12/30 Sleepy Hollow

[darkemeralds]

I just...

I'm sitting here watching "Sleepy Hollow," grinning at the ridiculous goodness and badness of it. It's like...so probably going to be cancelled but might catch fire. It's indescribable, but it has American legend + Apocalypse + a little bit of Clancy Brown + a very appealing lead woman of color + stupid fish-out-of-water time-travel jokes + you know, Headless Horseman. Of the Apocalypse.

And this one guy with a really beautiful nose playing Ichabod Crane. I mean. Sleepy Hollow. I think it might be love. Ridiculous, ill-advised love.

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[executrix]

It's easy to forget in the flurry of meta and SJW wars, but the purpose of television is to entertain! And if you are being entertained, hurrah and I hope next week's episode is just as enjoyable! BTW the AV Club grade is B+, you're not the only one who had fun.

[darkemeralds]

Oh cool! I honestly couldn't get a feel for whether it was "hit" or "miss" but if it's getting good grades online, maybe I'll invest.

Who am I kidding? I'm going to watch every episode they make.

[executrix]

Every episode they *broadcast*--I'm still mad that they never burned off the rest of the episodes of The Playboy Club, and there's no DVD, so I will never get to see either two or three episodes of Lesbian Bunny Goodness with Bonus Sean Maher.

[darkemeralds]

I absolutely can't understand why any network or studio, in today's world, would not make all finished content available. What do they do? Delete the files? I mean, there's profit to be made! Put them on Netflix streaming and Hulu, at least.

I just found out that "Sleepy Hollow" is on Fox. I can only hope that the network will treat it they way they treated Fringe, and not the way they treated, you know, most other shows I've loved.

[executrix]

The traditional BBC "record over the tape" strategy?

For years, I've seen comments every new season: "Yeah, That Thing sounds cool, but I'm not even going to bother watching it because it's on Fox so they're just going to kick me AGAIN."

[darkemeralds]

Yeah. I must admit my heart sank when someone pointed out that this vastly entertaining new show is on Fox.

Damn, the network must know it has that effect.

[sffan]

Me, too! And YES on the nose thing. Holy crap that man has a beautiful profile.

I'm not sure what "fish out of water" moment I loved most:

1) utter fascination with the electric windows on the car
2) the Starbucks on every corner "is there a law?" conversation
3) flashing himself in the face with the flashlight

[unseelie]

Yes, this show is le Crack.
The Headless Horseman has me howling with laughter; first he's Bane, and then he's a pushy houseguest flopped on the sofa until you get ho~ome, and hey! Shotgun! Clever kraut...

[darkemeralds]

Ha ha ha! Your icon is perfect!

I'm about to rewatch the first ep. I loved all those time-travel moments, partly because they were funny and partly because they weren't the expected things. I'm going to be very interested to see what Ichabod makes of the internet.

[darkemeralds]

It is totally crack. So much so that I've been thinking about it all day and am now going to rewatch, probably read some fic (of which there were four examples when I looked this afternoon, and of which there are now seven), and become impatient for episode two. And maybe make myself an icon.

I hear the pilot episode did fabulously well in the ratings, so who knows? Maybe it's a keeper.

[greghatcher]

Well, WE liked it. Had kind of the same reaction we had to LAST RESORT last year; "We love this so much, but how is it a SERIES?" The basic problem set up in the pilot is finite. It strikes me as about a 40-50 episode thing before it starts to get Gilligan syndrome.

On the other hand, it's Fox, so hell, fifty episodes would be a huge victory.

[darkemeralds]

I'm sometimes amazed and delighted at the ways producers and writers can keep a story going longer than the original premise would have suggested. Some shows can even be good after jumping the shark (I've been pleasantly surprised to be enjoying and voluntarily watching "Supernatural" again, for instance).

As to Last Resort, I watched the first episode and it was one of those shows that I thought was fantastic, but that I felt very little for. It felt like a chore to watch it again, so I never did. I couldn't tell you specifically why--it just felt like hard work. Whereas "Sleepy Hollow" just feels like nothing but fun. I hope you're right about 40-50 episodes. That would be a good number.