Little House on the Prairie Season 10 Episode 2

Adam is mentioned one last time when Charles says "There Berk and Davis that's the law firm my son in law use to work for".

When Charles and Caroline first arrive at the boarding house, and after Caroline hugs Almanzo, Charles tells her to go on up. How does she know where Laura's bedroom is, if she hasn't been there before?

Nitpick: The restaurant where Charles and Caroline go for dinner is the same place where in season 9's Once Upon a Time, Laura and Mr. Matthews go for dinner. But where Laura and Mr. Matthews goes is in Minneapolis, amd Charles and Caroline are in Burr Oak, Iowa.

The classical violin piece that Mr. Montague plays for Charles is "Flight of the Bumblebee".

We have no clue in this episode whether Albert Ingalls is alive or not. There was an opportunity for Charles and Caroline to bring it up somewhere along the line, but they never did. Albert made it clear in Look Back to Yesterday that he was going to spend his last days in Walnut Grove. Since he's no longer there, we can only assume that he has passed on already, and if that's the case, his parents and sister Laura certainly don't look that torn up about it. This was an important plot thread, and the writers just glossed over it as if it never even happened. You would think that since Caroline didn't attend Albert's funeral, she would visit his gravesite.

The only characters who appeared in both the pilot and the series finale episodes were Charles, Caroline, Laura, Mr. Edwards, and Ruth Foster. (Foster played a relative of the Ingalls family in the Big Woods of Wisconsin in the first scene of the pilot, and in Season 1, she began with a recurring role as the Walnut Grove postmistress before resigning from that and becoming just a regular townsperson.)

When the show reached its highly emotional end, Michael Landon left Melissa Gilbert (Laura) with some very important words: "This is not the end for you. This is the beginning." Lindsay Kennedy (Jeb Carter) has said that he overheard this as Landon said it to Gilbert, and these words have stayed with both Gilbert and Kennedy.

Kevin Hagen (Doc Baker) has said in previous interviews that although he can't speak for all the actors who were involved in the emotional final scene, he himself felt that it was an inappropriate way to end the series. Hagen believed that realistically, the strong and kind townspeople of Walnut Grove would not be so ridiculous as to destroy their homes and livelihoods just so other people could not make use of them. Hagen went on to say that the actual Walnut Grove remains in existence today and is remembered as a place where the Ingalls family actually lived, thanks to the timeless books that Laura wrote, so to him, it made very little sense to conclude the show in that way.

Melissa Gilbert (Laura) has said in previous interviews that when the show started dwindling down in its later years, she felt like she was really ready to move on, have her boyfriend, hang out with her friends, and regain that piece of her life that was taken away as she filmed the series for nearly a decade. However, when Gilbert was approached about the official series finale, she was immediately upset and thought, "No! I'm not ready for this!" Laura's emotion in the final scene was certainly not just acting, since Gilbert herself was so devastated about leaving the show behind.

After the town of Walnut Grove is blown up, the Church and the Ingalls/Carter place are the only two things that remain intact. For obvious reasons, these two Walnut Grove locations had a certain value attached to them, and Michael Landon chose not to destroy them. A more important reason that the church wasn't blown up was that it would be offensive and being a family show with Christian overtones there would have been an outrage.

Toward the end of this episode, Laura and Caroline have a very heartwarming moment together, and Laura acknowledges that all her life, she wanted to be just like her mother. When asked about Karen Grassle (Caroline) in previous interviews, Melissa Gilbert (Laura) has said that when she was a tiny girl on the set, she herself wanted to grow up and be just like Karen. Gilbert joked that she even tried to get physically near Karen, because she thought that if she did, that would help get some of Karen's qualities to rub off on her.

At one point in the episode, Charles mentions that Caroline has not been back in Walnut Grove for three years. This is a goof--actually, she was only gone for about a year and a half, since they moved at the beginning of Season 9. Some may argue that it was implied that the show spanned more years from Season 9 to 10, but the kids on the show didn't age enough for that to be plausible.

The buildings that were blown up in the episode were actually blown up in real life! Michael Landon allegedly had a deal with the people who originally owned the land, and he promised them that as soon as the series was completed, the area would go back to being exactly the way it was before filming.

Reply: That could be one of the reasons, but the primary reason Michael Landon blew up the town was because he was mad they canceled the show and did not want anybody to use his set.