless she had some blind school plot line. She can’t just come over for dinner or be at the house? Give sisterly advice during Laura’s problems? They really dropped the ball on her character there was allot more they could of done :/

Watching a Bonanza rerun (Season 2 Ep. 11) and saw the actor Edgar Buchanan (who also played Uncle Joe on Green Acres and started life as a dentist according to IMDB) singing Ole Dan Tucker while cooking over a campfire. I find watching these old shows so therapeutic during these chaotic times.

I remember when he was lambasting the Bully Boys, he basically suggested they were going to Hell, saying something like "The Devil doesn't sit down there all by his lonesome". Alden's sermons were usually pretty tame but he could get fervent on occasion.

Every episode makes me worried because I know mary will go blind...any episode now...

Agent Alden at Fort Berthold practicing small and mean frauds…

from the New York Times 8/15/1878

This episode Mr. Edwards returns to Walnut Grove after Grace throws him out of the house due to his drinking. I’ve seen some previous posts where the discussion centers on the characters of Grace and Carl Jr. being changed. However, I didn’t see anything mentioning what a self-righteous jerk. Charles was in this episode.

Mr. Edward has a big drinking problem to which he ends up driving the buckboard too fast and Albert is thrown into the street where he is potentially going to lose his legs. Yes, of course this is a serious situation and it was Mr. Edwards fault but within the next scene we learn that Albert is gonna be fine.

Charles does come back asking for forgiveness after the Reverend Alden speaks to him but what if that hadn’t happened? Would Charles have continued to be angry and have ostracized Isaiah for the rest of his life? I seem to remember Isaiah being an extremely good friend to Charles and even sacrificing his own life and his family‘s well-being when Mary was a girl needing an operation. Mr. Edwards took that dangerous mining job with Charles working with dynamite when they had no experience doing it. He put himself in harms way so he could help Charles pay for Mary’s operation. Now, if anything had happened to him. Charles was certainly in no position to take care of Grace and the children. And when Charles screwed up and was trapped, Mr. Edwards made all of the Chinese workers helped him out…. I bring this all up just to say I feel that Charles was very harsh with Mr. Edwards despite the seriousness of the accident.

It seems to me that whenever Charles or any of his kids screwed up. It was viewed as just a simple mistake and no one really got punished (like Albert burning down the blind school that killed two people) but Pa had no problem overreacting with everyone else.

Anyone else agree?

So I recently started watching LHOTP again (used to watch when I was younger in the late 90's and early 2000's) and just had this random thought pop in my head. If we were to relate everyone's mode of transportation (ie wagons) to modern day vehicles, am I alone in thinking the Ingalls's wagon is equivalent to a farm truck? And when we see Ms. Beadle in her buggy (and same with Doc and Rev Alden) its like a sedan and/or coupe? Am I alone in thinking these things and if so, I will see myself out lol.

Totally forgot the “Adam gets his sight” episodes have a body shaming starvation Harriet sub plot… only a season away from the Annabelle episode, too. And it’s not just Harriet trying to do something silly, Nels goes along with it, calls her fat, and helps discourage her from eating! 😔

I have never heard of this before. Does anyone know why they became adversaries?

Is it just me thinking this or did LHOTP do just about every story twice?

Let’s see twice we had a kid falling in a well, twice someone dying from Leukemia, at least two major epidemics where Charles has to get Doc Baker or they are running out of medicine, two times when someone is ashamed of their fat relative, kids with dead parents needing adoption, twice two kids were bullied for stuttering……can y’all keep it going?