Sleepy Hollow - TV series
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luckykaaSo, a series inspired by Sleepy Hollow. It was actually sort of fun, but the pilot seems to have plenty of logical leaps from the characters to establish the premise, and heaps of somewhat forced exposition.
Starts off in the American War of Independence. Ichabod Crane is fighting, chops off a redcoat's head. Wakes up in the modern day.
Meanwhile, a headless horseman appears. Chops off a policeman's head. Other main character Police Liuetenant Abbie (She's black. This is relevant to a later piece of exposition) witnesses this. Ichabod promptly gets arrested for this despite there being no reason. The only witness confirms that Ichabod is not the murderer, presumably on account of coat colour and number of heads. The police figure there's still adequate evidence to question Ichabod, using a lie detector, which they have absolute faith in.
Ichabod gives us plenty of exposition explaining how he was a turncoat who fought for the good guys (i.e. the Americans) so his British accent can be forgiven. Naturally the questioner doesn't believe a word of it, but assumes he must be insane because lie detectors are 100% accurate and explains that it's now the 21st century, just on the off-chance that Ichabod is a time traveller. He later explains to Abbie that he was also an abolitionist but does cause a slight faux-pas assuming she's an emancipated slave. Abbie takes him to the loony bin, but indirectly because Ichabod has to provide more expositions and we need to explain a lot of mystical backstory about two warring covens and the fact that Mrs. Ichabod Crane was a witch on the light side. Meanwhile Abbie has to explain that something inexplicable happened to her once and rather than dismiss it, it has haunted her so she and Ichabod are kindred spirits.
While Ichabod seems a little distraught about being locked up as a lunatic, it doesn't occur to him to lie and say "Ha ha, April fool!", I just have amnesia or something. And while his entire insanity is an apparent delusion that he's a time traveller, he gets treated as a dangerous psycho for having a bad dream. Abby then finds that her boss was investigating lots of spooky goings on, and immediately becomes a believer.
After all this clumsy exposition things actually pick up a bit and we learn that our headless horseman is Death himself, can't go out during the day, and so on. Plenty of police witness the headless horseman so Abbie gets away with not being considered nuts. All a bit rushed and heavy on the action, but Headless horseman with a pump action shotgun does is cool enough that I didn't notice any issues with suspension of disbelief.
It's a pilot so they need to get all this stuff out of the way. I do think it has potential. Seems like there's a lot of backstory, although there's really no need to dump it all on us in a single episode. I do worry that this might become formulaic very quickly. It has that feel.
Starts off in the American War of Independence. Ichabod Crane is fighting, chops off a redcoat's head. Wakes up in the modern day.
Meanwhile, a headless horseman appears. Chops off a policeman's head. Other main character Police Liuetenant Abbie (She's black. This is relevant to a later piece of exposition) witnesses this. Ichabod promptly gets arrested for this despite there being no reason. The only witness confirms that Ichabod is not the murderer, presumably on account of coat colour and number of heads. The police figure there's still adequate evidence to question Ichabod, using a lie detector, which they have absolute faith in.
Ichabod gives us plenty of exposition explaining how he was a turncoat who fought for the good guys (i.e. the Americans) so his British accent can be forgiven. Naturally the questioner doesn't believe a word of it, but assumes he must be insane because lie detectors are 100% accurate and explains that it's now the 21st century, just on the off-chance that Ichabod is a time traveller. He later explains to Abbie that he was also an abolitionist but does cause a slight faux-pas assuming she's an emancipated slave. Abbie takes him to the loony bin, but indirectly because Ichabod has to provide more expositions and we need to explain a lot of mystical backstory about two warring covens and the fact that Mrs. Ichabod Crane was a witch on the light side. Meanwhile Abbie has to explain that something inexplicable happened to her once and rather than dismiss it, it has haunted her so she and Ichabod are kindred spirits.
While Ichabod seems a little distraught about being locked up as a lunatic, it doesn't occur to him to lie and say "Ha ha, April fool!", I just have amnesia or something. And while his entire insanity is an apparent delusion that he's a time traveller, he gets treated as a dangerous psycho for having a bad dream. Abby then finds that her boss was investigating lots of spooky goings on, and immediately becomes a believer.
After all this clumsy exposition things actually pick up a bit and we learn that our headless horseman is Death himself, can't go out during the day, and so on. Plenty of police witness the headless horseman so Abbie gets away with not being considered nuts. All a bit rushed and heavy on the action, but Headless horseman with a pump action shotgun does is cool enough that I didn't notice any issues with suspension of disbelief.
It's a pilot so they need to get all this stuff out of the way. I do think it has potential. Seems like there's a lot of backstory, although there's really no need to dump it all on us in a single episode. I do worry that this might become formulaic very quickly. It has that feel.
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