My Thoughts on "Little House on the Prairie" (TV series)

 My Thoughts on Little House on the                                 Prairie

Little House on the Prairie is an American western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. (Source: Wikipedia)

Episodes List: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071007/episodes?season=1

Straight out, I love Little House on the Prairie! It was a TV milestone, and is a classic which will still be loved, watched, and cherished a hundred years from now.

I (and millions of others), love it for so many reasons: most notably, the story lines that provide valuable lessons in life and the outstanding performances by regulars and guests.

However, some episodes I would prefer to watch alone (in fact, nearly all of them!), as they're too sad, and I hate showing tears in front of others, and I don't like people crying in front of me, as I then get embarrassed and seek for a way out. Anyway, this series can inspire, move, and make you cry.

But this series does have a problem: I only really love the seasons from 1 - 4, like Dexter and after that, the seasons slowly begin to get less original, and more modern, and less beautiful, and so on. For instance, I HATE the romance between Almonzo and Laura, I just think she behaves like an idiot; Every now and then, individual episodes rise high again, only to let the later episodes fall into darkness. And as Laura gets older, Charles and Caroline get less and less important, and those are my favourite characters! And then Albert comes, and then James and Cassandra come, and the whole classic and original feel get evaporated so that it becomes just like any other series.

(And the episode Sylvia has to be the worst I've ever seen; Albert behaves like an idiot, Sylvia herself isn't exactly pretty and she behaves stupidly, the whole themes are kinda unrealistic, and if you have to make an episode dealing with rape, you could have made the scene (and afterwards) a bit more realistic. In all, the episode left me with the uncomfortable feeling that someone had accidentally screened the wrong episode of another series.)

My favourite Characters are Charles and Caroline Ingalls (CI+CI, HAH!).

If you're wondering why there aren't any of the Ingalls girls, it's because they often behave stupidly. Charles nearly never does anything stupid, and I don't love/like Caroline in only one episode where she becomes a full-blown feminist (in season 7, exactly!). I do like the Ingalls girls  a lot most of the time, but they do do stupid and unnecessary things pretty often.

So, in conclusion the seasons 1-4 are absolute must-watch, the later ones until season 8 can be bought, but if I were you (Which I'm not, of course) I'd only buy them for a very low price and don't expect too much.

Amazon UK link to Season 1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-House-Prairie-Season-DVD/dp/B0009PGTEC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461271006&sr=8-1&keywords=little+house+prairie+season+1