We stopped watching when the news cut in and decided to just watch the whole thing on Hulu tomorrow. I hate missing a chunk of a show.

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Pumps?

What doesn't make sense about that word?

AFAIK, pumping brakes has two meanings. One is trying to stop on slippery surfaces, ice, gravel, etc. when you don't have ABS. Second is to adjust brakes after putting new pads or replacing the brake lines/etc. to "bleed" the air out of the lines.

To use it as a metaphor to mean stop seems incorrect to me. A better brake metaphor would be "slams the brakes" or "puts the brakes on..." instead.

It seems that if one was pumping the brakes on a show, it would stop for a wile, then show an ep, then stop a couple of weeks, show an episode.

I may be far too much a mechanic's son for their metaphor.

A better brake metaphor would be "slams the brakes" or "puts the brakes on..." instead.

I've been driving since I was 16, so I know what pumping the brakes means. I took the metaphor to mean the network was slowing down (i.e., only airing the initial 13 and not filming a full season) but not yet canceling it.

Metaphors aren't exact comparisons; if they were, they wouldn't be metaphors. They'd be exact descriptions.

I took 'pumping the brakes' as exercising caution and seeing what works.

My DexH taught traffic school. I helped. We used that term a LOT.

Before anti-lock brakes were a thing, pumping the brakes could actually save your life!

Or, what Steph said. Metaphors aren't exact comparisons.

Perhaps the producers are hoping to save the show by, I dunno, doing focus groups or trying new writers...etc.

Yeah, they aren't slamming the brakes on, or anything involving a full or stubborn stop.

Unrelated to driving, it's interesting to be catching up on S1 of Sleepy Hollow while concurrently watching S2. Because we already know from S2 that Henry is (1) Ichabod and Katrina's son, and (2) evil. So we're watching S1 unfold, and I've been expecting him to bust out with the full-on mwah-ha-ha evil ever since he was introduced, but (as you know Bob), the show has played it straight all the way through episode 12 (which we just finished).

If I weren't also watching S2, I wouldn't have guessed yet that Henry is evil as shit. And I kind of like him as a good guy. Except for the fact that he's so marvelous as a bad guy.

That's the beauty of Henry, he was just an odd guy with a fascinating gift.

I really don't want Henry to be redeemed. I believe Katrina is full of sentimental claptrap, but I wouldn't notice she was gone for weeks--I am just never on her side. And it has nothing to do with shipping... has she even had a comedic line?

She asked Abby if there was more reality TV she could watch.