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Georgie Rants - Season 13, Ep. 13 (13x07-13x08)

How do you decide what you want?

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Previously on Heartland: Caleb is over the moon happy about being a daddy and I’m over the moon for them. But unfortunately, it’s back to “mention only” land for Cass. That’s the life.

Georgie and Jade

Jade is the worst roommate, and even if part of the cause for Georgie’s mood is because of Quinn going back to Florida, seeing how she’s woken up by Jade in the morning and the place is seemingly a mess, I don’t really blame her. She moved out to have her own space, and Jade being there kind of defeats it. And even so, why is Jade so surprised she has no waffle maker?! She obviously goes over to the main house to eat most meals. Is Jade even paying rent? Where is Jade even sleeping? The Sofa?

Besides the point, Georgie and Jade decide to have a little friendly competition. Georgie bets she can jump rope a horse better than Jade can jump a horse. Amy can do both and i’m reminded that Amy, in Heartland world is an anomaly. What can’t she do? She can even joust and do archery on a horse.

Back to the main point, they go to the jumping course and Georgie, getting flashbacks of her time with Quinn and clearly still missing him and possibly regretting sending him away on such a bad note, elects not to jump. To say that she is missing him is one big understatement and it’s nice to see Jade acknowledge that she’s sorry about Quinn (even if she doesn’t know the full story) once they call the match a draw. Georgie needs friends and in time, I do believe that something that talking to Quinn may help her feel a little better. We know he shows up near the end of the season... so here’s to some conclusion.

Amy

Ty and Lyndy still aren’t back and Luke is off to Summer Camp (hey that’ll be fun and a totally legit way to write someone off of the show for the episode instead of say, MONGOLIA). Anyways, we get a really cute video call between the fam and I still wish we saw this visit with Ty’s mom but hey, at least he isn’t off in Mongolia right? Plus, the framing for their house is on the way so bets on if the house is going to be done by the end of the season?

When riding Lisa’s cross country course, Spartan ends up breaking his leg (torn ligament or something) and this situation with Spartan is not nearly as serious... but more on this next week. Amy acknowledges he isn’t as young as he used to be (at the very least 13 years old since she rescued him in season 1) and perhaps might need to take it easy. We get a Cass mention that she checked out the Spartan and I wish that with Ty out of town, we got to see some more Cass/Amy scenes; even a scene where Cass is eating breakfast at Maggies with Amy. 

Tim and Casey

So, we hear from their own words, that they simply decided not to get engaged oh so long ago (how long ago? last season ended with Georgie going to Europe, so let’s say July and she’s now graduated and into her summer job at Fairfield, let’s say it’s been one year). I know we’ve said this a thousand times but just because they decided not to get married, why does that mean that they had to break up?!

We find out that it was mutual, and apparently Casey is marrying Greg because he isn’t as challenging. So... it was mostly Tim? I get it, Tim is challenging and runs a thousand miles a minute but this still seems like a VERY thinly veiled excuse (i’m sure @the-real-tc will agree). Casey didn’t say “he’s a better fit for me” or “we just connected”, it was more of a “he’s easier to handle and more predictable” but sometimes we need a little bit of unpredictability in our lives right? And Tim isn’t that unpredictable and always means well, at least in my opinion. I don’t know about all of you, but it sounds like maybe Casey is settling, although I am willing to give her the benefit of doubt because we haven’t actually seen this guy and she may be trying to protect Tim’s feelings.

Anyways, Tim makes a wise choice to not buy Casey’s business. By buying Casey’s business, he is still holding onto that Casey connection but he makes the wise choice to cut ties completely. Hopefully now we can move on from this ridiculous excuse to end a relationship even though Casey promised to never leave.

Jack

Jack is going around recruiting rodeo legends for the Hudson classic when he runs into Butch, who is having trouble the past few years due to concussions; so is the life of a rodeo star back in the day I suppose, when they competed with little protection and no health insurance or pension. 

Jack, being the good guy he is, wants to start a foundation to support retired rodeo vets. And while he, the rodeo owners and the vets all realize it’s a good cause, when it comes to cutting into profits, the rodeo owners are a little more stingy. They want to make money off these legends/riders but don’t want to support them after their retired. And not that i’m saying the owners being skeptical was right but perhaps Jack should have given them some time to think, look over their books and work out the kinks of this like, how it’s going to be spend, distributed... etc. before just saying “donate % of your profits” because let’s face it, they could be like, “okay, we agree to 1% of profits” and it amounts to nothing. Perhaps he should have proposed “okay, 5% of profits to a maximum of $5,000 a year” or something and outline the tax benefits or the social benefits.

Frankly, i’m surprised that 40 years later after Jack was in the circuit, the rodeo riders/participants haven’t started a union they can pay into and get a benefit (ie. pension/insurance) from yet. Granted, I don’t know how hard it is to start a union but generally, a union helps to negotiate these benefits. I’m actually pretty sure that in real life, some kind of union does exist.

Jack manages to get Tim on his side and at the event, through part of Jack’s speech but probably mostly peer pressure, he gets all the rodeo owners to agree to donate a percentage of the profits and all the proceeds from the Hudson Heritage Classic.

Lou

JD Worth is campaigning around Hudson for mayor, but Lou is worried that this change he keeps campaigning for is too much. I say the giant posters of his face on the walls are way too much.

Lou thinks somethings up and even thinks about running for Mayor. And... i can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Especially once she sees JD’s plans to completely modernize main street - something I dare say small towns in real life have had to contend with in order to stay alive - and once she hears JD’s opponent has dropped out, I dare say as a local resident and business woman, she has a pretty good chance of winning. 

This reminds me of Randall’s storyline on This Is Us, anyone else?

Songs in this Episode @heartlandians​

Long Wet Day - Sunday Jones

Without - Sunday Jones

Lean on Somebody - Caution Cat (LOVE this name lmao)

Frank, AB - The Rural Alberta Advantage

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Heartland fan day season 13. It was an overcast, cool and rainy day.

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In season 13 Lou’s mayoral opponent had big plans for downtown Hudson. Plans Lou did not agree with. My good friend Duane Addy from Signature Renderings was asked to draw up the designs we used in the show. So... here they are. Super talented. Photos by: Simon Daykin

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Tim: I mean you know what's really weird? She tried to sell me her company. Jack: Well, running rodeos kinda sounds right up your alley. Amy: Yeah, I think you'd be really good at that.

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