Suicide is a sin, too. 
I don’t get it. Did I miss something?
Ichabod drank the poison, intending to commit suicide for the greater good.
Ah! You’d think he’d need to have that sin eaten in order to be sanctified and not some dumb ass let-go-of-your-guilt crap.
There better be some more naked-in-the-sunshine Icky action or I’m not watching any more. Naked is a gazillion times better than his 250 years and one month old nasty uniform.
Seriously. Keep the coat and boots, they’re kind of awesome. Get this man some new pants. It seems it was suggested a couple episodes ago, but it never went anywhere. Somebody take him to the mall.
Is it just me, or does Katrina seem to switch faces week to week and scene to scene?
not you. i thought she looked better without all the eyeliner.
time for a ball game but no time for a quick trip to target. le sigh.
Her makeup takes me out of the story, just a little bit. I’ve spoiled by period dramas like John Adams, where eyebrows, lashes, and lips were almost invisible. And teeth weren’t white and straight.
She’s gorgeous though.
Sorry, but I need a Psych fix.
Who the hell is Burton Guster, and why can’t I find his post correcting me?
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I love this show.
From the most formal voicemail ever placed, to the destroy the skull montage, to the headless masons (and then their heads) which was actually kind of creepy, to the recklessness with history, to the webcam girl. It’s just really well done loopy.
And next week, they’re going to interrogate a guy without a head. I can’t wait.
After nothing working for me at all last week, and all the disparate and silly elements just being a big glop of dumb, suddenly it was back to being fun this week.
Best part: they actually TRIED TO DESTROY THE SKULL. And then they couldn’t, which is fine, because that would have been too easy, but they TRIED TO DESTROY IT. Almost like they’re not constantly extremely stupid just to make the plot work.
This episode was wildly entertaining! I really enjoyed it. Loved the attempts to demolish the skull.
I agree. The VM was hilarious, there was actually movement in the story, and they got rid of the “disbelieving/unknowing superior” bit, thank God.
(I hate that trope because it inevitably makes the person who refuses to admit X the dumbest character in the show. C’mon, Scully - after 3 years you are still going to argue this shit? Hey, Buffy’s mom - ya ever think about faking being asleep and then following your (car-less) daughter wherever the hell she goes at 1am?)
Anyway, I digress. Still, I’m glad the boss knows about the Horseman.
The leads are excellent and play off each other well - if they didn’t, the show wouldn’t work. The history… well, it just works better if you consider this an alternate Earth where the big picture is pretty much the same but all the details are futzed to hell and back, OK?
I was worried they were going to play “Monster of the week” for 90% of the season but they actually seem to be moving the plot along.
Yes, good to see the boss now in on things. The ‘nobody ever sees the Snuffalaffagus’ was going to wear thin very quickly.
The montage was awesome, although it would have been funnier 9and realistic) had the propane bomb bounced the skull around).
Of course at this point I would say: “OK, how hard is it to book a ship to the Antarctic?”
The ‘correcting’ of the museum docent was a bit forced. No museum docent would popularize myths that we know to be untrue. For a series that has Hessians in British officer coats they really can’t point too many fingers.
I really liked last night’s episode. I was kind of drifting away from this show the last few weeks, it became too much “monster of the week” for me. Last night had some good movement on the main plot and stuff actually happened that will matter next week! While I’m sure the HLH will be sprung free in a week or two, I’m glad they are actually doing something with him instead of just appearing and killing some people then disappearing.
Loved the “man out of time” moments this week with the webcam, the laptop, and the voice mail. I’m also glad Crane picked up a weapon from the dead body (few shows ever do that, to my ire), it shows he’s learning and we’re not simply going to start fresh with a new Crane each week that’s forgotten the lessons of the previous weeks.
While it came sorta early, I do enjoy that the skeptic boss was finally made into a believer. Those kind of characters really get dragged out way too long for my tastes. I think writers have a hard time changing the tone of the characters, this is going to be a major change in how they deal with him from now on. Is he going to be running around with Crane and Abbie? Or is he going to be the sorta man on the inside, helping them from his position while creating fake drama with the “you know I can’t do that, nobody will believe me! You’ll just have to find another way” schtick. Still, I’m happy they’re acknowledging the change and are making it happen. Payoff! 
My nitpick is about the buying of water…
My assumption is that in Crane’s time water would have been a pain in the ass to get. You either carried buckets from the stream, or had to pump it from a well. Both of which are time consuming, difficult work. Then there’s the possibility of water-borne illness. Wouldn’t it be more plausible for him to been amazed that for roughly 10 cents we can now get clean, safe water in a container we can carry with us and reseal? And Sleepy Hollow has so many chemicals in the tap water that it’s unsafe to drink? I’m not saying such a thing is unthinkable, but it seems unlikely in a town that size.
But enough nitpicking! I really love the show. One thing, as a former Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children patient, I really like is that (so far at least) The Masons are good guys. Sure Abbie gave them shit for their men only policies, but they aren’t some evil world controlling cabal.
I also like that either here or at The AV Club there were mentions of similarity to Supernatural, which I checked out and burned through 8 seasons on Netflix in less time than I care to admit.
The writers knew that Paul Revere lit the lamps himself.
I am impressed.
But it was women’s work. Crane probably never had bucket duty.
Would they have built up immunities? And in the colonies, before cities got over-crowded, would there have been much illness? The Dutch and German settlers were known for cleanliness.
And didn’t they drink a lot of ale, reserving water for washing? I read somewhere that early settlers (even children) drank more ale than water.
Colonists had containers (canteens and such), and water was free.
That part did make me wonder. They could have just said there was no running water in that cabin.