radishcake March 27, 2014 Share March 27, 2014 The Small Talk topic is for: Introductions Off-topic chatter Having virtual tea with forum buddies This is NOT a topic for actual show discussion. When you want to talk about the show: Figure out the nature of the topic you want to talk about Look for an existing topic that matches or fits If there is NOT an existing topic that fits, CREATE ONE! Examples of topics that populate show forums include (but by no means are limited to): Character topics Episode topics Season topics Spoiler topics Speculation topics In the Media topics Favourite X topics ...you get the idea Happy trails beyond Small Talk! Link to comment
jhlipton March 28, 2014 Share March 28, 2014 I was jhlipton on TWoP, and I'm jhlipton here too.Teen Wolf is one of my "guilty pleasure" shows. Link to comment
ElleryAnne March 31, 2014 Share March 31, 2014 (edited) Teen Wolf is definitely one of my guilty pleasures, too. I found the show because of fanfic. And yes, I'm a Sterek shipper but no, I'm not obsessed and I don't expect the show to give us a canon Sterek romance. I'd die happy if they did - probably of shock, within minutes of the episode airing, thereby depriving myself of seeing where they would take the relationship - but I don't really expect them to. And that's okay, because I don't think the writers would be able to write it well. I like Derek and Stiles as characters and I like their dynamic together. I could care less if the show tries to bait the fans with possibilities that they have no intention of following through on, and I don't mind them putting them in other relationships (gosh, there are so many disclaimers needed when you admit to shipping Sterek). The only thing that bothers me is the idea that the show might deliberately minimize their scenes together, because shipping aside, the two have great comic chemistry together. And the thing I love most about this show is that they balance the dark with humor really well. Less so in Season 3B, but I haven't lost hope yet. I also love pretty much every other character in this show. It's a rare show that I can say that about. There's only one character I've hated (and ugh. S4 isn't making me happy there.) I even love a lot of the settings. I should be embarrassed to admit it, but I miss the Hale house almost as much as I miss a couple of the characters who've gone. My real concern is that I've invested too much hope in the show for it to be more than it is, because I love that it's got horror and occasional humor but it's also got glimmers of great characterization and relationships - not romantic relationships per se but relationships in general, like the really well-done parent-child relationships and the different tones in the friendships between various characters. And a show that could combine horror with well-written relationships like you'd find in, say Brothers & Sisters, well that was a show I was going to love. I keep having to remind myself that it isn't trying to be what I want it to be, so that I'm not disappointed, and instead enjoy the really great moments that it does give us, and shrug off the more crappy directions it sometimes goes. Edited March 31, 2014 by ElleryAnne Link to comment
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