Sparkling Beth

Yeah, I'm not wild about the villain either--and Professor Irwin Corey! Hee! There is a resemblance there!

That's one of the things I liked best about the episode, and the reason I've relaxed about the idea of a child being a witness. This is an insightful child. The minute she realized that there was something odd going on with her "father" driving through the frikkin' woods to get ice cream, she figured out a way to trick him into revealing that he wasn't who he claimed to be and she figured out a way to get away from him. It's a breath of fresh air when a character--especially a character as young as Molly--proves to be more savvy than the viewer expects.

Two comments on this one: 1- It had me on the edge of my seat despite the fact that the creature was a bit tacky-looking. 2- Oona Yaffe is a very good actress. Any qualms I had about bringing a child into the proceedings have vanished. Some kids are uncomfortable to watch as actors to the point where I'm pulled out of the storyline but I was with Molly all the way, feeling her fear and confusion. She's also charming and cute as the proverbial button.

I'm still interested in these characters--well, except for the evil businessman. Don't need another one of those in our lives. In fact, I couldn't help thinking when I saw the president whom Headless was after, "Oh, man, I wish she was really the POTUS instead of the guy we got today."

I look at it this way: You can take the boy out of Sleepy Hollow, but you can't take Sleepy Hollow out of the boy. At this point it's a metaphor more than an actual location.

I liked it. I liked the new characters. That's all I'm going to say because we will all feel what we feel and no one can talk us out of our feelings. But I find I'm okay with moving on. And Tom Mison is still the hottest tidbit on two legs so there's that.

I will forever be angry about how they handled this, but I'm watching season 4 for Tom, who is still a wonderful actor and handsome fellow and not at fault for what the producers or writers did to Abbie. I don't expect the show to last long, but I'll still tune in and see what they do with it. Since I'm not a Nielsen family, I won't help the ratings any, so the Powers That Be won't feel any reward coming from my viewership.

The Bullseye section of Entertainment Weekly (Summer Movie Preview issue) features a picture of Nicole with the caption, "Killing off your lead actress? Pretty Hollow move, Sleepy."

Being on pain medication is probably the only way one should watch that finale.

I think we have to assume that the secret organization alluded to in the finale has power beyond the FBI and can make circumstances appear however they want them to appear.

If you're up for some fanwanking--I assume that someone with power faked a burial for Agent Mills, since the FBI couldn't very well explain that she was sucked into a mystic box or whatever the hell was supposed to have happened to her. So they buried a weighted coffin and had a service and as far as the outside world is concerned, Agent Mills is resting in peace beneath that headstone.

Has anyone here ever read the Mary Russell books by Laurie R. King? The first one is called The Beekeeper's Apprentice, and introduces a teenaged Mary Russell who meets Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s and impresses him with her powers of observation and deduction. She becomes his protégé, later his partner, and eventually his wife. Watson is mentioned in the books but almost never seen, having retired before Holmes and Russell met. I really enjoy these books, and find this version of Holmes completely believable without the presence of Watson. The books focus more on Russell than on Holmes but he is still the same very smart, very astute character that he was in the original stories. I don't know if others would agree, but to me it's an example of how an author can take a well-known character and successfully give his life a different spin. It really does come down to the writing (which is why I don't expect season 4 of SH, if it happens at all, to be successful).

With me, it was the realization that if SH continues, and I know it's on, I will want to watch just to see what happens. I could pretend otherwise, but I know how I would feel knowing it was happening without me and that Tom was saying lines in that wonderful way of his and I would be missing it. I hope those who make the decision not to watch won't feel that those of us who do watch are any less loyal to NB, or any less angry at the way she was treated, or any less despairing of how a truly wonderful show fell apart. I still have all those feelings. But I also still have feelings for Tom Mison, and for Ichabod Crane, and I want to see where the character goes from here.

Of course it's not an exact comparison. I have no illusions about the creative team of SH. But I was on the Buffy posting board back when it was announced that Angel was going to be a spin-off, and believe me, the negativity was rampant. "Dumbest idea ever!" "What makes them think this will work?" "I give it three episodes tops before it's cancelled." "This is going to be the biggest TV disaster since My Mother The Car." That's where the comparison lies: people making assumptions before something has happened. I have every reason to believe that Sleepy Hollow won't work without Nicole. But I'm willing to give it a chance because I enjoy Tom Mison's acting (and let's be honest, good looks) enough that I know I'll have to tune in just to see how it goes. Maybe they'll bring in some new writers and producers who will have better ideas. We just don't know. Heck, I remember reading the description of the movie Tootsie before it came out and thinking it was the end of Dustin Hoffman's career! A man dressing up like a woman to try out for a soap opera? It sounded so stupid but it's one of my favorite movies. I learned then not to prejudge any project.

Good point. Angel being written off of BTVS and given his own show wasn't as upsetting as SH killing off Abbie, but I too was highly skeptical that Angel would work as a separate show yet there were times when I actually liked Angel better than BTVS. I'm willing to give this a chance, again because of Tom Mison. Even if it's successful (it probably won't be), the producers are not absolved of guilt for what they did. They should still rot in hell, but in the meantime, I will enjoy looking at Tom's face. I feel bad for him because he's really been caught in the middle of this mess. I can't blame him for not wanting to give up the lead on a primetime TV show. Bigger stars than he have left shows and virtually disappeared from public awareness.