Icons: Christy

[olde_fashioned]

We've been Netflixing the new DVDs of the Christy mini-series that aired back in 1994 on CBS, and while I can remember watching it when I was little, I'm really enjoying seeing them all over again. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Christy, it is based on the novel by Catherine Marshall, and it's one of my favourites. Kellie Martin (who plays Christy) is absolutely perfect, and you couldn't have special-ordered a better person to play her.

This batch is principally from the "title credit" sequence where Christy speaks at the beginning of each episode. I've included the full text at the bottom of this entry.

But enough of this. ;-) Comment, credit, and enjoy!

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"The Great Smokies.
When I left my city home to be a schoolteacher
at a backwoods mission, I dreamed of adventure.
I wasn't ready for the real challenges of life
in these mountains.
I'd have given up, if not for the children.
I came to Cutter Gap to teach
but they show me everyday I'm here to learn."

~ spoken by Christy Huddleston at the beginning of each episode

Comments

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

I LOOOOOOVED watching that series. I remember that it showed when I was in 6th grade and my whole family watched it. I used to have the book, but I'm not sure where it disappeared to. It is (or at least for a long time was) my best friend's favourite book. Her dog once got mad at her and knew it was her favourite book so he took a bite out of it and managed to glue his mouth shut. it was hilarious.

When I was in college, my landlady had a whole bunch of the Christy videos and I'd go upstairs to her livingroom and borrow them, hee hee (she was more like a grandma to me than a landlady!).

I think that the casting was VERY good, though I think there are some more Christy episodes in which a different girl played Christy (I never watched them I don't think, or maybe I watched one, but it's just not the same without Kelly Martin. Kind of lame.

I should Netflix the DVDs and watch it all over again. Hmm, or see how much I could buy the series for from Amazon Marketplace . . .

Also, don't tell Joel, but I'm going to marry Neil. Except not, because I think he's an atheist, so it'd never work out. And also if he ever did exist, he's dead now and I don't usually decide to marry dead people, especially if they're atheists.

Okay that's enough blabbering from me . . . for now.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Mwahahaha, I just bought it.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoooo!!!! Yay!!!!

Now when Joel comes to visit you can make him watch it hehehehe! My dad did not want to watch lame girly stuff, but when he was in the room while I was watching, he suddenly became transfixed and said he'd forgotten how good it was. ;-D

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, there is NO way I'd ever be able to get Joel to watch it, hahaha.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

No? Not even if you tell him how hot you think Neil is and how much you want to marry him?? *wicked grin*

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

If I told him that he'd even MORE not want to watch it, hahaha. Like when we were at Blockbuster and he picked up a movie and I said "oooh, Colin Firth!" and he immediately put it back down (turns out Kent and Becca watched it that weekend and they told us it was a terrible movie; can't remember what it's called, but not a chick flick). And he doesn't like Indiana Jones either because I've informed him I'm going to marry Indiana Jones.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! Okay then, tell him how much you dislike David. (that is, *if* you dislike David? I'm presuming you do, if you like Neil...)

The Last Legion? My dad just put that on Netflix, despite my protests.

Harrison Ford is OLD!! And he doesn't have a nice accent to help him out, lol.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't work as well. I don't outright dislike David, I just find him a bit irritating.

Now I might be able to convince him if there were some really good-looking girls in it. But there aren't. I mean, Kelly Martin is pretty but she's not quite what an average guy would consider hot. Especially not in those blouses with the really really high neck and ground-length skirts, hahaha. Oh well.

Harrison Ford is manly and good-looking in Indiana Jones.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. And a know-it-all. But then so is Dr. MacNeil, lol.

Good point. She's a good girl, or at least she looks like one in Christy.

Who does Joel like?

He is not.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Joel likes me.

Hahahah. I'm not sure if there are any particular actresses he likes. He's mainly into blow-em-up/war sort of movies.

Oh yes he is. I'm going to marry him. Mmm Indiana Jones. (Not sure about his good-lookingness in the new movie coming out in May though.)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I already know THAT! I mean does he have Jessica Alba on his desktop or something. Ha ha. (blow-em-up/war!!! ROTFLOL!!!!!)

Yeah, like I said -- he's OLD!!!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, from what I hear, his desktop is a picture of him and me. I haven't ever seen his computer. He doesn't have one at home (and I've never actually see where he lives lives, just been to the lobby area because last time I visited him was in May way before we were dating). But yeah. His co-workers found out about us because he had a picture of the two of us on his desktop.

Come on, he's not THAT old!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww!!!! That's cute!!!! (what's on your desktop?)

That depends on what kind of old we're talking about. He's gotta be at least 60.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

On my home computer, my desktop is a picture of some sailboats in fog in the Puget Sound. At work my picture is a waterfall at Mount Rainier.

He wasn't 60 when he made the original Indiana Jones movies, silly!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Me too!!! Well I would have been about 8 but I still remember it. My mom had the book, and originally introduced me to it, and I have her copy now. (it has Kellie Martin on the cover, hee!)

I would have been very mad at that dog!

Yes, I agree with you. The casting is fabulous! I think the other episodes you are referring to are two movies made by Pax with none of the original cast except for Dr. Macneil. I saw a few minutes of it on TV, saw that it wasn't the original cast, and lost interest in it. ;-) I think they were made in 2000 or 2001.

ROTFLOL!!! But I always thought he was an agnostic, not an athiest? And [spoiler!!] didn't he find God in the end of the book? Whatever -- it's been a long time since I read the book. But he's a doctor, and I always like the doctor characters, and he has a Scottish accent. ;-D 'Nuff said.

Nonsense! The more blabbering the better! hee hee!!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, now my memory is all fady. Maybe he did. I'll have to find my book and look again. I mainly just remember her surviving typhoid!

Yes, and his name is Neil MacNeil. That's just an awesome name to have the same first and last name, hahahaha.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Haha. You mean I've found something The Great Deborah doesn't know?? *is in awe*

You know, I just realized that this is the very first batch of my icons that you have ever commented on! I am forever indebted to your kindly bestowed generosity and felicitude in commenting on my humble journal. *bows low* [/mr. collins]

I always thought that was kinda weird, but it works for him. He had red hair in the book, I'm pretty sure. I need to read it again now!!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not that I don't know, it's just that I can't remember. ;-)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Just keep on telling yourself that!!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Keep telling your mom that.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

What does my mom have to do with this???

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter. Moms have everything to do with everything. Especially for people who like making your-mom jokes.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well I'm the type who would use my "don't-mess-with-my-mom-fists" if I knew you were serious.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Haha! Good to be protective!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

*pokes nose into air*