Sleepy Hollow

Looks like a hot mess, but a machine-gun wielding headless horseman? I'm in.

edited 13th May '13 11:14:37 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Oh hai Clancy Brown!

NOOOOOOOO!!!! CLANCY BROWN!

Wasn't going to watch this but the trailer makes it look unintentionally hilarious so I'l probably give it a shot. But why did they have to kill one of my favorite character actors in the first episode? It's not like he's Sean Bean.

edited 14th May '13 6:04:40 AM by tricksterson

Well, this looks pretty goddamn dumb.

(Also, isn't the Headless Horseman supposed to be a Hessian?)

Yeah, Sean Bean gets roles.

:(

I thought he was supposed to be Christopher Walken?

It looks hysterical! I'm in. But how dare that woman take a map from 1776 and fold it up like it's an old Map Quest sheet!!

Clancy Brown.

The primary point of this entire series is the fact the Headless Horseman has a fucking shotgun, and therefore all the arguments are now rendered irrelevant in light of the fact a certain horse-riding gentleman who happens to lack a head is now in possession of a quick-fire modern weapon of portable capability.

edited 4th Aug '13 8:24:42 PM by Gaon

I've always wanted to do a modern version of Sleepy Hollow with a hot chick riding a motorcycle and wielding a katana. Because I'm a 14 year old boy apparently.

I'm glad others share my inexplicable fascination with this blatantly goofy premise.

But of course. There are no valid arguments when the Headless Horseman wields a shotgun.

So what do you guys think?

I could watch it, at least until its inevitable demise. The Headless Horseman being one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse sounds kinda cool. The preview for the season leaves me with the impression it could get dumb really fast, but it should go well with the upcoming fall season, anyway.

My dad really liked this joke...

"You only fired one shot!" "It shoots MORE?!"

That was really fun. I hope every episode has the Horseman shooting up the place.

Let's see Crane's a Bad Ass Out of his Time and the Headless Horseman has not only a shotgun but is also Death of The Four Horseman. Yeah, this looks like its going to be good.

edited 16th Sep '13 10:30:20 PM by WorldTurtle

I really liked the characters and their actors, but jfc writers slow the fuck down.

That was at least half a season's worth of plot twists. And between all the action and exposition, the characters barely had any breathing room to react to anything that was going on.

Particularly the part about the cop in cahoots with the Horseman and the Demon unless that's foreshadowing there might be others. Also trying to find the horseman's head should of taken longer, but well they obviously needed to do something to show Crane wasn't a lunatic. They have a head that I'm pretty sure has eyes that move, which is pretty damn good evidence that something otherworldly is going on. Still I wonder if they could of done more with the Horseman's murder spree to pace things out?

edited 17th Sep '13 12:05:52 AM by WorldTurtle

I'd agree with the writers slowing the pace down. Maybe they've prepared in the event the show gets shit-canned at the end of the season? But the bit about Washington marking sites on that old map of Sleepy Hollow was obviously setting things up.

Wouldn't have hated seeing Cho as a regular, but I could see his death coming the second he showed up. XD Probably a favor to the Abrams crew. But yeah, based on Sheriff Corbin's tapes, seems like there's two opposing factions of witches waging some sort of secret war in town. Evidently Cho was one of the "evil" crew's agents in the force.

Oh, and was anyone else legitimately unsettled by that Satan-y looking blurry thing in the prison mirror? Cheap Jump Scare stuff, but first time that ever actually worked on me; I think my heart skipped a beat. o_O Seems strongly implied that's the thing Abbie and her sister saw around the Four White Trees.

When I saw Harold get killed by that devil, I could only think, "Huh, I guess Satan WASN'T responsible for Star Trek Into Darkness' twist ending."

I really hope there's a bit of nuance to the two factions thing, though I doubt it. Just seems really limiting to say, off the bat, one's evil and one's good.

Yeah, the bit at the end did make me jump. I can't help but feel that, like the rest of the episode, it jumped the gun a bit; that demon/devil/Satan guy was much creepier when it was a more blurred silhouette during Cho's last scene. Pretty sure they outright stated that what Abbie and her sister saw were the same white trees Ichabod was warned of, but I'd have to go back and rewatch the scene to make sure.

The real question is what are they gonna do for the rest of the season. I'm not sure how compelling the Horseman busting in and shooting the place up to get his head back every week is gonna be, so there's gotta be something else going on.

I don't think it's always going to focus on the Horseman. Crane's wife said Crane was the "first witness." At the end, Crane was telling Abbie something about two "witnesses" from the Book of Revelation fighting the forces of Hell for seven years (I think—I'm going from memory here). So it sounds like the show is going to be kind of like Supernatural (but without the Impala ). Two people fighting various supernatural baddies to avert (or just survive) the apocalypse, except that here the supernatural critters are going to come to Sleepy Hollow, rather than our heroes having to criss-cross the country hunting them down, as in Supernatural.

You know I wonder if they have the jail cell monitored by camera? I mean the demon was invisible from sight or at least normal sight), but that doesn't change the fact that a man just had his neck snapped backwards in a locked prison cell (though IIRC the demon opened the cell door, which given it was invisible might look on camera as if the cell door open by itself).

edited 17th Sep '13 3:19:26 PM by WorldTurtle

Maybe all cameras malfunction the moment he steps in? Supernatural creatures love to do that kind of shit.

The priest guy sure looked like Peter Cushing...