I am embarrassed to reveal this, but......I like TEEN WOLF on MTV. I consider this a supernatural version of the Hardy Boys. It also has a lot in common with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, although it isn't a retread. But I do have some guidance if you watch it:
ASSUMPTIONS YOU MUST ACCEPT TO ENJOY
TEEN WOLF.
1. Some of the supernatural plot devices are not logically linked. We do not often know how Event 1 leads to Event 2 or why. There is a lot of relentless running around in dark places! You MUST accept the plot on FAITH. Trying to make it all work logically in your mind will simply cause the show to fall apart. This is a supernatural show starring teens, not PERRY MASON.
2. There are no parents around except for Stiles dad and Scott’s mother. The others run around at all hours of the night and may not be home for days. There are evidently no curfew laws and no parents exist to be concerned. This is perfectly normal.
3. The kids are good students but never study and constantly run out of classes due to some supernatural emergency. This is perfectly normal.
4. The town attracts every supernatural villain in the universe, one after another each season. This is perfectly normal.
5. The kids constantly travel on dark lonely country roads late at night rather than freeways. This always leads to trouble. They don’t seem to ever notice this.
6. Scott and his gang (The Supernatural Hardy Boys) are always the focus of some supernatural villain, even though they are just high school kids in a small town.
7. A large percentage of all the action takes place in the high school at night for no logical reason (except that a lot of the viewers are high school kids).
8. Much of the supernatural action in the high school takes place in an unlit boy’s locker room. The producers evidently put a lot of money into this set and plan to use it as much as possible.
9. Whenever there is a supernatural confrontation or battle in the school
during the day, there usually are no other students around, e.g., the library is totally empty except for Lydia or Scott or Stiles. Then the villain appears! Where is the Librarian? An empty high school during the day is perfectly normal.
10. The high school sometimes sustains great damage, but it is always fixed with no inquiries. This is normal.
11. The show is very gay friendly, which is great! There is always at least one or more muscular handsome gay students, but they seldom are part of the main plot line. They may assist in some minor way, but then they drop out of existence. They seem to be there to be politically correct, but that is all.
12. Almost all the males featured in the show are cute (Styles) or drop dead gorgeous (Derek, his evil uncle, the sheriff’s deputy and assorted wolf guys that rotate each season). The only plain average actors are the extra’s in the background. This is normal.
13. The hospital is full of supernatural creatures and their victims. The hospital experiences continual power failures, stalking monstrous figures, violence and terror. No one except Scott’s mother seems to notice. This is normal.
14. Stile’s dad is the sheriff. He knows about the werewolves and supernatural entities. Yet whenever Stiles brings up a supernatural explanation for some mysterious event AND proposes a theory (
which is always correct) his dad scoffs and tells Stiles to shut up. This is normal.
15. The humans (like Styles) are thrown around like rag dolls, often landing hard on their backs. But no spinal damage is done and everyone is fine in the next scene. This is normal for the humans in this program.
