I know I'm all over my reviews crushing on Adam/Pernell Roberts but I'll give credit where it's due: the series didn't collapse even though he left. This is the start of season 7 and it started off to a great start.
So we have a brother and sister as the center characters for this storyline. They're going around to different areas and trying to make up for the crappy things their father did to screw people over. They're not being forced to make amends. I think it's something they want to do for their own peace of mind and it's probably accepted in both their minds that they'll probably still continue to be mistreated because of who their father is/what he's done. The brother talked about how some people wouldn't even talk to his sister and how he would get beat up and it all stems from the misdeeds of their father.
They wrongly think that their father is dead. Nope, he's living. More on that later.
I don't really look at the brother as having a bad attitude. The only thing I can think of I can criticize him for is something he's trying to make up for. His sister can't read. Joe says something hilarious and I say it's hilarious because I connect it to "Little House on the Prairie". Joe tells Annie that it'll only take an hour a day to teach her how to read. Joe's not a teacher but he's still capable enough to teach Annie how to read. Caroline Ingalls on Little House is a former teacher and you'd think she could carve out an hour a day to teach Mary, Laura and Carrie. Nope. Guess she was too busy sweeping dirt floors that's never gonna come clean.
Anyway, the brother's seen reading a book and he's very secretive about it. Turns out he's reading a grammar book so he can teach Annie how to read himself. It was nice seeing that after he jumped on Annie and Joe for her trying to learn how to read/him teaching her to read.
I can't really blame the brother for acting the way he does about his father. It's nice to think that all parents are off limits when it concerns being disappointed by their actions. No. Sometimes you do have a parent that does bad things and you have to protect yourself from their actions/words. You can fill in your own blanks for the bad possible things a parent is capable of doing. But it makes sense to me to eventually get to a point where you say that this bridge is burned and there's just no need in even attempting to believe somebody's capable of changing for the better if there's more evidence piling up that this person will never change.
The sister is a bit more naïve about matters when it concerns her father. No, she's not stupid. She's just naïve and too trusting. She gets into a bit of trouble herself when it concerned trusting her father.
Anyway, I think this was an interesting storyline that held my attention. I liked the brother and sister. Thought it was an interesting dynamic to show both sides of the same coin: no more hope or faith in a father/still have hope and faith in that same father.
So we have a brother and sister as the center characters for this storyline. They're going around to different areas and trying to make up for the crappy things their father did to screw people over. They're not being forced to make amends. I think it's something they want to do for their own peace of mind and it's probably accepted in both their minds that they'll probably still continue to be mistreated because of who their father is/what he's done. The brother talked about how some people wouldn't even talk to his sister and how he would get beat up and it all stems from the misdeeds of their father.
They wrongly think that their father is dead. Nope, he's living. More on that later.
I don't really look at the brother as having a bad attitude. The only thing I can think of I can criticize him for is something he's trying to make up for. His sister can't read. Joe says something hilarious and I say it's hilarious because I connect it to "Little House on the Prairie". Joe tells Annie that it'll only take an hour a day to teach her how to read. Joe's not a teacher but he's still capable enough to teach Annie how to read. Caroline Ingalls on Little House is a former teacher and you'd think she could carve out an hour a day to teach Mary, Laura and Carrie. Nope. Guess she was too busy sweeping dirt floors that's never gonna come clean.
Anyway, the brother's seen reading a book and he's very secretive about it. Turns out he's reading a grammar book so he can teach Annie how to read himself. It was nice seeing that after he jumped on Annie and Joe for her trying to learn how to read/him teaching her to read.
I can't really blame the brother for acting the way he does about his father. It's nice to think that all parents are off limits when it concerns being disappointed by their actions. No. Sometimes you do have a parent that does bad things and you have to protect yourself from their actions/words. You can fill in your own blanks for the bad possible things a parent is capable of doing. But it makes sense to me to eventually get to a point where you say that this bridge is burned and there's just no need in even attempting to believe somebody's capable of changing for the better if there's more evidence piling up that this person will never change.
The sister is a bit more naïve about matters when it concerns her father. No, she's not stupid. She's just naïve and too trusting. She gets into a bit of trouble herself when it concerned trusting her father.
Anyway, I think this was an interesting storyline that held my attention. I liked the brother and sister. Thought it was an interesting dynamic to show both sides of the same coin: no more hope or faith in a father/still have hope and faith in that same father.
