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Thread #47241 Message #753902
Posted By: SharonA
24-Jul-02 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Review: PBS series 'Frontier House'
Subject: RE: Review: PBS series 'Frontier House'
Alice: The scenery's gorgeous, simply gorgeous! (Y'mean the PBS folks didn't airbrush those mountaintop clouds – they come that way? *BG*)
I'm still trying to figure out what that article writer meant about the Clunes letting the teenage girls "go feral". As I said, I haven't seen the last two parts of the series yet; still, I have a hard time imagining those girls – who were typically concerned with their appearance and bemoaning the absence of makeup – turning into wolf children!
Actually, Gordon Clune and even Adrienne, have kinda grown on me, in spite of the difficulty they had adapting to the change in lifestyle. Their idiocy is laughable and their "not-fair" complaints are infuriating, but I'm sure their feeling of being fish-out-of-water was typical of many homesteaders of the period. I'm finding their mindset a lot easier to take than Karen Clune's "everyone's an incompetent idiot except me" attitude.... even more so when I see on this thread that the Glenns weren't judged to be as well prepared for winter as the Brookses!