Well this was some bullshit
I’m not even going to try and go for a detailed recap of
this episode because it doesn’t deserve my time or keystrokes and I’m sure
Renee and I will sit down together and write a Friday Discussion about Sleepy Hollow’s latest trainwreck
After Betsy Ross is quickly shuffled out of the picture
(her presence last episode was as pointless as… well as its always been) they
rebuild Pandora’s box with which they intend to trap the Hidden One. Fine print
– it needs a Witness Soul to rebuild it. Specifically Abbie’s (yes, of course
Abbie’s).
They take their newly rebuilt box to have the most
utterly anti-climactic fight ever with his Hiddenness who spends more time
making dramatic speeches about how evil he is rather than actually do anything
with all that epic power he apparently has. His power is drained but to finish
him off, we need a sacrifice
Yes, as anyone with any social media presence knows, that
sacrifice is Abbie Mills. She’s dead, she dies to kill the Hidden One.
This happens pretty close to the beginning of the episode
and much of the rest of the episode deals with Abbie Mills saying goodbye and
assuring Ichabod it’s totally ok to not resurrect her and the whole point of
her existence was establishing his specialness anyway
No, really. We actually have that line. Ichabod was her
purpose. That’s not rubbing salt into the wounds, that’s rubbing rotting faecal
matter into them.
Seriously, I’m not going into detail of the emotion or
goodbyes of this episode. I’m not going to even pretend this death was ok or
well presented – I’m not going to act like any amount of emotional goodbyes
would make her sacrifice anything other than a clumsy story twist forced in at
the last minute for no reason
Pandora hangs on a little as a new villain before Ichabod
defeats her using the Horseman of Death which only makes me think they should have
tried that on the Hidden One before throwing Abbie to the wolves.
The episode closes trying to set up a storyline for
season 4, because the writers are apparently still hoping for that. I don’t
think the “fans” of this show are though.
Y’know, after last episode, I
was actually hopeful. I was hopeful that after the utter ruin that was the
second season Cranewreck, with the utter disaster of Katrina and the appalling
treatment of Abbie and Irving and Jenny, the utter mistake of Hawley and the subsequent
fandom backlash, the writers had learned.
Usually I’m accused of being too cynical – clearly I’m
not cynical enough. The writers have not learned a damn thing and I can’t even
imagine what they were thinking to sabotage the key component of this show:
Abbie and Ichabod, working together. That was the show. And they’ve just killed
it and revealed how little they thought about Abbie
On Fangs I have spoken repeatedly about plot armour and
how so many characters have it. How it’s such a constant that it destroys many
plot lines as the protagonist repeatedly throws themselves into ridiculous
danger and survives. It is beyond typical, and beyond enraging, that one of the
few times the protagonist does NOT have plot armour – it’s a Black woman.
No, that’s not even fair. Plot Amour would suggest I wanted
her to survive an implausible situation brought on by her own foolishness. I
don’t. Here all it would have taken is the writers not throwing a last minute
sacrifice plot line. I don’t want plot armour, I want the character not to be sabotaged.
I guess you could try to resurrect her – but I doubt that’s
on the cards – especially since, after the damn
Cranewreck, fandom is officially done with this bullshit. Don’t even try
that “heart belongs to Abigail Mills” attempt to mollify. This last, awful,
attempt to finally establish Ichabbie before killing her doesn’t even remotely
add enough sugar to make this poison go down.
And, y’know what, if someone had to die why not one of
the two people who should have been dead CENTURIES ago? Betsy! Ichabod! PANDORA
DAMN IT! Anyone but Abbie.
