Sleepy Hollow 2.01
I liked the bit with the plants.
Wait, that could be taken wrongly. The episode as a whole was okay, certainly delivered on the Sleepy Hollow formula - Ichabod and Abbie partnership feelings, Ichabod delivers cracky Founding Fathers anecdotes, featuring Benjamin Franklin this time, hilarity ensues, Katrina STILL can't catch a characterisation break from imprisonment, and nobody, not even the great John Noble, can speak German to save their lives.
Mind you: this works for his character. I guess we now know something of what Henry did during those centuries he was locked up alive in a coffin and went insane - he learned German. Considering he had no one to practice it with until Moloch freed him, and then only American cosplayers demons, I'm not surprised at the result. The mostly silent Hessians (I forgot: are they supposed to be the descendants of OMG EVIL Hessians from the 18th century or are they supposed to be newly arrived from Germany) in their black leather (what else does the fashion conscious German villain wear on American tv? Well, there is the occasional scar in the face, and of course the lack of a head in one special case, but other than that) still make me chortle because: the idea of tough guys from Hesse will never stop being funny. Sorry, Hessians.
Anyway, a bit more seriously, speaking of Henry: I felt a bit let down because I assumed one great advantage of having John Noble to play your main antagonist (other than Moloch), as opposed to a headless stuntman and another plastered in demon mask, was to USE his acting force. Instead, except for the hallucination where he does the bit with the plants, poor old Henry is given solely standard villain 101 lines. Bah. Check out Walternate over at Fringe again, Orci & Kurtzman, and then rewrite your scripts!
Let's see, what else: letting Abbie lose the amulet was just lazy scriptwriting, because seriously? The one thing she was told would keep her save from her childhood nightmare? And she just drops it because...? (Welll, Doylist wise she drops it because we need a few Abbie in peril scenes.) On the other hand, she got to behead an Ichabod doppelganger, so there is that.
Escaping from a grave: Ichabod can now empathize with the Bride/Beatrix and Buffy Summers, because his own ealier experience wasn't on their level of gruesome. I have to say, though: while I like Ichabod using science, those ladies set standards he didn't quite live up to.
In conclusion: nice, but not something I'll ever rewatch. In fact, I think I might marathon my way though this show once the season is over, because I have so much else to do, and this didn't really grip me as a must upon returning.
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Wait, that could be taken wrongly. The episode as a whole was okay, certainly delivered on the Sleepy Hollow formula - Ichabod and Abbie partnership feelings, Ichabod delivers cracky Founding Fathers anecdotes, featuring Benjamin Franklin this time, hilarity ensues, Katrina STILL can't catch a characterisation break from imprisonment, and nobody, not even the great John Noble, can speak German to save their lives.
Mind you: this works for his character. I guess we now know something of what Henry did during those centuries he was locked up alive in a coffin and went insane - he learned German. Considering he had no one to practice it with until Moloch freed him, and then only American cosplayers demons, I'm not surprised at the result. The mostly silent Hessians (I forgot: are they supposed to be the descendants of OMG EVIL Hessians from the 18th century or are they supposed to be newly arrived from Germany) in their black leather (what else does the fashion conscious German villain wear on American tv? Well, there is the occasional scar in the face, and of course the lack of a head in one special case, but other than that) still make me chortle because: the idea of tough guys from Hesse will never stop being funny. Sorry, Hessians.
Anyway, a bit more seriously, speaking of Henry: I felt a bit let down because I assumed one great advantage of having John Noble to play your main antagonist (other than Moloch), as opposed to a headless stuntman and another plastered in demon mask, was to USE his acting force. Instead, except for the hallucination where he does the bit with the plants, poor old Henry is given solely standard villain 101 lines. Bah. Check out Walternate over at Fringe again, Orci & Kurtzman, and then rewrite your scripts!
Let's see, what else: letting Abbie lose the amulet was just lazy scriptwriting, because seriously? The one thing she was told would keep her save from her childhood nightmare? And she just drops it because...? (Welll, Doylist wise she drops it because we need a few Abbie in peril scenes.) On the other hand, she got to behead an Ichabod doppelganger, so there is that.
Escaping from a grave: Ichabod can now empathize with the Bride/Beatrix and Buffy Summers, because his own ealier experience wasn't on their level of gruesome. I have to say, though: while I like Ichabod using science, those ladies set standards he didn't quite live up to.
In conclusion: nice, but not something I'll ever rewatch. In fact, I think I might marathon my way though this show once the season is over, because I have so much else to do, and this didn't really grip me as a must upon returning.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1015773.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.