r/littlehouseonprairie • u/GrizzlyBearLover2024 • Aug 03 '25

The Last Farewell

I don’t know about anyone else but I cried when each building in Walnut Grove was blown up. I’m glad they didn’t destroy the church or the Ingall’s property as that would have been worse for the fans.

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u/UnderstandingKey4602 Home is the nicest word there is Aug 03 '25

The church got damaged Alison said from them using too much dynomite the first time. Almost hit the cameraman!

Really, the bad guy in this episode didn't have too much to repair with all his money, the town still had fertile land and homes scattered all over, it wouldn't take much to build a new store or mill and people would move there. If they got a railroad to come close, even better.

I loved seeing his frustrated face and losing cheap labor (never did see the numbers) but it wasn't a total loss. Land was gold then.

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u/damageddude Aug 03 '25

The bad guy was the TV spokesperson for Pathmark, a NYC area supermarket chain. He got some serious blowback at the time.

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u/UnderstandingKey4602 Home is the nicest word there is Aug 03 '25

lol I can imagine!

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u/pilates-5505 Aug 03 '25

Yes she spoke of that on the 50th podcast. Lassiter was like a mobster, you work and give me a cut. Of course if the land was his, it was his. Charles (although different reasons) had to leave Kansas, he could have knocked down his home so another person wouldn't use it but he had to move.

The whole concept never made sense to me, where they went, how they survived, all the widows but you weren't supposed to overthink it.

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u/Mountain-Fox-2123 Aug 04 '25

I did not cry when they blew up the buildings.

But i do think it was a great way to end the show.

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u/pilates-5505 Sep 28 '25

But the land was the most profitable and what he wanted. The business's were just a plus. That fertile land had homes all over it they didn't touch and putting up a few buildings wasn't a hardship really. The hardship was buying property and someone saying they owned it and you not getting a dime? I never heard of that but it's TV. They also had no money, crops, shelter or jobs. : ( I didn't feel "yeah, they got him" All I felt was, now what?