Soooo, basically we’re going to be left dazed and on our backsides, left wondering what the heck just happened, and cursing ourselves because we really really believed that time and how did we NOT see that coming… Yeah. Yeah I can see that happening.

Damn.

It’s a little like Charlie Brown and the football.

Seriously, what if the Show Heads really are quite brilliant (yeahicallBS) and all of this is laying the groundwork for some massive OH!DAMN! reveals and we’re all left feeling shamefaced because we had so little faith…

Well, one can dream…

I keep trying to think it’s part of some brilliant plan to end network meddling or something. I don’t know what to think. The show keeps shading her.

Bottom line, I can see why Abbie was like, “You don’t have to go.”

Because, um, there’s more important things to do. Like, right then at that very moment there were more important things to do.

And I must say, date night aside, I do appreciate the way her reaction to Irving was written. She doesn’t trust him. Because she’s Abbie. He has to earn that trust. See, she’s not hating on Katrina, she just doesn’t trust her. Because she’s Abbie. Trust has to be earned. Katrina pulled some hinkty mess and needs to come along way to redeem herself. Although Irving hasn’t done anything to prove himself to be a wrong’un, Abbie’s experience of people with sold soul’s (ahem, Andy) pencils Irving onto the guilty-until-proven-innocent side of the roster. So, I can imagine the idea of having Katrina (who she doesn’t entirely trust) work magic to determine if Irving (who she doesn’t entirely trust) is good or bad doesn’t sit so well with Abbie. Because she’s Abbie.

That’s what I meant to say.

No, they go swanning off to admire the crystal while Purgatory escapees are flocking to Headless for “Apocalypse, the B-Side.” They all actually KNOW that this is actively happening. Dinner be damned, if the Cranes need to get their whatnot together then they can sit down and hash it out. There they are all coiffed and waxed? Ain’t nobody got time for that!

I have a theory about this: it’s really Tom Mison’s fault and how he channels the two Ichabods. 1700s Ichabod was essentially finding himself: a scholar leaving England against his dad’s wishes to go to America with Abraham; switching sides to fight a more noble cause; getting bowled over by Katrina and loving her from afar, and then up close; fighting a war of Independence. This Ichabod hasn’t really actively made many choices; the choices have found him. He is a protector, a fighter by default and a duty-bound, loyal husband who happens to have stolen the hot girl from his best friend.

2000s Ichabod is also rediscovering himself in a new time. What manner of man is he now that his props (all the above) have been removed? He takes on a new role and fight foisted on him: Witness and has been paired with a type of woman never met before. She brings out the best in him (rails against modern society notwithstanding) and challenges, inspires, encourages and occasionally bests him. She is the best type of friend he could ever have and he has chosen to forge his fate with her. The conflict comes with Katrina and to an extent Henry. They represent in Katrina’s case ties to the old, familiar role of 1700s Ichabod, and in Henry’s case, nostalgia for the life and family he could have had, and to be the kind of dad his wasn’t. He is duty bound to his wife and he does love her, but this is in direct opposition to his bond with Abbie as a witness and friend.

This kind of conflict should have made for compelling TV if the character of Katrina was: 1. not so blatantly manipulative and dishonest and 2. had better screen chemistry with Tom Mison. If Katia Winters had at least half the pull of Nicole Beharie (even Lyndie Greenwood) and Katrina’s character not so damsel-in-distress inclined, we could have had a better story arc for her. Instead we’re left with this convoluted mess.

And the powerful witch thing is really just a big joke now isn’t it? Ichabod had to keep reminding her to repeat the spell when demon painter was approaching them. And I haven’t forgotten about the rats and maggots in the Succubus episode. Once again, for the millionth time, Abbie has to save the day.

Lmao! Love that comment. Hate the Katrina character. She’s better suited for Once Upon a Time or some other show where whiney, whispering, damsels in distress are favored.

You speak the truth. I felt so bad for poor Tom Mison. He could see the unemployment check coming every time he had to drag that dead weight through a scene.