People roughhouse. It's one of the ways close friends/family bond. I honestly think a lot of people don't negotiate the world from the correct perspective (to bring up that old bon mot). Maybe a lot fandom are only children/don't have cousins/never wrestled with their friends?
Domestic violence isn't ok, but Stiles and Derek aren't dating in the scene. They're just two dudes duding it up.
That said, given that they aren't really friends yet, and aren't in a social group either, it's not rough-housing in quite the way you mean.
I think it signals that Derek is starting to think of Stiles as pack, because it's not the kind of thing he does with anyone else. I think Stiles probably just considers it business as usual, as it's the kind of stuff he gets from Jackson etc.
I loved Kate's entrance. Still do, even with all we know about her now. Although by the end of that episode I'd worked out she'd started the fire (they weren't exactly subtle about that, were they?) so I liked her a lot less. But still, awesome introduction.
I love both the sheriff and Melissa. My favourite scene of the entire show so far is in 1x10 with Stiles and his dad.
Jackson is a dick and I think the only reason I liked him was because of Colton. I;m not sure any other actor could have made me like him anywhere as much as I did.
And don't get me started on the shows representation of adoption. I came over all ragey.
I never minded the head-bash, mostly for the very reasons you stated.
I'm watching ep 10 next, so I'm looking forward to that scene.
And yes, Haynes makes Jackson -- he'd be a cardboard cutout without him turning the character into something else altogether.
I can see what you're saying about adoption; when it was revealed I actually read it differently -- that his parents were using it as an excuse for Jackson's behaviour, rather than it being the real reason. There's something not right there, but I don't think it's the adoption itself. That's probably me giving too much credit though; and so little time is given to it, and there are no other more positive adoption stories to balance it, so I can totally see how it comes across as that really problematic narrative of difference=bad.
Parenting in general is very skewed all through the show, which is pretty common in teen-focused shows. It does make me extra love Melissa and the Sheriff (although, again, the two main characters both have single parents; it's very one-note in terms of showing workable parenting).
I think also because in season one we all we knew was that Jackson had been adopted. And while the whole abandonment thing caused me to eyeroll hard because it's SUCH a shorthand for teen angst (or, people angst, really), but okay, some kids do feel that. Whatever
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My problem is that as far as I can tell, the show isn't being that nuanced because so many of the fans (maybe the ones more skewed to younger, but I really couldn't say) are all 'Poor Jackson, being adopted.
You know, for a teen show, Teen Wolf is more nuanced than I was expecting, although that doesn't mean I'm claiming it as some kind of paragon -- it has its share of problems. That said, I do think fans often run away with a reading that is very superficial, but which picks up momentum and becomes fanon.
When I was in SGA fandom, I remember that there was a scene which the woobie-Rodney fans used a lot, and when I actually watched it some time later, I went, "OMG, he's being sarcastic". I can't remember the scene now, just my reaction.
But my point here is that young fans do have a way of taking a text at face value, believing what characters say rather than what they do. They often miss how the text is undercutting what is said with the clear expectation of a counter-reading (he said X, but he's lying; or, the team thought Y
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People roughhouse. It's one of the ways close friends/family bond. I honestly think a lot of people don't negotiate the world from the correct perspective (to bring up that old bon mot). Maybe a lot fandom are only children/don't have cousins/never wrestled with their friends?
Domestic violence isn't ok, but Stiles and Derek aren't dating in the scene. They're just two dudes duding it up.
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That said, given that they aren't really friends yet, and aren't in a social group either, it's not rough-housing in quite the way you mean.
I think it signals that Derek is starting to think of Stiles as pack, because it's not the kind of thing he does with anyone else. I think Stiles probably just considers it business as usual, as it's the kind of stuff he gets from Jackson etc.
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I love both the sheriff and Melissa. My favourite scene of the entire show so far is in 1x10 with Stiles and his dad.
Jackson is a dick and I think the only reason I liked him was because of Colton. I;m not sure any other actor could have made me like him anywhere as much as I did.
And don't get me started on the shows representation of adoption. I came over all ragey.
I never minded the head-bash, mostly for the very reasons you stated.
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And yes, Haynes makes Jackson -- he'd be a cardboard cutout without him turning the character into something else altogether.
I can see what you're saying about adoption; when it was revealed I actually read it differently -- that his parents were using it as an excuse for Jackson's behaviour, rather than it being the real reason. There's something not right there, but I don't think it's the adoption itself. That's probably me giving too much credit though; and so little time is given to it, and there are no other more positive adoption stories to balance it, so I can totally see how it comes across as that really problematic narrative of difference=bad.
Parenting in general is very skewed all through the show, which is pretty common in teen-focused shows. It does make me extra love Melissa and the Sheriff (although, again, the two main characters both have single parents; it's very one-note in terms of showing workable parenting).
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You know, for a teen show, Teen Wolf is more nuanced than I was expecting, although that doesn't mean I'm claiming it as some kind of paragon -- it has its share of problems. That said, I do think fans often run away with a reading that is very superficial, but which picks up momentum and becomes fanon.
When I was in SGA fandom, I remember that there was a scene which the woobie-Rodney fans used a lot, and when I actually watched it some time later, I went, "OMG, he's being sarcastic". I can't remember the scene now, just my reaction.
But my point here is that young fans do have a way of taking a text at face value, believing what characters say rather than what they do. They often miss how the text is undercutting what is said with the clear expectation of a counter-reading (he said X, but he's lying; or, the team thought Y ( ... )
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