Five minutes in and this episode is already way better than all of Season 2.
this has a lot of awesome sauce!!!!
The new story arc makes no sense given the previous two seasons. Talk about disjointed. They might as well have started a new show. Pandora? Really? Dumb.
Abbie and Crane just abandon their time as witnesses when it was well established it would be seven years? Irving just disappears? That makes no sense since he got his soul back. The city sells off a historical archive building, but it is up to an ex-cop now FBI agent to pack everything up?
Plus, how was the horseman defeated so easily when it was the job of the witnesses to deal with him?
And what is up with the scene with Abbie and Lorenzo. That speech was God aweful.
The writing in this episode was really bad. For example, "... see the whites of their eyes"? In the context used, Prescott would have said "... see its white eyes". Very different and far more accurate instructions for the battlefield given that the Yao-Quai [sic] had whites of its eyes even when the eyes weren't entirely white.
You know that things have been shaken up when not one but TWO stars have gotten haircuts!
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2015-10-10T16:36:56Z
Surprising how easy the horseman was defeated just like that after dealing with him for around 1 to 1 1/2 seasons.
Wouldn't that imply that Pandora as is is already stronger (more powerful) than (one of) the Horseman (of the Apocalypse)?
It's not entirely bad to get rid of old weight like that to get forward but it was still somewhat odd.
Similar with Irving. Why going to such a great length in not killing him in the finale of last season when he's written out just like that?
But perhaps that is because of the showrunner leaving and the new one wants to start something new and didn't care at all for the past.
Not that I want Frank Irving back, I hated this character.
How did Crane get the necklace into the detention center?
I'd assume personal belongings, especially a somewhat valuable necklace, would be taken away for safety reasons or alike.
Crucial FBI information like "Operation Anaconda" visible for everyone walking by the office - while no one is in the office for an undiscloded amount of time - seems like a bit too heavy-handed plot exposition.
Mills could have easily approached Cheng when he ran from the back of the building, also where did Cheng get the Uzi from?
He had nothing on himself. Why did Granger not shoot back - not necessarily killing - when he was shot at?
Because we needed Cheng alive and unharmed to be a "witness", for the upcoming absurd "stand-off"? So, screw Granger, I suppose.
Multi-state drug trafficking ring, led by Cheng but only pinning the death of an FBI agent on him will result in a "massive manhunt" for him??? What was the raid before then after years of trying to catch him? Meeting for brunch?
Also, Mills said she liked Granger but doesn't seem affected by his death whatsoever.
Furthermore it confuses me why Cheng specifically asked for Mills (not by name, though). What did he want to achieve here?
He should be gone by now. In the hostage situation he makes it clear that he has issues with having a dead man pinned on him (how does he know?) but a drug trafficking ring leader shouldn't really care, should he?
It's reasonable to think he killed someone before anyway and if he is willing to take hostages and even shoot them...
However, again, he should be gone by now and not trying to get head on with the FBI.
The whole hostage situation was cheesy and absurd. Perhaps only to get Mills to admit her purpose in Sleepy Hollow as a witness.
Equally absurd was the sniping situation with the Yao Guai. Just in that moment when Jenny wanted to shoot it, the plank conveniently breaks and enabling Abbie to be the hero... They really were pushing it way too far here.
But why again did a single shot kill the Yao Guai now when he was shot before once and escaped afterwards?
In both cases there was white in its eyes.
The episode was trying to make some scenes fool proof, like the FBI agent mentioning to us not Mills that Cheng asked not specifically for Mills by name but specifically for the "agent who was with him when Granger went down", what is clever.
It had pretty much action in it, too. Maybe even too much for a Sleepy Hollow episode (but different showrunner, different focus, I guess). But totally ruins it pretty much everywhere else.
Some of this could be ignored, sure but in sum totally frustrates me as a viewer, trying to sell me this grade of stupidity.
I was more immersed in finding and questioning the ridicolousness than anything else.
The script was all over the place.