the reason this one feels different is because abbie had one trait that none of the others had. she was the hero of the story.
even if you don’t think there’s a vile strain of homophobia running through the industry at the moment, whether or not you believe women of color are woefully underrepresented on tv, no matter what your feelings about about misogyny as a motivator for people’s actions, you cannot deny a crap load of women have died on tv lately.
but abbie’s different, because she was the hero of the story and the story ends when the hero dies.
and for a show to kill its hero and go on without her, what they’re really telling people is she was never really the hero. it literally doesn’t matter why they did it. it just does. not. matter. because they’ve told us now that in the story they’re telling, abbie was so unimportant that they could do without her.
fuck you, sleepy hollow.
booasaur: #I just #IF THE LEAD CAN’T SURVIVE #like #it’s not nicole choosing to leave that’s the problem #she’s been sidelined and mistreated from the start #it wasn’t some fun shade when she had to call them out for excluding her from the dvd commentary #who does that? #why on earth would anybody do that? #and if that’s the environment she was working in #for four years? can you blame her wanting to leave? #of course not #and if she DID leave #there are actually many ways for characters to leave a show without being killed off #but she shouldn’t even have had to leave #you had gold in her and the dynamic with tom #and you ruined it yourself #you’ve killed her and so you’ve killed your show #there is no sleepy hollow without abbie mills or nicole beharie