![]() ![]() this is a generic plot problem with almost any TV series, and sometimes shows up in novels too. #Bonanza cplot plusBut considering the ease with which they kill people and shrug it off - plus the fact that all their girlfriends get killed or escape - they may always have been psychopaths. The psychological stress of living in this world of almost constant shootings, beatings and deaths would cause the brothers to go crazy, suicidally depressed, or psychopathic. A firing test shows that they match the guns of the Cartwright brothers. Someone would start a criminal investigation of the Cartwrights: "The whole area is littered with spent casings from Colt cartridges. Cavalry base to keep the order in this den of crime and gunfire!"ģ. and ask for Federal intervention: "Every seven days it's the same - The Cartwrights kill people! We need a permanent U.S. The local Congressman would go to Washington, D.C. Impoverished slum - or worse, a ghost town Ģ. Law-abiding families and businesses would move out in droves, making Virginia City an (Which begs the question: why don't the Cartwrights move to a more peaceful county?)Īnd if we were to take the BONANZA Situation realistically, all this violence would have consequences:ġ. If one watches a whole season of BONANZA, one gets the impression that every dysfunctional family with a violent patriarch, every gang of bank-robbers and cattle-thieves, every rapist, cutthroat, lowlife and scumbag, is just flocking to the Cartwrights' spacious back yard. (If you're in a morbid mood, search on Wikipedia how many characters got killed over the course of the entire BONANZA series.) The Cartwrights are a regular death squad! They must have killed more people than Wyatt Earp. but it looks much more like Bogota, Colombia, today. Their ranch is supposed to be near Virginia City, Nevada, in the late 19th century. I mean, people there get shot to death or otherwise killed EVERY WEEK! And it all happens in one small region of Nevada between Virginia City and the Ponderosa ranch. The Cartwright Family is living in the most violent place on Earth. ![]() I'm sitting here by the computer, while the TV is showing an old BONANZA episode in the background. ![]()
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