My mother, who is the queen of watching shite television, bailed once she got to the fire scene and deleted it from her dvr. I'm so proud of her for having standards, even if they are inconsistent.

As for the mayor, I thought he was played quite anviliciously evil and mustache-twirly in the pilot. Or maybe not so much with the twirling, but definitely, like his son, his character spun so fast into "villain" that it was a bit whiplashy for me. I'd much rather watch a character who may appear villainous from one perspective, but who is presented so that we understand where he is coming from, even if it's about power and greed, or "I'm making the hard choice that I know won't go down well in the public's eye, and is morally wrong, but I'm aiming for the ends justify the means" and not "This town will be mine, muahahaha!". I thought he was written and played ham-fisted.

It may be that I have a kinda weak spot for Dean Norris.

I wish the teen serial-killer in training would die soon.

I wish the victim would pick more productive lies if she's going to lie. Play nice, stupid.

I can imagine she is terrified. But she probably just needs to be nice to him and he'll let her out.

If someone is clearly crazy, then plan A is to play along. Save "being right" for plans B or C. Give survival and escape a chance first.

In honor of Teen Wolf and its main villain's apex predator rant the other week, I'm kicking myself up a step or two on the food chain and eating shark tonight.

I had time to read one recorded show from last night, and picked Teen Wolf in which not a lot happened other than stabbing Sterek in the heart (I saw BOFQs pleading for Dennifer tolerance yesterday, so I figured this was coming--it's sad they have to beg for it, but good that someone is).

She's not as bad as Amelia, but she is suffering similarly from isolation which does no one many favours. It made no sense in the first place to send the wounded stranger in to get her--it should have been a less harmed student, no? I'm sure they could have written in healing sex anyway. And her "not how I imagined a first date" line was barfy and does nothing for her as a standalone character.

Still, more there there than Sterek. There is that.

The episode in general was kinda long for not much happening. I'm not giving back the Ethan/Danny or the bros scene, and psychic/possessed/genius Lydia is my favourite flavour of her, but...all this for a Derek lives reveal? Possible cooling of antagonism between individuals?

OH RIGHT--THE REVEAL THAT SCENERY IS ENDANGERED STILL. THAT WAS INTRINSIC.

They're handling the Derek/Jennifer love connection pretty ham-fistedly, but remembering back to Season 1 it's not as if Scott/Allison was a courtship to rival that of Beatrice and Benedick either. Jeff Davis should probably just make less with the smooching and more with the platonic friendships and werewolf-y action/horror, which seem to play to his strengths.

Even though I don't particularly object to the coupling, I do have to say that the sarcastic adoption of "Jenerek" as fandom's favored portmanteau entertains me to no end.

I have to give my dash props (and then deduct them) for not exposing me to that.

I think that teenage instant epic love makes way more sense than an adult falling into bed with the magic wounded bad boy NO MATTER HOW LIKELY I WOULD BE TO DO THE SAME AT 44.

Heh. When one of the TWoP recappers commented on Jennifer not even knowing if cozying up to her knight in black dripping gunk would give her monkey hemorrhagic fever or the like, my immediate reply was "I'D TAKE MY CHANCES WITH THOSE ODDS!"

I would sincerely love it if instead of playing the subplot like some earnest true love story they instead revealed that Jennifer is so Twilight/supernatural romance-obsessed that it's prevented her from ever forming a healthy relationship until Derek flopped into her life like a fanged, blood-spattered dream come true.