The Tempest

Honestly, the only saving graces of this episode are the performances from the actors playing The Baldwin Sisters, Corabeth & Curtis-- and the majority of those characters are barely in this episode!

I hate this episode so much! The story line is completely pointless! I don't understand the thinking behind the writing. It's only purpose was to ruin the memory of the show and characters. There was nothing wrong with leaving Curt dead. The pearl harbour episode is one of my favourites and it was devastating. This undoes everything and makes so many things worse, and for what? Why? Every time I see this episode I'm disgusted. They made Curt a deadbeat dad instead of a good memory. I feel bad for the implications to John Curtis, poor kid. The writers didn't care about him.

I wish they had never done this story line and left things alone. It's a damn shame.

There are bad episodes. There are terrible episodes. There are awful episodes. And then there's this one. Writers who not only know nothing about the series or the characters but apparently have some obscure personal axe to grind... it's almost as though somebody knew the series was ending and they decided to just go ahead and cherry bomb the backed up toilet.

The writers, directors and producers did the characters and actors a gross disservice with this episode. It was a Paisley shirt with a plaid pair of pants, jarring and pointless, contributing nothing to the story or character development and perhaps even dealing some mild to moderate damage.

Based on the downward trend in this final series of the show I'd be willing to skip the remaining episodes and go directly to the movies, but my wife says we must see it through to the bitter end. I guess we're just grotesquely optimistic gluttons for punishment. Here's hoping that this egregious episode was simply a fluke.

I don't want to give too much away in case you want to watch this, but to have Curt abandon his wife and son for the reason given in the storyline is absurd. He has that happen to him so he never sees his son again?!?! I love The Waltons, but I skip this one in the rotation if I see it is on. The storyline about Erin and JD is good though.

I love The Walton's. But like every other series, there's always one episode that just doesn't fit, The Tempest is that episode. What on earth were they thinking?