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Hope Valley:1874 - Episode 1 (Hallmark+) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: On today's episode, we are discussing Hope Valley eighteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: episode one, Oh Brave New World, which is exclusively streaming
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm glad you are. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited about it. Hey, love to hear your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on Hope Valley or any of the things any of
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  Speaker 2: the shows were reviewing. Currently email us. We are hello
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  Speaker 2: at Girls Gone Hallmark dot Com. TIRA synopsis for the
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  Speaker 2: inaugural episode, Rebecca Clark leaves Chicago for a fresh start
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  Speaker 2: on the Canadian frontier with her daughter, but after a
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  Speaker 2: rough arrival, she's forced to rely on a local rancher
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  Speaker 2: in a small, complicated community and slowly begins building a
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  Speaker 2: new life with the people she meets there. The series
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  Speaker 2: was created by Alfonso h Moreno, a writer and producer
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  Speaker 2: with deep ties to the Hope Valley world. He's written
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  Speaker 2: for both When Calls the Heart and When Hope Calls,
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  Speaker 2: where he also served as a longtime executive producer. His
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  Speaker 2: other writing credits include Drop Dead Diva and Cis and
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  Speaker 2: The Practice. Episode one was written by Alfonso Hmrino, and
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  Speaker 2: the series draws inspiration from the novel Win Calls the
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  Speaker 2: Heart by Jeanette Oke.
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  Speaker 1: Episode one is directed by Mike Roll, who brings an
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  Speaker 1: extensive resume, including the recent season of When.
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  Speaker 2: Calls the Heart. Some of his other Hallmark credits include
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  Speaker 2: Falling Together and both Cases of Mystery Lane films Rip.
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  Speaker 2: Bethany Joey Land stars as Rebecca Clark. Hallmark viewers will
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  Speaker 2: know her from favorites like Save Rain, Paris, A Builtmore Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: and An Unexpected Christmas. While she's also had a long
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  Speaker 2: career across television and film, most notably for her role
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  Speaker 2: as Haley James Scott on One Tree Hill, where she
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  Speaker 2: appeared in one hundred and eighty seven episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa Benjamin Airs plays Tom Moore, a familiar face to
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark viewers. He's appeared in a wide range of fan favorites,
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  Speaker 1: including the Santa Class, Santa Tellmy, and the fan favorite
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  Speaker 1: Cranberry Christmas. He most recently popped up in Mistletoe Murders
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, and is also set to return
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  Speaker 1: in the upcoming True Justice sequels.
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  Speaker 2: Jill Hennessy stars as Hattie. She is a seasoned actress
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  Speaker 2: best known for her role as doctor Jordan Cavanaugh on
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  Speaker 2: Crossing Jordan. She makes a rare appearance in this Hallmark project.
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  Speaker 2: Rowan plays Olivia Quinn, with a growing list of credits.
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  Speaker 2: She's appeared in Hallmarks The More Love Grows and is
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  Speaker 2: also known for her role as Young Kate in Firefly Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Lachlan quarm B plays Alexander Vaughn. Hallmark fans may recognize
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  Speaker 2: him from Providence Falls, and it's exciting to see him
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  Speaker 2: return to the network in this new role.
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  Speaker 1: Miila Morgan plays daughter Sarah Clark. This young actress has
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  Speaker 1: just nine previous acting credits, which include Christmas at the
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  Speaker 1: Catnap Cafe, The Holiday Sitter, and North to Home.
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  Speaker 2: The opening theme song, Hope in the Valley is performed
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  Speaker 2: by Bethany Joey Lyn's.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take a quick break and we'll come right
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  Speaker 1: back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what's your first
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  Speaker 1: impression of episode one of Hope Valley eighteen seventy four.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I showed up with an attitude, but
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  Speaker 2: I left with mild emotional investment, and I hate that
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  Speaker 2: for me. My first impression is, who knew all I
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  Speaker 2: needed in my life was Benjamin Airs on horseback. I
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  Speaker 2: love him in this role, but I'm also hesitant because
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  Speaker 2: I love Ben Airs as the funny guy. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's let's get into it. Let's get into.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's talk what we liked.
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  Speaker 2: I liked a lot of things. I'm telling you, truly surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Not surprised too for you. Here's why, Because guys, I
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  Speaker 2: don't love a period of piece, except everything we're reviewing
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  Speaker 2: right now is period pieces. I don't know how I
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  Speaker 2: got here.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy also bought her first Needle Point Kit last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what's happening. Come over to the
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  Speaker 2: dark Side.
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  Speaker 1: Our new podcast, Downtown Abbey's will be coming later in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I think Megan's joking, but I think
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  Speaker 2: there is like some sort of hope in that as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's probably been done. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: there's is there a call for a down to Nabby
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  Speaker 1: rewatch podcast? I can pretty much we talked to anything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know where I was going other than
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  Speaker 2: like I I was surprised I liked it so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was honestly a little bit surprised too. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have issue with the period piece at all.
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  Speaker 4: But I will say, like frontier pieces, were you, it's
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  Speaker 4: not really my favorite, like the third Back to the Future,
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  Speaker 4: not my favorite Back to the Future.
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  Speaker 2: I don't love the like saloon action. Yes, but I
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  Speaker 2: actually really liked this. Here's what I think I liked
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: When we go back to basics, this episode did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of setting up this series. Really nicely done
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  Speaker 1: pilot episode. Yeah, we meet the key players, we learn
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  Speaker 1: about the larger pieces of conflict, we learn a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about Hope Valley. It's enough to get us interested
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  Speaker 1: in and invested in the characters. We start to sense
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  Speaker 1: that we might get a slow burn romance between Tom
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  Speaker 1: and Rebecca, simply because they're the two real pretty leads.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot of contention between them, but I
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  Speaker 1: think I knew just enough at the end of this
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  Speaker 1: episode to want to know more.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's something going on with Rebecca, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I know that she's
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  Speaker 1: got big plans, but now everything's kind of a mess,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to see how.
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  Speaker 2: That plays out. Yeah, I don't super care about like
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  Speaker 2: the prospector Tom argument, you know, d swinging of it all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a lot I am here for. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: would for me. The Rebecca storyline is just enough to
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  Speaker 2: keep me interested. Like you said, I'm like, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: not that interested truly, and like you know, Tom is
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  Speaker 2: not like happy that these people are coming into this
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  Speaker 2: area and blah blah blah, I don't care, Like I
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  Speaker 2: don't care, right, Yeah, I am interested in what the
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  Speaker 2: heck is Rebecca running from? Like that's it's almost misstletoe
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  Speaker 2: murdery where I Yeah, I'm invested in what Sarah Drew's
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  Speaker 2: character is running from. So it's that. Now I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about Bethany Joylns like her character of Rebecca Clark.
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  Speaker 2: Rebecca is a guarded queen. I feel like, right first
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  Speaker 2: of all, I don't know if I would have taken
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  Speaker 2: my pre tween out across the frontier. We have a
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  Speaker 2: covered wagon, no less, what was so bad that will
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  Speaker 2: lead you to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yea?
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, Like that's cool. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like Bethany Joyln's is doing a lot with this character,
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  Speaker 2: Like right out of the gate, Rebecca is not your
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  Speaker 2: warm and fuzzy Hallmark leading lady. No. And if you
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  Speaker 2: think we don't watch one Calls the Heart, but we
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  Speaker 2: did do a first impressions episode of that pilot. And
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  Speaker 2: if you recall Aaron Craiku and Lori Laughlin in that
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  Speaker 2: show were like Lori Laughlin not so much, but Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Craig how was like more of like a fish out
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  Speaker 2: of water situation. We're not dealing with that here, Like
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with a very guarded, protective Rebecca. She's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna let anybody in her, She's not gonna show her
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  Speaker 2: cards to anybody. Right, It has me interested because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening here? What is happening here? And I like
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  Speaker 2: that we're not spoon fed her complete backstory in this
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  Speaker 2: first episode, like, yes, let's draw this out a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: like give me some place I need it every episode. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I think Beth and new Joy Lens was excellent casting
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  Speaker 2: for this role. She hits all the.
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  Speaker 1: Right notes in this episode as a mom. When the
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  Speaker 1: horse spooks and runs off and she runs over and
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  Speaker 1: sees her daughter unharmed, she heaves this sigh that is
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  Speaker 1: so relatable and well done, like it felt like it
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  Speaker 1: came from a very real place for me. Also, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about Benjamin Ayers, he's so good at comedy, We're
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  Speaker 1: not getting that from him yet. But the funniest line
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  Speaker 1: in this episode does go to Beth and new Joy Lends.
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  Speaker 1: When she's talking about the man who was refusing medical treatment.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, now we call him three to Joe, I
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  Speaker 1: left out loud. Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Like ben Yrer's in this role, Like it's different for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's rough around the edges but promising, like
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  Speaker 2: like you know, he's a good guy and he's good
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  Speaker 2: to Rebecca like he's so helpful to her, Like he
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  Speaker 2: saves our kid, obviously, but he's so helpful, like come
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  Speaker 2: to my ranch, you can. This is a safe place
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  Speaker 2: for you, like you can stay warm, Like you're good.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to pay me for the wheel at all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And when he comes to the tent when it's pouring
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  Speaker 2: down rain and like come on, get.
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  Speaker 4: In the house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he's a good guy. Yeah, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he might be this sort of like doesn't know quite
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  Speaker 2: how to like express himself. Like that's the missing Like
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  Speaker 2: that's why they're kind of I mean spoiler alert, Like
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  Speaker 2: there's some tension between them, right, Yeah, is that a spoiler?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Look, we cast Beth the New joy
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  Speaker 2: Lands and Benjamin Air is clearly there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: relationship at some point, at some point. Right. One of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite parts is like at the beginning where this
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  Speaker 2: is about ben ayers too, when he finds out that
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  Speaker 2: the prospectors that prospector had lit off that dynamite and
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  Speaker 2: scared the horse and like put Rebecca's kid in danger.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, excuse me, man, I'm gonna go kick
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  Speaker 2: some asks. It was basically that was what was happening,
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  Speaker 2: and I kind of loved it. Yeah, I loved it
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  Speaker 2: so very much. There is another line to where he
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  Speaker 2: and Rebecca are out on horses and they're just like
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  Speaker 2: overlooking this valley, which is stunning. The cinematography is stunning, Yeah, beautiful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it really is working to make me believe that
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  Speaker 2: they're on the frontier. Yeah. Same. But the scene is
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  Speaker 2: like he was worried where Rebecca and Sarah were and
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  Speaker 2: she says like, oh, were you worried about us? And
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  Speaker 2: he goes, no, I was just curious. And in this moment,
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  Speaker 2: it was like middle school awkward boy going like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I was just curious, juice. You know. It was so
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  Speaker 2: funny and made me laugh out loud, and it made
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  Speaker 2: me laugh out loud. And I'm sure he probably wasn't
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  Speaker 2: trying to like sell it that way, but I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was funny.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: I love the relationship that we see building between Hattie
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  Speaker 1: and Rebecca. Yes, Rebecca needed another strong woman on her side.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot in common. They're both widows raising daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Hattie feels a little bit like the elder statesman here,
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  Speaker 1: even though I think they're kind of like similar phase
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  Speaker 1: of life but Hattie is established in Hope Valley. She
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of connections and she understands what Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: is working against. And we do see that relationship deepen
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  Speaker 1: in future episodes, and I really enjoy that. But I
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  Speaker 1: just love and we'll talk a little bit about.
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  Speaker 2: That and the did you see that? But I love
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  Speaker 2: the pairing of the two women together me too. I
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  Speaker 2: really do a lot a few things, small things. The
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  Speaker 2: weather really works over time to add to kind of
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  Speaker 2: the grittiness of the place. It's cold and it's raining
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the time. They honestly look miserable. Like
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  Speaker 2: when you see that their horses are all wet and
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  Speaker 2: there's water dripping down their hats, I'm like, they must
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  Speaker 2: be so cold. They're not acting cold, but they got
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  Speaker 2: to be. You can see their breath, and I just think, man,
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  Speaker 2: that really worked for them, because that feels like real rain.
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  Speaker 1: I also liked the overall design of the episode. That's
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  Speaker 1: the wrong word, but in the beginning of the episode,
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  Speaker 1: we see the Mounties in training, and then at the end,
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  Speaker 1: Lachlan Kornby, the Constable the Mounty comes riding in. The
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  Speaker 1: law has arrived, and I just we don't really see
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  Speaker 1: them until that moment, and so the book ending of
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  Speaker 1: the episode with those guys well done.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoy this mother daughter dynamic between Rebecca and Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: Mila Morgan as Sarah. I thought she was really good.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know, I don't generally like children in shows.
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  Speaker 2: I like children in real life. But she's so mature
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  Speaker 2: beyond her age here and has been like maybe thrust
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  Speaker 2: into this grown up role of like, you know, helping
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  Speaker 2: her mom, and like, you know, like when like the
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  Speaker 2: kids invite her to go play and she's like, I
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  Speaker 2: have to help my mom. You know. I just was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: please be a kid. Yeah, I don't know. She's really cute,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm interested in watching Sarah kind of settle in
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  Speaker 2: and become more relaxed in Hope Valley. Another thing I
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  Speaker 2: really liked was I really like the opening. The title
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  Speaker 2: credit has this like painted effect, very so nature what
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  Speaker 2: the movie poster is like. Yeah, I just think it's
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  Speaker 2: very elevated and well done. Interesting. I like it too.
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  Speaker 2: I have something to say about it, but I like
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  Speaker 2: it too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, what'd you wish for?
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  Speaker 2: I needed slightly fewer characters in this pilot episode. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: my prior to recording this episode are going through all
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  Speaker 2: her notes and all the characters were like, who is this?
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  Speaker 3: Who is this?
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  Speaker 2: There's so many people in a pilot episode. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that you're trying to introduce like all these people,
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  Speaker 2: all these characters, but it was just a ton of
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  Speaker 2: people to track in one episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I absolutely have to watch with a list of
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  Speaker 1: the cast next to me, otherwise I will have no
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  Speaker 1: idea who they are.
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  Speaker 2: Agree. My next wish is I need a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more about Rebecca's past, and now I know in my
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  Speaker 2: like things I liked, like I was glad that we
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  Speaker 2: weren't given everything, but I do need a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more because at the very beginning, I'm like, I think
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  Speaker 2: I miss reading here. It looked like she had a
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  Speaker 2: bruise on her cheek and it could have just been
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  Speaker 2: dirt because she's out on the frontier right, but to me,
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  Speaker 2: like the placement of like where this dirt was look,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, is she running from like an
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  Speaker 2: abusive situation? Like what's happening here? And I was like
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  Speaker 2: under the impression like, oh, they're running from like her
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  Speaker 2: husband or and they're pretending he's dead, but as we
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  Speaker 2: get into it, it's clear that that's not the situation.
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  Speaker 2: She is running from some kind of situation, but not
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  Speaker 2: like an abusive one. Yeah, that really is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're only an episode one and
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  Speaker 1: I know we have to drag it out, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to wait all season yeah for that reveal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it to come in episode eight it's
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  Speaker 1: going to Yeah, I'm just gonna need a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more because part of me is like, obviously it has
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  Speaker 1: to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: She treked across a country for this.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, part of me feels like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be revealed to be something completely different
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  Speaker 1: than what we're expecting. Maybe that'd be a great twist,
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  Speaker 1: because like the way she kind of like turns away,
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  Speaker 1: like when the Mountie arrives, it leads you to believe
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  Speaker 1: that she's done something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe she killed her husband. Yeah, that's not my sense.
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  Speaker 2: But then the other sense is like, is it perhaps
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  Speaker 2: that they're in danger, not that they've done anything wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but that they don't want anybody to know. I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, and I don't like not knowing. It's
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  Speaker 2: clear she's afraid of the mounting correct being around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure. One of my other wishes is I need
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  Speaker 2: a little more warmth somewhere. Everyone is guarded, everyone is cold,
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  Speaker 2: everyone is like protective. Yeah. Their situation which just I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, because even Hattie is like, yeah, maybe this
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  Speaker 2: place isn't for you. Yeah, yeah, and Tom's like, nah,
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  Speaker 2: you're not. What you're doing here is not really welcomed.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Some of the dialogue feels too contemporary, oh,
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  Speaker 2: especially from the Rebecca character. And I was, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been thinking about this a lot. I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: is her dialogue different because she's from Chicago, Yeah, amaze
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  Speaker 2: an educated woman.
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  Speaker 3: Intentional?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's intentional. But at one point she says hey,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't know who's saying hey in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen for so it's not a deal breaker for me.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like some of the other characters have
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  Speaker 2: like a definitely a different kind of vernacular.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe let's talk to you to see that.
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  Speaker 2: I got a huge list. Oh please go. Well they
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  Speaker 2: named the baby ned Yost that baby is born. That
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  Speaker 2: doesn't land for me. I'm sure it lands for the
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  Speaker 2: other hardies who watch well, it definitely lands for Hardy's
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  Speaker 2: but for me, not a Hardy. They're like, oh, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna name the baby ned. Someone goes ned Yost. That's
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  Speaker 2: a nice name. And I was like, well, that seems
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  Speaker 2: so obvious. So I got on my Google and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, ned Yost is a character and one calls
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  Speaker 2: the heart.
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  Speaker 1: You would have known that if you were a Hardy.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: But to me, it just felt like very obviously. Were like, hey,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I touch it under this name.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: That's all I noticed. Yeah, you told me what relax?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Beth andrey Linn sinks and wrote the theme song to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the show. Now before you told me, I had watched
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: this episode in my notes say I feel like the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: theme song is much jauntier than the tone of the show.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It's real dark and gritty and then it's kind of hopeful. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't hate it. No, I don't hate it either.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I just thought, oh, that's interesting, Like it's not the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: tone is not driving. Now we did ask on Instagram, hey,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Harty's what might we have missed? What are the tieants?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So Amanda on Instagram said that the arrival of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: MOUNTI was similar to how Jack and Nathan arrived till
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: one calls the Heart.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Interesting, the boarding house looks like the future saloon, but
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it felt like it was supposed to be Abigail's. Now
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Michelle comes in and says, the boarding house is what
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: becomes the main saloon slash hotel, and the trading post
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: is the same location of the general store.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Finally, Amanda says, the two female leads supporting each other
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in eighteen seventy four, it's Rebecca and Hattie. In the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: original show, it's Elizabeth and Abigail.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: So that mirror.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I like that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I like that too. Do you think that you need
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to watch When Calls the Heart or no? Be familiar
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: with it at all for this show. I don't think
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: so either. No.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's those nice little easter eggs for when
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Calls the Heart watchers, And I'm sure there'll be future
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: tie ins, but this fully stands on its own. I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: don't feel like I'm missing something having not seen one
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: not seen one calls the Heart.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't talk about it either, other than there's
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: been a lot of characters. Did any of the other
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: like players stand out to you?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Not as much in this episode? You know, it's real
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Tom and Rebecca Heavy Tom, Rebecca and Hattie are really
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: my key players, and I think that's accurate. I think
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: we'll start fleshing out some of those storylines in future episodes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Did they stand out to you?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: No? No, just that there was a lot of them
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: When they're having that baby, I'm like, who are these people?
• 19:51
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• 19:52
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• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the Heart versus Hope Valley eighteen seventy four and we'll
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