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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 443075" data-attributes="member: 8">The series continues with an earthquake episode guest-starring Charles Bronson as a former Barkley ranch hand who was fired because of his alcohol problem.Oddly enough, that part of the story doesn&#039;t go anywhere and I thought the episode ended abruptly.The next episode is a murder trial story in which Jarrod Barkley decides to defend a member of a violent and trashy family. Jarrod doesn&#039;t agree with the town&#039;s and his family&#039;s bias and it certainly shouldn&#039;t be the&nbsp; reason to convict someone. It turns out that the ne&#039;er-do-well was the murderer after all, but Jarrod&#039;s family forgives him (Jarrod, not the killer).That&#039;s like totally missing the point!! If it&#039;s been agreed on that everyone deserves a proper trial then it doesn&#039;t matter how bad it looks.It&#039;s not Jarrod&#039;s job to believe his client, he only needs to defend him. I was very disappointed in Linda Evans in this episode.The character-stories usually rotate but the last two episodes on disc 4 of my fabulous, German-exclusive complete box set are Nick Barkley stories.The Big Valley kicks up the schmaltz big time in these episodes, complete with awkward speeches and the forced laughter just before the end credits. And I&#039;m loving it.College boy Eugene Barkley saves the day in the cow disease story (I think of him as the Western equivalent to Batman&#039;s Dick/Robin) but it&#039;s mostly about the trust between Nick and a rags-to-riches Mexican.Night Of The Wolf&nbsp;&nbsp; is my favourite. Nick, the manliest character in this series, gets bitten by a rabid wolf and then he sort of becomes a werewolf. You know, the angry outbursts, the screaming and grunting and crawling over the floor.Via via he ends up in the care of an unmarried mother, and when Nick offers compensation she asks him to marry her before he dies, just to give her son an official name.If it had happened that way then she&#039;d become a Barkley widow with the right to claim Nick&#039;s part of the Barkley fortune, but the story ignores this cynical point of view.Ironically, he marries her in the story&#039;s final act because she&#039;s dying. Actually it&#039;s not an official marriage, it&#039;s faked to set her dying mind at ease, but that also made it easier to ship the cute kid off to Massachusetts or Ohio (both places are mentioned) so perhaps the writers had&nbsp; considered the ramifications of a legal marriage.Anyway, I&#039;m glad that manly Nick is safe and single again.[ATTACH=full]59454[/ATTACH]How convenient that this leather sofa was installed in the haberdashery.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 443075, member: 8"] The series continues with an earthquake episode guest-starring Charles Bronson as a former Barkley ranch hand who was fired because of his alcohol problem. Oddly enough, that part of the story doesn't go anywhere and I thought the episode ended abruptly. The next episode is a murder trial story in which Jarrod Barkley decides to defend a member of a violent and trashy family. Jarrod doesn't agree with the town's and his family's bias and it certainly shouldn't be [I]the[/I] reason to convict someone. It turns out that the ne'er-do-well was the murderer after all, but Jarrod's family forgives him (Jarrod, not the killer). That's like totally missing the point!! If it's been agreed on that everyone deserves a proper trial then it doesn't matter how bad it looks. It's not Jarrod's job to believe his client, he only needs to defend him. I was very disappointed in Linda Evans in this episode. The character-stories usually rotate but the last two episodes on disc 4 of my fabulous, German-exclusive complete box set are Nick Barkley stories. The Big Valley kicks up the schmaltz big time in these episodes, complete with awkward speeches and the forced laughter just before the end credits. And I'm loving it. College boy Eugene Barkley saves the day in the cow disease story (I think of him as the Western equivalent to Batman's Dick/Robin) but it's mostly about the trust between Nick and a rags-to-riches Mexican. [I]Night Of The Wolf[/I] is my favourite. Nick, the manliest character in this series, gets bitten by a rabid wolf and then he sort of becomes a werewolf. You know, the angry outbursts, the screaming and grunting and crawling over the floor. Via via he ends up in the care of an unmarried mother, and when Nick offers compensation she asks him to marry her before he dies, just to give her son an official name. If it had happened that way then she'd become a Barkley widow with the right to claim Nick's part of the Barkley fortune, but the story ignores this cynical point of view. Ironically, he marries her in the story's final act because [I]she's [/I] dying. Actually it's not an official marriage, it's faked to set her dying mind at ease, but that also made it easier to ship the cute kid off to Massachusetts or Ohio (both places are mentioned) so perhaps the writers [I]had[/I] considered the ramifications of a legal marriage. Anyway, I'm glad that manly Nick is safe and single again. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1786889815076.png"]59454[/ATTACH] How convenient that this leather sofa was installed in the haberdashery. [/QUOTE]

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