Miss Dee
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CocoaGoddess, if we get a third season, I'm hoping that because Abbie remembers the Ichabod she met in his own time, she's better equipped to respond to him in such a way as to elicit the sorts of responses he would have had then. Which, in a way, is the "real" Ichabod. So we might get the best of both worlds - Ichabod keeping the growth and whimsy he's developed in the modern world with more of the confidence and assurance that he had in the past because Abbie now knows him that way and sees him that way.
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Movie opinions:
Alan Rickman will always be the perfect Snape to me; I don't care how much older he is than the part. I remember reading once that Rickman was who Rowling envisioned when she wrote the part in the first novel. She was resigned when the movie role it was offered to Tim Roth, but thrilled when he turned it down and it was offered to Rickman instead.
What I love about Harry and Hermione in the later movies was that it was a beautiful portrayal of friendship; while I understand why people wanted it to be more, I'm thrilled they didn't go that route. This was more poignant to me.
I do agree, however, that Ron got shafted in the movies starting with PoA.
That said, PoA was my favourite movie. Whoever said up thread that it captured the whimsy of this world said it perfectly. I never thought the Marauders were all that though, so maybe I'm weird. I cared more about Remus and Sirius in the present day.
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I thought Alfred's buddy looked and sounded like Evil Fat Liam Neeson, and figured he must be that same character from the Nolan movies, especially when he started training Bruce hard-core and swapped Special Ops stories with Alfred.
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*listens* Yes, that's singing I hear across the American nation....
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I think that's the first time my jaw dropped in utter shock in AGES!!!!
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That's the first time I saw the short. I enjoyed it, but I hate thinking Peggy goes back into that kind of environment after she's made the inroads with these agents here.
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Johntfs, I agree with you in so far as if TPTB decide they can (to continue the Titanic metaphor) keep steering the ship as though they're running away from icebergs, then the show is not going to be a good show in the long run, even if they happen to hit all the beats people have professed to like. Crappily-written Ichabod and Abbie is only marginally better than crappily-written Katrina, and will probably drive away viewers almost as fast.
To use your own road metaphor: I can forgive the erratic drive through fields and houses in the last two episodes because the Sleepy Hollow car was in danger of flipping and going off-road for good; better to drive bizarrely and get back to safe highway as quickly as possible than to continue driving calmly off the cliff.
BUT.... If they get on that safe Season 3 highway and *still* continue to drive erratically through story logic and development and character growth, leaving tons of plotholes and destruction behind, then the fans coming along for this ride have every reason to jump out of the car for good.
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Ordinarily I am in complete agreement with the idea that a show runner and writers should follow their vision and let the chips fall where they may with regards to fans. Person of Interest has done that and is adored in many circles for it - but the ratings aren't what they were. Hopefully still good enough to continue for few more years until the natural end.... if not, well, sometimes that's the price you pay for following your vision.
I said ordinarily I would agree with this. However, there's a point at which it stops being "artistic vision" and starts becoming "stubborn ego." This wasn't a small subset of fans or a rabid shipper group complaining; critics who had loved the show in Season 1 turned on it; more importantly, the show lost a good chunk of audience.
I don't have any illusions about this. If the vision of the Season 2 regime had kept the majority of the audience, Fox would have given them their blessing to continue; Beharie would eventually have been killed in a "shocking twist" and Winters would have been the official new female lead instead of just the unofficial one.
But the numbers show people don't want that; they don't want to replace Jenny and Frank with Henry and Hawley; and most of all they want Ichabod and Abbie as the new Mulder and Scully (and argue among themselves whether it should turn romantic or not). I have no doubt the writers knew they either found some remnant of the old show to build on and bring in viewers again, or they were out.
Obsessively reading boards and building a story around fan suggestions and complaints is fan service, and I agree it's no way to run a show. Aside from an astute few, most fans have no idea how to craft a story; they don't want to go through the pain of enduring what the author knows has to happen. Fans would have saved Sirius Black and Dumbledore. Fans would have had Mulder and Scully together in the first season. Fans (most fans, not all) are like myself; they can't write stories and that's why they sit back and enjoy the ones of people who can.
But taking a second look at what you're crafting to determine if it's going the way you hoped? Listening to people's constructive criticism of your ideas and execution of same? Course-correcting a work made for popular consumption so that people enjoy it again, using your team's best thinking and imagination as best as you can? That's not fan service. That's smart television.
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If that was the Joker, I buy it. Dude was creepy as fuck.
But the part that still haunts me is Prisoner #53A or whatever the hell it was. Giving the nod to tell big guy to start beating him to death for tthe good of the prison? Now *that* was a goddamn hero, the biggest I've seen yet on this show.
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I don't think he'll save her. I think that was clear when he warned her that whatever she decided to do next could not be undone.
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Hats off to you, DJ. I think you discovered the purpose of Checkov's Gorgon Head.
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If Jenny/Frank is a crackship, then I'm taking a hit. That hug on the floor was just about one of the hottest things I've seen on TV recently.
I'm inclined to forgive the wonky storytelling. They're trying to U-turn the Titanic before it hits the iceberg; I didn't expect it to happen without a few creaks and strains and thumping of passengers around.
I prefer Katrina gone, but if they're going to keep her, at least keep her unrepentantly evil, please.
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Hmm. Establishing that both Marcus and Joan don't have a private life and that Sherlock respects Marcus in the same episode.... could be!
All we need is for Marcus to reveal that he took his mother's last name and that his father was an army captain named Morstan....
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Hel-LO, Detective Bell! He was certainly looking very good in his civvies.
I've heard a lot of British accents in my time, but that's the first time I ever heard "zebra" sound like "Debra".
At first I thought Mycroft must have written Joan. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I realized who it was from.
Really good episode.
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Not to mention it's a book about a trial.
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Oh my God I so want to see a Snickers commercial with the Reavers now. Best product placement ever.
I loved the show; despite the plot holes it had so much of what I loved from Season 1 in it. This is the show I want renewed.
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May I ask a question about the Bechdel test? Does a show pass if it includes at least one scene where two women characters don't talk about a man, or does it fail if it includes at least one scene where two women characters do talk about a man? I've heard it spoken of both ways. I agree the first way makes it ridiculously easy to pass, but I don't think a show should be required to pass in the latter way to be considered a high quality show for women.
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They're in a rough spot. Whether Sherlock explains or Joan explains, some fans will be outraged that the other needed an explanation. To which the obvious solutions sounds like a 3rd person, and then fans get upset over the intrusion. Writers can never win.
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I smell Batcave!
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I just loved the way she sandwiched it between those comments. Taken exactly literally, it didn't have to be a declaration at all, just a comment on a rarely used phrase. Dig a litter deeper, and it shows us Kitty's frame of mind, her final epitaph on the effect this monster and her attempts to cope have had on her life. And deepest of all, she told Sherlock what he meant to her in a way that allowed his sentiment-detesting heart to hear and accept it. Because on the surface, it's just a comment about a rarely used phrase.
It was a beautiful bit of writing.
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I'm going to defend the moment Crane whaled on Kent. I don't think it was because of Katrina; I think it was because he was disturbed at the thought they were similar. Kind of like beating up on the parts of himself he dislikes or is afraid of.
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Pcta, thank you. I am white and thought there must be something going over my head. I appreciate the explanation.
LeeLee, thank you for your POV as well. I'm hoping for the same thing. I think the key will be how they treat Abbie's agency during this situation. I'll cross my fingers that someone there knows what they're doing.
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I'm sorry, all I could think about during the fight scene was "Look, Evil James Potter is fighting Goofy Severus outside the castle!"
Um, it might have gotten a little dusty in my room during the "Son, you're totes The Flash" scene.
I have to defend Iris a bit. Barry might have handed her that story, but that picture scoop was all on her. We haven't seen the last of Reporter Todd, have we? I hope not. I missed having snarky Roger Howarth on my screen.
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