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karadinart) wrote2013-09-24 12:27 pm
karadinart) wrote2013-09-24 12:27 pm
Sleepy Hollow review
what’s great - the Headless Horseman is scary particularly with a glowing double ax that cauterizes as it chops heads
Ichabod Crane is sort of Sherlocky smart, not to mention very good looking
Abby is a great heroine, and that fact she has a sister who is also featured is a great thing
Orlando Jones as Captain Frank
what fails - letting out too early that the Headless Horseman is one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, This makes the coolest character on the show one-dimensional, where it would have been great to develop a backstory on him when he was human, perhaps setting him up as an antithesis/antihero to Icabod, etc.
Speaking of HH,
he isn’t defeated in the first ep, but walks off when the sun rises, without his head (which is apparently sitting on the Captain’s desk) if the HH needs his head to begin the Apocalypse, it is never explained why he just doesn’t come back the next day for it, and we don’t know where the head goes or how it is being protected.
Info dumps - most of the story is being told in conversations instead of showing it, for example, how Ichabod and his wife Katrina met, Also a bummer that it’s revealed that Ichabod’s wife Katrina is a witch, and that there are teams of witches good and evil roaming around. Better to have had this revealed.
ncidentally, his wife supposedly died by being burned as a witch, yet she has a burial in consecrated ground. But no, she'd not dead, she's trapped in some astral plane, with the ability to bring Ichabod messages in dreams. Her grave contains the head of the Horseman, supposedly to protect it, yet HH walks right on church grounds to kill the priest who has been protecting it for the last 250 years - incidentally, how the priest has been alive this long is never explained.
The demonic figure that appears later to kill John Cho is woefully rendered, a blurry naked man with horns who is far less frightening than the HH. In the second episode of the series, Cho’s character is resurrected to raise - a dead witch, who wants revenge on those who burned her and begins killing their descendants, but as a form of malignant evil, we never know her backstory, and she’s a bit too model pretty, flitting around in a designer gown in the woods to take seriously, not to mention easily killed without the story going forward much.
So it seems, early on, Sleepy Hollow has devolved into a monster of the week series, with not particularly scary monsters going by screen shots from next week. It’s disappointing as well that the Captain, who was taking Ichabod and Abby as a detective duo, now doubts the HH is real and rather than being backed up by authority, are in a nebulous realm, and one wonders, does Abby still have to walk her beat? Scenes of Icabod confounded by the modern world play flat, and there is as yet, no real chemistry between the leads.
But, I’m gonna stay tuned for another episode, because I am intrigued by Abby’s sister, and if the Captain turns out to be a good guy or a bad guy but already I have no interest in the Ichabod-Katrina story.
Ichabod Crane is sort of Sherlocky smart, not to mention very good looking
Abby is a great heroine, and that fact she has a sister who is also featured is a great thing
Orlando Jones as Captain Frank
what fails - letting out too early that the Headless Horseman is one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, This makes the coolest character on the show one-dimensional, where it would have been great to develop a backstory on him when he was human, perhaps setting him up as an antithesis/antihero to Icabod, etc.
Speaking of HH,
he isn’t defeated in the first ep, but walks off when the sun rises, without his head (which is apparently sitting on the Captain’s desk) if the HH needs his head to begin the Apocalypse, it is never explained why he just doesn’t come back the next day for it, and we don’t know where the head goes or how it is being protected.
Info dumps - most of the story is being told in conversations instead of showing it, for example, how Ichabod and his wife Katrina met, Also a bummer that it’s revealed that Ichabod’s wife Katrina is a witch, and that there are teams of witches good and evil roaming around. Better to have had this revealed.
ncidentally, his wife supposedly died by being burned as a witch, yet she has a burial in consecrated ground. But no, she'd not dead, she's trapped in some astral plane, with the ability to bring Ichabod messages in dreams. Her grave contains the head of the Horseman, supposedly to protect it, yet HH walks right on church grounds to kill the priest who has been protecting it for the last 250 years - incidentally, how the priest has been alive this long is never explained.
The demonic figure that appears later to kill John Cho is woefully rendered, a blurry naked man with horns who is far less frightening than the HH. In the second episode of the series, Cho’s character is resurrected to raise - a dead witch, who wants revenge on those who burned her and begins killing their descendants, but as a form of malignant evil, we never know her backstory, and she’s a bit too model pretty, flitting around in a designer gown in the woods to take seriously, not to mention easily killed without the story going forward much.
So it seems, early on, Sleepy Hollow has devolved into a monster of the week series, with not particularly scary monsters going by screen shots from next week. It’s disappointing as well that the Captain, who was taking Ichabod and Abby as a detective duo, now doubts the HH is real and rather than being backed up by authority, are in a nebulous realm, and one wonders, does Abby still have to walk her beat? Scenes of Icabod confounded by the modern world play flat, and there is as yet, no real chemistry between the leads.
But, I’m gonna stay tuned for another episode, because I am intrigued by Abby’s sister, and if the Captain turns out to be a good guy or a bad guy but already I have no interest in the Ichabod-Katrina story.