A few quick Teen Wolf thoughts.

[ladylade]

I'm re-watching the first season (aka netflix is autoplaying while I'm dozing), and I really think that the reason Scott is (to me) so much more likeable in the second season is because he just didn't translate from script to screen in the first. Scott's definitely not an intellectual like Lydia or even Stiles, but the whole "cute, dumb, and

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[jesseofthenorth]

Interesting observations about Scott. I think the writing was somewhat inconstant for him but I chose to view some of the things others see as stupid, as Scott being somewhat naive. I mean he's a nice boy right? Why would his mind automatically think steroids when someone says juice?

And Derek. I actually don't understand a lot of fandom interpretations of his character or his actions. I also agree he must have had some sort of life in New York. What has he been doing for the last few years running wild, eating out of garbage cans? Don't think so. Not with a car like that. He has been living.
It literally makes my chest ache when I think about him in that house. Even if he is getting over his families death and his (small) role in it, that house is just base self flagellation. IMO.

Good luck on finding that fandom by the way. Anything that doesn't have trotured fucked up characters is boring. ;)

[ladylade]

Oh my god, I think I missed your message somehow, I am so sorry.

I can understand Scott being somewhat naive, but he kinda exceeds my naivety level? I don't know, I think some of the things he's naive about are the writers trying to push the comedy aspect at the risk of characterization.

Ugh, I cannot deal with him in that house. Like, the more I think about Season One, the more I am astonished at how composed Derek is, especially because we all know he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

I wish I could have a nice, happy fandom. I thought Hawaii Five-0 would be that fandom, and then they let Scott Caan act and he tends to make me cry when people let him act. So there went that fantasy.

[emocezi]

Omg okay, so I'm the same age as Derek, and I started thinking about how I'd deal with having a pack of stupid ass 16 year olds who refused to listen to me and ran around being complete assholes because they thought they knew better.

Derek's doing pretty well in my books, because I would have killed them all.

That being said, I like your version of Derek. And his life in NYC. He should just kidnap his pack and make them move into the city. :3

[ladylade]

Right? Derek does not have time for this shit. He's too busy trying to not get dead. Although Derek really is a shitty teacher, I have to give the pack that one. I think one of the most frustrating things for him is that he doesn't really know how to teach about being a werewolf--what's second nature to him is something completely out of the pack's depth, and how are you supposed to teach someone how to breathe? It's automatic, and he keeps having to stop things just to teach them because he didn't realize they don't know how to do werewolf time.Derek may not know what he's doing and he fucks up all over the place, but he has his personal shit together. I think the fandom tends to forget that

[ladylade]

LOL. I appreciate Scott so much more now that the writers got their shit together with him in season two, because it makes his characterization in season one so much easier to handle/accept/understand. Except for that clusterfuck of a season finale. Seriously, what the fuck were they smoking when they wrote that? Who told them that was a good idea?