fandom: Sleepy Hollow

[escritoireazul]

You guys, it's back, and I have hearts and stars in my eyes. HEARTS AND STARS. HEARTS AND STARS FOREVER.



I zero percent believed that the show would kill off Jenny and Katrina, and when I realized that I had so much faith in the show, I was shocked. Do you know how often I trust a show not to do wrong? Pretty much never. I loved the heavy weaponry, even more ass kicking Abbie and Ichabod, but even more, I loved the twisty manipulation and mental fuckery of the hallucination.

I love how everyone goes about fighting to save themselves, even if they also need some assistance in getting it done. This is no "white guy rescues everyone" set up. Abbie, Jenny, and Katrina all have their own strengths and deep drive to fight themselves free, and I love that. (I do hope we get more Katrina characterization this season, because she's still kind of one note, and I'd love to have three really well developed women going on in the show. Come on. I trust you to do right.)

All of the team hugs and love. ALL OF THEM. Everyone hugging everyone. Sisters. BFFs. Apocalypse fighters. I just love Team Abbie, Jenny and Ichabod so much. Now we need Frank brought back to Team Heroes.

I really don't have anything useful to say, except that I kept make incomprehensible noises at the screen when everyone was being awesome, which was all the time. So much love for this show. So much love.

Ichabod knowing everyone ever from history (only a slight exaggeration) is ridiculous, but also pretty hilarious. This is where I always end up rolling my eyes, but it does not take away from my enjoyment of the show at all, so I even find this ridiculousness charming. Benjamin Franklin and his nudity and Ichabod's dislike of him and the lightning key was just fun.

A+ return, show. I can't wait for the next episode.



Now I need to go listen to Thirty Seconds to Mars for awhile, since "This is War" is stuck in my head, and then I am watching the Gotham pilot. Doggy is asleep with her head on my thigh, it's chilly but between her warmth and the fuzzy blanket I'm using, it's nice and comfortable (though, since I dislike socks and slippers, my toes are cold), and overall, the mental health day I took today is working out well.

I think there's a fanvid to "This is War" that I really liked, but it's not on my new computer, and I cannot remember the fandom. I'll have to do some searching.

Oh, and I'm figuring out my Yuletide nominations. Have you guys made yours already?

Comments

[merryghoul]

Yep, already made my nominations.

I'm hoping someone will nominate some Scandal characters, though. Stupid three fandom nomination limit.

[escritoireazul]

The three fandom nomination limit is rough, that's for sure. What'd you end up nominating?

[merryghoul]

In the Flesh, The Last Game (the Nike ad), and Fallen London.

[escritoireazul]

I love Fallen London. Not familiar with the other two, but will definitely check them out.

[the_rck]

I've made my Yuletide nominations, but now I'm second guessing myself. I haven't reread one of my nominees for many, many years, and I'm afraid of the Suck Fairy but want to reread before possibly getting a story in the fandom. Another of my nominees is something where what I'm really interested in is a third book in the series, and that's not a fair thing to put on a Yuletide writer. I don't even remember most of the characters by name because it's been more than ten years since I read the books in question.

I suspect that, as usual, I'm nominating things that only I will request.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians - Brandon Sanderson

Drujienna's Harp - Ellen Kindt McKenzie

Wild Hunt - Jocelin Foxe

[escritoireazul]

I'm not familiar with any of those, but they all look interesting. I'll have to take a look.

[the_rck]

Two caveats about the Alcatraz series-- First, there are four books. Book four ends with a cliffhanger, and no publisher has wanted to buy book five. The series may never be completed as Sanderson isn't willing to write book five without a publisher. Second, I've heard (but haven't looked into) rumors that Sanderson holds views like those held by Orson Scott Card.

All of that said, the Alcatraz books are funny and creative. There is a whole family of people with superpowers that are things like always being late (useful when someone's firing a gun at you) or falling down (happens when there's danger mostly) or being really bad at math.

Drujienna's Harp is a book that I loved as a child. I read it enough that I was able to tell the story, in detail, to my younger sister. It's a portal fantasy about a girl who finds herself in a quite dystopic other world and falls in with people who are trying to change things. She's not any great destined hero or anything, however.

The Wild Hunt is a two book series that was obviously meant to be a considerably longer series. The titular Wild Hunt is a group of men who've been cursed, individually, for betrayal. Their curse is that women in need can summon them and give them a task to complete. (They're in limbo, sleeping, between summons.) They have one lunar cycle to complete the task. If they fail, all but the most recently cursed three die horribly. There's a large cast of characters, each of whom has a story behind him.

[summerstorm]

This post made me happy. I don't have anything to share but it made me happy. I guess I could tell you I haven't nominated anything for Yuletide and... don't know if I will, because I haven't consumed any media in AGES. I'm trying to get back into it but I probably won't fast enough to nominate. Hopefully I will fast enough to sign up though. I miss fandooom.

[escritoireazul]

Yay! I'm glad it made you happy. I've missed feeling fannish excitement, and this was a delightful way to experience it again.

[lilacsigil]

Sleepy Hollow was great! I didn't think they'd kill off Jenny or Katrina and until you said it, I hadn't even thought how much faith that's showing in a show. I was a bit disappointed that Katrina is Captive In Peril *again* but at least she got to try to escape this time, and has a captor that she can psychologically work with.

[escritoireazul]

It was quite a shock to realize that I had so much faith in the show. I agree about Katrina being Captive in Peril again, but I have hope she'll get to be more than that.

[st_aurafina]

Sleepy Hollow! It brings all the hugs and the teamwork! So happy it's back.