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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6184398" data-attributes="member: 8835">It was alright.Since it is on Fox, I give it 13 episodes before they cancel it to make way for a sleazier show.Now for stuff about the show:[spoiler]the police department felt inconsistent designed.  One minute the female lead is eating dinner with the sherrif of a small town police department, the next she's getting chewed out by the Captain of a department large enough to rival the Miami Homicide division.If you're going for small town police force, emulate Longmire with a Sheriff and deputies.  If you're going for big city police force, emulate Castle with precincts, departments etc.  There are of course big cities with sheriffs and stuff, but the small town police force seems a better fit for a setting like Sleepy Hollow.The pacing was pretty quick.  We didn't have to wait 3 seasons for either character to share their backstory of how they got there and why that's relevant.  Even the ending seems to have gotten the Captain onboard with "headless horseman is real, this Crane guy is real, you two go solve it" which is refreshing from the usual pattern of "we have a secret, can't trust anybody, let's waste half the season thwarting each other though we're all on the same side"the Horseman was all nice and headless.  Glad we're not wasting time with people doubting his existance.  Decent mythology on why he's there and why we need 13 episodes to resolve the matter.And like any good vampire or immortal story, we get "historical" flashbacks to show times of yore, because who doesn't like acting in period dress?[/spoiler]Overall, I'll keep watching it.</blockquote>

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