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butterflyI’m going to rewatch Teen Wolf next week, I think. Because I want to consolidate my feelings and, also, because I need to rewatch the last half of S2 while going, “okay, Scott and Deaton have a secret plan”.
I’m unsure how I feel about the show cutting off the audience from the protagonist’s inner world for a stretch of several episodes. I get that it was supposed to be a surprise twist, but it means that the audience gets alienated from a huge part of Who Scott Is during the back half of S2 (at least, I certainly was alienated). So, I’m going to see how I feel about things when I watch that and know what’s going on.
But that kinda connects to the one thing about the show that works for me less well: I don’t feel like I know Scott. I know things about Scott, but I don’t feel like I know him. I feel like I know most of the other characters on the show better than I know Scott.
I do wish that the show should have showed us more about who Scott was before he became a werewolf. It’s like… okay, the Captain America movie. I had to fall in love with pre-serum!Steve in order to be invested in super-soldier!Steve. The movie spent a significant chunk of time getting me to fall in love with scrappy, smart, brave-as-hell Steve Rogers before we ever got to the serum. And TW didn’t give me that with Scott. They did throw a bunch of exposition at us, but I still barely knew him before he was already changing into someone else (the bite happens at roughly six and a half minutes into the episode). Purely a personal preference but, well, there it is.
I’m unsure how I feel about the show cutting off the audience from the protagonist’s inner world for a stretch of several episodes. I get that it was supposed to be a surprise twist, but it means that the audience gets alienated from a huge part of Who Scott Is during the back half of S2 (at least, I certainly was alienated). So, I’m going to see how I feel about things when I watch that and know what’s going on.
But that kinda connects to the one thing about the show that works for me less well: I don’t feel like I know Scott. I know things about Scott, but I don’t feel like I know him. I feel like I know most of the other characters on the show better than I know Scott.
I do wish that the show should have showed us more about who Scott was before he became a werewolf. It’s like… okay, the Captain America movie. I had to fall in love with pre-serum!Steve in order to be invested in super-soldier!Steve. The movie spent a significant chunk of time getting me to fall in love with scrappy, smart, brave-as-hell Steve Rogers before we ever got to the serum. And TW didn’t give me that with Scott. They did throw a bunch of exposition at us, but I still barely knew him before he was already changing into someone else (the bite happens at roughly six and a half minutes into the episode). Purely a personal preference but, well, there it is.
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Date: 2012-09-13 07:01 am (UTC)The alienation was a really bad choice - particularly since Scott doesn't feel like the protagonist anyhow.
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Date: 2012-09-13 05:00 pm (UTC)I'll probably start on Monday.
The alienation was a really bad choice - particularly since Scott doesn't feel like the protagonist anyhow.
Yeah, I mean, I love the scene with Stiles and Morrel at the start of "Battlefield" but it also makes me think about how I haven't ever had that intimate a connection with Scott. That scene basically set up all the characters in the show in relation to how Stiles sees them and Stiles relates to them. Couple that with Scott being able to hide things from the audience for several episodes and it's harder to relate to Scott as a protagonist because I'm not being allowed to share Scott's journey. He's hiding his journey from me.
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Date: 2012-09-13 06:03 pm (UTC)