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Apparently this entire thing is based on some song or other about a guy who chases a wild horse down a cliff. It has all the fine writing that you would expect from such a pedigree.

caerbannog this one is for you and your birthday. Jackman the Emo Sailor wishes you many happy returns. And for sajia: it's not Korean and drama queens, but there is womanpain of a sort.

( Are you sure you are ready for this? ARE YOU SURE? )

1. Not all that impressed really. Though he gallops well.

2. Even less impressed by 'savage' dog that apparently manages to kill huge calves and threatens the useless MacGregor daughter. It looks distressingly fluffy and not savage at all. But then useless MacGregor daughter is useless.

3. Don't know why everyone kept telling the MacGregor Daughter in Law (the one who is married to the rector and I thought might have been a whore but wasn't) that she should make up with the mother who abandoned her (and who I think did not have a firm grasp on her virtue). I believe she was quite right to be pissed and indignant. Plus they made her waitress while heavily pregnant. (ETA: I think she must have the world's longest pregnancy. She's like an elephant with the amount of time she's been carrying that child. All the while looking quite svelte.)

4. Jackman left because he felt THE CALL OF THE SEA. It was quite hilariously badly written, like the rest of the show.

5. I had more things to say but I feel I have tormented you enough.

PS: THE GYPSY EPISODE IS STILL THE BEST ONE. THEY ATE FIRE AND DANCED AND HAD AN ACCORDION.

ETA 6: THEY HAD A MYSTICAL EPISODE. A BLOODY MYSTICAL EPISODE. I LOVE HOW THEY ALSO MADE THE GIRL WHO HAD MYSTICALLY COME BACK TO LIFE AFTER BEING FROZEN DEAD CHOP WOOD WHILE THEY HAD CUPS OF TEA INSIDE. I know they had to get her out of the one room shack while they had a conversation but REALLY? REALLY?

At some point they really stopped trying to make the plots make any sense. As with the mystical one. IT IS ENTIRELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND NOW THERE IS SOME SORT OF GUN STAND-OFF WITH MACGREGOR DAUGHTER IN LAW. What the hell? Why would she be protecting the guy who her mother ran off with? Because he told her her mother was in agony about leaving her and sent her a doll? And why is there a mystic woman in veils wandering around that only some people can see?

Believe me what I tell you that I do not say this lightly but that may well have been the most magnificently dumb episode of TV I have ever seen. NOTHING MADE ANY SENSE. And what boggles the mind is that they put this one on the highlights, which means they must have thought it was pretty good stuff.

Pros: Hugh Jackman as a sailor who I think killed a man in Reno just to see him die

Cons: Pa MacGregor and his enormous mustache. There are a lot of loving shots of him training for the big race. IT IS UNPLEASANT TO WATCH.

No Guy Pierce yet. I hope he is tremendously emo when he appears.

ETA: In non-Jackman related news Pa MacGregor has decided to catch and train a wild horse to run in a race the NEXT DAY. His mustache quivered as he did so. That was also unpleasant to watch.

ETA 2: I question their decision to make Pa and his mustache the star of the show. And to get rid of the only Asian by having the useless MacGregor daughter fire her. But I am pleased by the fact that they, like Young Riders, believe in having people do lots of random galloping.

ETA 3: I find the MacGregors annoying. I think it's the mustache and the useless daughter.

ETA 4: I like how they're sneering at the poor Ukrainian woman's fancy ideas and foreign ways in her shocking teashop. Which apparently serves dinner rather than tea and cakes.

ETA 5: OMG. TO MY HORROR I HAVE REALIZED THAT THIS SHOW WAS IN ACTUALITY SOMETHING LIKE 63 EPISODES. THE ONES I AM WATCHING ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS. THE HIGHLIGHTS..