Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-98.245.39.218-20140213001430/@comment-13965604-20140224022602

Ravensong77 wrote: LadyX wrote:

Funny, the idea about her leaving him that night was one of the first things to pop in my head too. I do have the feeling he is abusive though. I mentioned it on a different thread, actually.

As far as Malia being in the mental institute, and it being awfully fast, what do you think you would do as a parent if your teenager who had been missing for 8 years told you she was a coyote all that time? You'd think she was crazy and lock her up, especially if she was insistent about it and told her psychologist. Or, she could have people issues. Wary, or extremely violent around people because of her time as an animal. Or, they might just consider a controlled environment the best way to resocialize and reintegrate her. It doesn't seem that odd to me, until we see how she is behaving.

I would definitely love to see some overly violent protective daddy Peter though. It'd be great. I'm actually wondering if she can really communicate that well after not really being human for 8 years.

I don't know about the protective daddy arc...I would love to see it but I'm afraid that Peter is just going to be written as a one dimensional villain at this point...he's sounding more like Gerard with all that corrupting his child stuff. That's what Gerard did to Kate and tried to do to Allison. Really wish they would give him a little bit of heart or a tragic backstory that shows how he became so twisted.

Maybe it's just me but villains that are born villains really don't have much appeal...there is no inward struggle and very little character development....and they fit more in a comic book genre than the horror genre anyway imo.

The Peter from first season had subtle moments...moments when he was like the charming guy next door that you didn't know was actually a raving lunatic and serial killer. The scene in the car when he does the twice a month joke with Stiles...it's almost like you just have two guys hanging out with one another and you forget for a moment that he's the big bad. He's really so quite in that...so normal acting. Then there were other moments when you were reminded that quite possibly his rage came from what he went through...like when he was almost in tears when he demanded Kate apologize for decimating his family and leaving him comatose for 6 years. It was at that point you could sympathize with him and was really the last point that there was any character development imo.

Season 2 he was mainly just there for comic relief...and once he returned to he help the plot move forward in the area of saving Jackson. Season 3 was more of the same (comic relief) until they got the "I am an alpha" thing which in my opinion should really have been postponed unless he was actually going to go after the status. I think more people would have enjoyed his scenes in 3b if they didn't have that "I am the alpha" scene in the back of their mind and imo dropped cliffhangers don't work ...in fact that's the first one I've ever seen.

As far as this season most of the stuff with Peter has been over the top(yeah and I get that it's intentional)...like with "The hunter and the banshee" and I'm the spark that lit your fire sweetheart"...all one liners...no depth really...just melodramatic and comic booky..the subtle Peter of season 1 is gone...and don't get me wrong...I know there was some over the top melodramatic moments in season 1 from Peter as well but there was a balance...there was a revealation of his pain...real pain...and a quite subtly that's missing now. Yeah, I know they just had the scene where he finds out that he has a child...it just didn't compare to the one where he kills Kate as far as making his character sympathetic...in fact I didn't see a lot of fans that were sympathetic for him at all except for a few die hard Peter fans. I was one of those but it was more for the fact that I like Peter...it was certainly not for the way the scene played out. For me the character seems to have regressed and everytime we get something like "Malia" that looks like it could bring back some depth to his character it seems we get interview from Ian about how Peter is going to use the fact that he's a dad to get what he wants and yeah he's just evil.

idk At this point I think I'm gearing up for dissappointment. Peter doesn't have to have a redemption arc and he doesn't have to go all soft but they could at least give some hints of humanity. All just my opinion and a rambling one at that.

Yea, no, I totally get it, and I love reading long comments, shows real thought instead of spouting off out the ass. But.. I'm not too sure we should believe all the cast interviews either. I mean, they only know what Jeff bothers to tell them, and Jeff has been known to lie and/or change his mind on a whim.

I absolutely know what you mean about villains needing a backstory. Especially in a series where they have the luxury of time. I wish they'd develop Peter more, but I do think you're right. It's probably not going to happen...I just, if that's the case, I wish they wouldn't give us stuff like the father thing to give us hope there'll be development and then just use it to further the one dimensional villain plan. It's like, either develop, or don't. Don't just half ass both.