Like Jack would say, it’s a bunch of bull. The majority of fans are fed up with the constant lies and betrayal. Ever since Graham Wardle left the show as Ty, the writers have been stringing fans along with false hopes of his return. They’ve been using his face to promote every new season for the past four years, even though he’s not coming back. It’s dishonest, and it’s frustrating. I truly hope they end the series with season 18 because they’ve royally screwed up what was once a beloved show. Heartland is now a complete disaster that may never recover. The decision-makers were idiots, plain and simple. They had the chance to end the series on a high note, and instead, they’ve tarnished what could have been one of the best long-running family dramas.
The rightful thing to do would have been to give Heartland a proper ending with Ty Borden’s family, after 14 seasons of remarkable storytelling. Over a decade of actors playing the same characters is already a stretch, and it’s obvious that the older actors have started to lose their spark. But as always, money and entitlement got in the way, and now they’ve betrayed the majority of their worldwide audience. They were completely wrong to think they could move on without Graham Wardle as Ty. Why else would they keep lying to fans, teasing that Ty is coming back each season since his exit? Killing off Ty was bad enough, but erasing his memory completely—from Amy, Lyndy, and Jack’s stories—was a terrible choice. No photos, no mention, no closure.
They have completely screwed up, period. It really sucks for the long-time viewers who loved Heartland for how it started. Ty was the anchor of the story, the heart of the series. The fact that they’ve been lying to fans for four seasons, feeding us false anticipation, is downright cruel. They have nothing new to offer now, nothing that compares to the magic of the first 13 seasons. I truly hope season 18 is the end of it all. Dragging it out to season 20 would be unbearable.
