OK, as an equestrian of 40 yrs, I'm really trying to overlook the obvious, but ...it ain't easy.
May I please, please, oh PLEASE, implore to Hollywood, BBC, CBC, LMNOP--whoever makes these shows, to PLEASE a) HIRE an equestrian consultant. B) LISTEN to that consultant and c) do some research?!
The target audience for shows like this, are pony mad kids. I know, I was one of those. But, folks, can we PLEASE have some common sense? I mean, general, safety common sense? Realism? Anything?
*spoiler warning*
In our first episode, it's obvious this is a bit of a comedy/tongue and cheek. OK, that's fine, but we have teens acting out of character for today's day and age, even for an England setting. OK, I'll over look that.
But it's a known fact that any horse person riding on a rural road, will NOT run over people who are walking on it. C'mon Hollywood, let's get real. Let's stop typifying characters that blatantly. Next, and the biggest error is said missing horse.
Folks, horses get loose. We don't panic unless they are worth about a million dollars. OK, if they are worth over 10K, we get a bit worried, but it's a known fact that horses do NOT go far from home. And let me tell you, a horse would NOT be going to the beach. Seriously? Woods, yes--grass and shelter, but not in an area that is totally unnatural to them. And if said horse is 'that dangerous', trust me, he would be in a stall where it was double bolted.(triple, quadruple--trust me, we have some escape artists at every barn I work at).
That's just the first 10 mins of episode 1. So, if this is how it starts...ugh...but, like I said, I am an equestrian, and the sad thing is, the real goings on at a farm are interesting, if you just talk to someone who works at a farm. Go to a farm. Study a farm. Talk to horse people. This looks like someone's researched every bad horse film on the planet, and decided to do them proud and make a worse one. And by worse, I mean completely unrealistic horse situations.
If you have horse mad children, I highly recommend International Velvet--that's a PG-13 rated film. Sylvester (that may be more for old kids given a few situations in that), The Man From Snowy River, Phar Lap, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion. Those films, while they do stretch believability (phar lap is a true story), they are still better made.
May I please, please, oh PLEASE, implore to Hollywood, BBC, CBC, LMNOP--whoever makes these shows, to PLEASE a) HIRE an equestrian consultant. B) LISTEN to that consultant and c) do some research?!
The target audience for shows like this, are pony mad kids. I know, I was one of those. But, folks, can we PLEASE have some common sense? I mean, general, safety common sense? Realism? Anything?
*spoiler warning*
In our first episode, it's obvious this is a bit of a comedy/tongue and cheek. OK, that's fine, but we have teens acting out of character for today's day and age, even for an England setting. OK, I'll over look that.
But it's a known fact that any horse person riding on a rural road, will NOT run over people who are walking on it. C'mon Hollywood, let's get real. Let's stop typifying characters that blatantly. Next, and the biggest error is said missing horse.
Folks, horses get loose. We don't panic unless they are worth about a million dollars. OK, if they are worth over 10K, we get a bit worried, but it's a known fact that horses do NOT go far from home. And let me tell you, a horse would NOT be going to the beach. Seriously? Woods, yes--grass and shelter, but not in an area that is totally unnatural to them. And if said horse is 'that dangerous', trust me, he would be in a stall where it was double bolted.(triple, quadruple--trust me, we have some escape artists at every barn I work at).
That's just the first 10 mins of episode 1. So, if this is how it starts...ugh...but, like I said, I am an equestrian, and the sad thing is, the real goings on at a farm are interesting, if you just talk to someone who works at a farm. Go to a farm. Study a farm. Talk to horse people. This looks like someone's researched every bad horse film on the planet, and decided to do them proud and make a worse one. And by worse, I mean completely unrealistic horse situations.
If you have horse mad children, I highly recommend International Velvet--that's a PG-13 rated film. Sylvester (that may be more for old kids given a few situations in that), The Man From Snowy River, Phar Lap, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion. Those films, while they do stretch believability (phar lap is a true story), they are still better made.