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.

Comments

[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.