The Waltons: The Gift (1974)
Season 2, Episode 18
2/10
This episode really
16 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Irritated the 4£ (( out of me.

For all the hometown cooking and community assistance and Sunday church, we are treated to a depressing and hopeless tale of a dying teen who touches the life of Jason , the musical Walton.

Ritchie Cunningham, in a not so happy day, is here to visit us in the guise of Seth who is suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. This serves to ensure all youngsters who did not see O'Neal and Macgraw's Love Story, do not miss out in the knowledge that there is a life threatening youth killer that comes at kids in their bloom and dees Troyz.

Where they slipped up in the writing was leaving out the spiritual beliefs that the series is supposedly selling. Sure Grandpa sledgehammered home the emotional devastation of the loss of loved ones but with little comforting explanations for the souls that leave early. I thought eternal life with the Lord and passing through from this world to the next would've been a more appropriate message for the characters and the young audience , instead of oh well , another life snuffed out for no rhyme or reason.

Living on a farm in the country teaches one about birth and death and this life lesson was predictably omitted.

This was a Jason episode and he was given a chance to lead us into the required emotional suffering that the godless media inflict ad infinitum.
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