Nearly every Bonanza show starts out dramatic and eventually turns to happy end. This show is different. It started with delightful interaction between Jennifer and Hop Sing. Another notable scene was the wedding announcement by Ben to his sons. The boys' acceptance was worth seeing twice (I did that). Great work. But then events took more negative, almost sinister turn up to the end. There was something missing, it seemed unfinished, as if the writer opened up larger issues, but then the show ran out of time. If there was any positive turn at the end, it was Ben's last words "let's go home, we have a ranch to run".
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Disturbing ending
davidsmuse-4145816 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
In the "Bonanza" world, the right thing happened to the bad guys, yet the wedding of someone all the Cartwrights loved to a controlling sociopath was allowed to happen? I thought the episode would end with an unhinged, armed Tuttle bursting into Ben and Jennifer's wedding, aiming for Ben but killing Jennifer, and Hoss, Joe, or Candy killing Tuttle. The "Cartwright Curse" would still be intact, but at least Jennifer would have been spared a lifetime of violent misery with Tuttle! Adam is my favorite, and yes, Jennifer would have been perfect for him, a beautiful, spirited, highly-intelligent,
college-educated woman his age!
Means with a mean streak
bkoganbing29 August 2016
It's Ben Cartwright who comes in for some possible romance since Mariette Hartley who has known him since childhood conceives a huge crush on him. She jilts her fiancé Burr DeBenning and runs off from San Francisco to Virginia City to meet up with Lorne Greene.
DeBenning is a man with a lot of means and and mean streak to him. He's as jealous as Othello. If he can't get Hartley one way, he'll get her any way he can.
I found this one a bit hard to swallow you would think that she might go for one of the sons even the absent Adam of whom it is pointed out that she's around his age.
Not one of the better stories.
DeBenning is a man with a lot of means and and mean streak to him. He's as jealous as Othello. If he can't get Hartley one way, he'll get her any way he can.
I found this one a bit hard to swallow you would think that she might go for one of the sons even the absent Adam of whom it is pointed out that she's around his age.
Not one of the better stories.
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