Miss Dee

I'm an absolute and inveterate coward of which the likes would disgust one Ichabod Crane...but I can't watch that finale until I know Ichabod, Abbie and the potential for romance all make it out of Season 3 alive. They don't even need to be unscathed! Scath all you want, show! Just don't kill them!

I do think open-gender bathrooms should at least be an option in public places...and not called "family bathrooms" so you look weird if you walk in alone. Not that I don't think this law is a turd, because I do, but if businesses provided open-gender bathrooms in their facilities then hopefully trans men and women would feel more comfortable using that one.

I just watched last Friday's Stephen Colbert episode. If they ever wanted to introduce Superman to this show, they could do worse than to cast Benjamin Walker.

LOL You just nailed for me why I shipped them so hard after a binge-watch...it's the devotion. I'm a sucker for devotion preceding love for some reason; probably why I'm into Ichabod/Abbie on Sleepy Hollow as well.But I agree I'd be shocked if the writers ever went there. Because if they'd meant to do that, Hank Henshaw would probably look a hell of a lot more like James Olsen. Sad but true. Speaking of which: I could go for James and Kara if that's what the show wants to sell me... I'm pretty accepting when it comes to romantic plots; I just want it to be interesting... but dudes, slow your roll. I know the world complains about the attention span of the millenial, but I doubt even they really need a series worth of romance condensed into 18 episodes so they don't run off bored.

Okay, so she could have meant "for the season" all along. And Tom might have cut his hair figuring it would grow back and they're not going to fire him if it doesn't, so screw it. And the writer leaving might just be normal career proceedings. Okay, I feel better! /denial

So basically you think the show is cancelled? That's depressing. *sigh*

You're both correct; I didn't explain myself adequately. I meant that *if* HalcyonDays was correct in that the Sleepy Hollow PTB already know whether they're renewed or cancelled and are just waiting for the official announcements, then the way they end this season could be a clue. So if they end on a hard cliffhanger, we could postulate the they're well aware they're renewed. But they certainly could be gambling instead, and they could certainly lose. HalcyonDays, what gave you a feeling that they already know which it is? Just interested in your thought processes.

Well, hopefully that is true. Because if they leave the show on a hard cliffhanger, that would mean that they're pretty confident they're returning. If the season finale could work as a series finale, on the other hand, then they're not sure.

What change is that? My unpopular opinion is that I really liked the last episode. Without reservation. Yes, even with Rip Van Betsy and Poor Dead Naked Joe (may he rest in peace).

The Niles and CC rivalry. There was never chemistry like it, and there'll never be again.

Yeah I'm on board with that scenario too. Would that mean Ichabod and Abbie would have to time travel back a few decades, I wonder? Maybe a change of time and place where they don't know anyone else could be the catalyst for them acknowledging their love. Or they could meet up with Corbin! Conveniently played now by Zach Appelman! And a young Ezra! And that's how Corbin and Ezra get involved with the supernatural and why Corbin tracks down young Abbie in the future! And they longer they're there, the more Sophie remembers of her parents in the present! Not sure how the show would survive a two-pronged time/place structure like that, but it's fun to imagine.

As long as it's not a cute way of saying Ichabod dies during the finale. But I'm hoping they wouldn't have tweeted about it so cavalierly if that had been the case. I'll also accept Ichabod getting kidnapped by the FBI before deportation. But only if Abbie half-kills Daniel once she finds out why.

Showrunner Clifton Campbell addresses this in his recent Q&A at TV Insider. The link is on the spoiler page. But if anyone just wants to know about this in particular....

Fox is on record as stating they look at the DVR numbers as well as traditional ratings to make renewal decisions. There are a lot of other factors that go into it, all of which revolve around a single question: "Will we make enough money investing in this show for another year that it's worth sticking with as opposed to taking the risk on a new show instead?" Basically we're all hoping this show generates enough income that Fox is willing to hold off on a series to replace it for at least another year. There's really no way to predict that - not to mention the politics and even random chance that could muck up what would otherwise be a perfectly logical financial decision. Doesn't matter if the show generates 90% for Fox's income; if Tom Mison is killed in a bus accident tomorrow (God forbid!), there's no Sleepy Hollow left.

God help me, I don't care how much money they make, I would not want to be a famous actor for anything. I'm just not thick-skinned enough to handle the scrutiny.

http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/04/ratings-news-2nd-april-2016.html?m=1 Ratings are in: 0.7, 2.63 million viewers.

If I were magic and could write this however I want: Ichabod and Abbie would get stuck in the catacombs again - nor for a month, just for a few days (in real time) - and this time it would be a completely different experience, because they're actually there together and not just in mind or spirit only. This would be the first time they would spend any significant time together without having the world hang in the balance all the time, and therefore they lean on each other even harder and confide in each other even more.... If this was written like it's the last season: This would be the catalyst that shows Abbie that being with Ichabod is all she needs and has ever needed; Ichabod confesses that ever since she entered that tree he's been truly madly deeply in love with her (although he didn't realize it until Zoe opened his eyes); they have a romantic sexytime tryst among the catacombs before being rescued. Whereupon Abbie has to contend with the fact that for Danny it's only been a few days and of course he thinks they're still on, whereas it's been a couple of months for her and she now knows she loves someone else. If it's written like it's not the last season: no romance, but the experience shows Ichabod that he's actually in love with Abbie and hates that she's with Daniel. Whereas Abbie is still determined to see this through with Danny now that she's invested...but is unnerved that she hardly thought about him while in the catacombs, not with Ichabod to share that time with. (This would set up the finale, where Daniel rats out Ichabod to the FBI and they take him to a place unknown in a coup; Abbie goes ballistic on Daniel and would probably kill him if it didn't take Jenny, Joe, Sophie and Papa Mills to pull them apart. "Delaware" - the sense of crossing something that, once committed, means you can't go back and nothing is ever the same again. Like the start of romantic feelings towards your Witness partner! Anyway, I thought it would be a fun way to go and wanted to post before the writers pull whatever they're gonna do in this episode (which is probably a 180 from my thinking).

I've been seized with a fit of optimism this morning, so I'm crossing my fingers that they needed a moment of Abbie opening up to Daniel romantically in order to tie it in to the FBI watching her and his involvement with that, just to make the betrayal that much more hurtful when it happens. Her very own "You suck, Katrina!" moment, if you will.

I found Bullock pretty sexy tonight, actually.

Wow, Briony. That's eye-opening. Thanks for delurking!

If I could, I'd take this analysis into my glass-walled office and kiss it in front of everybody after drinking Scotch on the job. Excellent, excellent points.

Finding out that Ichabod was "bewitched" into loving witch Katrina when he was supposed to actually find and become attached to newly-discovered witch Abbie? That'd be worth bringing Katia Winters back for one episode. *runs away from rotten tomatoes*

Hey, I like the Berts of the world! So do a lot of people. I'm not terribly exciting either, and I've stopped apologizing for it.

Cliffhanger ending?! No fair! :) Whatever the outcome, I hope in the long run you are glad that you expressed what you felt.

I had no problem with the way the military was trampling all over Alex's rights. The entire point of it was that rampant fear and paranoia were causing Harper and Co. to sacrifice due process for expediency. There are a lot in this world who would agree with him, but only as long as it's "those people" over there getting their rights trampled ('cause they're not like us so they can't think like us and it must be assumed they have the worst motives instead of, y'know, just trying to get through each day like we do). Unfortunately, fear and paranoia don't stay within the walls some people would so obviously like to build. It makes total sense that once Harper dealt with J'onn he would start on anyone else in the vicinity who didn't denounce him. I just wish he'd gone off on someone who had up to that point been supportive just because they ended up connected in a small significant way - "by the time they came for me there was no one left to speak up". Anyway, that's enough of that. But I enjoyed seeing those points made in a superhero show. The last two episodes have not diminished the sense that Harewood and Leigh are *not* playing their scenes as father and daughter, whatever they might say in interviews. Now they're on the run together! Like Patch and Kayla! /datingmyself I've binge-watched every episode in the last three days and I am LOVING it!