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chelseagirl) wrote2021-06-15 07:51 am
chelseagirl) wrote2021-06-15 07:51 am
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Day 14: What fandom broke your heart?
Sleepy Hollow. A lot of this was the showrunners' fault -- the way they brought in fantastic people and then got rid of them (John Cho, Orlando Jones) and the way they treated Nicole Beharrie. The incredibly inconsistent way they wrote Katrina. The way the whole thing was basically one season of brilliance and then the remainder of a series of missed opportunities (which I stuck with far longer than I should have done).
I thought Ichabod and Abbie should end up together, but also that Ichabod and Katrina needed to be worked through first, because there was still real love there. And there were so many ways they could have done that well, but they found the worst possible way to do it horribly badly. And then when Katrina was gone there was still no Ichabod/Abbie. So that's on the showrunners. But people, especially on Tumblr, started namecalling, and I went from "wow, finally after a long hiatus, a show I want to fic!" to "putting this down and backing away slowly."
Sleepy Hollow. A lot of this was the showrunners' fault -- the way they brought in fantastic people and then got rid of them (John Cho, Orlando Jones) and the way they treated Nicole Beharrie. The incredibly inconsistent way they wrote Katrina. The way the whole thing was basically one season of brilliance and then the remainder of a series of missed opportunities (which I stuck with far longer than I should have done).
I thought Ichabod and Abbie should end up together, but also that Ichabod and Katrina needed to be worked through first, because there was still real love there. And there were so many ways they could have done that well, but they found the worst possible way to do it horribly badly. And then when Katrina was gone there was still no Ichabod/Abbie. So that's on the showrunners. But people, especially on Tumblr, started namecalling, and I went from "wow, finally after a long hiatus, a show I want to fic!" to "putting this down and backing away slowly."
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The show that sounded ridiculous and was actually brilliant and then managed to make itself ridiculous.