Mid-Season TV Report: Gotham, Huh? & Sleepy Hollow, 90% Yay!

[retsuko]

So, the cold open for last night's Gotham featured a character we'd never met before, high on a Plot Device drug, running screaming at the camera. This image pretty much encapsulates the show for me: it's loud, it's not subtle, and if I'm willing suspend a lot of disbelief, it's fun in a "did they really go there?" sort of way. The best scenes

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[ladybird97]

HATED the backstory of the Weeping Lady. HATED IT. Hated the way it played on old tropes of female jealousy and female untrustworthiness. Hated the way that it made loving Ichabod into the only possible motivation for anyone's actions

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[retsuko]

Heh, sopaboxing is more than fine here! I do more than enough on a regular basis

[lady_of_mists]

I think she's also Raj's new girlfriend on Big Bang... (the red-haired friend of Ichabod)? If so, I guess she decided which show she wanted to go with... ;)

I was a little perturbed by Mary being obsessed with Ichabod, but it was also interesting that Katrina was the immediate reason for her death as well. The letter sent to Ichabod from "Mary" was interesting too... just kind of wrapped up all of those colonial loose ends for him, didn't it? ;)

So Katrina is a shard now? And was John Noble crying at the end? I had a crying baby I was tending to (because S has managed to find a staph infection), so I didn't really see everything.

I liked Katrina a little better in this episode. And, to be honest, I was almost rooting for her to get with Death. They had some chemistry last night in the parts I saw! :headdesk:

[retsuko]

I wish I knew what Katrina's handwriting charm was! That's a nifty little bit of convenient magic.

Ichabod has a lot of colonial loose ends, but I do agree that this one was wrapped up so neatly that it didn't make an appearance until this very moment! A wild, jealous, old flame ghost appears! ;)

I still get the Phantom of the Opera vibe from Headless, but...

Poor S, staph is awful. Are you all OK? Hope he recovers ASAP!

[anagramofbrat]

I had mixed feelings about the episode too. while I'm glad that we finally FINALLY see Katrina working some magic in the current dimension and timeline I'm not really here for this storyline. I'll admit it, I don't really like the character as written, mostly because the writers don't seem to know what to do with her and even if I didn't ship Ichabbie super hard (or maybe I just want to gnaw on Tom Mison myself for a while) I'd have trouble buying Katrina/Crane as being a madly in love married couple. Maybe it's a sign of the time they're supposed to be from but their scenes together seem very stiff and awkward. I would also like to see more of her backstory - specifically what she is hiding and why. Right now she just seems like a convenient plot device and even the actress looks like "ALL RIGHT ALREADY GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO

[retsuko]

I agree with you that the writers don't seem to know what to do with Katrina. I'd like to imagine that the scenes between her and Crane are stiff because the characters know that they could be torn apart at any moment, and are afraid to commit to their feelings because of this, but the show should address that in some way. I was so excited to see her doing something... only to find out that she hadn't really done much of anything after all. :p

Hawley's a good new character, and I like the idea of a supernatural objects black market. Hell, I'd just like to know how he publicizes what he does and who employs him! (Besides Henry, of course.) Wait a minute... a Constantine crossover would not go amiss here...