Xander ,'Selfless'
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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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 actually looked it up on Google maps during a commercial break, and Google's most optimistic estimate was 4 hours. So even assuming traffic went perfectly (ahahahaha), that's still an 8-hour round trip. So...handwavium.
I watched both shows despite the fact that I gave up on Bones a couple seasons ago. It wasn't as painful as I expected it to be.
Sleepy Hollow also has people zipping about between the colonies in the Revolutionary era at improbable speeds.
I actually looked it up on Google maps during a commercial break, and Google's most optimistic estimate was 4 hours. So even assuming traffic went perfectly (ahahahaha), that's still an 8-hour round trip. So...handwavium.
I've driven roughly that trip dozens of times (when I was living in DC, and my parents are maybe half an hour from Sleepy Hollow), and never made it in less than five hours each way, and that was in the middle of the week and managing to avoid all rush hours. Usually, at least six hours each way.
Oh, I assumed Google was being ridonkulously optimistic.
So even assuming traffic went perfectly (ahahahaha), that's still an 8-hour round trip
Maybe there's a secret FBI-only superhighway that THEY don't want us to know about.
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.
Yeah, they didn't mesh very well. It did get me to watch Bones for the first time in 3 years or so, which just confirmed why I stopped watching. Let's hope they don't make a habit of that.
Maybe there's a secret FBI-only superhighway that THEY don't want us to know about.
Nope, they used the Nanda Parbat subway system.
Maybe there's a secret FBI-only superhighway that THEY don't want us to know about.
Nope, they used the Nanda Parbat subway system.
Or black helicopters.
Doctor Who, Zygon ISIS: finally, we have learned the Doctor's real name. Doctor Funkenstein.
In every story this series so far, I've liked the first episode more than the second. (In only one case is that because I thought the second ep was dreadful, namely Before the Flood.) There is a lot of room for me to enjoy next week's ep and have this rule still hold. (That said, I think that more than any other Part 1 this season, this one doesn't stand on its own.)
One comment I've read this may be the first Doctor Who ep that not only passes the Bechdel Test, but fails the Reverse Bechdel Test.
Another thought: there've been a lot of callbacks to past adventures lately. The Girl Who Died of course had the Flashback to The Fires of Pompeii, and also a callback to the Third Doctor ("I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. I bet that means something, it sounds great.") and the Seventh Doctor ("Time will tell. It always does.") And this week, along with the Day of the Doctor flashbacks we had 4th Doctor Osgood and 7th Doctor Osgood, and the conversation about the question marks. The 'naval surgeon' who developed the Zygon nerve gas was probably a reference to Harry Sullivan, who stopped travelling with the Doctor in Terror of the Zygons. Oh, and a picture of the 1st Doctor in UNIT.