Albert and Sylvia

[jayman75]

This morning I caught part of the episode where Albert, Willie and other boys try to peek in on Sylvia. They were caught by her father, and he accused her of being a tramp.

last I saw, there was a man watching her and Albert by a creek, and then I had to leave for work. What happened???

[JT]

It's been a while since I've seen this episode. I think that after Albert left, the man raped Sylvia. Sylvia's father thought that Albert was the one who got her pregnant, and he threw her out the house. I didn't get to see the second part though (it was a two-parter).

[Cashodeen]

Gosh, I am a slow poke. How could I have missed this thread last time I was here? Sorry jayman75 for the month delay!


This episode sucks. I think I remember it though. JT, summed up the first part. Yes, the psycho watching her assaulted her. He wore a clown mask though, and she didn't know it was him.

(Hmm, where is my memory... this episode is fuzzier than I thought... I had to use a website for some of my summary.)

Okay, JT told the first part right, although I don't remember her being thrown out of the house. I just remember her running away when her father says they are going to move away. She and Albert planned on getting married. So while she was waiting in this abandoned barn for Albert to come with supplies so they could run off, Albert tells the blacksmith in Walnut Grove, Irv Hartwig, where she was. I think Irv said he wanted to help the two by dropping off supplies or something at the barn. Uh... it turns out the blacksmith was the assaulter. He finds Sylvia, and since he is wearing that creepy mask, she naturally, freaks out. She runs up this ladder in the barn but falls down and really hurts herself.

I don't remember how, but Sylvia's father knew to find Irv and Sylvia in that barn and he shoots him. Irv ran off leaving his mask in the barn, but he later died. A few minutes later, Sylvia is at her home being checked out by Doc. Baker. He says that she miscarried the baby, and supposedly Sylvia died later too. The show doesn't EXACTLY show her death or mention it, but it seems apparent because the girl has this dream sequence where she and Albert are together.

[phoebe7165]

Oh, another uplifting episode of Little House.

No, I am just kidding, so nobody take offense!! I love this show and I didn't think this episode sucked. I really liked it, though. I've always liked Matthew Laborteaux's acting, it's a shame he didn't really continue with it.

[hawaii five-o]

This episode was kind of creepy. Not at all the typical wholesome "Little House" we all know and love. This and the episode where the blind school burns down are very sad.

[B&W fan]

Originally posted by hawaii five-o
This episode was kind of creepy. Not at all the typical wholesome "Little House" we all know and love. This and the episode where the blind school burns down are very sad.

Actually, Little House is quite the mixed bag when it came to light-hearted vs. extremely sad episodes. One week the show could be as happy as can be, and the next week folks are dying all over the place. This pattern runs through all 9 seasons of the show.

I always felt that Landon over did the "drama" episodes to the point where too many bad or sad things happened to the people of Walnut Grove.

B&W "I'll definitely be purchasing thru Season 4, but I'm not sure if I'll buy the remaining seasons - Mary's blindness was the capper for me, even though I realize that part of the show was faithful to the books - it was too depressing" fan

[hughpuppies]

Did you ever notice alot of the episodes were almost the same storyline?

Like when the younging brothers came to walnut grove and held people hostage trying to be bank robbers.

Like when the government were looking for 2 guys who had Mary and Pa captured in the big white house just outside of town.

Then a few guys game to the blind school where mary and laura were at at night and they broke in and held everyone captured.

Then one guy has a fight with his wife, and get knocked in the head and thinks Laura is his wife and holds her and Rose and Jenny captive.

Where a few guys tried to rob a bank and held Neils captive in a cave and all of a sudden a few people end up being captured in the cave.

Think they started running out of Storylines and started using the same storylines only with different people with different types of backgrounds holding people captive in walnut grove.

Ever notice Michael Landon made his character out to be the perfect human? Never swore, always went to church, always willing to help the fellow man/lady, hard warker, not predijuced, law biteing citizen, never faught unless he had to, never drank.

Ever notice when something tragic happened in the show it was almost always Charles to the rescue to save the day? Some one ran away it was Charles who found them, someone hold someone captive it was Charles who went and saved them.

Ever notice when someone ran away, the scenery was never the same? Everytime someone ran away the land was never shown before in the show, even though they are all supposed to be living within a few miles of each other. Like the hugh mountain Laura ran up on to talk to god because she thought she killed her younger brother, it was only shown once.

When you saw lots of Mountains, that part was actually filmed in Arizona. They also had a place in Arizona where they filmed alot of scenes to Little House.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by hughpuppies

Ever notice Michael Landon made his character out to be the perfect human? Never swore, always went to church, always willing to help the fellow man/lady, hard warker, not predijuced, law biteing citizen, never faught unless he had to, never drank.

There is one episode I can think of where he skips church, and Caroline is upset with him for it. In Harvest Of Friends he wanted to work on the farm rather than go, and Caroline of course, found it sacrilegious to miss church and work on a Sunday.

But then, that was the first episode! After that he is Mr. Perfect. (Perhaps someone with a better memory can name other examples where that isn't so, but I can't think of any others.)

[Sterling Holobyte]

Originally posted by hughpuppies
Ever notice Michael Landon made his character out to be the perfect human? Never swore, always went to church, always willing to help the fellow man/lady, hard warker, not predijuced, law biteing citizen, never faught unless he had to, never drank.

Not always. Besides the one that Cashodeen mentioned where Charles didn't want to go to church, he has been less than saintly in quite a few others. Like the one(and it may be the same one mentioned, but I forget) where his crop was ruined by hail and Charles just wanted to give up and move back to Wisconsin and nobody could talk to him because he was being so surly, even to the Reverend.
As far as Charles fighting only when he had to, well that's a matter of what you think "when he had to" means. Charles has been known to go off on people without thinking, like when he belted Almonzo because Nellie told him she saw Almonzo and Laura kissing. I mean, it's NELLIE for Christ's sake Charles, you know she's a big liar and troublemaker!
How about when Caroline had her baby boy and Charles pretty much neglected Laura?
Point is, Charles made alot of mistakes in many episodes, too many to mention, but the important part is that he owned up to them and when he was wrong he apologized. But also the real Charles Ingalls was a pillar of the community and a church and community leader, and in that way Michael Landon did hold to the true story of the Ingalls.

[Jeek]

Originally Posted by Cashodeen

This episode sucks.

Care to expand on that comment? That episode was probably the best Little House episode of all time. It proved that Little House didn't have to play the sappiness to make compelling television.