It actually hurts me to
say that this episode was not great. I could just be that the last
couple of episodes raised the bar too high but that would just be
making excuses and that doesn’t help anyone. We have pasted the
halfway point for this storyline and I am starting to worry that Teen
Wolf might have bitten off more than it can handle.
The dark druid is after
healers this week so it’s bad luck for the doctors of Beacon Hills,
including Scott’s mysterious boss, Alan Deaton. While Scott
searches for Deaton, Boyd comes up with a (completely ridiculous)
plan to stop alpha Kali from killing Derek and for some reason Cora
ends up hanging out with Lydia and Stiles. In the end everyone fails.
The Sheriff saves Deaton (with some help from Melissa McCall),
Lydia’s powers don’t work and Derek is forced to kill Boyd.
This week Teen Wolf
threatened a major character death and it delivered, kind of. They
certainly killed a character, but whether he was major is debatable.
Vernon Boyd (Sinqua Walls) didn’t get much development beyond being
the third member of Derek’s pack and in the end his death didn’t
really add much to the overarching narrative and as a result fell
flat.
The actual death itself
was emotional enough but because there was no build up after the
initial impact it almost felt cheep. To their credit, Tyler Hoechlin
and Sinqua Walls acted the hell out of the scene but not even great
performances could save this episode. The logic that led up to Boyd’s
death was inherently flawed and at this point Derek’s manpain has
reached a point of diminishing returns. His life sucks, we get it. It
really doesn’t get much worst that having his family burn to death
in a fire that he believes was his fault. Everything after that is
superfluous.
Very little about this
season has made much sense so far but in episodes like “Frayed”
(305) and “Motel California” (306) that general sense of
confusion and mistrust worked to an advantage. But as of “Currents”
the mystery has reached the point where we need proof that this story
is actually heading somewhere worthwhile. I can no longer tell the
difference between intentional confusion and bad writing and if I
don’t get something soon I’m going to lose interest.
Luckily next week is the
episode that many fans have been waiting for since it was announce.
It’s the flashback episode. While I’m not a fan of flashbacks
generally, I am a fan of the answers they can provide. Hopefully
“Visionary” will give us enough answers to make me want to keep
watching (I’m going to watch it regardless but the longer it takes
to get a hint of explanation the more resentful I will become). Just
please tell me you have a plan Teen Wolf.
Review by Yvonne
Popplewell
More of Yvonne’s work
can be found at her
blog.
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