Episode was only okay because the last couple were so bad. Really fucked this show by going too overwrought with the chick stuff. Undermined the end, and no way it holds up well for a rewatch.
Thomas and the Gypsy were more interesting. Captain Shea's emotional arc and closure was more interesting. Even one leg became an interesting, but neglected character.
And the best part was always the trials of the trail and the west as a sort of manifested character, but they just yadda yadda-ed over surviving the winter and somehow a group of two men, a gypsy, two kids and an amputee making it safely to Oregon.
Pacing sucked, both in individual episodes and overall. Was somehow constantly too slow, but with progression that was too fast. Having to constantly state the passage of time because it just wasn't felt.
More wise, benevolent Indians show up to save the day. Did a single Indian do a single negative thing the entire show that wasn't justified or provoked?
Still one of the better shows in recent years because Hollywood sucks so bad, but still fell prey to too many trappings of the retarded industry and place we're in socially that I can't say it was a good show, just the best of so many terrible ones.