I tried my best to sit through it and just couldn't do it. Had to end up fast forwarding through the episode for Pernell's scenes and wanted to touch base on something else I noticed.
I'm not a fan of the romance episodes because these men fall in love at the drop of a hat. I realize Adam will have a girlfriend later on where they can at least try and build something up instead of "Wow, would you look at how hot that chick is! I'm in luv." I grew up reading "The Baby-Sitters Club" and 13 year old Stacey is a lot like the Cartwright men. In love today and then tomorrow it's on to somebody else.
And before anybody criticizes me for what I'm saying. I realize you'd probably have people cracking jokes on if the men are gay if you saw the Cartwrights NEVER showing any interest in the opposite sex. I get having some episodes like this. But man, you gotta dig for other types of storylines. I would've loved to have seen more episodes centered on Hop Sing. The few I've seen centered on him were interesting and they didn't play out like a huge joke. The two I'm thinking of are the "chops" episode when bullies cut off Hop Sing's pigtail, Joe's accused of murder and Hop Sing's helping to clear his name. I also liked when he met "Missy". That was honestly a romantic episode that was well done even though the episode let you know that Hop Sing and Missy would never make it in a world they live in.
And I just gotta ask....what in the world happened to Michael Landon's acting? I stopped to watch the crying scene towards the end and he did a great job with it. Ditto with the episode when Joe goes blind and Jo Van Fleet's character has to come help him out. He got on Little House and the crying acting went out the window. It's more comical seeing him trying to blink back tears instead of actually crying when he's hearing devastating news. Example: Mary's going blind. I think you can squirt some out for that. The constant blinking makes him look like a hammy actor on William Shatner's level and he's a better actor than that...He only does that for emotional scenes. I wouldn't be saying anything if he was doing it all the time on Little House. I'd assume he was having some sort of health problem and it was something beyond his control and I definitely wouldn't be snarking at a health problem.