Okay! Caught up on Teen Wolf!

[dira]

So now I am all caught up on Teen Wolf and I have two thoughts, neither of them especially spoilery but I will put them under the cut anyway:



1. This is a show about how all teenagers are one trauma + one bad role model away from being total fucking sociopaths all the time.

2. Seriously someone needs to make a Lydia vid to the Decemberists' "Red Right Ankle" BECAUSE YES OKAY. JUST. YES.


Also I really love Derek's everything and will apparently defend him on all points about everything forever. This is not a spoiler for anything because ten years ago his name was Spike and I was exactly the same way.




holy shit ten years ago?

Comments

[dira]

It's an analogy that definitely made sense at 2AM and now when I try to point to any particular thing about Derek that makes him Spike I can't do it. He exhibits a few Angel behaviors--notably the thing where he wears black and lurks around watching his chosen Important Teenager like a creeper--but he's much much younger than Angel or Spike, not just chronologically but in character. He doesn't really have Spike's chutzpah, but he has the essential insecurity which underlay it. Not self-loathing like Angel--Derek thinks being a werewolf is an excellent thing to be, that the bite is a gift, and his conscience is relatively clear--but Derek needs a pack around him, preferably at least partially over him, and doesn't really know what to do when he has to go about building his own. (So, I should specify, Season 4-7 Spike, not Season 2.)

[joatamon]

Since this is the extent of my knowledge of Derek:

He exhibits a few Angel behaviors--notably the thing where he wears black and lurks around watching his chosen Important Teenager like a creeper

You've described exactly where I was coming from (=Angel!). But I like your Spike analogy better. My limited knowledge is showing, but it's probably even simpler to say that he's a mashup of bad-boy-with-a-heart types, recycled once every ten years or so *g*

[dira]

Yeah, there are definitely some archetypes in play. *g*