"You and I can't have lunch without peril."

[hedda62]

Oh, Sleepy Hollow, NO. You did NOT do that. Please be the kind of show that doesn't. *writes furious fix-it fic in head*

And, to continue the previous Katrina thoughts - I read somewhere on Tumblr bits of an interview someone did with some showrunner (sorry, cannot cite. "I read it on Tumblr somewhere": death to modern scholarship) where among other things (one of them being that they consider Katrina to be a "strong woman") it was stated that K. is having difficulties getting her magic in line after all that time in purgatory - and, okay, that would be cool. I would go for that. Except that all that's coming across is that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and she shows no real reaction in either case. Or rather, she shows a reaction to the result of the success or failure, but not to the success or failure itself, which a craftsperson should do; there should be a little smirk of triumph or anger when what should happen doesn't. It's bad writing as much as bad acting. She could be a reluctant witch - that would be interesting - and a witch of necessity only, or she can be totally getting off on it, but in any case she needs to desire competence. And to regret failure, not just because it kills people but because it makes her look bad.

On another subject entirely, I think I've fixed the epub file problem - still waiting for Smashwords to review the files (apparently they are still on holiday schedule) but I auto-vetted the file and it passed, so I'm pretty confident (and you will hear wailing and gnashing of teeth if it still fails for some reason). mmegaera said it might be in the headers or footers, and it was - phantom page numbers in the footer, which I never put in there, but Word in its infinite wisdom decided should be present. Don't know why in this book and not any of the others, but there you are.

Comments

[enemyofperfect]

My reaction to last night's Sleepy Hollow was just disbelief. Like, even after the season it's been, I honestly didn't believe they could do that and mean for it to stick. And then today I'm reading interviews and it looks like that basically is the plan? And I just.

Sympathy on your formatting woes, btw. I hope it really is fixed this time!

[mmegaera]

Glad I was of help. Word is, er, [deletes other, stronger, descriptive words] idiosyncratic. Yeah, that's what it is.

As for Sleepy Hollow, dear godlings.

[hedda62]

Oh woes, I didn't even want to look at interviews or anything because I hoped they'd find a way to bring him back (I mean, magic and supernatural stuff all over). Part of me is saying "what, too many black people in one show?" and I don't know if it's that or if he has other plans; I hope the latter.

I think everything on the formatting front is now fixed!

[hedda62]

Yup, that's what it is all right. Or "capricious." What do they say about doing the same thing and expecting different results? Because I seem to have achieved the definition of insanity.

[enemyofperfect]

Oh, I'm so sorry if you were avoiding interviews! If it helps any, I'm continuing to hope against hope too, on the grounds that a) I ended up rageskimming a lot, so maybe I misunderstood and b) maybe it could be a fakeout somehow, like they just... want us to think they're deliberately destroying their own show? Because the thing is, if it is for real, the too-many-black-people hypothesis is seeming horribly plausible -- he's being very politic, but giving no sign that this was his idea at all.

Hurrah getting things fixed!

[hedda62]

No worries; I have no problem with knowing what's going on, but just didn't have the will to look myself. I did skim through Orlando Jones's tweets post-airing, and he seemed very offhand about it in a way that might have meant holding back something (since he usually embraces drama and fan response wholeheartedly). But the something could be anger or secrets or anything else.

I'm tempted to map POI season 3 onto this, but there's ample evidence that TPH left purposefully, even if her departure was handled clumsily. This is just… what.