S2 E14 The Pride of Walnut Grove

Well, that.

OK, so that is a perfect segue for what I was thinking about and wanted to talk about.

that I guess I've never really thought of a different narrative about Laura Ingalls and her family.

I mean, because all we ever really knew, I mean, we did read the books, but the TV show is huge.

So we're seeing everything through Laura's eyes, who sees her pa as a hero.

And I was reading some criticism where people were saying that the real Charles Ingalls was kind of a flake.

He was kind of like...

a little selfish maybe and like

possibly you know suffering from mental disorders or something well and

i kind of get more of that impression from the new series too yeah

because

you know the first episodes that you know that he does take him away from wisconsin for you know just trying to find

yeah i was reading about that about how like he actually had lots and lots of significant debts and foreclosures which is shocking to me because it's cash on the barrel You know, that's always what we hear is cash on the barrel.

They didn't believe in debt.

But that's why they left Wisconsin was because I guess people didn't really leave to go west unless they really had no other choice.

So if you look at it that way, it's like, oh, my God, he really did put Ma through hell.

yeah and all of them

yeah because i mean the to live in like i think they lived the first whole winter in there and he in this

odd

house yes yeah i think they went the whole winter yeah and i

like basically living in a cave underground

it was and it i mean the one that that they had like the re um the, what is it called? Why can't I think of the word?

Reconstruction?

Yeah.

It just, I mean, it stunk just like a milk, like a milky basement.