Christy #7: The Princess Club
This episode was a childish morality tale about greed. Ruby Mae and two of her best friends in the cove happen to find gold nuggets in a stream, and begin to call themselves princesses, considering themselves royalty because of their newfound wealth. Not surprisingly, this sets up resentment, jealousy, and hurt among the rest of the children. Meanwhile, a newcomer to the cove comes to stay at the mission house, and Christy has a strong suspicion that the gold is his–but he doesn’t claim it. Just like all the rest of these stories, lessons are learned and things turn out all right in the end.
My rating: ***
Christy #8: Family Secrets
This episode is about racism in the cove. Dr MacNeill sells a piece of his property to a new black family, and both the children and the adults of the cove unite against them, even to the point of physical violence. Only those involved at the mission reach out to befriend them. The family nearly leaves the cove, but eventually one of the little girls of the cove befriends one of the new little girls, and in a crisis, the black family returns good for evil.
My rating: ***
Christy #9: Mountain Madness
This is another episode about a mountain superstition, this time of the Boggin, a bigfoot-like creature that supposedly lives in the mountains. Only after a number of sightings and rumors and even fear on Christy’s own part, it turns out that the Boggin is nothing but a lonely old man. Christy and the Spencers enlist the Boggin (whose name turns out to be Edward) in leveraging the rumors about him to help to right a wrong in the cove– and they make a new friend in the process.
My rating: ***
Language: none
Sexual content: none
Violence: none
Political content: none
