I have last night's episode on the DVR, but after seeing spoilers on TVline and Twitter last night I don't want to watch it. I read a rumor last night that NB wanted out of her contract and the midseason death was supposed to stick, but the writers chickened out at the last minute and saved it for the finale. I have no idea if it's true or not. I really hope the show is cancelled, and I wish now that it had been cancelled after S1 because it never lived up to it's potential after that.

Apparently this was planned all season because Nicole Beharie wanted out, which given how her character was treated after Season 1, I can't blame her for. And looking back, I can see the breadcrumb trail leading up to it? Sort of? But I still hate how it was handled. I didn't actually watch, and I'm not going to, but my understanding is that they changed the Witnesses from a one-off Book of Revelation thing to a lineage, more like a Slayer or Avatar. And so now that part of Abbie's soul can live on in the next Witness, and if the show is renewed Crane will end up working with her?

Which, NO. A whole world of NO. You couldn't pay me enough to watch that.

Oh, and apparently there's some kind of scene either right before she dies or with her ghost where she tells Crane that it was OK, that her role was to support him or help him transition to the modern world or something like that. Which...you turned the heroine of your show into a Magical Negro/Mammy trope?

NO. Nope nope nopity nope.

I wish now that it had been cancelled after S1 because it never lived up to it's potential after that.

Yeah. I wanted S2 to be good, and it was disappointing (though I loved the episodes where Abbie went back in time). And S3 has just been weird.

you turned the heroine of your show into a Magical Negro/Mammy trope?

That's even worse than just killing her. Good Lord. I may not watch the remaining episodes after all.

Which...you turned the heroine of your show into a Magical Negro/Mammy trope?

Yeah, that's just a world of wrong, but I always saw it as Abby's show with Crane as her sidekick.

I haven't seen the last two eps of SH, and I don't know if I'll bother. I don't understand how the showrunners can't see what worked so well in the show in S. 1, because they mostly seemed to undermine it in S. 2 & 3.

Yeah, I won't bother catching up with Sleepy Hollow. What a colossal misunderstanding of what made the show good in the first place.

If I were farther behind, I wouldn't bother watching, but it's the only ep on my Tivo, so, well, completeness.

I respect Beharie's desire to leave the show, but damnit, there is NO SHOW WITHOUT ABBY MILLS.

I always saw it as Abby's show with Crane as her sidekick.

YES YES YES.

I need to stop spending my weekend dismally mourning a TV show, dammit! Especially given that I think it's entirely fair to call it nothing but a shadow of its Season 1 brilliance, AND to say that any number of fanfics, including mine, stayed truer to the characters and premise and therefore deserve to be my headcanon rather than what actually happened.

I did get in touch with my one friend that I was worried about, and we're exchanging grumpy texts about our sense of betrayal, so that makes me feel a bit better.

Another thing that made me see red was Abby and Jenny's father turning out to know about the supernatural. So despite knowing the true state of affairs, he let his wife rot in an asylum until she died and his daughters be placed in foster care.

Yep. It's just an inexplicable level of bad storytelling all around.