Abbie Mills Being Killed On Sleepy Hollow Just Goes To Show Me The Writers, Producers, And Showrunners

And they lived platonically ever after…

Abbie Mills x Sophie Foster | Sleepy Hollow 3.14

There’s an all-new episode of Sleepy Hollow tomorrow! Reblog if you’re ready.

Raise your hand if you want Sleepy Hollow to be cancelled after that train wreck of a season finale

If you voted for Trump tonight, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latina/o, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

To the Fandoms Helping Out:

We want to keep this event Abbie Mills specific. We are joining together to combat systemic discrimination in the media. However due to Abbie Mills’ unique place in television we want to make sure to keep this event focused on Abbie herself. 

Please remember when speaking of the discrimination that Abbie faces, speak directly to her blackness, while Abbie is woman of color she faced discrimination specific to that blackness. In 3 seasons of television:

Abbie Mills was not kissed and had no onscreen romance

Abbie sacrificed herself thrice for the world, her partner Ichabod never did

 she was repeatedly sidelined and displaced while white women were pushed into her place (said women were then horribly written besides)

Sleepy Hollow itself was originally promoted as diverse show making their treatment of the black actors and characters on this show that much more egregious

the “don’t need no man trope” which is specific to black women was applied to her by the writers room: “Abbie loved Ichabod, but Ichabod was in love with Abbie.”

Abbie also faced colorism from her own fandom as some viewers repeatedly called for her to be replaced by her light-skinned, acceptably curly haired sister

originally Abbie was supposed to die mid-season, that’s right as far as the writer’s of Sleepy Hollow were concerned this co-lead, only black woman leading a genre show, arguably fan favorite’s death didn’t even warrant a season finale

her final words to her partner were that “her purpose was to carry him forward and she had nothing more to do”, in an interview with one of the writers they said: “she had served her purpose”

she existed solely for the benefit of a man

while she started strong Abbie was diminished in every way as her S1 love interests were written out apropos of nothing to make room for story line’s that centered the conflict around her white male partner (now I like Ichabod, but their storylines needed to be equally important)

all POC supporting cast were either killed off or slowly disappeared from the show: John Cho, Orlando Jones, Jill-Marie Jones, Amandla Stenberg,Nicholas Gonzalez. 

Nicole Beharie herself was not invited to the season 2 DVD commentary, she recently had to ask the Sleepy Hollow fox twitter account to follow her, she was told that no one wanted to see her at conventions without Tom Mison

Essentially they hired an amazing Julliard trained actress and diminished her and the character she played in every conceivable way. The simple human wastage is disgusting, the constant slights are an outrage, and the blend of racism and sexism she endured us beyond the pale. And all of it is specific to her blackness so remember that when we work this trending event. 

She is not simply a WOC, but a black woman. The strong woman who doesn’t need a man trope is specific to her blackness, being a pack mule whose feelings are not considered is specific to her blackness, being considered disposable is specific to her blackness and being only considered for her usefulness to her white co-workers is specific to her blackness.

Crane Cooks from “Kindred Spirits”

What must've gone down at the first Sleepy Hollow writers' room meeting for season three:

Head Writer: So. We almost got canceled last season because instead of focusing on Ichabbie, platonic OR romantic, we put the spotlight on Katrina and didn't make her interesting or likable, and then we added in Hawley, who took away more time from the developing relationship between the Mills sisters. So we got rid of Katrina and Henry and Hawley and the fans came back to us. New year, new us, new season. What are your thoughts?

Writer #1: *raises his hand*

Head Writer: Yes?

Writer #1: *presses his fingertips to his lips for a moment* What if...we add in this super special awesome female character to be Crane's love interest in the past and then give him another love interest in the current time and then give Abbie a love interest that won't come to fruition until the last second and then instead of showing the blooming relationship between Ichabbie, we'll throw in those two things constantly until the fans are forced to recognize the true greatness of the show, which is things that are not Ichabbie?

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: So basically do the exact same thing that almost got us canceled last year?

Writer #1: *brightly* Yeah-huh!

Head Writer: ...

Head Writer: YASSSS BITCH YAASSSSS. HIGH FIVE BRO SEASON THREE IS COMIN' ATCHA!