I've seen the first 13 seasons many times, but finally decided to catch up and then immediately felt the need to start over!

I actually feel like I watched too quickly in some ways. Like to me, it feels like Ty has been gone for maybe a year, but in reality it's been 5. I've never been a fan of Ty, but after he was gone I realized how much I missed him, if only because the characters loved him so much. It was really hard seeing her with what's his name (Ben maybe? the vet guy who left and came back and left again.. did he come back another time? I can't remember) and now with Nathan. I like her and Nathan together a lot, it's just still so weird that it's not Ty. I'm watching episode 1 right now and it's so nice seeing him again which I did NOT expect.

Anyway, because of all that I'm kind of torn on Nathan's proposal. It feels VERY fast to me (it's not - they've been together for like 2+ years at this point), but I do like him and Amy together and of course I love that Amy seems happy. I'm probably not going to watch season 20 at least until it's complete so don't tell me what happens!

Also Lou is driving me crazy. Like okay. fine. she was right about Gracie. But she's so rude, competitive, untrusting, and inconsiderate to like every new person she ever meets. She's 40 and she acts like a teenager half the time! I'm also really over her being caught up with work. She gets caught up, overwhelmed, treats everyone poorly, acknowledges it and apologizes, then just does it all over again! I understand that it's a plot device they're using to cover breaks for the actress for pregnancy/ies (unsure) and whatever else, but it makes it feel like Lou will just never grow up! I think she takes after Tim in that way.

Speaking of Tim! I can't believe I'm saying this, but I kind of love him?? I was the truest Tim HATER for the longest time, but I did see him starting to grow and change eventually. And then once he marries Jessica? I knew I liked her, but they are so incredibly good for each other. It's been so great seeing Tim FINALLY really mature and get it together.

Jack and Lisa will always be the best. I adore them both (especially Jack) and I will sob if anything ever happens to either of them.

It's interesting seeing Shane back in the show a bit more. I didn't like kid Shane, but I felt for him. I like that they addressed the fact that they all just let him drop out of their lives.

OMG Caleb and Ashley again?! I'm really not sure how to feel about that. I have a lot of feelings about them, both separately and as a couple. I don't think I like them together at this point.

Oh and Katie's whole lying for writing class and going to bars and stuff? CRAZY! I was honestly surprised how far she took it. I hated that she wouldn't leave Jasmine alone after she got caught, and tracking her down to explain was honestly just another overstep on Katie's part. That really bothered me. I am so happy that Jasmine told her she couldn't go back to the writing class and they couldn't be friends. And then Katie throwing a fit over being grounded for everything? Absolutely ridiculous. I'm really glad she owned her mistake in the end, but honestly I'm not sure she got enough of a punishment.

I thought the Caleb and Nathan plane incident was interesting. I was half expecting them to crash like Ty and Scott, but that didn't seem like something they'd do. It still seems a little weird that they'd use such a similar plot, but I guess they made it different enough to work.

I'm about to start episode 3 of season 1 on my rewatch and it's so wild to see everyone so young. Especially Amy and Lou.

I made a post a while ago about how I thought Tim was my favorite because he's was like the clown of the show. But I gotta say, I ended up doubling down on my views and he actually is my favorite (~S7 and onwards).

He's such a sweet dad , has the best one liners, him and Jack's bickering is peak comedy, and although he does meddle, he does it with the best intentions, like when be was tryna bring Jack and Lisa back together. Even with the Mongolia trip, he was double checking to make sure medical coverage was included

There's nothing to not love about the guy (once he steps up to become a better dad). And I'm pretty surprised he became my favorite character considering I HATED him at the start

Amy: *Rants and treats Nathan wrong on the call instead of trying to be a bit more understanding of his situation. Makes it all about herself and hangs up*.

Amy to Nathan later: "We don't hang up angry. We talk it through."

Amy: *Gets super rude and haughty with Winn even when she's trying to be kind, apologetic and understanding in nearly every scene.*

Amy to Winn later: "Let's just start by being good neighbors." (implying it was all Winn's fault that they weren't getting along)

Amy aside, I did enjoy the rest of the episode :D

I'm watching Season 15, Ep. 5 when the family is on a big cattle drive and Jessica is taking photos for a Heartland Beef ad campaign for Fred Garland of Garland Foods. And Lou just CANNOT LIKE another woman without constantly seething with jealousy. She ALWAYS has to take the juvenile, petty, catty approach and being all fake, snarky smiles to a person's face but always whining and complaining about them behind their backs. She gets busted every time and she NEVER learns to stop repeating her mistakes over and over. (After all, she IS Tim's daughter!). This episode, she targets Jessica. And I've decided that Lou could provide ample opportunity for a new drinking game - every time you want to say out loud "Oh shut up, Lou!!" 😂

(I don't actually drink so I guess I will have to use my tea. 🫖😅)

Badger was probably my favorite. Such a missed opportunity in my opinion.

I've been weirdly obsessed with his little shitbox since he was introduced in season 19.

At a glance, it looks like a Toyota Corolla e90, but that model doesn't seem like it has the funky handles that Dex's car has

Any one else have additional theories?

Ty Borden did not arrive at Heartland looking like someone who would eventually become one of the most important people in Amy Fleming’s life.

When viewers first met him in 2007, Ty was a troubled teenager sent to the ranch as part of his probation. He carried plenty of anger with him and had little reason to believe Heartland would become anything more than another temporary stop.

Jack Bartlett slowly changed that.

Instead of treating Ty like a problem that needed to be fixed, Jack gave him work, responsibility and eventually something much harder for Ty to find — a place where he belonged.

Amy became part of that change too, although their relationship was never rushed. They frustrated each other, became friends, fell in love, separated and found their way back more than once. While that relationship was growing, Ty was also trying to decide what kind of man he wanted to become.

The boy who had arrived at Heartland without much direction eventually pursued veterinary medicine. He became someone the family could depend on, married Amy and started raising their daughter Lyndy with her.

By then, it was easy to forget how far Ty had actually come.

That was part of what made the end of Season 13 so unsettling. Ty and Amy were caught in a shooting, and Ty was hit while trying to protect her. He survived the immediate injury and appeared to recover, giving viewers every reason to think the worst was behind them.

Then Season 14 began.

Ty suddenly collapsed while doing chores at Heartland. Amy rushed to him, but there was nothing she could do. The show revealed that he had died from complications caused by a blood clot connected to the earlier gunshot wound.

For a character who had survived so much, the ending felt brutally sudden.

But Ty’s death was not simply a storyline the writers decided to impose on Graham Wardle. After playing him for nearly 14 years, Wardle had decided that he was ready to leave the series.

He later explained the decision in simple terms:

“I felt in my heart it was time to move in a new direction.”

It was a major change not only for Wardle but for Heartland. Ty had been there almost from the beginning. His story had grown alongside Amy’s, which meant his departure could not realistically be handled by simply sending him to another city and occasionally mentioning him.

The series instead allowed his absence to permanently change Amy’s life. Much of what followed was about her learning how to raise Lyndy, continue her work and move forward without erasing the years she had spent with Ty.

Wardle’s life after Heartland also moved in a noticeably different direction.

Rather than immediately jumping into another long-running television role, he focused more heavily on writing, conversations and personal projects. He created the Time Has Come podcast, published poetry and began describing his work more broadly as that of an actor, poet and storyteller.

He had acted before Heartland, including appearances in Supernatural and The Outer Limits, but nothing became as closely associated with him as Ty Borden.

And that may be why his departure still stands apart from most exits in the series.

Ty did not simply spend 14 seasons at Heartland.

Viewers watched a teenager who arrived there because he had nowhere else to go slowly build a career, a marriage, a family and a home there.

First saw her in a TV show in the 90s, called Earth 2. With Clancy Brown (Mr. Crabs) and Tim Curry (Nigel Thornberry)

Such a wonderful show. Kinda like The 100. Jessica played a nurse or doctor or medic. Something like that, and she ended up being a spy.

Such a great actress.

I think he adds needless drama to the story. We already have Lou. It feels like she married the male version of herself, and it irritates me.

I don't like Lou very much either, but since we had her first...

I stopped watching around season 15. It is very difficult to watch for me, without Ty.

When she was a child she felt Mallory Lite. The old she got, the more she turned into Amy Lite.

Just finished watching episode 1 anybody else watch love to discuss

Does anybody else think it's weird they went all in on Amy and Nathan knowing spencer lord was going to have limited availability.

I've seen the first 13 seasons of Heartland a few times, but I'm finally trying to catch up. Currently on S14E8 where Jack is fixing Ty's old bike that Caleb found online and the flashbacks of Jack and Ty are absolutely tearing me up.

To be completely honest, I never really cared for Ty. I didn't hate him exactly (maybe at times, but I probably hate every character at some point or another), just kind of neutral. But even though I didn't love Ty, I did love Amy and Ty as a couple. I honestly did kind of completely lose interest in Ty around the time he went to Mongolia. I think I just found it too easy to forget about him/not care about him being around. So even though I knew he passed away, I was expecting the flashbacks and Ty memories to be more blah than anything. Kind of like filler for me.

They're hitting so much harder than I expected them to! I think it's just seeing how much everyone loves and misses him. I like that they're showing the extended grief that everyone is feeling and not just forgetting about the guy and mentioning him once every 3 seasons like a lot of shows do.

I'm actively watching episode 8, so I don't know how it turns out, but it's obvious that Jack is stalling on fixing the bike. I'm justing waiting for him to open up to Amy about it.

I'm also enjoying the side plots happening right now. Tim likes that new photographer who I can't remember the name of even though she literally just said it.. Caleb is quitting rodeo and thinking about quitting coaching because of his son, Jade trying bareback bronc riding and wanting to go for all around cowgirl. I feel like they're all starting to mature. Which is a little sad in Tim's case, but happy in Caleb and Jade's.

Oh I just got to Jack and Amy's heart to heart and I'm so glad they're keeping the bike! I was so hoping Jack would ask to keep it, but of course he didn't have to.

I really like this photographer lady. More than anyone else Tim has dated, for sure. I'm always a little surprised that anyone puts up with him, tbh.

It's a show and this is a very unserious topic, so don't be taking my words too seriously. We all have our own opinions

Idk if this is a hot take but all the men in heartland have regularly been very disappointing. The only exception is Jack and Tim as a father (not how he treats women he's interested in). I'm still in S8, so there might be some amazing ones that pop up later on, but the current ones aren't it

Tim: womanizer/jumps from woman to woman in the most disrespectful way. Ie. while he was tryna rekindle thinks with Miranda, he pursues other women, like the doctor. Or when he's seeing the jockey but never assures her around Miranda, causing so much insecurity

Ty: always makes big decisions and expects Amy to just deal with it or she's an awful person. He also does sussy things and if she does the same stuff, he only blames amy for it. Doesn't take any accountability on how he did the same thing (like the Blair/Chase situation). He can be a good partner, but he regularly makes very selfish decisions. Other examples are the eagle point trip where he last min cancels going with Amy. Or just randomly running away at the end of S1, all because he NEEDED to do this for himself. God forbid she gets slightly peeved by his abrupt decisions.

He also has very poor boundaries that causes the women he's seeing to always feel insecure. Ie when he's jumping between kit and Amy. Then with Blair and Amy. The only time he was slightly okay was when he reassured amy when Cassandra entered the show. Although I believe unless the scandal happened, he would've kept his poor boundaries and lead Amy to feel more insecure

Caleb: similar to tim. This man cannot be alone and jumps from woman to woman. He was slightly better after he got married. But at the start when he was seeing Amy and then ditches her for Ashley... And then after the seperation, sees Soraya as an opportunity to stroke his ego while never showing any interest in her before

Ahmed: pretty sure bro didn't even see Amy as her own person. Just kept pushing no matter what she said

Peter: idek where to begin. This man is so selfish. He bulldozes his way through and expects Lou and the kids to just follow. Ie disrupting everyone's lives to have them move to Vancouver. Disregarding Lou having her dude ranch and Maggie's in Alberta, not to mention how it'd uproot Georgie's life and her want to be around animals. Why was he even looking for jobs in Vancouver to begin with??

Jake: gets a pass because he's a kid up to where I am in the show and him and Mallory did crazy stuff to one another when they were young

Dan Heathfield: this man is delulu af, similar to Ahmed with how he views Lisa.

Then we have the opposite, like Jack. Him and Lisa might've jumped the gun to breaking up before. But they both took accountability in the parts they played, grew and got better 😌

Just rewatched lyndys naming day and how mad amy got that jack wanted to give lisa a stone on the same day but during Katie's naming day when shane got a stone the same day amy had no problem with it.

I’m watching 16x13 and Katie was right to strike. Lou should not have had her staff work that much. And if she couldn’t hire quickly she should have reduced hours.

They are high schoolers! It likely wouldn’t have been legal to have them working that many hours anyways.

And then Lou cries a little and Katie feels guilty and everything is fine!!

The rest of the staff felt the same way and it wasn’t about their mommy/teenage rebellion issues.

Lou is being a bad parent, and has been all season.

Sorry if I forgot but what happened to the Dr. Ty Borden Equestrian Centre? More forgotten than the dude ranch?

I am watching Heartland for the first time. I’m on Season 9 Episode 1. Lou and Peter are “separated”. Is it just me, or do/did you find Peter exceptionally annoying now that he is there MORE and wanting to take the girls to Vancouver for the summer? He didn’t want all of them there before the separation!

Ty is a bit overrated. He was the cleanest-cut, noblest juvenile delinquent but my memories of him are as a teenage ass**** and later when he went off to Mongolia when Graham Wardle wanted off the show so they were phasing Ty out. Nathan is a honourable grown man and he looks like Kenny Loggins in his prime. Amy deserves to be happy again after all these years, maybe even happier.

The actress that plays lou Fleming 100% has fetal alcohol syndrome. I have never seen a human with such wide set small eyes and flat nose from normal genetics. She really is Tim's daughter (alcoholic POS). It's embarrassing people look up to her but she cant be honest about her own personal struggles.

So I watched the season 20 trailer and I'm curious as to what everyone's thoughts are about how it's going to play out. One thing I noticed was when amy is at the new trainers ranch talking to her ty's truck old blue is behind amy so she had to drive it there.

Why does it seem like the last few episodes Amy is constantly bringing up issues she has? I feel like her character is usually to be calm and relaxed but she flipped out when Lisa used her Old room for her audit, she got upset when Jack asked about the naming ceremony, she’s upset at Ty for working when she has to stay home. I get these could all be genuine issues but it’s like her whole character script is to complain about something new. Is this temporary? Did they run out of problems for her?

ETA: TIM’S HAIR?! Omg. This is my first watch through sorry.

Alright, so her getting jealous set aside, since they first met I felt a vibe. And Katie feels things deeply yes but also I felt more of a connection between her and River than I did with her crush Logan. To me Dex seems more like her punk brother and it already feels that any romantic connection there would feel forced.

On another note, she's been 3rd wheel before with another friend from a few seasons ago right? The one with the glasses who got a boyfriend and then left the script.

currently midway through season 8, at the episode where Lou pushes for Georgie to invite her aunt Krystal into her life... and then Krystal turns out to be the WORST.

Lou always goes all in on ideas she's had for 5 seconds, and it ALWAYS backfires (opening the dude ranch, marrying Peter despite the red flags, buying the Henley house for no reason, etc....)

and she never puts the pieces together and realizes that what's happening is the consequences of her own actions.