So. Teen Wolf, huh?

[darkemeralds]

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

*eyes ravurian eyeingly*

I started watching Teen Wolf just...let's see here...three weeks ago. I completely dismissed it based on all the obvious things--its title, its promotional images, its general air of dumbness. Really, I need to remember that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" sounded just as stupid in its day.

Now, TW is not quite Joss, but I gotta say after this week's episode "Battlefield" that it's starting to think about approaching that standard. I have mainlined all 23 extant episodes--several of them twice--in the past three weeks, and have lured vampirefan into the pack. I am reading fanfic. I am considering writing fanfic. You know how rare that is.

I know everyone else is already watching it, so I won't prose on. I just want to add that the sixteen-year-old in me has a huge crush on Jackson, the thirty-year-old in me is hot for Derek, and the timeless winged being of my soul adores Stiles.

Stiles is Willow and Giles and a bit of Xander all rolled into one perfectly heroic best friend character, played by a boy with a beautiful face and his heart on his sleeve, and I just love him so.

(And so does Derek. All the fic says so, and I agree.)

Comments

[sffan]

Prose on! Isn't it just insane? I'm pretty much in the same position as you - saw all my friends flailing and had to check it out and then MAINLINED it, because OMG, how is it so cool?

[bluemeridian]

I feel your pain. :P I was so glad for... quite some time... that I wasn't in the fandom, because the fic counts were through the roof and it looked overwhelming! Yeah, it still looks like that from the inside, too, but I've been Stockholm Syndromed into it or something. (To butcher both standard grammar and psychological concepts.)

[donutsweeper]

Several friends of mine have been trying to convert me to Teen Wolf. I've seen a bunch of S2 episodes now (most, not all) and a handful of S1s. Stiles is a million kinds of adorables, isn't he?

[prime_meridian]

Oh god, you too? You just basically brain-twinned me. Except I mainlined all of the eps in about a week, and am about to finally sit down with Monday's ep. ::nervous::

Well said, though. :)

[cathexys]

the sixteen-year-old in me has a huge crush on Jackson, the thirty-year-old in me is hot for Derek, and the timeless winged being of my soul adores Stiles. Perfect!!! You nailed the myriad appeals :)

[twasadark]

Haha! I know, right? I'm hooked, too! It's unexpectedly intelligent and charming! And I even had a fangirl encounter with the guy who plays Scott in the elevator at Comic Con, lol. He's very sweet. Stiles is such a great character - and his moles are very cute in a totally non-pervy way.

[alizarin_nyc]

I know everyone else is already watching it, so I won't prose on. I just want to add that the sixteen-year-old in me has a huge crush on Jackson, the thirty-year-old in me is hot for Derek, and the timeless winged being of my soul adores Stiles.

I could not have said it better myself. :)

[bluemeridian]

*sidles back in* Since I'm not sleeping at 5am, I have a few things for you after reading upstream: most commonly, Stiles' first name according to fandom is Genim. I have no idea where that came from, but I kind of like it.

I swear that Colton Haynes is captain of the Good Ship Sterek (forgive the portmanteau - at least it doesn't bother me as much as some others), which is just adorable for some reason.

Dylan O'Brien's acting experience prior to Teen Wolf was basically... YouTube videos. It's insane; his natural affinity for acting is through the roof. Dylan's costars agree. :P

Really, I'm surprised I managed to hold out as long as I did considering it's about werewolves, which is like Blue catnip, but it's the cast that finally made me cave. They're just... adorable. *sheepish grin* Considering I'm reading about their characters, not them, I don't know why that matters to me, but there you go.

[tehomet]

I have seen precisely one episode and I too adore Stiles. *sigh*