looked so good I didn't care what side you were fighting for

[lotesse]

Sleepy Hollow 1.03 - yeah okay I'm good for a difficult intense relationship between a pair of Black sisters dealing with institutionalization and epistemic violence. Ichabod's heart-eyes over Abbie are also v. touching. Not sure how I feel about Show's evident relationship to American Independence history - on the one hand the textual protestations about diversity, good relations with Natives, ect, on the other hand the fundamental rootedness in the combined mythologies of the Book of Revelations and the Founding Fathers that have been formational to U.S. neoconservative movements and iconography. Ichabod says very nice things about the Mowhawk nation, but I'm not sure the historical Mowhawks would have recognized his version of Washington history.

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[minim_calibre]

There is no place in which Sleepy Hollow history even vaguely resembles the history in the land of Reality.

For better or for worse.

(The Mills sisters are completely awesome, however, which makes up for a lot.)

[lotesse]

I would soooo much rather people who wanted to do not!history would do historically-inflected fantasy instead then. File the serial numbers off, so to speak.