With the horseman of death a prominent character in Fox’s Sleepy Hollow we find it a little odd that none of the main characters have actually died yet. Will death catch up with Ichabod and Abbie before the season ends?
Two seasons in, Sleepy Hollow has surprisingly been able to keep all of its main characters alive and well(ish), to the point where they’ve even added more characters to their list. Even when we thought we’d lost a character, they managed to come back to us. So the question is: Who will be the first one to die for real this time?
Ichabod and Abbie: Probably not
The show won’t work without these two, that much is clear. We definitely don’t think they’ll be dying any time soon, but it would be interesting to see them go down the Supernatural route where one of them actually does die and the other has to go to Hell or limbo or whatever to get them back. Although if they do go down that route they run the risk of being too much of a Supernatural copycat, so we don’t see that happening anytime soon either.
Jenny Mills and Nicholas Hawley: Definitely, maybe
Jenny’s usefulness has been ultimately replaced by Hawley, so we can see either one of them taking the bullet this season. Now that they both basically do the same thing (hunt supernatural objects) they’re pretty much interchangeable if you ignore the blood relation between Jenny and Abbie. At this point in the season Hawley has even proven himself more useful than Jenny, so we wouldn’t be surprised if Sleepy Hollow wants to really twist things up and kill Abbie’s sister. What’s a better incentive to do better in your war against the apocalypse than losing a family member?
Frank Irving: Possible and probable
Given that he’s already dead, and that he can’t even see his reflection for some reason, we can definitely see Irving not surviving past this season. We’ve already said goodbye to him, and no one knows if he’s really 100% himself, so we can see his story this season leading to a long and tearful goodbye to his family as he accepts that he’s really dead and goes to wherever undead zombie vampires go.
Katrina Crane: Possible, but not probable
The fandom has come to either love or hate Katrina. We’re actually fans of her but it’s not hard to find the hate if you know where to look for it, and this might actually have an affect in the writer’s room. If a fan base hates a character loud and long enough it becomes clear to the writers that they either need to improve upon or kill off that character, and we see Sleepy Hollow going down the former road. Having spent so much time trying to find Katrina and improving her and Ichabod’s marriage we can’t see them killing her off just to please a few angry fans. We imagine them improving Katrina’s character and making her likeable more-so than making her evil, like so many fans want.
Who do you think will die next on ‘Sleepy Hollow?’
So far the stakes aren’t real enough in this apocalyptic battle, and we definitely see one of these main characters dying before the season ends. But the question is: Who will it be? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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