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The End of Sleepy Hollow, or, How to Kill a Show

“Our job was to carry you forward” 

… That is quite possibly the biggest load of horseshit in this entire episode.

Lots of spoilers and discussion under the cut:

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Mages of the Inquisition!

So you've been with my former lover AND my son? 😂

I'm dying laughing at this!

“I’m sure we’re gonna laugh ourselves sick about all this one day.”

Fuck the Text

I’m probably going to post more about this tomorrow when my brain is functioning and not awash in cortisol, I think (maybe), but:

FUCK THE TEXT.

These stories? They aren’t theirs.

These stories are ours.

Canon matters, of course. What is mainstream and sanctioned and given money and airtime matters. And it deserves criticism. A lot of it.

But it isn’t the story. Canon–the text (of a novel, a TV series, a movie, a play, a comic series, etc.)–is just one version of a story. There are infinite others. There are better and worse versions, but this isn’t church doctrine. There’s no “right” version that’s going to get you into heaven and gain the favor of God, and what we get handed in the text–stories told by other people–has no special value as to its rightness.

Its impact is a different matter. We all, as fans, don’t get to film and broadcast and make money off of our versions of Abbie Mills or Sleepy Hollow. We don’t get to fix shitty, oppressive media representation. We don’t get to broadcast a better, truer, more just, more progressive narrative.

But we don’t have to accept what we’re given in terms of the stories themselves. We don’t have to accept the dry, gray, cold meatloaf we’ve been served for dinner is the best dinner possible. Or the only dinner possible. We don’t have to accept what others tell us–try to force us–to accept about stories.

Including what the “right” or “true” story is.

FUCK THE TEXT.

Platonic Valentine #1

#married

I dug through some old boxes. I don’t have a lot of stuff from the old days, but I did find this. I thought you might want to know more about who you are, where you came from.

What must've gone down at the first Sleepy Hollow writers' room meeting for season three:

Head Writer: So. We almost got canceled last season because instead of focusing on Ichabbie, platonic OR romantic, we put the spotlight on Katrina and didn't make her interesting or likable, and then we added in Hawley, who took away more time from the developing relationship between the Mills sisters. So we got rid of Katrina and Henry and Hawley and the fans came back to us. New year, new us, new season. What are your thoughts?

Writer #1: *raises his hand*

Head Writer: Yes?

Writer #1: *presses his fingertips to his lips for a moment* What if...we add in this super special awesome female character to be Crane's love interest in the past and then give him another love interest in the current time and then give Abbie a love interest that won't come to fruition until the last second and then instead of showing the blooming relationship between Ichabbie, we'll throw in those two things constantly until the fans are forced to recognize the true greatness of the show, which is things that are not Ichabbie?

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: So basically do the exact same thing that almost got us canceled last year?

Writer #1: *brightly* Yeah-huh!

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: YASSSS BITCH YAASSSSS. HIGH FIVE BRO SEASON THREE IS COMIN' ATCHA!

I think you are on to something. Someone on Twitter just pointed out that it looks like the symbol was painted across Crane’s grave in the pilot.

https://twitter.com/MichiganCubsFan/status/708812140610789376

So, what are the odds, y’all, that SH is about to retcon the hell out of the Katrina storyline, without even naming her?

What if … what we end up getting is that what saved Crane in 1781 wasn’t really Katrina’s shitty witch powers at all, but the bond between Witnesses? Basically:  Abbie saved Crane, not Katrina and her coven?

I would lol forever.