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Just what we need. **mushroom sigh.**
Oct. 2nd, 2013 11:26 amSo a few weeks ago I was on YouTube and somehow ended up seeing a trailer for Fox's new Sleepy Hollow series (probably as an ad before something I was watching). And ... I actually thought it looked intriguing. I thought maybe I'd want to check it out.
So now the series is out and I've looked up some more stuff on it. And I am most unimpressed to discover that it gets into apocalyptic stuff. The Horseman is supposed to be one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, blah blah blah.
Seriously, why can't it just be a nice creepy ghost story about a restless spirit still haunting modern-day Sleepy Hollow? That's what I thought it would be when I saw the trailer.
I get so tired of all these shows that decide apocalyptic storylines are the way to go. The X-Files, Millennium, the 2005 Kolchak remake.... And the list goes on and on, yadda yadda yadda.
I saw one reviewer pleased with the show and recommending it as a fantasy show for people who want something other than fairy-taleish stuff.
How about something for people who really thought the series would be a retelling instead of a re-envisioning? I thought a modern-day version of the story could be fun. Throwing the Apocalypse in there ... pretty much ruins it for me.
That, and well, of course if the Horseman's attacks on people are depicted graphically, that would finish it for me even if they weren't doing apocalyptic stuff. I don't know how graphic the attacks are and I don't have any desire to know, particularly since I am assuming the attacks would involve one of the methods of death I abhor more than most others.
So now the series is out and I've looked up some more stuff on it. And I am most unimpressed to discover that it gets into apocalyptic stuff. The Horseman is supposed to be one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, blah blah blah.
Seriously, why can't it just be a nice creepy ghost story about a restless spirit still haunting modern-day Sleepy Hollow? That's what I thought it would be when I saw the trailer.
I get so tired of all these shows that decide apocalyptic storylines are the way to go. The X-Files, Millennium, the 2005 Kolchak remake.... And the list goes on and on, yadda yadda yadda.
I saw one reviewer pleased with the show and recommending it as a fantasy show for people who want something other than fairy-taleish stuff.
How about something for people who really thought the series would be a retelling instead of a re-envisioning? I thought a modern-day version of the story could be fun. Throwing the Apocalypse in there ... pretty much ruins it for me.
That, and well, of course if the Horseman's attacks on people are depicted graphically, that would finish it for me even if they weren't doing apocalyptic stuff. I don't know how graphic the attacks are and I don't have any desire to know, particularly since I am assuming the attacks would involve one of the methods of death I abhor more than most others.
