Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13895380-20150728155253/@comment-6383956-20150808174913

See -- I love a good "monster of the week" episode. It's one of my favorite things about supernatural dramas as a genre. And I was dying for monsters of the week in seasons 1-3.

But not like this.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm actually really liking the chimera of the week thing, because we're getting to see attributes from supernatural creatures we haven't met yet. It's a neat bit of world-building we're seeing going on.

But I mean, ideally, your monster of the week thing isn't so formulaic. This is more like uhm.... y'know Power Rangers? It's a monster every week, it kicks their butts, they transform, they kick its butt back and the monster is always always always sent by the Big Bad. It's a good way to stall dealing with the Big Bad without having to really do too much in the way of subplots or developing the Big Bad as a character. And I think that the writing team behind this season is doing a good job with a subpar style of monster-of-the-week episodes.

The best way to do monster-of-the-week, in my opinion, is something more like how Buffy did it throughout the whole run. They had a Big Bad -- they frequently knew the Big Bad existed and was up to something and they were actively working against the Big Bad. But, they also had monsters that were totally unconnected to the Big Bad. So it wasn't quite so formulaic -- and sometimes these monsters-of-the-week threw a wrench in the Big Bad's plans and that helped to make the Big Bads more dynamic and more developed, well-rounded.

And it would be especially easy to make some purely random monsters show up in Beacon Hills occasionally ever since they reactived the Nemeton. But, nope. Not how it's going. Oh well. :P