The Waltons

[IheartWA]

I actually liked season 7, in the aftermath of Will Geer's death. I thought the season opener with the last scene on Walton's Mountain saying goodbye to Grandpa. That was the most beautiful, moving, loving tribute you could ever give to an actor who died during a series.

I poked around in season 8 and 9 just to find out what happens to the kids. I felt so bad for Jim-Bob when I saw the episode where he found out he was nearsighted, and not qualified for the Army Air Corps. Later on, Jim-Bob invents a way to run cars on alternative fuel, in the 1940s. If he could of patented that thing, and sold it, he could have taken private pilot lessons, bought his own plane, his own airport, and a pair of pretty stewardesses! He couldn't fly planes for the military, but he could have still found a way to fly for civilian business.

What happened to Elizabeth? Is she just "honey" forever???

Actually, at the end of WWII, all of those returning vets started buying houses. Post-war pent-up demand. Ben was running the lumber mill, they could have John consulting, Erin as VP, grew the business, started supplying lumber for home construction, and all become multi-millionaires many times over.

The episode when Elizabeth is seeing ghosts. Now that is a sign the writers are running out of ideas. At the end John looked like "GET ME MY SHOTGUN!" The best "spooky" episode was season 2, "Ghost Story", when the kids are playing with an Ouiji board and averts a disaster for a boy staying with them. That was good, classic Waltons.