YESSSS I'm really glad you're enjoying it. I watched it just thinking it'd be cracky fun, AND IT WAS, but it also had a compelling level of characterisation and drama that really held my attention and held it through the horror type stuff.
The founding fathers stuff does get a little hilarious from time to time, although Abbie and Irving do throw some spectacular shade when he starts praising Jefferson by explaining to him the existence of Sally Hemmings.
That's one thing I really enjoy about the show - the way it doesn't erase African Americans from that time period. Yes, like the rest it's plot-holey and in places clearly avoiding realism so that we don't have to loathe everyone, but it makes it incredibly clear that they were an important social presence and as the series progresses, it roots Abbie's legacy and destiny just as firmly as Ichabod's, in a way that really starts to undermine the one reservation I had at the start: that this was the story of the Main Character Displaced In Time and his Plucky Sidekick.
Plus I'm pretty sure Jenny is a series regular in s2. EEEEE!
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Date: 2014-09-21 07:44 pm (UTC)The founding fathers stuff does get a little hilarious from time to time, although Abbie and Irving do throw some spectacular shade when he starts praising Jefferson by explaining to him the existence of Sally Hemmings.
That's one thing I really enjoy about the show - the way it doesn't erase African Americans from that time period. Yes, like the rest it's plot-holey and in places clearly avoiding realism so that we don't have to loathe everyone, but it makes it incredibly clear that they were an important social presence and as the series progresses, it roots Abbie's legacy and destiny just as firmly as Ichabod's, in a way that really starts to undermine the one reservation I had at the start: that this was the story of the Main Character Displaced In Time and his Plucky Sidekick.
Plus I'm pretty sure Jenny is a series regular in s2. EEEEE!