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Watching Teen Wolf
Nov. 2nd, 2013 02:51 pmAs regards supernaturalistic type TV shows...
I tried to get into True Blood, but I quit midway into the pilot because the show kind of just spammed in with a bunch of characters all at once who were all about equally important-ish to the plot, and keeping track of all of them wasn't easy.
Teen Wolf is a lot easier to get into: there's a much tighter focus on one or two people, namely Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, bringing in others as required by the plot and not otherwise, which means the awesome bromance of the guys and the power-couple romance of Scott and Allison are both well-executed. :D
I think what this show really has as its draw is the question of identity: teenagers are already wrestling with that as they grow up, but overlaid on top of this is Scott's lycanthropy: who is he? Is he human? Werewolf? Both? And who can he become when he grows to adulthood? Derek shows one rather bad turn life can take: being perpetually suspicious of anyone who's not in your pack and being only indifferently helpful to humans and/or newbie werewolves.
I'm only in the first season, so I don't know how this will play out. But we shall see, neh?
Bonus: Scott McCall is seriously fucking built. (and hot. :P )
Bonus 2: I wish the show would 'ship Scott, Allison and Stiles, because Allison and Stiles both love Scott, just in different ways. And they aren't really even jealous of each other, because they know they complete Scott in different ways. Oh well, there's always fanfic. :P
I tried to get into True Blood, but I quit midway into the pilot because the show kind of just spammed in with a bunch of characters all at once who were all about equally important-ish to the plot, and keeping track of all of them wasn't easy.
Teen Wolf is a lot easier to get into: there's a much tighter focus on one or two people, namely Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, bringing in others as required by the plot and not otherwise, which means the awesome bromance of the guys and the power-couple romance of Scott and Allison are both well-executed. :D
I think what this show really has as its draw is the question of identity: teenagers are already wrestling with that as they grow up, but overlaid on top of this is Scott's lycanthropy: who is he? Is he human? Werewolf? Both? And who can he become when he grows to adulthood? Derek shows one rather bad turn life can take: being perpetually suspicious of anyone who's not in your pack and being only indifferently helpful to humans and/or newbie werewolves.
I'm only in the first season, so I don't know how this will play out. But we shall see, neh?
Bonus: Scott McCall is seriously fucking built. (and hot. :P )
Bonus 2: I wish the show would 'ship Scott, Allison and Stiles, because Allison and Stiles both love Scott, just in different ways. And they aren't really even jealous of each other, because they know they complete Scott in different ways. Oh well, there's always fanfic. :P
