I know Ichabbie has a huge following, but personally I don’t see anything romantic between them, it’s all about the BROTP for me, and I think it might ruin their dynamic if they got together.
While I would be 100% on board them going romantic with this, I would also be 100% okay with them staying BROTP. What I love about Ichabbie is that the writers never tried to force a romance between the two. It happened for the fans because the two leads have a dynamic chemistry. Abbie, the pragmatist that she is, doesn’t sit around and wallow over her love life. She has other concerns. She doesn’t want ponder life with Ichabod as a romance, she isn’t torn about her feelings over him or any such thing. When Abbie and Jenny sit and talk together it isn’t about a man, it’s about saving the world. Ichabbie are partners and friends first and foremost and she’s never asked for more. That’s like…insanely unique for a woman on TV.
The majority of the audience wants to see it happen though, so it’ll probably happen at some point if the show continues.
Reminds me quite a bit of Olicity. The writers have Oliver’s comic book half in Laurel but Olicity blew up ALL THE THINGS.
Ichabod and Katrina are a chemistry-free zone and they were totally awkward with each other, (and I think this is probably a unique case where pretty much an entire fandom of a show can agree on a NOTP), so there’s no way they could have ever had them rekindle their relationship properly and have it be believable, so I don’t think that her remaining alive would have prevented them doing Ichabbie if they wanted to, so I don’t think that’s why she was killed.
Right, like I said in the review there is a pretty big disconnect between how the writers conceived of Katrina and Ichabod as a love for the ages (her in Purgatory, him crossing time) and how it manifested on screen. They never came across, to me, as that kind of transcendent love. The actress who plays Katrina is also…sorry to say this…one note for me, until she went evil.