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!

Teasers:




Please, if you take anything, be so kind as to take note of the numbers of the icon(s) you're saving, since I am always experimenting with my styles and I would like to know what people like best. (This helps me so I can make more!) The numbers are above the icons. ;-)

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

"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

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord! CHRISTY!!! THESE ARE FANTASTIC!

OH Gosh, I was SUCH a fan of this when I was young, and almost freaked out when I saw the DVDs in the store last year. I quickly purchased them and watched the whole series in just a few days.

(Neil/Christy = Forever OTP ;))

[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.

oh lovely!

[unaselvaoscura.livejournal.com]

my first great (fictional) love --> neil macneill


you should make some of the other cast members. :)

Christy

[ancientwhispers.livejournal.com]

Ah! I love the icons you make and I LOVE Christy! Will you be making more? Hope so. ;-)

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

Aww, I loved that show!! #7 is absolutely gorgeous. Snagging it, will credit. Thanks! :)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

:-D Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

I didn't know about it either, until I stumbled across them on Netflix. ;-) Of course I clicked the "add all" button!!

What is "OTP"? What does that mean?

[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!!

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

OTP = One True Pairing. It means I shipped them so, so, so much! :D

[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

Re: oh look! It's Miss Alice with a gun! (a YOUNG Miss Alice!)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And lol.

Yes, you're right, I should. *ponders*

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! And thanks for stopping by!

I always thought little Mountie O'Teale was kinda cute.

Re: Christy

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!! I love Christy as well, and if they are wanted, then yes, I will make more. :-D

Isn't that Josh Groban? I think he ought to do a duet with Hayley Westenra. ;-)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh okay!! I get it now, thank you! ;-)

*glances at icon* Hmmm...and who else do you ship, I wonder?

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

You're more than welcome! :D

*giggles* My icons are, admittedly, not entirely subtle! I think the mere fact that I have an icon from every single Guy/Marian scene (excluding the finale for season 2) ever says something about the state of my shippiness. ;)

But I've got some Margaret/Thornton in there!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

:-D

Hahahaha.

There we go!!!! That's better!!! *grin*

[ancientwhispers.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's Josh Groban, indeed! And I agree with you, he should do a duet with Hayley. I like her and have a two of her albums.

[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.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

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

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I love her music and we have two albums as well. I got to hear some of JG's Noel album in Borders at Christmas and I was enjoying it a lot! I've always liked his You Raise Me Up.

[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!!

[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]

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]

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.