#lyndy bartlett

[heartlandians]

Heartland - 1x11 - Thicker Than Water

[the-real-tc]

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Continuity

Maybe it's petty of me to keep carping on this, Heartland writers, but if you can't keep even something like this straight...

Maybe we are living in a divergent Heartland timeline, and have been for a while.

Maybe we're in the DeadTy! Universe, where Ty dies (obviously); where Jack had a sister named June whose burial plot is right there in front of everyone's eyes, but no one ever wondered who she was or asked about her because Jack never mentioned her (until Luke happened to notice it); whose lovely little sketch inspired the Heartland Ranch brand, and who should have been alive when Jack married Lyndy; a timeline where Lyndy is buried at the Heartland family plot (and has a headstone we never saw until Jess took a picture of Jack standing in front of it) instead of Jack having spread her ashes in the river like he so poignantly revealed to Lisa on their first real date.

Didn't anyone compile a series bible for this show?

[confessions-heartland]

"I don't think they should do a flash forward spin off. I think they should do a spin off and go back to when Jack's dad died and Jack and Lyndy were settling into the ranch."

[heartlandtfln]

Jack Bartlett is available for hire! Have him DJ your next party!

(Disclaimer: Will only play his own songs or those of late wife, Lyndy Bartlett).

[heartlandians]

Memory wall. Photo by: Marty Hanenberg

[the-real-tc]

More Plot Hole Heartland...

Don't get me wrong. I've actually loved a lot of Season 17 of Heartland. But they get themselves into trouble, it seems, with their dead characters. This time around, it's Lyndy (Sr.). Granted, even I didn't quite pick up on this one right when it dropped, but on further reflection, I now know why the "Jack has rift with Jess" plot line struck an odd note with me.

SPOILER ALERT. Read no further to avoid stuff.

Jess took the bold move of shooting a candid photo of Jack. She had all this flowery language about the lighting, the vulnerability of this tough cowboy standing at a gravesite, blah, blah, blah... And Jack was justifiably upset to have had an intimate moment caught on film and put on display in a public gallery showing...

The intimate moment at the gravesite in question is where the potential trouble comes in.

Why?

The headstone is apparently Lyndy's (Jack's late wife).

A headstone we've never seen before.

A headstone that should not exist, because Jack told Lisa way back in Season 1 that he spread Lyndy's ashes at the riverbank near the fishing cabin.

Granted, Jack could also have interred some of Lyndy's ashes at the Heartland cemetery, but all this time we never knew of a Lyndy headstone.

The conflict between Jack and Jess was weak, and even unnecessary, in my opinion (apologies to the writer[s] who pitched that idea). In my opinion, it would have worked better had it been June's headstone, or even Marion's headstone, because then there wouldn't have been any ret-conning of events for it to work. But I digress.

[confessions-heartland]

“I think that Jack talks about dead Lyndy too much.“

[heartlandtfln]

“Lisa: Lyndy, did you eat all the apple pie again? Lisa: Why? Is there still some on my face? Lyndy: No. Lisa: Then no.“