Sleepy Hollow - The Sin Eater
Sooo... after a loooong wait (and not as long for me as for most as I only got caught up with the first 5 episodes a week or so before episode 6 was due to air), the much-anticipated sixth episode of Sleepy Hollow, entitled The Sin Eater, finally aired last week.
And. It. Was. Awesome! :D
Fandom had been going crazy about this episode, with lots of little sneak peeks and clips and promo pictures and behind the scenes stuff being released, bit by bit, by Fox, keeping the anticipation building. And it was sooo worth it!
We got some proper solid backstory on Crane, including how he met Katrina, how we came to change sides from the British to the patriots, how he learned about the secret war etc.
We got oooodles of character development with a major exploration of the depth of the connection between Abbie and Crane, with Abbie talking openly and frankly with her sister about his importance to her, straight out telling Parrish that her connection to Crane is strong, and, of course, the amazingness that was the Abbie and Crane scene with the pair of them essentially admitting to each other how much they mean to each other. And the hug! The hug! The hug that made an entire fandom go crazy! :D
We got whump, lovely whump, and lots of it!
From Crane being shot with a tranquiliser gun and abducted (and waking up still all woozy - but still managing to do a total Sherlock and deduce the shit out of Rutledge :D)...
to his emotional angst in the flashbacks, to the flashback scenes of him being hit hard enough to be thrown through the air (and ?knocked out)...
and then staggering into the hospital, bloodied and clutching his midriff (?broken ribs), gasping for air and pretty much collapsing in Katrina's arms...
to his heartfelt admission of his sin to the masons, to... well, pretty much the entire last 10 minutes or so of the episode with Ichabod poisoned, woozy, near death, stabbed in the hand, angsting over his sins and just the intensity of him severing his connection to the horseman.
There was just SO much to enjoy in this episode. I loved Abbie and Jenny working together. In fact, I adore the way this episode basically turned the damsel in distress trope completely on its head and had Crane (who, despite being extremely clever and capable is rendered somewhat vulnerable by his lack of familiarity with the modern age) being abducted and the strong, capable women being the heroes seeking him out to rescue him. :) I loved the exploration of Crane's past and the whole freemason angle too. I looooved loved loved the angst and the incredible emotion between Abbie and Crane. I am not a shipper - never have been - but I do thoroughly enjoy me some UST and some real emotion, and yeah, even some romancey feels. I do love it and enjoy it. I just don't feel the need to desperately want a ship to be consumated or to decry any other possible ships and insist that my preferred pairing is the one and only, so there, fact, everyone else is *wrong*! :lol: (The one thing I am not liking so much about this fandom is the ship warring which has started already!).
But anyway... I love a good emotional angst and Abbie's desperation as Crane's self-sacrifice (and yet her determination not to walk away, to stay there with him) was fabulous, as was Crane's speech about the impossibility of them having found each other and how grateful he was that they had... and his admission of his fear. Oh and the desperate hand holding (and thumb stroking!!) and just... guh. Doesn't matter how many times I rewatch this ep, I pretty much spend the last 15 minutes with my hands over my mouth, going "Eeep!" :)
I love a bit of self-sacrificing heroism and this gave it us in spades. It was clear from the promos that the masons were going to want Crane dead in order to defeat the horseman and that Abbie was going to find the Sin Eater and get him to sever the horseman's bond to Crane before that happened. However, I hadn't realised that Crane was going to essentially agree with the masons and choose to commit suicide... and I never dreamed that the method of his death would be poison and that he would actually damn well drink it - with Abbie there with him - and actually be poisoned and close to death for the whole of the process of the Sin Eater severing his connection to the horseman. That was just.... wow! Whump the the nth degree! :)
As you may have seen below, this ep has already spawned two missing scene (i.e. let's just squeeze in a leeeetle bit more whump!) plot bunnies in my brain and I have a load more ideas, both related to this ep and not, that need writing. Just need a few more hours in the day! :lol:
All in all, this episode rocked in so many ways, but mainly in terms of the whump and the awesome emotion that was portrayed and explored. Damn, I love this show. And I love being back in fandom and back writing again and being this excited about a show. I missed this, y'all. :)
And. It. Was. Awesome! :D
Fandom had been going crazy about this episode, with lots of little sneak peeks and clips and promo pictures and behind the scenes stuff being released, bit by bit, by Fox, keeping the anticipation building. And it was sooo worth it!
We got some proper solid backstory on Crane, including how he met Katrina, how we came to change sides from the British to the patriots, how he learned about the secret war etc.
We got oooodles of character development with a major exploration of the depth of the connection between Abbie and Crane, with Abbie talking openly and frankly with her sister about his importance to her, straight out telling Parrish that her connection to Crane is strong, and, of course, the amazingness that was the Abbie and Crane scene with the pair of them essentially admitting to each other how much they mean to each other. And the hug! The hug! The hug that made an entire fandom go crazy! :D
We got whump, lovely whump, and lots of it!
From Crane being shot with a tranquiliser gun and abducted (and waking up still all woozy - but still managing to do a total Sherlock and deduce the shit out of Rutledge :D)...
to his emotional angst in the flashbacks, to the flashback scenes of him being hit hard enough to be thrown through the air (and ?knocked out)...
and then staggering into the hospital, bloodied and clutching his midriff (?broken ribs), gasping for air and pretty much collapsing in Katrina's arms...
to his heartfelt admission of his sin to the masons, to... well, pretty much the entire last 10 minutes or so of the episode with Ichabod poisoned, woozy, near death, stabbed in the hand, angsting over his sins and just the intensity of him severing his connection to the horseman.
There was just SO much to enjoy in this episode. I loved Abbie and Jenny working together. In fact, I adore the way this episode basically turned the damsel in distress trope completely on its head and had Crane (who, despite being extremely clever and capable is rendered somewhat vulnerable by his lack of familiarity with the modern age) being abducted and the strong, capable women being the heroes seeking him out to rescue him. :) I loved the exploration of Crane's past and the whole freemason angle too. I looooved loved loved the angst and the incredible emotion between Abbie and Crane. I am not a shipper - never have been - but I do thoroughly enjoy me some UST and some real emotion, and yeah, even some romancey feels. I do love it and enjoy it. I just don't feel the need to desperately want a ship to be consumated or to decry any other possible ships and insist that my preferred pairing is the one and only, so there, fact, everyone else is *wrong*! :lol: (The one thing I am not liking so much about this fandom is the ship warring which has started already!).
But anyway... I love a good emotional angst and Abbie's desperation as Crane's self-sacrifice (and yet her determination not to walk away, to stay there with him) was fabulous, as was Crane's speech about the impossibility of them having found each other and how grateful he was that they had... and his admission of his fear. Oh and the desperate hand holding (and thumb stroking!!) and just... guh. Doesn't matter how many times I rewatch this ep, I pretty much spend the last 15 minutes with my hands over my mouth, going "Eeep!" :)
I love a bit of self-sacrificing heroism and this gave it us in spades. It was clear from the promos that the masons were going to want Crane dead in order to defeat the horseman and that Abbie was going to find the Sin Eater and get him to sever the horseman's bond to Crane before that happened. However, I hadn't realised that Crane was going to essentially agree with the masons and choose to commit suicide... and I never dreamed that the method of his death would be poison and that he would actually damn well drink it - with Abbie there with him - and actually be poisoned and close to death for the whole of the process of the Sin Eater severing his connection to the horseman. That was just.... wow! Whump the the nth degree! :)
As you may have seen below, this ep has already spawned two missing scene (i.e. let's just squeeze in a leeeetle bit more whump!) plot bunnies in my brain and I have a load more ideas, both related to this ep and not, that need writing. Just need a few more hours in the day! :lol:
All in all, this episode rocked in so many ways, but mainly in terms of the whump and the awesome emotion that was portrayed and explored. Damn, I love this show. And I love being back in fandom and back writing again and being this excited about a show. I missed this, y'all. :)