Teen Wolf 3x06 - Motel California
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Finally an episode I liked. I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the last two so I didn't want to write anything about them. I wish there was someone in Jeff Davis' life who would tell him to take it down a notch. Wasting precious time with redundant flashbacks and 'dramatic' slow motion action sequences that make the werewolves look stupid when they protect their prosthetic claws like I do my freshly painted nails is not good story telling.
One thing I didn't enjoy were the Danny/Ethan scenes. I found the make-out scene hard to watch because it gave me such a strong case of second hand embarrassment (which is a rare thing for me). I even skipped it on the rewatch. I was looking forward to seeing how that developed when the season started but their interaction on the bus killed it for me. I think the actors have zero chemistry and neither of them is a good enough actor to overcome it. Keahu at least tries but his twin is such a bland piece of human-shaped cardboard it's like talking to a wall. I really don't like the twins as actors. Lydia and her twin have zero chemistry either. So yeah, the twins don't work for me at all.
Contrary to Danny/Ethan I have come around to liking Derek/Jennifer. It is clichéd as all hell and their dialogue is awkwardly written but I like seeing them together, there is something there. I am not deeply invested because for that I need to have a sense of why they want to be together, what each of them see in the other, and that's not really there for me. I am invested because I am invested in Derek and the guy deserves to have something nice happen to him for a change. This is Teen Wolf so it will all end in tears and heart break, but for this moment I want Derek to have one night with this woman who doesn't look at him as a tool to be used and who touches him with care. And Jennifer gets to have the gorgeous guy who saved her life. And then it will all turn awful and horrible because I am still convinced Jennifer is not what she seems and Jeff loves hurting Derek too much. Though could that hurt not happen in a way that mirrors Kate, please? That's all I ask.
Another thing I did not like about the ep. I could have lived without the rape-y vibe I got from Scott when he walked in on Allison showering. Not cool.
I feel like giving up hope that Boyd will ever turn into a halfway developed character. Even when he gets scenes I feel like Jeff has no idea what to do with him. I know fandom loves woobie Isaac but I'm not here for that. I want most of his screen time going towards explaining what the hell is up with Cora or maybe give Erica a decent goodbye or just halt the frenetic pace of the plot for one second and give me more scenes of characters reacting to stuff. I'm getting really tired of Jeff overloading the season with action and (contrived) intrigue. It's not intriguing that we still don't know how Cora survived the fire and where she was, it is frustrating. It's impossible that neither Derek nor Peter asked that question yet. It's not the character holding back information, it's the creator artificially creating a mystery. It's cheap and it's lazy and it pisses me off.
The episode also reiterated the fact that Chris Argent is interesting and a compelling character, but he is basically a bigoted, hypocritical bag of dicks, right? He's a bit like Peter in the way I want to learn more about him but I also want him to DIAF.
I don't really wanna talk theories other than pointing out that Alexander Argent wore Kate's pendant from S1. You all saw that, right? I've been waiting for the pendant to make an appearance again because Jeff loves that shit.
PS. I wrote a little Derek/Jennifer coda on Tumblr.
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Finally an episode I liked. I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the last two so I didn't want to write anything about them. I wish there was someone in Jeff Davis' life who would tell him to take it down a notch. Wasting precious time with redundant flashbacks and 'dramatic' slow motion action sequences that make the werewolves look stupid when they protect their prosthetic claws like I do my freshly painted nails is not good story telling.
One thing I didn't enjoy were the Danny/Ethan scenes. I found the make-out scene hard to watch because it gave me such a strong case of second hand embarrassment (which is a rare thing for me). I even skipped it on the rewatch. I was looking forward to seeing how that developed when the season started but their interaction on the bus killed it for me. I think the actors have zero chemistry and neither of them is a good enough actor to overcome it. Keahu at least tries but his twin is such a bland piece of human-shaped cardboard it's like talking to a wall. I really don't like the twins as actors. Lydia and her twin have zero chemistry either. So yeah, the twins don't work for me at all.
Contrary to Danny/Ethan I have come around to liking Derek/Jennifer. It is clichéd as all hell and their dialogue is awkwardly written but I like seeing them together, there is something there. I am not deeply invested because for that I need to have a sense of why they want to be together, what each of them see in the other, and that's not really there for me. I am invested because I am invested in Derek and the guy deserves to have something nice happen to him for a change. This is Teen Wolf so it will all end in tears and heart break, but for this moment I want Derek to have one night with this woman who doesn't look at him as a tool to be used and who touches him with care. And Jennifer gets to have the gorgeous guy who saved her life. And then it will all turn awful and horrible because I am still convinced Jennifer is not what she seems and Jeff loves hurting Derek too much. Though could that hurt not happen in a way that mirrors Kate, please? That's all I ask.
Another thing I did not like about the ep. I could have lived without the rape-y vibe I got from Scott when he walked in on Allison showering. Not cool.
I feel like giving up hope that Boyd will ever turn into a halfway developed character. Even when he gets scenes I feel like Jeff has no idea what to do with him. I know fandom loves woobie Isaac but I'm not here for that. I want most of his screen time going towards explaining what the hell is up with Cora or maybe give Erica a decent goodbye or just halt the frenetic pace of the plot for one second and give me more scenes of characters reacting to stuff. I'm getting really tired of Jeff overloading the season with action and (contrived) intrigue. It's not intriguing that we still don't know how Cora survived the fire and where she was, it is frustrating. It's impossible that neither Derek nor Peter asked that question yet. It's not the character holding back information, it's the creator artificially creating a mystery. It's cheap and it's lazy and it pisses me off.
The episode also reiterated the fact that Chris Argent is interesting and a compelling character, but he is basically a bigoted, hypocritical bag of dicks, right? He's a bit like Peter in the way I want to learn more about him but I also want him to DIAF.
I don't really wanna talk theories other than pointing out that Alexander Argent wore Kate's pendant from S1. You all saw that, right? I've been waiting for the pendant to make an appearance again because Jeff loves that shit.
PS. I wrote a little Derek/Jennifer coda on Tumblr.
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