A simple episode fairly well-executed. It ends up being pretty cut-and-dried: the person who seems to be a flawless good guy turns out to be a racist bad guy, and the accused bad guys turn out to be innocent victims. It's all predictable but well-acted enough to stay moderately interesting. The end is rather abrupt and arbitrary, though, as if they suddenly ran out of time before the climax but didn't have enough
material for a full Part 2. It's an unsatisfying way to end it. One wishes the writers had done another draft that made room for an actual ending.
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The Ending
amcwhirter16 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I agree with others about the ending. It was almost like it was originally scripted as a two-parter but then NBC changed its mind.
Footnote: The scene where Dean Jagger's character tells Ben Cartwright to "go ahead and tell the nominating committee, they'll nominate me anyway", would most likely have had a ring of truth to it for the time period Bonanza was set.
Footnote: The scene where Dean Jagger's character tells Ben Cartwright to "go ahead and tell the nominating committee, they'll nominate me anyway", would most likely have had a ring of truth to it for the time period Bonanza was set.
another session of social engineering
Thomas00129 December 2017
These social engineering lectures from Hollywood and disguised as western shows would have been more enjoyable to western aficionados as well as more significant for the social activists if they were not so much over the top. The ending also made no sense, it looked like they just ran out of material and had to wrap it up.
A letdown
bkoganbing6 December 2019
Sometimes in this life you do see things in people that you want to see and when
they fail to live up to your expectations it's a letdown.
This is what happens to Ben Cartwright who is among others pushing General Dean Jagger for governor. A heroic statue is erected in his little Nevada town. But also coming to town is Laurence Luckinbill who is an investigative reporter and is sure the general and his statue have feet of clay.
Jagger comes off as a hero at first. But the Indian Wars have maimed him psychologically. He's not a pretty sight with his guard down.
This story had one very weird ending
This is what happens to Ben Cartwright who is among others pushing General Dean Jagger for governor. A heroic statue is erected in his little Nevada town. But also coming to town is Laurence Luckinbill who is an investigative reporter and is sure the general and his statue have feet of clay.
Jagger comes off as a hero at first. But the Indian Wars have maimed him psychologically. He's not a pretty sight with his guard down.
This story had one very weird ending
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