Big Wolf on Campus is... just... there's no real proper way to know how to describe it. The words STUPID and RIDICULOUS come to mind, and yet I love it dearly. Basically, it's about a popular senior in high school who ends up becoming a werewolf, and consequently teams up with the school weirdo, the only one who believes in all that horror/fantasy nonsense (there's also a love interest in the first season who is fairly lame, and then after she leaves they bring in a new girl as their third team member and she is loads better). It's kind of in the same vein as Buffy/Sabrina/etc. -- teenager stumbling upon magical destiny, supernatural conflicts used to mirror the conflicts of high school, etc. etc. -- but it's, hmmm, simultaneously much more high brow and low brow? That is, it's extremely corny and, like, "low budget" does not even begin to cover it; but then at the same time it's also this sort of tight, clever concept show, because pretty much every episode is some sort of pop culture homage. So it's a really weird mix because most
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It's never pointless to talk about werewolves shows you love shows you love, especially if they're about werewolves! It definitely sounds worth checking out, regardless of pop culture references making that nice 'whoosh' sound as they pass overhead.
Cassandra was amazing (and so much more awesome than Daria because, c'mon, visions!). Icarus was amazing. Adonis was amazing. And for goofy revisionist legend retellings, I can't hear about the Trojan War without thinking, "Psssh, that's just something Homer made up!" also I might have set up a microphone by my TV to record the Spartan national anthem and listen to it all the time, but you didn't hear that And Loki, and the King Midas episode, and everything--
The crossover with Aladdin was pretty epic, too. *_*
OH GOD, WHY IS IT SO EASY TO TALK ABOUT THOSE TWO SHOWS FOR HOURS?
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(And 'strategy games are real' episodes = so much fun.)
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Cassandra was amazing (and so much more awesome than Daria because, c'mon, visions!). Icarus was amazing. Adonis was amazing. And for goofy revisionist legend retellings, I can't hear about the Trojan War without thinking, "Psssh, that's just something Homer made up!" also I might have set up a microphone by my TV to record the Spartan national anthem and listen to it all the time, but you didn't hear that And Loki, and the King Midas episode, and everything--
The crossover with Aladdin was pretty epic, too. *_*
OH GOD, WHY IS IT SO EASY TO TALK ABOUT THOSE TWO SHOWS FOR HOURS?
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