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HAAA!

So Jenny's just a full-time bimbo now? And even when we don't have to have Poochie sucking up screentime, we can't let an episode go by without mentioning his name every two minutes? Damn, that guy's got a good agent.

I agree that the disparity between what we're told about Katrina's powers and abilities and what we're shown of them is a big problem. They really need to just start saying nothing more than "She's a witch" and leave it at that.

This was a missed golden opportunity: they could have had Poochie try to pour a roofie down the Headless Horseman's neck and have it spray back up in his face, resulting in the most epic, "Whoa, dude!" moment yet. Seeing Katrina's Terrible Wig pulled back to expose the lace front made me realize they missed another golden opportunity: When Katrina came to the present and they dressed her in modern clothes, there was no reason not to get her a modern hairstyle "to make you harder to find," and have her lose that Kanekalon eyesore in favor of whatever's under it. If they're sticking to the story that that's Katrina's natural color, they could add a dye job to the story, or color the actress's hair. If Abbie's wound was mild enough that she was able to fight again so soon, I'm not sure why she and Jenny left the field in the first place, but I *guess* subsequent doeses of shock and adrenaline can do weird things to the body. I still hold out hope that since Henry claimed Frank's soul for Moloch, that there's some kind of mumbo-jumbo clause to the contract that can bring Frank back to life now that Moloch's dead. Maybe I'm just grabbing at straws, but it wouldn't be the strangest thing that's happened on this show. All in all, a better finale than I was expecting, given how the last few months have mostly gone.

I know people can see the same things differently, but such polar opposites. Nothing could be more different from what goes on on our set. We take turns coming up with T-shirt slogans we want to send to the wardrobe department for his costumes. my favorites are: "WHITE MALE JENNY SUBSTITUTE" "THIRD WHEEL" on the front,"FIFTH WHEEL" on the back "FAILED 1980'S MADE-FOR-CABLE ACTION HERO" "HERE, LET ME DO THAT FOR YOU" "MY FRIENDS WENT TO CANCUN AND ALL THEY BROUGHT ME WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT, WHO AM I KIDDING I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS" "2014 MANSPLAINING CHAMPIONSHIP" on the front, "EVEN MAINSPLAINS TO MEN!" on the back "ILLINOIS SMITH" "THE TRIANGULATOR" In what way?

Sorry to post three times in a row, but I keep forgetting to put things in before I hit the button. I wouldn't even mind Katrina not being that powerful of a witch. I mean, there's room in the world for casual dabblers in witchcraft, isn't there? I mean, maybe it's like medicine, where you've got everything from nurse's aides and technicians all the way up to brain surgeons. I'd be perfectly happy if she just did hexes and country magic and scrying and stuff. Just have everybody stop going on and on about how powerful and talented and formidable she is. That would actually be pretty cool, in a David-and-Goliath sort of way.

Yeah; I'd rather have them kill Hawley off and just put some effort into writing Katrina better. First of all, she comes from the source material, which is a plus, and she also was written fairly OK and not intrusive in the first season (we've NEVER seen Hawley written OK or not shoehorned in where he wasn't needed). If it's a choice between losing Katrina or Hawley, who are both poorly written and annoying at this stage, I'd rather lose the white male. They already have plenty of representation as lead characters on TV at this point in time. I'd rather have well-written female characters, of course, but if my only choices are a crappy redundant, obnoxious white male character and a crappy ineffectual white female character, I'd rather see the latter in the ensemble.

So it's the Sword of Medusaleh rather than the Sword of Methuselah? ;) I dunno, since the story of the Hudson Valley in the eighteenth century was so wrapped up in the transition from Nieuw-Nederland to New York, it seems to water the story down a little if Brom van Brunt and Katrina van Tassel weren't both Dutch Colonials back when the story began, but whatevs, I guess. More important to me is that I miss when the Headless Horseman was a scary villain in his own right and not the Hesitant Henchman. I'll tuck away in my File of Useful Knowledge that eighteenth-century men who come to the twenty-first century aren't shocked or diconcerted in any way by sexy, revealing modern women's fashions. Not even super-jealous ones. I still have no idea whatsoever how Crane and Mills having each other helped them get the sword out of the container. Or was he referring to getting TO the container in the first place? All that said, this episode was MILES ahead of anything we've seen the last couple of weeks. I felt a profound sense of relief through most of the episode. It just couldn't touch even the worst episodes of last season with a twenty-foot pole. Knowing it COULD be better than mediocre is even worse than knowing mediocre is the best you can get.

Except Ichabod ISN'T a child, so it's actually COMPLETELY different from that. I guess we were watching completely different shows last week, because on my set, that's when Crane started softening toward him.

So, Ghost Nurse drugging unsuspecting, vulnerable sick people is bad, but Hawley drugging unsuspecting, vulnerable sick people is just lulz? And he and Crane hate each other again after all that male bonding they crammed down our throats last week? The sooner they write off that waste of space, the better. He's doing absolutely nothing on the show that wasn't being done better by other characters last season. Why they felt they had to bring him on in the first place is a mystery with such a great cast already in place.