Supergirl thoughts:

I do not like Supergirl's narrator voice. I like her just fine onscreen, so hopefully now that the exposition is covered we'll be hearing less of that.

Speaking of exposition, THANK YOU SHOW for taking care of the origin story so quickly. Now we can get on with the fun bits.

So Superman in this universe is basically like the Eagles from LotR. He could be helping all the time...but he's not going to be, so there.

Sleepy Hollow: man, Pandora straight up stole that kid's candy. (I was SO DISAPPOINTED when she pulled a mask out of the bag and handed it to undead!Howe. I really wanted it to be a Zagnut.)

Also, I know nothing about Bones, but David Boreanaz is aging quite nicely.

I'm in this weird place where I totally enjoyed the crossover while I was watching it, but as soon as I walked away it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I feel like Crane & Abbie's bond, which is WHAT I WATCH THE SHOW FOR--everything else is just an excuse to make it happen--has been totally absent the last two episodes. It's actually making it hard for me to feel like sitting down to write the last chapter of the novel-length fanfic I've been working on since the S2 finale. Which sucks, because A) I love that story, and feel like it's actually helped me grow as a writer, B) I want to finish it this weekend so I can devote November to my NaNoWriMo project, wherein I get back to original fiction after a brutal case of burnout that started this time last year, and C) I left my version of Crane and Abbie on a fairly vicious cliffhanger at the end of the previous chapter, and it'd be pretty obnoxious of me to never finish the story!

I'll finish it somehow. I'll rewatch some S1 and read some good fanfic if that's what it takes. And when *I* write a multi-volume insane paranormal story with a slow burn romance, I will FREAKING maintain a consistent tone for both the paranormality and the character/relationship development.

There. I feel better for having vented. But it's painful to be so frustrated with a show when I've become deeply involved in the fandom. It's like, if the show can't get it together, I don't just lose the weekly entertainment, I lose the community and the ongoing conversation.

I avoided watching last night. I just cannot imagine the two series/settings meshing well, and suspect I don't have a hall long enough to watch it from.

Paul Blackthorne - great.

Yes! I think he has been one of the most underused actors in this series. So, it's nice to see him getting some good material.

Also, I'm officially afraid that the grave 6 months from now is Cop Daddy's.

No. I'm afraid of the same thing, but I don't want to believe it.

The Supergirl name speech

That was the only part I didn't like, because grown-ass women are not girls (admittedly, this is a hill I've chosen to die on and I know lots of female humans over the age of 18 call themselves and other similarly-aged female humans "girls" [but it still gets on my last nerve]).

I can totally see that, and I personally would never like to be referred to as a girl, but I appreciate people that see it as a powerful word.

Oh, and Sara chained to the wall totally reminded me of Angel back from Hell.

Oh, and Sara chained to the wall totally reminded me of Angel back from Hell.

Also Faith in whatever episode that was. (I used to know this. It makes me a little sad that I don't.)

I watched the Bones-Sleepy Hollow crossover last night. The filming seems different for the two shows, and Abby and Ichabod seemed, I dunno, washed out, maybe, on the Bones set?

Also, while it's been years since I watched Bones regularly, I remember it being a science, not magic, kinda show. Inserting Sleepy Hollow, where magic is demonstrably real, into that universe seems like cheating somehow.

The filming seems different for the two shows, and Abby and Ichabod seemed, I dunno, washed out, maybe, on the Bones set?

Definitely - the lighting is completely different, and Ichabod's clothes looked much more costume-y on the Bones set. (Also, Bones uses mostly static camera shot/reverse shot staging, while Sleepy Hollow uses a lot of slow pans across two-shots. Totally different feel for the characters.)

I question whether the creators of either show know how far apart Sleepy Hollow and Washington DC are - was it just me, or did Abbie and Ichabod drive down for a single conversation and drive back the same day? All in daylight?

I question whether the creators of either show know how far apart Sleepy Hollow and Washington DC are

Isn't this the show that put Roanoke in Massachusetts? What's one more geographical impossibility.