THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE ABOUT THE TEEN WOLF MOVIE!!
CAVEAT: Let me begin by saying I binged the original series after it’s end, so I wasn’t generally involved the fandom or its dramas.
First the obvious dislike:
I felt like then show ended in a good place. I mean, in that sense that you feel like life will go on. Or at least the war between the shapeshifters and Monroe waged on, bringing the pack closer together and growing its numbers. Scott was going to be a great leader and lead his people to a freedom from enforced fear and prejudice.
The movie offers nothing new on this subject. Did they defeat Monroe entirely, or are they now separated because they’re in hiding? Who the hell knows? Scott and Deacon (apparently still tight) are working in LA, the latter still with his practice and the former running a shelter because in 10 years (I guess???) Scott never managed to achieve the one dream he had for himself.
I can’t believe someone sat in a room and said “Let’s bring back the Nogitsune, but let’s do it without Dylan O’Brien!” The problem here is that DO was the one that made that villain so compelling in the first place. Without him, the trickster is just — been there, done that.
Liam is hanging out in Japan with a pack of kitsunes for reasons that never become clear — with a kitsune girlfriend. So if cheapening the impossible relationship between Scott and Kira was the aim — congrats. Well done.
Derek has a 15 year old son, which by the movie’s own timeline would have had him being born right around the time Allison died. Yet his presence is never explained. We have no idea who his mother is, except she’s clearly NOT Braedon. Timing-wise, only Julia Bacarri makes sense, but she’s supposed to be dead.
Also supposed to be dead?? Adrian Harris, killed by Julia Bacarri himself. No real explanation to how he got re-alived. And his motive for undertaking this dramatic show of revenge is a weak plot point, at best. I would have found a cloaked Coach Finstock as a villain to be more believable, tbh.
Argent and Melissa (really, it was the ship that saved me after Derek and Jennifer turned out to not be real) are no longer together. Unexplained.
But apparently Jackson and Ethan still are, so good for them!
Mason wasted his genius potential to become a Deputy Sheriff, but I’m glad to see that at least one member of pack 2.0 still seems to have some sense of loyalty to the town. Even if none of the others do. And WHERE IS COREY? I guess those two crazy kids didn’t work out. Who knows? Unexplained.
None of which makes sense. I just found it completely out of character, after all they went through, that they —particularly Scott — wouldn’t have returned to BH to continue as its guardians. Out of territorial instinct, if nothing else.
Im not a big fan of “Off screen” character development. It’s cheap and unsatisfying. But after a certain period of time elapses, you HAVE to develop the characters in some way because you will have expected them to grow or die. Nearly all of the characters regressed in some way. Scott, who showed suck promise as a great leader, is now a lone wolf. Lydia doesn’t use her abilities any more after possibly prophetic dreams forced her to leave Stiles. Derek stopped transforming because it scared his unexplained (obvious Stiles replacement) son. Jackson is still Jackson and Malia seems just as feral as ever.
Of course, the one think I hate more than off screen development is NO development of all. I give you Peter Hale, ladies an gentleman. Still a well dressed asshole who seems to have less charm than he did when we last saw him. Even his relationship with Malia seems to be unchanged. Boring.
Wow, i mean a war story where they end Monroe and her reign of terror would have been a better story. Remember when everyone in Beacon Hills knew about shapeshifters and after the Anuk-ite was dead they were actually thankful to the pack for keeping them safe? Good times.
But I guess THAT story doesn’t get us Allison back. Which seems to be the only goal the show runner had for this movie. So I guess…mission accomplished (sigh).