I don't understand why someone would go to the trouble of creating a series about a ranch with livestock but do no research about the animals they've chosen to focus on in a particular plot, or take any apparent pains in choosing said animals, in particular, the horses. It's really hard to watch with any sense of realism. Multiple episodes in season one have focused on so called equine "bloodstock" but the animals chosen to represent those horses look like total "scrubs". They're scrawny with ribs sticking out, pot bellies, ewe-necked, cow hocked, sway backed... and it has nothing to do with the seasons, or whatever so called breed they're supposed to be representing. There's no way anyone even remotely experienced with horses would consider the horses used to be of any value, let alone pay to have their own horses bred by one of them.
On the other hand, a herd of wild horses in S1 E8 that supposedly galloped for over a day led by a stallion who was capable of sniffing out a mare in heat many kilometres away, look to be of actual bloodstock, especially the stallion in question. The producers should have used some of those animals to represent their expensive so called highly bred horses, instead of the broken down nags they did use (sorry, horses in question). Though by the way... no wild stallion already with his own band of mares would risk the health and safety of that herd by galloping it for well over a day to specifically track down one anonymous mare in heat that was many, many, many kilometres away as in that episode! Maybe a young stallion with no mares of his own might have stumbled on the mare in question in his search for a band of his own, but what was portrayed in that episode was beyond illogical. Also hard to figure was how all those horses got through all of the property fences we watched being built in previous episodes. It was like... magical... snort. Straight out of a romanticized fictional horse story geared toward young teens. As was apparently most of the human focused plots in this series. What a shame.
Writers... the idea is to draw the watcher into the story, not drive them back into their own heads with wondering why.
On the other hand, a herd of wild horses in S1 E8 that supposedly galloped for over a day led by a stallion who was capable of sniffing out a mare in heat many kilometres away, look to be of actual bloodstock, especially the stallion in question. The producers should have used some of those animals to represent their expensive so called highly bred horses, instead of the broken down nags they did use (sorry, horses in question). Though by the way... no wild stallion already with his own band of mares would risk the health and safety of that herd by galloping it for well over a day to specifically track down one anonymous mare in heat that was many, many, many kilometres away as in that episode! Maybe a young stallion with no mares of his own might have stumbled on the mare in question in his search for a band of his own, but what was portrayed in that episode was beyond illogical. Also hard to figure was how all those horses got through all of the property fences we watched being built in previous episodes. It was like... magical... snort. Straight out of a romanticized fictional horse story geared toward young teens. As was apparently most of the human focused plots in this series. What a shame.
Writers... the idea is to draw the watcher into the story, not drive them back into their own heads with wondering why.
