“We were there trying to say, this is our show. We can’t really explain it that well, because we haven’t worked out how,” he says. Indeed, how do you explain a show about Washington Irving’s classic character of American lore teaming up with a modern day police detective to take down monsters in an effort to halt an oncoming apocalypse?
Three months later, appearing at another comic convention, this one in New York, Mison still hasn’t perfected an elevator pitch. “Everytime I described what it is to someone, I found myself saying, ‘It’s very good,’ because I still haven’t worked out how to sell it properly,” he says. http://www.usnews.com/...
It still hasn't been worked out since the continuing religious elements are not so confounding as they are sitting in the romantic reproduction of 19th Century narratives about Lost Tribes in this episode and the contagion that is as viral as the popularity of the program. Some spoilers appear for those in another time zone so wait to go below the squiggle. This program's appeal to its designated demographic may actually produce some greater historical awareness for them especially on this day celebrating the conquest of indigenous peoples.
“The best monsters are not random bad guys, but are monsters who manifest something in our characters,” says co-creator and executive producer Alex Kurtzman. “As long as the audience always feels tethered to that emotional idea, hopefully they won’t get lost in the mythology.”
While “Sleepy Hollow” is very earnest with this premise -- there’s nothing campy about the end of the world -- it finds humor in other places, particularly Ichabod’s bafflement toward the 21st century.
"The key for us is that it’s always been, take the mythology seriously but [make] uncovering it fun,” says Len Wiseman, a show co-creator, producer and director.
The platonic pairing of Ichabod -- whose wife, a witch (Katia Winter) will have a storyline that continues to expand this season -- and Abbie has already drawn in comparisons to Mulder and Scully of “The X-Files.” “I think it’s a great place to start. we’re also going somewhere totally different that will let you guys decide,” says Beharie.
The problem is that we are less lost in mythology as mired in genre so far, since we are getting the X-Files MOTW (Monster Of The Week) and "Ichabod’s bafflement toward the 21st century" is still not dissonant enough for perhaps even the most jaded of fanzine type and making the serious mythology's disclosure "fun" is getting more formulaic so far and we continue the hope that it will "take (us) somewhere different". Moloch remains the villain but sadly the subplots are not getting the historical tropes to conflict in a way appropriate to our Century and to this medium. Suffice it to say an accompanying MMORPG might motivate the potential of a hypertext narrative since the Internet is a kind of Purgatory, Timothy Leary notwithstanding. Come on, Rupert, divert some of that News Corp cash you're wasting on peroxide news readers for the Fascist News Channel; although the subtext of the Roanoke Colony's disappearance with syphilis certainly signifies the association with Fox as we seek the curative waters of unpolluted water supplies in a public sphere unshuttered by the GOP's Congressional intransigence.
The (Sleepy Hollow) producers say that the procedural elements ground the show’s overarching narrative.
Yet, as with most "promotional criticism", to make it less fanzine and transcend review, This week's introduction of the second horseman, Pestilence, centers on unknown pandemics which has featured in a variety of other programs like Fringe and X-Files, and the articulation of Purgatory and Abbie's being "shown a sign" in a hospital chapel without a Christian cross is notable if only to make the allegorical elements only slightly ambiguous for the appearance of a diseased unidentified child. The First Horseman of the Apocalypse, Death will return in the next episode, hopefully still armed with assault rifles, and if he could only enter a Starbucks we could see some amusing comments from Crane about the 18th Century notions of coffee and caffeine.
The notion of a Lost Tribe as 19th Century natural historians / archeologists liked to disavow the quality of pre-Columbian culture for North America's indigenous peoples appears here as well as the lost colony of Roanoke VA in the 16th Century converge in this episode, as does an origin one, the birth of Virginia Dare the first(sic) non-indigenous child born in North America. The island on which the disappeared were to have fled as opposed to the more plausible DNA-driven story of their assimilation. Happy Columbus(sic) Day, everyone.
The final group of colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise to the nickname "The Lost Colony."...Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green wrote The Lost Colony in 1937 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare. The play presents a conjecture of the fate of Roanoke Colony. It has played at Waterside Theater at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island nearly continually since, with the only interruption being during World War II....The Lost Colony DNA Project, launched in 2005, is an ongoing effort underway by the Lost Colony of Roanoke DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA of Houston, TX. The project will use DNA testing to help determine whether some Lost Colony survivors assimilated with the local Native American tribes either through adoption or enslavement. The project will attempt to locate and test as many potential descendants as possible. Testing is also planned for some of the recovered remains.