sleepy hollow + yuletide

[wishfulclicking]

Have you guys locked in your nominations yet? Perhaps like my general ways, I am making this harder than it needs to be but the plan is to go ahead and lock it in today just in case AO3 gets weird on the last day (23rd). Right now I have two definite spots filled with Tenderness and Jennifer's Body but I'm still dawdling on the last two, probably TASM and maybe either The Bridge or perhaps The Boondocks but I am so hesitant to foist that canon on someone because the tone would most likely be the hardest thing to get right.

I saw Sleepy Hollow and liked it; the show is bizarre but it's not overly serious and they are not dragging out getting people to believe the insanity; I loved it when the other cops saw the headless horseman.

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[healingmirth]

I have totally not done my nominations yet, but I'm going to put my definite two or three in today and then haunt the nomination reporting post some more.

I assume you kept up with The Bridge? I forgot to record it one week and never picked it back up.

I think my favorite thing about the first episode of Sleepy Hollow was that they didn't put Abby directly into a box of sacrificing her career to hide her "crazy" investigation, so I'm looking forward to seeing where that goes with the chief or whoever that bossman is.

[wishfulclicking]

I did keep up with The Bridge; my favorite things about it still are the setting, Demian Bichir's performance/character, the side characters, and moments of Sonya. I won't spoil things if you do decide to pick it up again.

they didn't put Abby directly into a box of sacrificing her career to hide her "crazy" investigation

That is something I like too; also, I really appreciated that she had already been touched by the odd events in her past and it didn't take much for her to be convinced. Do you think the chief guy is dirty like John Cho was or just being super strict and suspicious because of all the weird stuff that just went down?

[healingmirth]

The chief totally read as suspicious of Abby for generic cop reasons to me. I don't think it's what's happening here, but that would be a brilliant idea for this setting, for a villain to manipulate the hero to cover things up or give them a rational explanation by appearing totally focused on paperwork or prosecutable cases or whatever.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what other characters wander through and where they go with it, but even with Cho and the secret investigation, the pilot seemed to me to be much more straight up battle between good and evil than tricky shadow conspiracy.

[wishfulclicking]

I love your idea about the chief and shadow conspiracy. This show is kind of stuffed but there has to be more plants around trying to usher in the apocalypse I think.

[torachan]

That one glance of his was Super Suspicious! I totally thought he was going to be evil before the John Cho reveal. Now I'm not sure if that was just meant to make us think he was the bad guy so as to make the John Cho reveal that much more surprising or if they really are both evil. (If it's the latter, I'm guessing that we won't actually find out for quite some time. He'll be better at keeping his evil under wraps than John Cho was.)

[wishfulclicking]

You're right about the Chief's suspicious look did pull my attention making the John Cho reveal to be a surprise; and if the chief is actually evil then he will keep it under wraps longer.

[torachan]

Tomorrow is my day off, so I'm planning on going through the post/spreadsheet again to see what's been nominated and then maybe poking around through librarything to see what I've read this past year and that sort of thing, since I never think to make a list of stuff I want for yuletide and then when it comes down to it my mind goes totally blank.

It's only been one episode, but I'm really liking Sleepy Hollow so far! Not sure I will want to write or request it for Yuletide, but I'm definitely looking forward to reading some stuff for it. I hope there's a good bunch.

[wishfulclicking]

Sleepy Hollow has a tone that I enjoy a lot in shows that I usually find on Syfy; and with this kind of tone (slight humor, fast paced, some banter) I am more forgiving if things are being played fast and loose. With Yuletide, I had put it on my to be considered list but now I'm maybe leaning towards not because I don't know what the show will be doing by then and I don't want a request that is super historical.

I started making my list for Yuletide when people first started talking about it but now it's about narrowing it down.