FOX: Sleepy Hollow - Season Discussion
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Well, that's certainly not what I wanted to see. I'm no longer hoping that the show will be renewed. Without Abbie and Ichabod together, there doesn't seem to be much point. 
Both the Hidden One and Pandora were dispatched pretty easily. It seems that these two showdowns should have been spread out over a couple of episodes. Ultimately, neither one came across as much of a threat.
But this episode was really about bringing things to a conclusion, and there was a lot of good in it, if I can look past Abbie's death. Corbin Senior made an appearance, and was reunited with Corbin Junior. Betsy Ross's story was brought to a conclusion in a way that was both unexpected and made sense. And the Headless Horseman returned. With both Corbin and the Horseman showing up, only Katrina was missing to give the finale a real sense of circularity and conclusion. I liked the way that Abbie and Ichabod's scenes in the afterlife all took place in locations that mapped out their relationship, from the jail where they originally met to the Archives to the front porch. And Ichabod's scene at Abbie's grave was very nice.
The idea of Ichabod being the head of a modern-day Men-In-Black organization created by George Washington is a bit odd, but this is probably the end of Sleepy Hollow anyway.
All in all, aside from the anticlimactic ending to the Hidden One and Pandora, this was a well-done episode. It just was the last thing I wanted to see and left me feeling very melancholy.
Both the Hidden One and Pandora were dispatched pretty easily. It seems that these two showdowns should have been spread out over a couple of episodes. Ultimately, neither one came across as much of a threat.
But this episode was really about bringing things to a conclusion, and there was a lot of good in it, if I can look past Abbie's death. Corbin Senior made an appearance, and was reunited with Corbin Junior. Betsy Ross's story was brought to a conclusion in a way that was both unexpected and made sense. And the Headless Horseman returned. With both Corbin and the Horseman showing up, only Katrina was missing to give the finale a real sense of circularity and conclusion. I liked the way that Abbie and Ichabod's scenes in the afterlife all took place in locations that mapped out their relationship, from the jail where they originally met to the Archives to the front porch. And Ichabod's scene at Abbie's grave was very nice.
The idea of Ichabod being the head of a modern-day Men-In-Black organization created by George Washington is a bit odd, but this is probably the end of Sleepy Hollow anyway.
All in all, aside from the anticlimactic ending to the Hidden One and Pandora, this was a well-done episode. It just was the last thing I wanted to see and left me feeling very melancholy.
Well, I was only five minutes into the finale when I went onto Yahoo! which prominently said in a front page headline, SLEEPY HOLLOW KILLS OFF MAIN CHARACTER.
I can never understand how anyone can go online while watching a TV show. Doesn't it distract from enjoying the show? I just watch the show.
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Clearly they were Marty McFlyed and had 200-year-old instructions from George Washington to avoid Crane and Mills until that exact moment. Because thanks to the Catacombs apparently sending you back to whenever you originally left (even though it didn't for Mills), she was able to tell GW exactly when and where Ichabod was going to return to the real world. Even though she didn't know herself, and Crane never actually told her anything at all (though she easily guessed they were from the future), or that, you know, no one in the Catacombs knew Abby was going to die after she left, let alone the exact moment when she was going to be buried...
But, you know, forget all those minor details. They totally Marty McFlyed.
Season and possibly series.
I just get online during the commercial breaks.
Here's another article on the finale and its betrayal of some great characters.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/sleepy-hollow-just-lost-any-faith-fans-had-left-in-it.html
http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/sleepy-hollow-just-lost-any-faith-fans-had-left-in-it.html
The one thing they didn't mention was that Beharie wanted off the show, so her death wasn't entirely the writers' fault. I guess they could have just had her leave Sleepy Hollow, but if she was that unhappy with the show I doubt we would have seen her again, so it doesn't really matter.
I remember Orlando Jones complaining on social media about the producers being racist (which is probably how he lost his job-- don't diss your boss on the Internet), because he felt he had been replaced by a "white boy." In fact, it was Captain Reyes who had taken his position as the law-enforcement authority figure. I think the writer of that article is just seeing what they want to see. The only problem with Sleepy Hollow is that the writing went off the rails.
Actually, from what I can find online, it seems that Mark Goffman was the showrunner for the first two seasons, with Clifton Campbell taking over for the third. Although I'm puzzled, because I do seem to remember talk of a showrunner change between seasons 1 & 2.
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