Warning: excessive capslock

[the_deep_magic]

I know I'm posting this a bit belatedly and I'm sure everyone's already commented on everything important, but I really wanted to get my post-ep fic up ASAP, and 6,000+ words in less than three days is pretty damn good for me.  Anyway, stuff.

• Items of "Continuity": Derek has infrared vision (possibly because of being an alpha?); the fire was nine years ago, so either Derek was creepy-young when Kate seduced him -- like twelve or thirteen -- or Stiles was wrong in the pilot when he said Derek was "only a few years older" than he and Scott


• Are there any parents in Beacon Hills?  There are randomly-placed sheds, but are there adults?  This is starting to look like Charlie Brown, only slightly less depressing. Yeah, I said "less."


• GRAAA!  BOYD NO LIKE FIREFLIES! (First inappropriate laugh)


• Speaking of parents, my theory is that Lydia's mom hasn't actually lived in their house for months, and Lydia has yet to notice.  Also, I want a really good explanation for why she's undergoing the same plot arc from last season.  Will I get it?  Signs point to "no."  They just need someone to randomly stumble across plot points.


• Dammit, I am hanging on to the belief that Erica is just unconscious until I know for sure.  ::sobs::


• There's no blood on the purity ring.  Logic would dictate that meant it was put on after he was killed, but reality says the prop department was worried we couldn't read it if it had fake blood on it. :oP


• Nobody says no to the stunt/fight coordinator, do they?  "I want to put a flip here."  "Sounds great, why don't you add a double-footed kick to the chest?"  Enablers, all of them. (Second inappropriate laugh)


• Dude, Isaac is all about offing Cora and Boyd.  Theory: he is jealous of Derek's attention.  Peter better watch his back.


• Scott: "Boyd's his last name." Chris: "What's his first name?" Scott: "Vernon." Chris: "Ugh." (Third inappropriate laugh)


• The first time I watched the whole Werewolf Catching Montage, I thought it was ridiculous, but the second time (when I wasn't watching the shitty livestream), I kinda liked it (minus the silly slo-mo sonic spikes).  It's cool to see Chris actually sticking to the Code and doing what he was supposed to be doing before a werewolf started boinking his daughter.  You'd think Derek would know more about hunter techniques but a) it was good to see him shut up and listen; and b) maybe if he had, he would've been aware of what Kate was doing.  (I'M SORRY TO GO THERE.  I REALLY AM.  HERE IS A BABY HEDGEHOG ON A BED OF CHOCOLATES.)


• I have a hard time believing that the sonic thingies were so magically effective, since they're multidirectional and you would need to know the werewolves' exact location and put them around in a precise U-shape.  And as long as you're doing that, you might as well just surround them completely and keep them in the woods away from tasty humans.  But whatever, Derek got to slo-mo chuck one into a tree.


• What is Allison even doing?  Going rogue?  Setting trip wires?  It's nice to see some badassery after her sheer stupidity last week, but I hope we find out what she was doing.


• The school again?  Seriously?  Do they not remember the last time, or do they just not think of janitors as people?


• I really didn't think that's what Stiles was going to ask Lydia.  SUBTLE JUMP CUT TO PETER.


• I get that Hales love their lurkin', but what was Peter even doing there?  I thought his "shades of gray" speech was interesting, but how does he know the alpha pack wants Derek to kill his old pack and join them?


• THAT LOOK ISAAC GIVES ALLISON.  (Well, okay, Isaac gives everyone a ~look~ in this episode.)  He and Scott and Allison are going to be so happy together one day.


• I've said it before and I will say it again: BHHS is the worst high school ever.  Supplies in the boiler room, JFC.


• Derek is Boyd and (technically) Cora's alpha -- shouldn't they respond to him somehow, even if they're too out of it to actually obey?


• The moment where Derek separates Boyd and Cora and just lets them both claw at him was really sad and poignant... except it reminded me of the Three Stooges.  There had to be a better way to shoot that.


• Okay, so: Ms. Blake.  I am reserving judgment until I see how this develops, but I did NOT like that introduction.  Why is it that nobody ever asks, "Wait a minute, dude covered in blood, what the FUCK is going on here?" like a normal person would?  And it didn't make much sense for Derek to let Scott and Isaac deal with Boyd and Derek's sister, even though it was convenient.  Not that Derek is a total dick, but why on earth would he give a fuck about someone he doesn't know over the sister that he thought was dead for nine years?  And that whole drippy ~moment~ where he offered Ms. Blake his hand was super-contrived and way overplayed.  Argh. 


• I want something good for Derek, but it seems like Ms. Blake will turn out to be a) really bland and thus die, or b) interesting and thus evil.  I cannot see this ending well for Derek, and I'm with everybody who says that there's whumping a character, and then there's psychologically torturing him just for the sake of drama.  DEREK WOULD NOT BE LESS INTERESTING IF HE GOT TO HAVE SOME NICE THINGS.  HAVE YOU SEEN DEREK?  WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP CARING ABOUT HIM IF YOU STOP TRYING TO DESTROY HIM.  HONESTLY, WE WOULD WATCH 44 MINUTES OF DEREK DOING SHIRTLESS PUSHUPS AND WE WOULD NOT COMPLAIN, PARTICULARLY IF STILES WERE SITTING IN THE BACKGROUND, WATCHING AND EATING POPCORN.  ARE YOU WRITING THIS DOWN?  Ahem.


• Number of civilians who actually see werewolves: 4


• Peter lurks: 1 (but it's one hell of a lurk)

Okay, that got a little out of hand this week.  I'd say "I'll stop jotting down so many notes when things start making some fucking sense," but I know to have plenty of paper ready.  I hate that I love this show; I really do.  And I will wait for another post to rail about "Man of Steel."

Comments

[jacketpotato.livejournal.com]

Shooowwwwwww

These are all fabulous observations. I also had my first laugh at the OMG fireflies v Boyd, which is good because it reminded me what show I was actually watching hehe.

I actually have a feeling Lydia's plot is similar to last season but developing further, and that she's going to be very important/significant? Frankly, I'm still caught up on the whole no body in the lifeguard chair until after Lydia turns the dummy over thing!! If that turns out to be an editing error and not a thing, I am going to be so angry with them.

I also don't understand how the werewolves were able to plant all of those beacon thingers when the sound obvs was rough on them. Maybe they can be activated remotely? Or maybe that's why all the slo-mo? If you plant them dramatically in slow motion, you are not as susceptible to the effects. *nods*

I'm so meh about the introduction of Derek's romance line, but if Mrs Blake turns out to be dull and there for the killin', I'll be disappointed. I can't envision her turning out to be anything good for Derek, either. That's not how the show works.

I hate that I love this show; I really do. This 10000%

[rhodynne.livejournal.com]

Its not "nine". but yea, that was confusing, Hoechlin isn't always one for diction. He said "not in years", so...six?

~We don't have fireflies up here? Do they buzz like bees? (I know the answer already ;-) )

~Lydia, oh Lydia, say have you met Lydia?
...'cause I don't think the writers have.

~I like she called Stiles, who then freaked because he wasn't the first call, which Obviously he should have been (!) because you don't leave the supernatural shit for civilians like cops!

~ahem

~The purity ring bothered me, more if they never mention the cleanliness. Anything that one episode of Law & Order could teach us should not be used except as a plot device.

~Why did no one notice a grown man aiming a gun at a teenager? Grocery store parking lots are nearly as cutthroat as the hospital.
Also? "The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm."

~At least they didn't do the werewolf "run" on all fours.
And when they're walking up the hill to look over the town? "You won't ever grow old, Michael, and you won't ever die. But you must feed." :-D
They did make one small attempt to explain this whole thing. Chris says you're so busy trying to fight your own instinct you can't concentrate. But WHY are they fighting? Wouldn't searching be easier if they changed? Isn't that...
This way lies madness, let's move on.

~BHHS. Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here. Supplies in the boiler room, really? And why did Isaac KNOW it only had one door? Is that where he does experiments on puppies? sex? living there instead of foster care?

~I don't know exactly the how and why of Allison in the episode, but I LIKE IT! :-)
...Isaac likes it too.

~It bugged me a lot that at least Boyd didn't respond to his alpha. I guess that's what happens when you're deprived of the full moon for three months?

~Okay, Jenny knows someone rushed in and saved her. So she's maybe on the lookout for her savior? And that's why she accepts his hand? And Derek is such a...Derek, that he just can't deal with the reality of his sister yet? And he doesn't want to get the boys in trouble?
I'm tryin'.

~BH Memorial Hospital: Scarier than the School. WHY does a floor nurse know ANYTHING about a recent autopsy? Is she blowing the Sheriff for details? WHY does no one notice she's traipsing teenagers in the morgue? WHY does that traumatized girl even talk to Stiles?

~Isaac and his little scarf were just strange. Did he refuse to take it off for filming? The makeup crew couldn't hide the hickeys? Also, did you notice he had a lot of trouble with the accent this episode?

~Peter.
*sigh*
I hope all of this is going somewhere. I fear lazy characterization.

~I vote an All Derek Workout. It can be a Very Special Christmas Show and Stiles can...spot Derek. or something.
:-D

[rhodynne.livejournal.com]

Also, regarding the way Derek seems to always at least listen to Crazy Uncle (re)Pete...
Ian seems kinda young, so I imagine Peter as the late-in-life-Hale baby, and thus only maybe 10 years older than Derek. The cool uncle, the guy he went to for advice, shared the stuff you can't tell your dad, maybe Peter found Derek after Derek tried marijuana and helped him hide the smell.
He's used to listening to that voice and no matter how much he reminds himself everything that Peter has done and how he's changed, Derek still pays attention when his Uncle talks.