^^ That does sound familiar, actually.
Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye peeled for that. I'd like to see her on there.
FOX: Sleepy Hollow - Season Discussion
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There was also a UFO episode of Bones where, after explaining away all of the seemingly extraterrestrial stuff was explained away, they showed what appeared to be a UFO zooming across the sky.
It's a shame Castle isn't on Fox, because that has had quite a few almost sci-fi episodes, and Castle is always hypothesizing about ghosts and monsters. It would be a blast if they had an episode where one of his crazy supernatural theories was true.
I'm a huge fan of both Bones and Sleepy Hollow, so as ridiculous as it sounds, I'm very curious about the crossover.
It's a shame Castle isn't on Fox, because that has had quite a few almost sci-fi episodes, and Castle is always hypothesizing about ghosts and monsters. It would be a blast if they had an episode where one of his crazy supernatural theories was true.
I'm a huge fan of both Bones and Sleepy Hollow, so as ridiculous as it sounds, I'm very curious about the crossover.
In other words, the same formula as a thousand other TV episodes before it. MacGyver's UFO episode did almost the exact same thing, as did its Bigfoot episode and probably one or two others. It's a standard TV formula -- the crackpot idea is revealed to be a hoax, but there's a tag suggesting that maybe it's real after all. I've always hated that trope. If you're going to debunk pseudoscience, have the courage to stick by your guns instead of weaseling out of it. Or if you're going to suggest it's real, then just go all-out and embrace the fantasy.
Oh, they've crossed that line more than once -- like the ending of the time travel episode where Beckett created the coffee stain that had been on the documents previously, which pretty much left no doubt that the time travel was real. And I think there was a parallel-universe episode after I stopped watching that was pretty hard to refute the reality of.
I watched the Bones/SH crossover.
I can't believe they had the actors that played Walt and his mom from Lost in the same episode and they didn't even share a scene together.
Facial recognition on paintings? Seriously? And then in the Sleepy Hollow episode we find out that Ichabod served under this man, yet didn't recognize his face in the computer mock-up.
The Corbin/Booth connection didn't seem to go anywhere and was probably just introduced to generate dialogue between Abbie and Booth.
At least Jenny and Joe's side-quest for the McGuffin of Whatever is finally folding into the two leads and their story.
I can't believe they had the actors that played Walt and his mom from Lost in the same episode and they didn't even share a scene together.
Facial recognition on paintings? Seriously? And then in the Sleepy Hollow episode we find out that Ichabod served under this man, yet didn't recognize his face in the computer mock-up.
The Corbin/Booth connection didn't seem to go anywhere and was probably just introduced to generate dialogue between Abbie and Booth.
At least Jenny and Joe's side-quest for the McGuffin of Whatever is finally folding into the two leads and their story.
Sitting through the Bones episode was fucking painful. That was freaking awful--like a grade-school kid's play. The Sleepy Hollow follow-up was better--until Brennan and Booth showed up. Eesh. The whole mash-up was pointless and annoying.
Please, please , PLEASE, FOX---don't EVER do that again.
Please, please , PLEASE, FOX---don't EVER do that again.
That was awkward and awful. We now have an episode of Bones in the canon that fully embraces the supernatural as real. Bad bad bad.
A couple of bad science notes:
Facial reconstruction of a HEADLESS skeleton based on the body's bone structure and a scrap of DNA? WHAT?!!?
Bones often goes farther out than even CSI on the sci fi science, but that was just unbelievable.
Greek Fire: What was shown in the show appeared to be blue gas flames shooting down out of ceiling nozzles and billowing back up without reaching the floor. Crane says Greek Fire, and Brennan calls it napalm. Neither of those things looks like blue gas flames. Both Greek Fire (what we know of it) and napalm consist of a thick flammable liquid that burns hot as hell (and yellow, like any normal fire) and sticks to whatever it hits. If either Greek Fire or napalm had shot out of ceiling nozzles, it would have been like pouring flaming gasoline all over our heroes (only worse). It would have been better to NOT analyze what it was than give it a name that was plainly wrong.
Yeah - I hope they never do the crossover thing again. terrible idea.
A couple of bad science notes:
Facial reconstruction of a HEADLESS skeleton based on the body's bone structure and a scrap of DNA? WHAT?!!?
Bones often goes farther out than even CSI on the sci fi science, but that was just unbelievable.Greek Fire: What was shown in the show appeared to be blue gas flames shooting down out of ceiling nozzles and billowing back up without reaching the floor. Crane says Greek Fire, and Brennan calls it napalm. Neither of those things looks like blue gas flames. Both Greek Fire (what we know of it) and napalm consist of a thick flammable liquid that burns hot as hell (and yellow, like any normal fire) and sticks to whatever it hits. If either Greek Fire or napalm had shot out of ceiling nozzles, it would have been like pouring flaming gasoline all over our heroes (only worse). It would have been better to NOT analyze what it was than give it a name that was plainly wrong.
Yeah - I hope they never do the crossover thing again. terrible idea.
I actually thought they made it work pretty well. I kind of liked the way they did the stuff with Ichabod's note. They gave a possible semi-almost-beliveable explanation for the non-Sleepy Hollow fans, but those of us who follow SH know what it really was.
The case on Bones was pretty interesting, and I thought the spell book was actually a pretty nice tie in to the magic on Sleepy Hollow, without actually bringing magic onto Bones.
Sleepy Hollows episode was pretty even with the rest of the season. While the Greek Fire was pretty ridiculous, the ressurected Howe was a nice villain of the week, and gave us a decent reason to give us Revolution era flashbacks. I've been enjoying the season so far, but I'm starting to hope we get more from Pandora than just her unleashing another random monster week after week. I understand them trying to go back to more of a standalone monster of the week format, but a little more complexity to the arc would be nice. Luckily it does look like next week's might give us a little more movement on that story.
I did like the stuff we got with Jenny and Joe. I was not expecting the ties back to Corbin and the connection to the FBI boss. At least this will give him a chance to have more to do.
The case on Bones was pretty interesting, and I thought the spell book was actually a pretty nice tie in to the magic on Sleepy Hollow, without actually bringing magic onto Bones.
Sleepy Hollows episode was pretty even with the rest of the season. While the Greek Fire was pretty ridiculous, the ressurected Howe was a nice villain of the week, and gave us a decent reason to give us Revolution era flashbacks. I've been enjoying the season so far, but I'm starting to hope we get more from Pandora than just her unleashing another random monster week after week. I understand them trying to go back to more of a standalone monster of the week format, but a little more complexity to the arc would be nice. Luckily it does look like next week's might give us a little more movement on that story.
I did like the stuff we got with Jenny and Joe. I was not expecting the ties back to Corbin and the connection to the FBI boss. At least this will give him a chance to have more to do.
^^ Yes, that would have been nice.
The Halloween Bowling Party was funny-- Ichabod as John Adams and Zoe as "spicy" Abigail Adams.
While, 250 years ago, the real Abigail Adams brought her spiciness to bear on the undead with a Greek Fire Flamethrower. I liked the use of General Howe as a supernatural nemesis, as it tied in nicely with the Fear Wraith episode. Brennan and Booth were pretty much just there for a cameo, but that's okay. I still wish that Angela and Jack had been in it, too, though.
I haven't seen the Bones episode yet, but I will at some point over the weekend.
I'm glad to see that. A friend of mine watched Sleepy for the first time because of the crossover and she's planning to continue. I think they put together a good episode to show off the series to newbies. Lots of great character interaction among the regulars, some good flashbacks to the Revolution, and a really good monster.
The Halloween Bowling Party was funny-- Ichabod as John Adams and Zoe as "spicy" Abigail Adams.
While, 250 years ago, the real Abigail Adams brought her spiciness to bear on the undead with a Greek Fire Flamethrower. I liked the use of General Howe as a supernatural nemesis, as it tied in nicely with the Fear Wraith episode. Brennan and Booth were pretty much just there for a cameo, but that's okay. I still wish that Angela and Jack had been in it, too, though.I haven't seen the Bones episode yet, but I will at some point over the weekend.
Indeed it was. Oops.
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