Anyway, I've been consumed in tv shows as of late. Some new and some old, mostly older shows though (if 90s is considered old lol) my main favorite right now is Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman which stars Jane Seymour and Joe Lando.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993-1998
For those who haven't seen it, it is set in the 19th century and Dr. Michaela Quinn is a woman who grew up in Boston working with her father who was also a doctor, well she reads an advertisement in the paper asking for a new doctor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. So she packs up her things and goes to Colorado to start a new life on the frontier.
Well a woman doctor just wasn't heard of in the pioneer days and when she goes to talk to the Reverend he says that he was expecting a man and that her name was Michael. She put an "A" at the end of her name, but they thought it was a middle inital. Anyway, the town is not very accepting and it takes her a while to gain their trust.
There's really only a few people who do believe in her and that's Charlotte Cooper who runs the boarding house (which becomes the clinic) and befriends Michaela. Well she needs a place to stay so she puts up an add in the General Store that says permanent lodgings and Sully who is a moutain man and was taken in by the Cheyenne Indians, has an old homestead that he's not using, so he answers the ad and let's Michaela stay in it. It belonged to Sully and his wife Abigail (who is the daughter of Loren Bray who runs the store in town) Abigail died and so Sully has been on his own.
Well, Michaela moves in and continues to work in the town and still isn't accepted except by Sully and Mrs. Cooper, eventually Charlotte gets bit by a rattlesnake and Michaela can't save her in time and she dies, but before she passes away, she wants Michaela to promise that she will take care of her three kids; Matthew, Colleen and Brian. Michaela says she doesn't know anything about being a mother, all she really knows is how to be a doctor, but she promises Charlotte, so she takes on the responsibility of taking care of the children, which as she says in voiceover "...may be her biggest challenge of all."
So, she is the kids' mother now and they aren't that keen on the idea at first. One day Michaela and the children are at Loren's store and Brian breaks something and Michaela gets angry with him. Well he ends up running away to go be with the Indians (he already looked up to Sully) and so Michaela goes to Sully and the Indians for help in finding him. She didn't really know much about Sully, but she trusted him and most people were against the Indians, but she became a friend to them and looked up to them for natural remedies that were used to help people's illnesses. Cloud Dancing was the one that she got that knowledge from, he was one of the heads of the Cheyenne. They give her her Indian name, "Medicine Woman" :)
As the show goes on, Sully and Michaela grow closer as friends and eventually become a couple, I love the build-up to it though, it's really beautiful. I mean here we have these two completely different people, Michaela is used to being on her own, not being very social, just so absorbed in medical books and being a doctor, and Sully is this mountain man who married the General Store owner's daughter. Well Loren didn't approve of them and they went off and got married. Abigail and their baby died and Sully went off into the woods to grieve and was taken in by the Cheyenne.
When they finally do become a couple, Michaela is really nervous to be alone with him because she's never really been with a man that way before. Yes she did have a fiance back in Boston named David, but he was presumed dead in the Civil War and they courted, but they were both Doctors so that was what they really did together, they didn't do a lot of "physical" stuff so when Sully wanted to "touch and kiss" it was frightening for Michaela.
What became of them was what is considered one of the greatest romances in TV. :)
They have become one of my favorite couples and believe, that's a big deal since I like so many couples from TV shows. They story makes me want to cry it's so beautiful and Sully is the most amazing man you could ever want to have. They make me laugh, cry and most of all, they make me happy. <3
I didn't realize this post is as long as it is. I was just telling about the show and it became this long thing. Basically everyone that loves classic tv just needs to watch this show. If you like history, specifically the 19th Century, then this is a show for you. It's so authentic which I love and that's definitely something you want when it's taking about the history of america.
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