i wonder what they will say about the waltons.
amazon streaming that one?



keith

Some episodes are 13+

rxkeith wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:43 pm i wonder what they will say about the waltons.
amazon streaming that one?



keith

In reality the TV show was based on a much more adult book and movie called Spencer's mountain.
I saw the movie first and read the book and was flabbergasted when similar people showed up in the TV show.
Even at a young age I tied the two together.

I never actually saw the Walton's on a regular basis because we didn't get CBS at our house when it was showing.
We had our own little hillbilly mountain to deal with and it's hill folks.

Didn't you say you did this crazy stuff in the 70s/80s? 1970s not 1870s, right? lol

Life or death only for me, I wouldn't want to be responsible for crippling someone for life, or being crippled.

Anyway, yeah it wasn't Edwards swinging hammers at his hands. Edwards is the dark bearded guy that is the family friend? No, this was just some random guy he met the night before, a big guy that hadn't eaten for days that came up to the cooking fire, and was looking for farm work because there had been a summer hail storm, so everyones' wheat got ruined. Same reason the dad (Charles?) was out looking for work. And the third guy was going to the quarry for work, and got them to tag along. So Michael Landon is partnered with this big guy and they never worked together or knew how each other could swing a hammer, holding for each other as a team, with dynmite blasting nearby as they are doing it. I'm like, dude, stop. No way you would do this. Stop. STOP YOU IDIOT how would ever support 4 women with a crippled hand?

The timeline doesn't make a lot of sense, but I guess it had to be spring wheat cause they just got there and planted the episode before...but then later there is a double episode with a 7+ mo pregnacy...and then after that they are spending their first Christmas in town...well clearly they didn't pay much attention to such details back then. Michael Landon must have got cuckholded too, because half-pint has brown eyes while both him and his wife have blue eyes. The other kids have the required recessive x recessive blue eyes. That jumped out at me right away. Good thing for half pint it was 70s, they wouldn't have cast her nowadays.

Looks like the Waltons is on FreeVee, which is on Prime but has commercials. The first episode says 7+. The rest say NR.

FreeVee may or may not be accessible without prime and has unskippable commercials, at unskippable on a Roku TV. And Prime itself is supposed to have commercials now, since Feb 1, but, my yearly renewal is not until the end of this month. Nothing has changed for me, but once I renew, I expect it to change on March 1st, for my account. Amazon pulled a similar sneaky thing a few years ago when they started airing unskippable preview ads for Prime Originals right before many shows. I had read about, but we never saw one, until we were on the hook for another year. So they are sneaky cusses. The unskippable previews lasted for a few months, people complained, then they disappeared, then they came back but skippable. But now they are supposedly putting unskippable commercial advertising during the shows...real good chance I am not renewing.

Yes the 1970s not 1870s.
It was unsettling to hold a post while someone did a cartwheel swing with a huge post maul hoping they didn't miss.

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It's looks a lot worse than it really was and yes it is my bloody hand after it slipped and scraped against a sharp edge.
It's much better now and zero infection due to my quick actions with 90% alcohol and hydrogen peroxide.
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I bet that the 180 proof didn't go down very smooth.

The first season of Little House On The Prairie would be the best for children. With each passing season, things get darker.

I'm just a little perplexed as to how they've changed what is acceptable and what isn't.

I too find it difficult to find a good movie that has came out in the last several years but there are a few I really liked and watched several times.

It isn't so much the violence or lack of it, it's the storyline.
Some were obviously made for younger people but I still like them.
One I haven't seen come up is called Beautiful Creatures.
A total box office flop but it was a fantastic movie.
My wife thought I had lost my mind wanting her to watch it because it was about teenagers.
I told her we were kids once so just watch it.
She did and loved it.
It was shadowed by yet another guns blazing die hard Bruce Willis movie.

When you turn a movie on and the first 10 minutes are people shooting at each other and it's not a war movie I just turn it off.
I'm also not into agenda movies too much.
I can't count how many times I've seen Unlocked or Survivor.
The Descendants is a fantastic movie with Shailene Woodley and George Clooney.
Of who has played in the divergent movies as well which I watch.
Hunger games.
Girl with the dragon tattoo and it's other movies made in Sweden.
The maze runners.

Radius was fantastic I need to watch it again.
Watched Emperor several times.

I personally think our society has flipped as to what kids can and can't see.
They cover up things I saw as a child in magazines when I was little like Holocaust pictures saying it's too disturbing.
But allow fantasy violence run wild.

Yeah absolutely on it's head. Stick and stones has flipped so far that theft and assault are no cash bail, but calling someone a name or using a word people don't like gets you ostracized and cancelled.

If there is unnecessary violence at the start of movie or show, without explanation on why, I'm gone. Sorry movie people, you don't get to drop that cold, then expect me to sit for 45 minutes for you to try justify what happened and make an excuse for the murder - from the poor murderer's point of view.

Ahhh, on another note, I got fooled above, regarding half pint's paternity. That michael landon had some rare eyes. I thought they were light blue or green, recessive, but recently saw a bright outdoor scene where they looked light brown/green. According to internet, it turns out his eyes were considered hazel, which is light, but multichoromatic so depending on the light and background can be seen as brown blue green orange or gray. And the big brains think it can act as both dominant and recessive depending on the gene combo.

For a little bit I was questioning my own eyesight (the cheap tv also desaturates at any angle) or wondering whether this was originally shot in black and white and later colorized. With modern shows there is no use even bothering to wonder about eye color since so many actors use colored contacts or have their eyes digitally touched up.

There's just a lot of crap on these days, carefully shaped by either by sensationalists or by leftist hand-wringing, simpering whiners who are offended by everything but soft pillows. I haven't seen a movie in ages, in theater or on tv other than some Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings. You could show me pics of modern "big" movie stars and I probably wouldn't know who they are. Fluff and stuff. I much prefer science and history shows where you can actually learn something, cooking shows, financial channels, news and sports. Big MMA fan. No pro basketball, please. Too much chest beating by overpaid egos.

We was Po Folks growing up so all the TV shows were in black and white because we had black and white TV all the way up into the late 70s.
What we did have was an abundance of food.
I'll take that trade.
As a matter of fact we had the same TV the whole time I was growing up.
Those first color TV's were over priced garbage anyway.
To this day it doesn't bother me in the least to watch an old black and white movie.
My dad had light colored hair as a child growing up and blue eyes.
My sister as well.
I took after my southern France Mediterranean mom and had really light colored practically white hair and brown eyes.
I really think she had some Persian or something heritage from the Muslim invasion way back when because she had olive skin.

But on to the TV shows and such.
Who was the first man to not wear an under shirt in a movie?
Clark Gable when he took his shirt off to go to bed in It Happened One Night.
Unheard of back then in the 30s.

I wonder what Donovan's Reef would rate at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
My recollection of that spike.

Kurt wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:36 am https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
My recollection of that spike.

Yep a story all children learned at one time.

My favorite tv show in the 60's was wild wild west.
That was taken off the air for violence.
I used to watch it for the gimmicks.
There were also episodes where west would get drugged and it was funny watching his reaction.
I have the john henry song on cd,all folk songs.

Wasn't much of a fan of the remake Wild Wild West movie with the man slapper in it.

I never saw the original wild wild west tv show. The movie was...what's the word, trash?

Halfway the 3rd season of little house on the prairie...pretty good show. Still has to go hollywood though. So far there have two accidental discharges of firearms. Edwards shoots a hole in the Ingall's roof while he is babysitting. Supposedly rushing out the door to shotgun a coon or something, I forget, but triggers the gun somehow. Luckily into the roof instead of into the loft with the girls up there. And now half pint just shot her dad by knocking over a cap lock...that somehow he leaned it again a tree in camp, left a cap on the nipple, left it cocked, it gets knocked over, and somehow triggers, it doesn't even fall towards him, but he gets shot...Well this one is rated 13+ for violence but I would call it 18+ for Propaganda. He's holding his gut, so if he lives after getting shot point blank with either a patched round ball or minie ball, it needs to be classified as fantasy as well.

Violent gun shot deaths include suicide and accidental shootings.
Just so as you know.