Review(s): DVD Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 8
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8
I love the LHOTP series, but the DVDs could be so much better. Editing, timing, sound are often way off, but like big corp. has figured out, I'll watch it anyway, because the show is just so wonderful.
THE BEST EVER!
I loved the whole Little House series. These dvds are the best. Definitely recommend these to anyone who ever watched the series and enjoyed them. This was the best season they put on dvd.
One needs to get used to the (at least temporary) departure of some caracters and the arrivals of others in this 8th Season ("The reincarnation of Nelly"). Even if the principles of the show remain the same as in the other seasons, one may nevertheless recognize a preference for the following topics:
-Love and family are more important than richness and fame ("Growing Pains", "The wave of the future", "The legacy", "Uncle Jed")
- real friendship and compassion ("A promise to keep", "stone soup", "A faraway cry")
- pride, suffering, prejudice and disappointment are a part of our human condition ("Gambini the Great", "Dark sage", "Chicago", "Days of sunshine, days of shadow", "Second chance" "No beast so fierce")
- but there is also fun ("The legend of Black Jake" "A Christmas they never forgot")
- and it is so precious to be (and stay) oneself ("A wiser heart", "For the love of Nancy")
and, last but not least, FAITH ("He was only twelve").
To resume, one can say that Season 8 is another season of Little House on the Prairie full of love, hope, joy and that shows us what is really important in our lives.
Related DVD's Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 8
The ninth season of Little House on the Prairie was re-invented as Little House: A New Beginning after star Michael Landon decided to leave the series. (He continued to produce, direct and write for the show.) The first episode began with the departure of Landon's Pa Ingalls, who fell on hard economic times and moved his family to the city . He returned for just one harrowing two-parter, "Home Again," in which son Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) battled a morphine addiction. In Landon's absence, it was up to the other denizens of Walnut Grove to provide drama, and provide they did. The meddling, gossipy Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) played town villain, followed by her whiny adopted daughter Nancy (Allison Balson), who was annoying but never as deliciously wicked as her... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 01 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I was excited to buy the DVD box sets especially since the box covers brag at what lengths had gone into making the episodes at such highest quality. Truthfully, you will be getting better quality recording them off TV.
The TV episodes are probably an approximate 42 to 43 minutes to where the DVD episodes are an approximate 45 minutes. However, there are still some scenes cut out in the DVD episodes.
Some cuts I found are:
In the episode "Fagin", an important scene where Charles tells Albert that since he is having a hard time with kids at school making fun of him for not having a father, why not start calling him "Pa". Instead, they cut to the scene where Laura overhears Albert call Charles "Pa" and she mentions it to the boy, who tells her that... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael Landon DVD Release Date: Released the 29 June 2004 Usually ships in 6 to 7 days
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