Chemistry? What is chemistry?<\/p>\n
Allison and Scott certainly don’t have it. Stiles and Scott don’t have it. Lydia and Jackson don’t have it. Lydia and Allison don’t have it. God knows Jackson and Scott don’t.<\/p>\n
And Derek is just a creeper.<\/p>\n
Maybe I’ve spent too long reading posts and debates and the like on tumblr, but I found the pilot to be extremely lacking. The basic storyline is familiar enough; this is the fourth reiteration of werewolf-in-school that I’ve seen, which is likely to be a contributing factor in my disappointment. I will have to watch the second episode, just to see if the much vaunted relationships actually exist or if they feel as forced as Lydia and Jackson’s “romance” in this episode.<\/p>\n
I’m actually most disappointed in Stiles and Scott’s interaction. There were definitely parts where I could see that these two have been buddies for long enough for the bickering and teasing to be good natured, but yet there were several parts where it felt forced. It was like their bond was built on being benchwarming loners who stumbled into each other so recently that Stiles was still in defensive asshole mode and Scott was the puppy who wanted to please. <\/p>\n
Their camraderie felt… young. I admit the mental image that tumblr gave me was heavily influenced by the friendship of the guys around me (as I’m not cis male). Their lack of meeting that expectation could also be due to the fact that the characters are teenagers and all my guy friends are mid to late twenties who have known each other since they were Scott and Stiles’ ages. Maybe when they’re in their late twenties they’ll have amusingly awkward homoerotic interactions while their girlfriends make up pairing names for them and discuss how their fandom would react.<\/p>\n
So yeah. I’ll have to watch the second episode which is hopefully more story and character centric than overdrawn set up. I know, I know. We’re seeing this from Scott’s point of view and he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I checked how far into the episode I was six times, hoping for it to either end or go somewhere.<\/p>\n
Oh tumblr, you set me up with expectations far too high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chemistry? What is chemistry? Allison and Scott certainly don’t have it. Stiles and Scott don’t have it. Lydia and Jackson don’t have it. Lydia and Allison don’t have it. God knows Jackson and Scott don’t. And Derek is just a creeper. Maybe I’ve spent too long reading posts and debates and the like on tumblr, … Continue reading First episode impressions: Teen Wolf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}