It's the little things.

[bunn]

For some reason I am howling with laughter at the 'haunted house' in this week's Sleepy Hollow.  Supposedly this house was overtaken by fearful Eldrich Forces in the eighteenth century, and nobody has spent more than a few days in it since, because it is inhabited by a Scary. ( I don't think this is a spoiler.  Or, only a tiddler, anyway.)

Here it is: http://www.entertainmentoutlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Sleepy-Hollow-Sanctuary-02.jpg

It's so CLEAN!  Those bricks!  I could cheerfully eat a meal off those bricks! And that paint!  It GLOWS!

Clearly the Scary has spent most of its time since 1781 scrubbing like mad.  I wonder if I can get one to move in with me...?

Of course the whole series is riddled with anachronisms of all kinds, but (perhaps because I live in a place so damp that all surfaces turn green in weeks)  this one really spoke to me. :-D

Comments

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Also the house looks as though it was built circa 1980s on an upmarket estate.

THese things bother me too. I just watched "Empire of the Sun", and was unreasonably bothered about how they all kept their hair so nicely maintained in the prisoner camp. I could just about convince myself there was a former barber among the prisoners, but by the end of the film it was really hard to convince myself that the hero was finding opportunities for frequent hair cuts ... and yet /his hair never got longer/ and kept its funky slightly spiky look.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

There is something about the combination of brick colour and stark white columns that has that vibe!