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 Costume Department Reopens for Season 5

Filming is still a month and a half away but some of the Teen Wolf Crew is already hard at work. We’ve had reports of scattered activity at Teen Wolf HQ in Northridge for the past couple of weekends suggesting that the Costume Department is busy getting ready for Season 5.

There’s been a fair bit of distressing of shirts and shorts as well as the bog standard application of fake blood-from-a-spray-bottle going on.

Costume designer Barbara Vasquez is apparently back to head up the efforts. We’ve also seen Barbara’s right hand, Megan Smith, on site.

The writers have been working for more than a month and we expect cameras will roll on the first episode of Season 5 at the end of January or early February.

 Arden Cho: Unforgettable

Arden Cho was honored with “The Female Breakout Star of the Year” Award during the 13th annual “Unforgettable” gala in Los Angeles on Friday. Cho was one of four Asian American individuals honored for their outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of arts and entertainment during the year.

In a post-show interview the actor explained what Asian American representation on television should be – normal.


 * Interviewer: First off starting off with Teen Wolf, your character hits diversity on so many levels. The fact that she’s bicultural, you know, being Japanese and Korean and then the fact that there’s an interracial relationship without a white person which is very rare so, what is it like for you to play this character that represents so many things that never get represented?


 * Arden: I love it because I think it’s real. She’s just a normal high school girl and we all try to be normal, or whatever our definition of normal may be. But it’s not about her being a minority or an Asian-American or an ethnic person, it’s just – she’s normal.



 Attack on Eaddy is Attack on Everyone

Eaddy Mays (Victoria Argent) really stepped in it.

She dared to stand up to someone she felt was spouting bullying hate on tumblr and now the whole phantom zone of seemingly mentally unstable haters has turned on her with a vengeance.


 * Read Eaddy's Post

The problem with her post is the problem with 90% percent of the posts on that site – what the writer is saying only really makes sense to the writer.

Let’s clarify Ms. Mays manifesto –

She is saying that those who preach social justice but act out in a bullying or hate-filled way are just as bad as those who stand in the way of social justice. You cannot be unjust, name-calling and badgering, in the fight for justice or you are just as bad as the oppressors.

It’s a simple and clear message but Ms. Mays wrapped it up in a personal situation in which she felt bullied by other tumblrs.

Let’s be clear on this point: if I feel bullied by something you say - you are a bully. It doesn’t matter how many reasonable people agree that the language you used or the way you said the thing doesn’t rise to the threshold of bullying. In our current environment of hypersensitivity, only the victim gets to determine if there is a crime.

So Mays felt bullied and she responded from this place of hurt and anger. This is always a mistake when dealing with unreasonable people because it gives them room to twist what you are saying to their own devices. As you might expect, those other tumblrs are now twisting her message and bullying her some more with tags like “Eaddy is trash” and “Old White Bitch.”

The bottom line for Ms. Mays and her newly energized detractors is that the internet, specifically tumblr, is not the place for civil discourse about important issues. It is, at best, a Bedlam where the howls of madmen echo and reverberate to such an extent that some mistake the cacophony for the voices of angels or demons.