The Odyssey

Ingalls Friend for Life Number of posts : 7892 Mood :

I started watching this episode, but never finished it. Where I left off, I know that Albert and Laura were trying to help their sick friend reach the ocean. how does this episode end?

Subject: Re: The Odyssey Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:45 am

It's been a while since I've seen this one, but as I recall, Charles catches up with Laura and Albert and accompanies them to San Francisco and their friend does get to see the ocean. This one isn't really one of my favorites. One thing I've noticed is that the episodes that take place away from Walnut Grove are usually not among my favorites. There are a few exceptions, such as "To Live With Fear", "Gold Country", and some of the Winoka episodes.

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This was a very emotional episode....It was nice they helped his friend have his dream.

Subject: Re: The Odyssey Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:27 pm

Yeah,not one of my favorites either........But yeah it was a good episode

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... Yet.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Subject: Re: The Odyssey Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:20 am

ingallsfan2008 wrote:: I started watching this episode, but never finished it. Where I left off, I know that Albert and Laura were trying to help their sick friend reach the ocean. how does this episode end?

I just saw this one.....Pa goes looking for the kids and finds them. He wants to take them back but is convinced by the kids to go to the ocean. They all hop the train (funny) and end up going to the ocean in San Francisco.....it was really heart wrenching knowing the young boy was going to die and to watch him jump in the water...a real tearjerker.

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Prairie Settler Number of posts : 675 Location : Uk Mood :

This one was sooo sad!!! cryB

“It was a huge shock when it came and very excited“

This was the duchess of cambridges take on how she felt when William proposed during their official engagement interview with ITN reporter Tom Bradby. There was a real giggle at the end. Cute.

New Pioneer Number of posts : 20

My lord... how many days would a train trip from MN to San Fran take? The epi seems to truncate the train travel in a big way. They probably would have had to switch trains several times before somehow getting to Omaha where the Central Pacific had a line to San Fran. I know... it's TV... suspend disbelief but these little things always bother me.

Oh... and what happened to the horse Charles rented to run down the train? He just tied it to a post at the train station then went off with the kids on this big adventure.

The other thing that jumped out was them meeting William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was born in 1863... epi was circa 1880. Hearst at 17 in San Fran running a paper? Nope. He was at east coast prep schools and then Harvard until 1885 then entered the publishing business in 1887.

Heart-warming story seeing their terminally ill friend finally getting to see the ocean though.

Old Daniel Tucker wuz a mighty man,
He washed his face in a fryin' pan;
Combed his head wid a wagon wheel
And he died wid de toofache in his heel.

New Pioneer Number of posts : 13 Location : Clemson sc

15 mph from Minneapolis to San Francisco, wow. Long time at that. William Randolph Hearst huh? What would of been the odds he would of stopped in front of a soup kitchen lol

Walnut Grove Resident Number of posts : 1064

Very moving episode but as a parent I did think "Laura is going to run away again and cause her parents angst??" They could have been left high and dry with no money or way to contact parents if it was "real life" and it even caused Charles to break some laws. It's LHOP so you overlook it but watching shows so often, you get different feelings.

New Pioneer Number of posts : 13 Location : Clemson sc

Isn’t it funny how people back then didn’t have barely any way to communicate with each other, now today we get nervous if we haven’t heard from family in a few hours, back then it could be weeks before someone mailed a letter. I always wondered what happened to the little sick boy, did he make it home or did they have to carry his body back on the train. Crazy, but I think about that sorta stuff even if it’s fantasy.

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