May the odds be ever in your favor.

[rogueslayer452]

++ It's that time of the year for show renewal/cancellation announcements. American Gods was renewed for a second season after only two episodes! That is absolutely outstanding and wonderful! Elementary was also renewed, it took some time for it to be announced but I'm utterly relieved nonetheless. Agents of Shield and Brooklyn Nine-Nine both have renewals for their respective fifth seasons. I'm sad about Powerless though, it was a cute little show that deserved more attention. And while I haven't even bothered with Once Upon A Time since the first season, just hearing the kerfuffle surrounding their recent announcements has been quite a doozy.

++ Sleepy Hollow has finally been cancelled! I know it's a bit odd to be celebrating the axing of a show, but let's be real, this one is probably the most deserving for obvious reasons.

This show started out with so much potential and promise, it was silly and ridiculous but honestly fun and entertaining, with a diverse cast and the relationship and equal partnership between Ichabod and Abbie being one of the biggest draws of the show. But after the first season the original showrunner/writers left and someone else came in and completely ruined everything that made the first season good. From disrespecting the fanbase and the story/characters to mistreating the actors, especially what they did to Nicole Beharie, the show dug its own grave. This is one of those few examples of shows that started off strong but it all went downhill so quickly. Needless to say, many predicted this cancellation from a mile away, it's just a shame that it didn't happen much sooner. Good riddance, either way.

As a sidenote though, it's genuinely disappointing that we'll never actually get to see Abbie/Ichabod become canon as they should've been, something else the show tried to sideline. I do hope that Nicole and Tom get to work together again in the future, their chemistry was just off the charts and they clearly adored working with each other.

Comments

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I don't know what FOX was thinking when they renewed SH last year. I guess they wanted to "prove" they didn't need Abbie/Nicole but like...they did. Obviously.

It's such a shame how they destroyed this show. Season 1 was awesome and had so much potential but they just did EVERYTHING wrong in season 2. Season 3 was better, imo, until the last few episodes where everything fell apart and I can't even talk about what they did to Abbie because it will just be capslock screaming. Abbie/Ichabod will go down as one of those "could've had it all" ships that I never quite get over. :(

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

They weren't thinking. I mean, there was no way none of them could've been oblivious to the massive outrage and backlash against the show at that point once they killed off Abbie. The fact they even tried to continue the show without her (much less even replace her and move locations away from the show title) just proves how much they weren't thinking and just didn't care. They legit thought that a White Male could be enough to sustain the show.

Abbie/Ichabod will go down as one of those "could've had it all" ships that I never quite get over. :(

I know. It breaks my heart, but also makes me so angry and bitter. Ugh.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

What's even more ridiculous was that they got a taste of how the audience would react to Abbie's death when they "killed" her in the mid-season finale. They saw how outraged people were at even the thought that Abbie might be dead so how the hell did they think fans were going to react when they killed her for real? Like, use your brains, people.

While I think it was absolutely stupid to try to continue the show without her, the least they could've done was let her live. There were so many ways they could've written her out without killing her. We're talking about a supernatural show that's played around with time travel before. Just say Abbie went through a portal into the future or something. Use some old-age makeup on Tom Mison and have their last scene together be old-Ichabod reuniting with Abbie in the future. That way, whatever the show chose to do with Ichabod in the present, fans would know he and Abbie found their way back to each other in the end. Like, it's really not that hard to come up with this stuff but they just chose the easy way out and killed her off.


This show did a million things wrong, but I will never understand how anyone in a position of power could've seen the chemistry between Tom and Nicole and NOT gone there with their characters. Maybe that wasn't in their initial plan for the series and that's fine. But how the hell do you ignore that kind of natural chemistry? One can only assume racism played a factor in not putting them together because it certainly wasn't a lack of chemistry or fan support. So yeah, I'm with you on the anger/bitterness :)