Heartless land
Little House on the Prairie, about a traditional family, making their way, demonstrating Christian values while living in challenging environments and landscapes, has provided families everywhere with role models that elevate and inspire.
Many who have chosen to educate their children at home have benefited from curriculum modeled after such, with bible stories, crafting with felt, learning how to cook and build and grow gardens, topping the list. But more importantly, are the core values of God, Family, Truth and Integrity, being taught and demonstrated by this model.
Watching Heartland, a Canadian based show, I thought it was going to be a lot the same… like Little house on the Ranch in Canada. But I soon noticed that conspicuously missing is any regular church attendance on this show. In fifteen seasons, over many years, the family only goes, I think, once, when someone gets married.
Also missing is traditional marriage where people who have children raise them together in one home. Though in the beginning, I really liked the Ty and Amy “relationship”, I increasingly became annoyed at how the writers put Mongolian gobi, Canadian wolves, and other wild animal’s “needs” above the needs of small human children growing up in that family. Ty who is supposed to be interpreted as sensitive and smart, is, instead, ridiculously indecisive, and idiotic, always leaving to go “save” some bogus animal, putting his family in jeopardy. But the writers continue to portray him as a devoted scientist who follows his passion…
The show puts a lot of emphasis on the “poachers” of bears in Mongolia, and how horrible they are, but what I see in reality is a marketing effort by Canada, not Mongolia, to “poach” good parents away from traditional Christian values. And it is to their detriment.
The mom’s in the show all work outside the home and “maggies” is their “church”. It is a local diner. Not much praying going on there.
The only dad who seems to be invested in the kids is Grandpa. A wonderful character…but one who would seem to benefit from a cowboy church community since he loves his rodeo family so much.
The kids in the show are constantly breaking society rules in order to “stand up” for animals, or gender “equality” but it is not realistic and it is irrational behavior, except for the realization that these kids have been role modeled by absent parents who are obsessed with their own twisted priorities. Literally every episode has some dysfunctional parent, constantly on the phone, doing something with work, ignoring their children, and expecting miraculously good children to result. It is depressing and wearying to watch…The parents cook cookies when they “come to visit” their own kids. What?
Since the show started, Canada’s Christian population has dropped down from more than seventy something percent to right around fifty percent, with muslims replacing Christians. Not sure you are gonna be happy with that Canada.
In the show, Amy does seem to care about humans as much as she cares about horses. But Lou, Her dad, Georgie and Jessica all seem way too self centered to take any interest in children. Is the goal of this show to delegate children to Government care, because absent parents, and ipads, cannot raise children.
Just recently I read that the show season eighteen has a lot of problems related to climate change “that were hard to simulate” on the show because Canada (in the show) was supposedly suffering from severe drought, when in reality it was having bountiful rains. Isn’t it just so predictable that the media lies, including using shows that could be inspirational and uplifting, to present a false reality as the truth, again to manipulate and distort facts.
Supposedly Ty comes back? Season 19? Supposedly he was in government protection? Because he ratted out the poachers in Mongolia? Seriously?
I think that the show went on a fartlek and got lost. Don’t blame the horses, Blame the writers.