Blind justice

sweetkrissy2011 wrote:

Well all i can say is adam is a pretty good at what he does.

And he was somewhat right. The man was not *totally* guilty. He swindled people for he was desperate, knowing he was diying and his wife and son will remain in poverty...

Vanesa.

Vanesa wrote:

sweetkrissy2011 wrote:

Well all i can say is adam is a pretty good at what he does.

And he was somewhat right. The man was not *totally* guilty. He swindled people for he was desperate, knowing he was diying and his wife and son will remain in poverty...

Vanesa.

Yeah,He was.what i've been thinking is that.I don't think into day's society people get off like he did.

It is retrospectively interesting how Adam Kendall stuck it to the big shot lawyer at the very end because eventually Adam DOES leave Walnut Grove to go with a big firm because he cannot make a living in a small town. Maybe he should have taken that offer to begin with. Obviously the triumphant result of this particular episode had to be turning down the greedy opportunist who had disappointed him beforehand.

I liked Adam and Mary story lines

David, I agree...Adam does become what he tried not to be but how many lawyers could there be in Walnut Grove area...they can barely pay the doctor!

If Doc Baker wasn't single, I don't know how he afforded to live there, buy supplies, etc. I realize he did get paid sometimes but you can't buy things with chickens and pies...that always perplexed me but I loved his character and overlooked it.

I like Adam. I wish they hadn't wrote Adam and Mary out at the beginning of season 8 and I wish they would have kept Nellie&Percival on the show.

Adam was a great teacher and a great lawyer.

I found this one a bit boring!

I was shocked that the writers Michael and Carole Raschella, who had actually written "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away" wrote this episode, because the story wasn't really as strong as I had expected to be. I always wished they had written a longer story arc with episodes of Adam going through law school instead of an acceleration to have him immediately a lawyer after only several episodes after regaining his sight.

The court case was okay for starters, but some of it, especially at the end, seemed a bit weakly written. I think it would have been much better if they had done about a half season's worth of episodes of Adam in law school before he got his first case. Then he and Mary would have lasted longer than they did.

Also it seemed really that the writers wrote Adam and Mary into a corner with this episode by bringing them back to Walnut Grove, which wasn't really a hotbed of profitable conflict....sigh...to think of what could have been.

david wrote:

It is retrospectively interesting how Adam Kendall stuck it to the big shot lawyer at the very end because eventually Adam DOES leave Walnut Grove to go with a big firm because he cannot make a living in a small  town.  Maybe he should have taken that offer to begin with. Obviously the triumphant result of this particular episode had to be turning down the greedy opportunist who had disappointed him beforehand.

 

I'd like to think that Adam became a big shot lawyer in New York City in his father's former law firm after he and Mary moved there, but I would also like to think that he always kept the rights of the underprivileged or disabled close to his heart having experienced disability and discrimination first hand as a former blind person.

I would have LOVED to see more episodes where story ideas around such cases could have been explored.  Am sure it would have given both Linwood Boomer and Melissa Sue Anderson something good to play if she had stayed on for another season or so....too bad there wasn't a "19th century Little House spinoff, attorney in a big city show"; I would have watched it!