“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”

OK IN OUR ONGOING EFFORT TO KEEP DROUGHTLANDER AT BAY AND SURVIVE TILL 2017 HORIZON:

Keep up to date on all the current crew crew–start with Tobias:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/outlanders-menzies-to-lead-amcs-the-terror/

and don’t forget the new ones like Lord Grey:  https://www.inverse.com/article/20312-outlander-nails-lord-john-grey-casting

while you’re getting technical how about how they handle the old and new:  http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/news/a17388/outlander-costume-designer-production-designer-interview/

and remember why he’s worth waiting for
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jamie+frazer+on+youtube&&view=detail&mid=C4E3DFD79094B9B38AB5C4E3DFD79094B9B38AB5&rvsmid=C4E3DFD79094B9B38AB5C4E3DFD79094B9B38AB5&fsscr=0&FORM=VDMCNL

So this week we’ve been looking at families—in the right or wrong places?  I’m not sure if that’s ever anywhere near the same for any of us.  Have you see the movie Sweet Home Alabama  (A young woman who’s reinvented herself as a New York socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation).  This is a woman who has become someone she wants to be but is it really her?  Her return home may prove that it isn’t.

This is a cross section of the good—her final decision, the bad—-her reunion with her family and friends and the ugly–Candice Bergan is fantastic as the mother of her perspective groom, the one she’s finally decided to contront her first husband about that pesky divorce.

Huffington gave us a list of 21 TV shows that makes you believe in the power of family.  #18 was Roseanne…and that of the 21 is the only one I ever really watched.  Guess I’m not a real family person?

The show:  “The Conners became the face of blue collar working-class families in 1988, and at the center of the show Roseanne Barr was a dominant — to say the least — voice for working mothers”

I think this family were more normal than most TV families before it and certainly dealt more with the bad—the family’s sometime total disfunction and the Ugly–no way you can see Rosie as a beautiful person….as far as good—well there were the ratings.

‘now when you get to books there’s a wider selection.  Little Woman was a great read when I was in my early teens and even now I see the growing up in the 1860s.   The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

The good is just about everything and anything about this family (except Amy which is spoilt but not so much you’d notice now days—and the fact that she ends up with someone else’s trip and love) The ugly is the war looming over their heads and their father’s being in it.

Scout Finch (Mary Badham), 6,and her older brother, Jem (Phillip Alford), live in sleepy Maycomb, Ala., spending much of their time with their friend Dill (John Megna) and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall). When Atticus (Gregory Peck), their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping

The novel has the goodness of young children and a father who is a moral man with the badness of a small town and the ugliness of prejudice, and the stronger preying on the weak.

I’m not sure if I can I find much good in this book the first in a series of pain, anger and worse.  Flowers in the Attic is:  After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.

  The good are the original innocence of the children…the bad is the rest of the family and the ugly runs from mother to daughter for a rich assortment of reasons.

And I couldn’t leave out the reality shows–Here Comes Honey Boo Boo  featuring the family of child beauty contestant Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson The show mainly revolves around Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and “Mama” June Shannon and their family’s adventures in the southern town of Mcintyre, Georgia.  If there’s good I haven’t found it yet but the bad is that its still on and the ugly is so many American continue to watch this.