fell off that cliff. I was really hoping for a broken back or some other form of serious incapacitation that might humanize him just a little, but it looks like he'll be back to pulling the cork out with his teeth and feeding snowy deer out of buckets in no time. All hail Saint Ron.
Boys from the city feed soda pop to a thirsty pig.
Yeah, I was sort of hoping that when he came out of his unconscious state, he and Carrie would lock eyes, she now filled with love and total commitment to him, then he starts to talk and sounds like Gomer Pyle.
"Hee-yuk. Miss Carrie! Ah love's ya, so much!" "Uh. . .yeah. . . Ron, (reaching for her coat) now that you're okay. . ." "I fell in the snow!"
A character's getting injured is not funny to me just as it is not funny in real life. Laughing at death or injury that is portrayed in a serious manner and letting others, including children see one laugh will cause them to become unfeeling and unkind towards real people.
I had several devasting falls in my life the most serious being thrown from a pickup truck at a summer job for a public works with an inattentive driver speeding and taking a last minute right downhill at 30mph. I had a compound fracture of the left humerus requiring titanium hardware and neurological issues a broken left hip some road burns cervical spine damage requiring a cervical collar worn 2 years and Ptss which draws terror in me from riding in open trucks and convertibles to this day 42 years later. I get terrorized when kids and pets are in the rear of pickups unsecured. I was out 9 hours from this fall and thank god OSHA made us wear a hard hat beginning that day-- it was my last week of work earning cash for college and I rewithdrew from school foe one semester and I was 1 semester short of graduating and now in my early 60s I have Parkinson's disease with dysphasia have had aspiration pneumonia twice since 2014, vascular issues and a peptic ulcer which hemorrhaged during 2010 and the surgeon clamped it on the third try after blood leaked.to my abdomen. I also grew up on a farm in northestern Ct. and sustained a number of serious close calls with tractors and farm equipment and cattle not to mention spreading fertilizers on the land in my teens and early 20s without the now necessary breathing apparatus as well as chemicals I used while working for the public works department which I inhaled without the proper masks. At age 62 I won't give up though my spine and brain stem are precarious. Guess I am a walking miracle though incontinent and now in a wheelchair with balance issues and tremors, Reynauds syndrome and GERD disease and now have to drink nectar thick liquids and puréed food; no picnic and my weight is down to 158. I never signed off workers comp and the cervical spine has raised havoc with my throat and swallowing. So no, I didn't laugh when Ron fell from that snowdrift at least 40 feet to the ground as a guesstimate and hit the frozen ground with a horrifying thump bring back terror for me hitting the tarred road at 30 mph and my left arm having a life of its own with blood and bone matter then passing out till the ambulance was near the hospital and I was later told I was in n deep shock and near death. So no I didn't laugh when Ron fell all alone. I have been in a nursing facility since age 52 and am living my "golden years" not so golden. More like tarnished years but as the late Maureen Reagan said she threw back lemons thrown to her. Interesting that Jane Wyman worked with a character named Ron. Art imitating life Mrs. Wyman-Reagan... My accident with the Town of Coventry Ct. occurred 42 years ago today, August 19, 1974 when I was 20 years old.
Yes, falling when you are alone can be deadly. I thought the same thing. I was hoping she'd come back right away, but that didn't happen. He did seem to be recovering though.
BTW, I didn't think it was overly "soap opera-y." I thought it was just melodramatic enough.