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I'm sorry, but I liked the show. Perhaps it's because I had heard such awful comments, that I expected something totally horrendous. And to my pleasant surprise, it wasn't. At all. Okay, there's a lot of cheese in it, especially in the singing and the dancing (and I can almost hear RDA cringing when he has to do that one song, poor bastard), but all in all his acting is as sincere as always. And oh yeah, the horseback riding is a bonus. Richard Dean Anderson is a real good horseman.
So, sue me.

Did you watch more than the first couple of episodes? I really started squirming at the third one -- the golly-maw-save-the-farm really became too much for me by then. If you still liked it after more than two episodes, I salute you wholeheartedly!

I watched them all, even more than once, yes, really, and thanks for the salute, but it wasn't a chore. I admit, I did squirm a little from time to time (mostly during the song&dance stuff), but never during RDA's scenes. He did survive that show for a reason: he was good, and some of the stories were okay too.

Edited 2012-06-27 16:40 (UTC)

You're quite right about RDA's acting having been fine. It was the scripts and the plots (if you can call them that) that made me squirm. I really have no taste for that particular kind of schtick -- probably due to being from the western US, I guess.

The original musical is hideous and manages to raise my feminist ire each and every time I'm exposed to it, and I'm a pretty mellow individual ordinarily. I'm assuming that fewer Sabine Women were raped in the making of the TV show, since we've evolved considerably since the making of the movie.

The TV show has a blissfully slender resemblance to the movie. There are seven brothers, alphabetical from Adam on down to Guthrie (River Phoenix); RDA played Adam, and the one female you see there is his wife, Hannah, whom he marries about 10 minutes into the first episode. None of the other brothers acquire wives in any manner, whether by fancy dancin' or kidnap. In fact, I recall that Hannah has the strongest personality of the lot.

The first episodes involved the family's plucky struggles to keep the local Bigwig from foreclosin' on the ranch, Maw, and I haven't yet been able to get myself to try the later episodes. I should. They didn't actually wear plaid all that often, and RDA was dreamy in it. And Dana Elcar had a guest spot!

I've only seen small snippets on YouTube, including one song-and-dance number. I get the feeling that it would (like the TV form of Little House on the Prairie) send my blood sugar into levels likely to cause coma, and possibly death. Still, I'm relieved that there isn't all that forced marryin' in the TV form.

Icon is to counteract the aw shucks glucose factor.

The blood sugar issue is a definite danger.

On the other hand . . . I'd say that 7 Brides was about as true to its source material as the TV version of Little House: that is to say, it has the same title, and some of the characters have the same names. In this case, I think this is a Good Thing. (I loathed the TV version of Little House, because I loved, and love, the books.)

I tried to change my name from my so unusual as to be weird nickname to Laura when I was a kid [my mom vetoed Susan which was her name - too confusing to have 2 in one house] because I loved those books so much. It didn't take in the end because people politely complied with my wishes but it just wasn't me.

Oddly enough, I never wanted to change to Bilbo or Taran, although Aragorn might have tempted me if it wasn't so... I guess I just couldn't get over the "gorn" part, even though I hadn't seen Star Trek yet at that point. ;)

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Akkkk kant tiep todai. Duz knot bowd well for producing U is for Unspoken in a few minutes!

Edited 2012-06-28 04:18 (UTC)

ohhhhh lawdee when I read the synopsis of the movie on Wikipedia, my blood pressure went up a notch. The "good ol' days" of movie musicals sometimes... weren't good at ALL.

Oh, you of all people should not watch this movie, unless someday you have a desperate need to really embody the gestalt of your icon!

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akshully, no sobbin' wimmen

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