I really liked the pilot, myself -- lots of fannish nods. As a resident of Florida, if the white Good Guy had shot and killed the black guy, I would have gone ballistic and never watched the show again. As it was, I still gritted my teeth at the Black Hero Turns Into Crazy Victim schtick, and I'd feel a lot happier if the team included at least one black person -- it would have been great to have one of the scientists be black! At least not everyone is under 30.

DudeBro's character's name is Ward. (I keep calling him Wade, though.) I've been eyerolling at the reviews that assumed he's supposed to be the "central figure" of the show. Clearly, if there's a young white guy in a group, he HAS to be the centre. Yeah.

I haven't watched Sleepy Hollow -- it almost takes a tectonic shift to get me to watch network TV anyway, and this was the only one that could get me to try for this season.