The sound of children.

This one is just so sad.Poor mary

Yes...Poor Mary...and poor Adam! When he was beginning to believe that his father was interested in him, he discovered he was not and was still ashamed about his blindness...

Vanesa.

Vanesa wrote:

Yes...Poor Mary...and poor Adam! When he was beginning to believe that his father was interested in him, he discovered he was not and was still ashamed about his blindness...

Vanesa.

I felt bad for poor adam.

This was sad......I really felt for Adam

Sooo sad this one..I wish the writers made the storyline so one of Mary's babies lived...Especially her baby in this one-It would have a cute 3-year-old by the time the Kendalls disappeared.

Ruth wrote:

Sooo sad this one..I wish the writers made the storyline so one of Mary's babies lived...Especially her baby in this one-It would have a cute 3-year-old by the time the Kendalls disappeared.

same with me.

I think in this case, it was a good call not to make her have children..she never did and although she never married either, it wasn't as bad as adding children and nieces and nephews that never existed. All the biological children existed for Charles and Laura.

I found it hard to believe that 2 blind parents could raise a child especially back then, at least alone or with just Hester Sue. What if the child has a rash or was eating something it shouldn't, it ran in the creek or just away...had spots and you couldn't see them. If Adam got his site back and then they had a child, it would have been more believable,but realistically, Mary couldn't raise one without sight very well.

I think with a sighted person (Hester-Sue) living with them, Mary having a baby was completely plausible. Blind parents can and have successfully raised sighted children. This was a fictional Little House anyways....so much of what happened on the show didn't happen in real life. Being parents added another dimension to their characters and would have given them more story lines on the show. After the fire, they kind of became background characters,which was too bad. I guess Michael Landon really wanted to focus on the Laura/Almanzo relationship.



This article is long...but worth skimming.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/aug/01/familyandrelationships.features11

I couldn't stop reading this! That is amazing. Thanks for sharing the link.

That link was very interesting...thanks, but it must have been hard in many ways, easier than the 1800s. I think Michael just didn't want to change the biological children, he concession to the original story...as much as he changed it in other ways.

That was a good article!

I felt sorry for Mary loosing the baby and during her grieving wondered how much more she has to put up with by not only being blind, but loosing a baby and I felt sorry for Adam. Poor guy thinking his father had finally accepting his blindness only to learn he was intrested in the baby when he offerd Adam a chance to go to law school, then deciding to leave after Mary lost the baby.

Spanky wrote:

I felt sorry for Mary loosing the baby and during her grieving wondered how much more she has to put up with by not only being blind, but loosing a baby and I felt sorry for Adam. Poor guy thinking his father had finally accepting his blindness only to learn he was intrested in the baby when he offerd Adam a chance to go to law school, then deciding to leave after Mary lost the baby.

I felt mad for mary too.doesn'tseem fair.

I forgot, she lost this baby. Then, she has another baby, that died in the fire. Poor Mary.

Samantha wrote:

I think with a sighted person (Hester-Sue) living with them, Mary having a baby was completely plausible.  Blind parents can and have  successfully raised sighted children. This was a fictional Little House anyways....so much of what happened on the show didn't happen in real life.  Being parents added another dimension to their characters and would have given them more story lines on the show.  After the fire, they kind of became background characters,which was too bad.   I guess Michael Landon really wanted to  focus on the Laura/Almanzo relationship.



This article is long...but worth skimming.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/aug/01/familyandrelationships.features11

That is a great article! The show should have taken on this sort of storyline and had Adam and Mary raising a sighted child. LHOTP really dropped the ball on this one.

This episode was so nicely done. At the end when Adam tells Mary that he told his father they weren't going with Mr. Kendall Sr. to New York was a lie...probably wouldn't have done Mary any good to know the truth anyhow and left her with the impression that Adam's father was not as bad as he had told her he was. So Adam was protecting her by not letting her know his father really hadn't changed at all. I loved the end scene between them, they didn't get very many strong scenes to play like that and when one came along like this one it was sweet and precious.

I am watching this episode on TV tonight, and when Mary is trying to tell Adam that she is having a baby he says "okay, don't start without me" as he is leaving the room