Overall I feel this is an entertaining show with good casting even among the minor recurring characters. There are a few holes in the logic as far as Crane coming back from the dead and a LOT of holes with regard to how the police and day to day running of a town works, but I generally liked Sleepy Hollow. UNTIL... (spoiler alert read on at your own risk)
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Did no one notice that the later episodes of Season 1 are completely out of order? Am I taking crazy pills??? My case in support of this:
1. We have an episode where the Horseman starts off captured, gets into a duel with Crane and then is whisked away by some evil ghosts.
2. In the same episode, the police apprehend approximately 5-7 disciples of the evil "Order of the Blood Moon" that serves Moloch.
Let's just agree that this is quite a lot to happen in one episode, especially in that the Horseman is the poster boy for the entire series. HOWEVER:
3. In the following episode, there is NOT ONE reference to the Horseman escaping. Absolutely no conversation between Crane and Abigail such as "so did you and the Horseman talk? How exactly did he escape? Etc Etc" Absolute zero. This defies common sense.
4. We also NEVER see the captured "Blood Moon" disciples in custody, nor is there any mention of them being identified, jailed, released, nothing... what the hell happened to them?
5. The following two episodes follow Abbie and Crane in non-related "quests" let's call them that have absolutely nothing to do with the catastrophic events of the previous episode. They act like none of it happened.
Conclusion: I suspect that the episode where the Horseman escapes was originally planned to be the season finale. I also suspect that the Sin Eater episode arc was supposed to take place after the Horseman left Sleepy Hollow THE FIRST TIME. If you remember, he left and came back TWICE. It is my firm belief that the non-related episodes were filler to build up to a conclusion, but the series need to firm up ratings or was worried about them slipping, so they gave us the captured Horseman earlier, and were stuck with a bunch of disjointed episodes afterwards.
If you doubt me, check out episodes 8, 9, 10 and 11. They don't go together at all. The latter 3 could be placed literally ANYWHERE in the series save for a detail here and there (rewrites). They don't even touch on the catastrophic events of episode 8.
This kinda shook my faith in the series since I don't appreciate when writers and producers assume I am stupid and won't notice glaring weirdness like this.
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Did no one notice that the later episodes of Season 1 are completely out of order? Am I taking crazy pills??? My case in support of this:
1. We have an episode where the Horseman starts off captured, gets into a duel with Crane and then is whisked away by some evil ghosts.
2. In the same episode, the police apprehend approximately 5-7 disciples of the evil "Order of the Blood Moon" that serves Moloch.
Let's just agree that this is quite a lot to happen in one episode, especially in that the Horseman is the poster boy for the entire series. HOWEVER:
3. In the following episode, there is NOT ONE reference to the Horseman escaping. Absolutely no conversation between Crane and Abigail such as "so did you and the Horseman talk? How exactly did he escape? Etc Etc" Absolute zero. This defies common sense.
4. We also NEVER see the captured "Blood Moon" disciples in custody, nor is there any mention of them being identified, jailed, released, nothing... what the hell happened to them?
5. The following two episodes follow Abbie and Crane in non-related "quests" let's call them that have absolutely nothing to do with the catastrophic events of the previous episode. They act like none of it happened.
Conclusion: I suspect that the episode where the Horseman escapes was originally planned to be the season finale. I also suspect that the Sin Eater episode arc was supposed to take place after the Horseman left Sleepy Hollow THE FIRST TIME. If you remember, he left and came back TWICE. It is my firm belief that the non-related episodes were filler to build up to a conclusion, but the series need to firm up ratings or was worried about them slipping, so they gave us the captured Horseman earlier, and were stuck with a bunch of disjointed episodes afterwards.
If you doubt me, check out episodes 8, 9, 10 and 11. They don't go together at all. The latter 3 could be placed literally ANYWHERE in the series save for a detail here and there (rewrites). They don't even touch on the catastrophic events of episode 8.
This kinda shook my faith in the series since I don't appreciate when writers and producers assume I am stupid and won't notice glaring weirdness like this.