Sleepy Hollow gives another lesson in twistory (i.e., twisted history) with John Doe. The sudden appearance of a frightening contagion alerts not just Abbie and Crane but local officials. Crane is the key to communication with the young victim and we learn that the Apocalypse could be closer than originally thought. Crane's education, sensitivity, and partnership with Abbie bolster this episode; which is quieter than most but still very effective (just keep ignoring the behavior of law enforcement and everything will be ok).
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Who was on the phone with Morales?
scarlettrsavage26 July 2015
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I liked the episode (anachronistic language notwithstanding), but they never specify who exactly Detective Morales was speaking to on the phone.
He'd obviously called Oxford to double-check Captain Crane's bogus back story, about how he was a history professor on sabbatical on loan to a police department in upstate NY. Whoever it is that calls backs up the bogus back story, but they never reveal who it is. You never see the caller, just hear the really fake British accent.
Was it Jenny? How did she call from the psych hospital? Was it a spell Katrina cast? They didn't say so if it was...and as far as I know there are no phones in purgatory.
Does anyone know??
He'd obviously called Oxford to double-check Captain Crane's bogus back story, about how he was a history professor on sabbatical on loan to a police department in upstate NY. Whoever it is that calls backs up the bogus back story, but they never reveal who it is. You never see the caller, just hear the really fake British accent.
Was it Jenny? How did she call from the psych hospital? Was it a spell Katrina cast? They didn't say so if it was...and as far as I know there are no phones in purgatory.
Does anyone know??
Good, but...
crwilley23 December 2013
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I'll forgive Sleepy Hollow putting an occult/conspiratorial spin on American history - it's the show's premise, after all, and they're hardly the first to do it. I can't forgive them for being just plain WRONG on a basic fact that should have been obvious to anyone who ever passed high school English: Thomas Grey should have been speaking the English of Shakespeare, not Chaucer. Comprehensible, if archaic, to pretty much any random resident of Sleepy Hollow. And then they went to the bother of writing Middle English dialogue (it sounded plausible to me, at least), without noticing (or maybe without caring) that it was wrong? I'm not sure if that made it better or worse.
That made me so upset that I almost turned off an otherwise-pretty-good episode five minutes in. I consoled myself with a good rant at the ceiling instead.
That made me so upset that I almost turned off an otherwise-pretty-good episode five minutes in. I consoled myself with a good rant at the ceiling instead.
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