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Midnight City posted:Man it's so nice that the top 4 actors in a show (ignoring Katia Winter since even though she's billed starring it's at best a cameo) have 3 of them black and it has nothing to do with being 'in the hood'. I'd like to point out that the episode had 4 black people in the same room, and then had them chatting with one another, and three were women/female. This happened without the show being on BET, TVOne, or UPN circa 90s/early 2000s. We are in the future folks.
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Nov 26, 2013 15:34
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The four most recurring characters are two black women, a black man, and a white man. Beyond that we add an Asian man, a white woman, and a Latino man. And absolutely zero deal is made of it.
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Nov 26, 2013 15:42
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Boogaleeboo posted:The four most recurring characters are two black women, a black man, and a white man. Beyond that we add an Asian man, a white woman, and a Latino man. And absolutely zero deal is made of it. Not to mention the severely handicapped horseman.
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Nov 26, 2013 15:43
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CeeJee posted:Not to mention the severely handicapped horseman. Finding an appropriate actor for that role was rough. Headless just isn't as common as it used to be.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:09
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I like how they don't even bother to try giving some half assed excuse as to why a treemonster would have blood in its veins, or a heart/brain for Ichabod to axe to death. The show is above such petty concerns.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:11
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Monster-wise, things got pretty Sam Raimi at the end there with the bloody tree limbs and whatnot. Pretty rad stuff.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:13
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I was out last night and just caught up this morning. Agreeing with what everyone said about the monster, but also, Tim Mison's acting when Abbie was telling him about his son was really just masterful. Give both of them Emmys already. (I know, sci-fi show, never gonna happen  )
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Midnight City posted:I like how they don't even bother to try giving some half assed excuse as to why a treemonster would have blood in its veins, or a heart/brain for Ichabod to axe to death. Answer: because it looks metal. 
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Nov 26, 2013 17:22
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Compendium posted:It's Rue from The Hunger Games! THANK YOU! Even though I just saw Catching Fire I still couldn't place her. Annakie posted:I was out last night and just caught up this morning. Agreeing with what everyone said about the monster, but also, Tim Mison's acting when Abbie was telling him about his son was really just masterful. Give both of them Emmys already. (I know, sci-fi show, never gonna happen I know. My jaw dropped when we found out Crane was a father, and then when Crane found out... all the emotions. Tupping Liberty fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Nov 26, 2013 |
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Midnight City posted:I like how they don't even bother to try giving some half assed excuse as to why a treemonster would have blood in its veins, or a heart/brain for Ichabod to axe to death. The show understands that it's a magic tree-monster and you really don't have to dip into the technobabble to explain a magic tree-monster.
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This episode felt oddly cheap, several of the scenes that took place in the dark looked and sounded strange. Not that it was a bad episode, it just seemed weird.
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johntfs posted:The show understands that it's a magic tree-monster and you really don't have to dip into the technobabble to explain a magic tree-monster. I know, that's pretty much what I said. It's refreshing to just see the show be unrepentant in its absurdity instead of trying to make meager appeals to being 'more realistic'. There's too many shows these days that try to make excuses or fill in plot holes with pointless and/or idiotic explanations, Sleepy Hollow goes the entirely opposite direction and is 'take me as I am' and I love it for that. Oasx posted:This episode felt oddly cheap, several of the scenes that took place in the dark looked and sounded strange. Not that it was a bad episode, it just seemed weird. Yeah, I noticed it too. Some of the shots looked really, really terrible/cheap. They were all in that house though so it must've been something that went on with the production inside of it.
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Oasx posted:This episode felt oddly cheap, several of the scenes that took place in the dark looked and sounded strange. Not that it was a bad episode, it just seemed weird. Well, according to one of the writer's tweet:  Explains a lot about the lighting.
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Compendium posted:Well, according to one of the writer's tweet: That's actually something I was keeping an eye out for during the episode, and it's just ... not all that common. When we got to the basement scene, I kept noticing flashes of white light on both Ichabod's and Abby's faces. The scenes where they were just using the flashlights and nothing else had none of the weird production value feelings because they were all around the staircase which was well lit by the moonlight/external fog-lights and showed off the setting well. Midnight City posted:Man it's so nice that the top 4 actors in a show (ignoring Katia Winter since even though she's billed starring it's at best a cameo) have 3 of them black and it has nothing to do with being 'in the hood'. Surprisingly, I only became conscious of this halfway through the last episode and it made me feel great about the show. Especially with the way the captain's race is never brought in as a motivator for his continued success; just his sense of duty. RE: The latest episode; The running gag with Ichabod being blindsided by inflation is weird considering he was a University professor at some point in his past. I couldn't stop smiling at Irving/Jenny's flirting about with her stealing guns from him and then asking him over for thanksgiving. There were some beautiful smiles shared during that scene, and I can't help but think that the actors had one hell of a behind-the-scenes joke going on because they seemed so entertained.
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I ain't no expert on Cameras...but it looked like the either increased or decreased the shutter speed (forgot which one does which) so the flashing lights don't bother the camera. A more inferior show, Dexter, did the same thing with the same disastrous results. I can't find the video, but it's in the episode called "Run", where Dexter runs through all these strobe lights. It looked like Dr. Who, or The Hobbit.
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I just got a new HDTV this weekend and have been in "calibration mode" ever since, and once they were in what I assume were the flashlight-only scenes the video quality seemed to change. Personally, I'm going to use those scenes to help test my setup some more.
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Nov 26, 2013 22:56
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I hope the tree monster's blood filled limbs were a callback to Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. I love that movie. Also, Abby has great trigger discipline. 
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:I couldn't stop smiling at Irving/Jenny's flirting about with her stealing guns from him and then asking him over for thanksgiving. There were some beautiful smiles shared during that scene, and I can't help but think that the actors had one hell of a behind-the-scenes joke going on because they seemed so entertained. Orlando's short and quick responses gave just the right balance of annoyance and affection. They're gonna be good pals soon  :
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Nov 26, 2013 23:37
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This weeks monster was such a human being. I love this show.
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10 Beers posted:I hope the tree monster's blood filled limbs were a callback to Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. I love that movie. I thought this too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcOENbnXxQ4 Pretty fun scene.
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I just realized, remember when Morales called Oxford about Crane and they said he was a teacher there a few episodes back? That actually could have been referencing a living descendent all along instead of just being a front.
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Accordion Man posted:I just realized, remember when Morales called Oxford about Crane and they said he was a teacher there a few episodes back? That actually could have been referencing a living descendent all along instead of just being a front. This is unlikely, but it would be awesome. That phone call also said that Professor Crane was on load to Law Enforcement in the US, so either it was a cover, or Crane's descendant is also in country, working as a police consultant. Which would be pretty funny.
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I loving marked out for Berserker Ichabod. I have no other way to describe it, I marked. "Give Moloch my regards." loving BADASS.
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Midnight City posted:I like how they don't even bother to try giving some half assed excuse as to why a treemonster would have blood in its veins, or a heart/brain for Ichabod to axe to death.
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I found this cool poster on The Twitter. Don't know if it's real or fan made...but it's cool as hell, and I want a whole set. 
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CelticPredator posted:I found this cool poster on The Twitter. Don't know if it's real or fan made...but it's cool as hell, and I want a whole set. That's Francesco Francavilla. He did similar ones for Breaking Bad. Here's the rest so far.         He's still working on 1.07. http://francavillarts.tumblr.com/
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There's a real Mike Mignola vibe to those.
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Wow! Thank you for that! Those are all so great. Especially 03 and 08.
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I want Crane's reactions to airplanes and space travel and so many things. If the show was only about his reactions to modern day life i would be happy with that.
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Killstick posted:I want Crane's reactions to airplanes and space travel and so many things. If the show was only about his reactions to modern day life i would be happy with that. There should be an episode where Crane has to go undercover as an intern at a software company or something but Abby is talking to him through an earpiece so he can bullshit his way through it.
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mcbexx posted:Have we seen Ichabod handling modern currency yet? Not onscreen as far as I know, though I do recall his comments about buying water and the "ten percent levy on baked goods." We do have a clue as to what brand of body spray he prefers:  AXE. johntfs fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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mcbexx posted:Have we seen Ichabod handling modern currency yet? He hasn't used cash yet, but the police psychologist gave him a dollar in the pilot to show how much time had passed.
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All I'm waiting for is the inevitable episode where Icahbod has to go to New York City. That and plane travel. Just make the show Ichabod sitting in front of a conveyor belt of modern appliances and reacting to them.
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Deadpool posted:That's Francesco Francavilla. He did similar ones for Breaking Bad. Here's the rest so far.
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Snak posted:This is unlikely, but it would be awesome. That phone call also said that Professor Crane was on load to Law Enforcement in the US, so either it was a cover, or Crane's descendant is also in country, working as a police consultant. Which would be pretty funny. His descendant is named Sherlock Holmes. Ichabod and Abbie fly to New York City to find him and his partner, Joan Watson.
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KilGrey posted:His descendant is named Sherlock Holmes. Ichabod and Abbie fly to New York City to find him and his partner, Joan Watson. I would watch that...I am so sorry.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I would watch that...I am so sorry. Don't be. That is a wonderful idea, and anyone who says otherwise is a joyless husk of a person.
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