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Sleepy Hollow, I love you so very much, but we need to talk.
I will happily suspend my disbelief about the fact that Ichabod seems to have known every single Founding Father and been involved in about 90% of the significant events of the Revolutionary War prior to his big sleep. I don't usually mind the often overly convenient sources of exposition. I love your ridiculous plot elements like Franklinstein's Monster. (And thank you SO MUCH for actually making that pun.) The workings of the Sleepy Hollow justice system don't seem to bear much resemblance to what happens in the real world, but few tv shows with cops do. I see zero need to make an issue of it here.
But you have got to draw the line somewhere. And that somewhere is biogeography.
The thing is, I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't already had this talk once. In the very first episode, you had an appearance by a Harris's Hawk, a species native to the southwestern US and Latin America, never anywhere near New York state. At least that bird had the excuse of being a mystical omen. This week in "Go Where I Send Thee" you had no such excuse.
( spoilers for Sleepy Hollow 2x04, "Go Where I Send Thee" )
I will happily suspend my disbelief about the fact that Ichabod seems to have known every single Founding Father and been involved in about 90% of the significant events of the Revolutionary War prior to his big sleep. I don't usually mind the often overly convenient sources of exposition. I love your ridiculous plot elements like Franklinstein's Monster. (And thank you SO MUCH for actually making that pun.) The workings of the Sleepy Hollow justice system don't seem to bear much resemblance to what happens in the real world, but few tv shows with cops do. I see zero need to make an issue of it here.
But you have got to draw the line somewhere. And that somewhere is biogeography.
The thing is, I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't already had this talk once. In the very first episode, you had an appearance by a Harris's Hawk, a species native to the southwestern US and Latin America, never anywhere near New York state. At least that bird had the excuse of being a mystical omen. This week in "Go Where I Send Thee" you had no such excuse.
( spoilers for Sleepy Hollow 2x04, "Go Where I Send Thee" )
