[Locke]

Are we allowed to post links on this site? Because if so, here are my thoughts on the first episode of season three of Teen Wolf. If not, just remove this line from my post.

Anyway, episode two, Chaos Rising. Even after taking a break from this show for a while, I'm immediately reminded why I love this show so much. The characters, the dialogue, the chemistry. The show switches between water cooler moments and laugh out loud quotable moments almost effortlessly.

What I also love about the show, is the mythology, namely that they picked one and stuck with it. The idea of only being about werewolves probably seems boring, when all the other shows like Buffy, Supernatural, Grimm etc all focused on well...everything. But because they have only picked just one here, it allows them to go into way more depth and do loads of crazy things. From our werewolves we've birthed Alpha packs, Lizardmen and twins who can combine into the Hulk with a whole host of crazy ass powers thrown in between.

There are some confusing things though, like the whole scattered moonlight thing. Werewolves can shift at will in this show, and as far as I can gather as it's never really been made clear, all the moon does is make them more animal like so they lose control and become more dangerous for it. So how starving them of moonlight makes any difference to them is lost on me.

It's just a shame that behind the scenes drama has caused problems for the show. I mean good on the show for using these behind the scenes problems for their plot and stuff, but Erica and Boyd were so pointless overall it doesn't seem worth centring so much of the last season on them.

My other disappointment is that even though toku has tiny budgets, they make such great fight scenes. So the action here, although not bad, is much less flashy, much rougher and much more localised. And so it's always somewhat disappointing, to see two monsters clash so clunkily and for their bouts to be over so briefly. I wish they'd utilise some toku wirework, to really show off the raw power of these beasts like the plot claims they have.

Remember the smoking hot babe from RPM? Tenaya? Yeah, she's in this. And a werewolf.