The Waltons

The Waltons - The Complete Eighth Season
$39.98
It is a difficult transition for the change in actors for John Boy. Michael Lerned and Ellen Corby are often also missing in this season. The new additions assist this difficulty and the plot line is helped thereby. The addition of a look at the real life family and places of the writer and narrator of this series is a benefit though it could have been done better than the split screen filming of interviews betweeen cast members and real life characters.All in all the show itself is done decently.

The Waltons - The Complete First Season
$27.98
The trash that is on TV today doesn't come close to these TV series.
The waltons & little house on the prairie, Two of the best TV series in the history of TV!!
Don't forget "Highway to Heaven" another good one.
I give this DVD set a 5 of 5 stars!!
The Waltons - The Complete First Season

The Waltons: The Complete Ninth Season
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The ninth or last season of the Waltons held happy endings for some, but not for all of the people living on Waltons Mountain. Not everyone's dreams were fulfilled, but it ended with all of the characters, seemingly, accepting whatever life gave them so far.

As usual, all is well with the Waltons, but be forewarned that the tenth episode called, "The Tempest" should have never been written. The dead are always left better off dead and not brought back to life, especially in such a disagreeable way. That part was played by a different actor who was not the same actor who had played the original part of the person who was mistaken to be dead. They had to hire a totally new actor just to present us with this unlikely and unnecessary episode. Even the reality of war could not justify such an unbelievable episode as this one was. Neither did it have a happy ending or even a happy followup in another episode. It left me feeling sad and empty, unlike most of the other episodes that had given me so much comfort.

The rest of this season was good, but it did not appear that this season was originally intended to end here. I would have preferred that this last season had given us a better ending to the entire story. That could have even been done by John Boy at the end of the last episode, but it was not. In speaking about himself, he could have also added some more information about the rest of the family members in his very last words.

In another one of the last episodes of this season, Rose and Stanley finally got married, but it never showed what happened with the rest of the Waltons. Mary Ellen and Erin could have had a double wedding at the Baldwins house in the last episode (something a little more spectacular for a last episode than just an old people's reunion for the Baldwin ladies with the Waltons showing up). Although it was implied that Elizabeth and Drew would someday be married, what about Jason, and Jim Bob? In one episode, Jason and his girlfriend overcame the obstacles they faced to getting married, yet the season left them unmarried, not dating and no explanation!

Jason and Jim Bob probably never did fulfill their dreams of becoming a concert musician and an airplane pilot, and you're left wondering if they settled for what they were doing at the moment. Mary Ellen was left still studying to become a doctor and who knows how far Erin went in her career, as well. That's reasonable, but did Olivia and John ever come home? And what about Grandma? They finally did tell where she was, but it still leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions about her and everyone else.

John Boy continued writing, of course, but they really should have done a tenth season to answer these questions about the other characters. Even if they could not do this on a practical basis, at the very least, they could have used the Special Feature at the end of the eighth season, known as "A Decade of the Waltons" for an ending here, where it really belonged, at the end of the nineth season (at the very end of the Walton's story). That would have given the ninth season and its viewers some closure, if not a really satisfying ending.

Even with all of my complaints about it, I still love all of the Walton series, including this one, but this tells me one thing. -Endings are important and should be done right. I'd still recommend that you buy it because the only thing that you'll really be disappointed in, is that it all ends here. Sadly, there is no more 'Waltons' and we'll never see anything this good in a television series ever again. I'm sure that we can all say 'Amen' to that.

The Waltons - The Complete Fifth Season
$27.98
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