I kept waiting for someone else to start this thread. Someone with more thread-naming and re-capping abilities. I don’t know the name of the episode and I’m too stupid to re-cap. So, here are my thoughts.
What happened to Orlando Jones and his family?
For about half a second I lost faith and thought they actually jumped ahead a year and we’d only learn in flashbacks what happened. Glad I was wrong about that.
Wasn’t Abbie trapped in the spooky purgatory dollhouse?
Was that Headless that Abbie beheaded? Because that wouldn’t explain why he went down and stayed down.
I’d be very happy indeed if Icky’s wife hooked up with Headless. She’s be much more entertaining. Plus it would make room for the first interracial supernatural hook-up. That’ I’ve seen, anyway.
I so trust this show that I was willing to jump on board with the 1 Year Later thing. The idea that it was constructed by Henry and Moloch to get information was brilliant!
It’s like it never missed a beat. Am very happy to have it back.
The Ben Franklin loathing was hilarious: “It’s all about the Benjamin’s” “It always was”. It’s going to be funny when Crane really realizes how immortalized Ben Franklin is in 2014 America.
Though I did wish the Gehenna Key didn’t disintegrate… that could be interesting and less MacGuffin-y (though since when does Sleepy Hollow care that it’s doing obvious MacGuffins or tropes?), but oh well.
Oh, btw… the name of the episode was “This is War”.
I keep wondering if they are going to start dressing Ichabod in modern clothes. I assume he has just the one 18th century outfit and it’s got to be getting a little ripe by now.
In last year’s second episode, Ichabod discovered how running water & a hair dryer can refresh an outfit. Later, when he’d moved into the cabin, laundry detergent was included in the shopping that Abbie brought. (She brought him some modern clothes–including skinny jeans. He rejected them.) Then in the final episode, Ichabod happened by a re-enactment of a Seven Years War battle. And a lady selling 18th century garb–he bought some.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The “skipped year” seemed a little skeevy–I know the cast was returning–but things moved so fast that I wasn’t able to pin it down. Gosh, need to watch it again!
Glad they got the team together quickly. Except for Irving; word is we’ll see an incarcerated Irving before he’s freed. And Katrina is off doing her own thing…
Really glad to see Dead John Cho. From what I hear of his new series, we may see more of him…
So glad John Noble’s still around (and apparently bumped up to a regular now?). He’s so great. He really should have won every award there is for his work on Fringe.
Timothy Busfield as Franklin was gold! It took me a minute, but I realized who it was and frightened the cat with my cry of, “Oh my god! It’s Danny Concannon!”
So, I’m more and more thinking the 18 episode order for this season was a horrible mistake. It was just so much better (tightly plotted, breakneak speed, fun) in 13 eps last season.
And the writers should just admit they made a mistake with Hawley and let him go.
Odd. I like Hawley. He’s a pirate, a Han Solo type. Scruffy-looking. Probably herds nerfs. What isn’t to like?
And while I’m not a huge fan of longer, US-style seasons for anything other than completely episodic, disposable, forgettable fare like sitcoms, I’ve not had a problem w/ monster-of-the-week Sleepy Hollow so far. The arc elements have been just right–not tagged on, as they often felt in Burn Notice and some seasons of Doctor Who, nor completely dominating the episodic plots, like certain other seasons of Doctor Who. They’re doing a nice job of driving the individual episodes and keeping things moving.
That said, I dunno. I’m pretty easy to please, especially by internet standards.
I am usually easy to please as well, but the joy of Sleepy Hollow’s first season was that the plot moved so quickly and there was no real wasted scenes - all were in service of the apocalyptic plot.
Moving to Monster-of-the-Week kind of seems like treading water. What does this have to do with bringing the apocalypse other than Henry gets some item to further his plan (which is only a very minor part of this week’s and last week’s episode)? I mean did we really need a Pied Piper or Wendigo plot arc, esp where in the Wendigo arc, the person leaves town afterwards. I feel Season 1 Sleepy Hollow would have gotten Henry the Jinquen (or however you spell it) in a way that tied into the general narrative better (and included more scenes with Henry).
I also find the Monster-of-the-Week tends to move the show away from its focus on Christian mythology (Key of Solomon, etc) and how it ties into the apocalyptic theme.
Hawley COULD be ok, but right now he just gets plotted into the plot and slows things down as Ichabod doesn’t trust him at all and every episode they have this Hawley seems to be going something because he’s good, oh wait, its just for money thing.