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Teen Wolf/Buffy character match
Oct. 4th, 2012 10:15 amA wee bit of meta for this cloudy Thursday morning.
Any fan of both the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and MTV’s Teen Wolf knows that Jeff Davis was highly influenced by the former. He’s mentioned it in interviews and the parallels are pretty obvious in the basic premise of the show: high school kid gets unwillingly dragged into the world of the supernatural and tries to continue living his regular high school life but the threats to himself and those he cares about make it impossible.
What struck me most when I started watching though, was how the similarities went beyond the premise to way TW created a diverse cast ensemble so similar to the one that made the BtVS universe tick. It is one of my favourite things about the TW,ranked just beneath Beacon Hills’ multitude of pretty people and shortage of shirts.
So Teen Wolf’s ensemble rocks. This is news to no one.
I was having a conversation yesterday on Twitter about who is who? I have opinions on this (way more than can fit in 140 characters). You may not agree with my choices. They aren’t necessarily perfect matches. Perfect matches are impossible as they are clearly different shows and clearly distinct characters. But the process of matching (and justifying it in my head) was fun. Also who a character is in season 1 of a series isn’t who they are for the rest of the series. So this is focused on the core of the character, who they were introduced to us as, and not necessarily who they become as time goes on.
( Teen Wolf/Buffy character match )
Any fan of both the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and MTV’s Teen Wolf knows that Jeff Davis was highly influenced by the former. He’s mentioned it in interviews and the parallels are pretty obvious in the basic premise of the show: high school kid gets unwillingly dragged into the world of the supernatural and tries to continue living his regular high school life but the threats to himself and those he cares about make it impossible.
What struck me most when I started watching though, was how the similarities went beyond the premise to way TW created a diverse cast ensemble so similar to the one that made the BtVS universe tick. It is one of my favourite things about the TW,
So Teen Wolf’s ensemble rocks. This is news to no one.
I was having a conversation yesterday on Twitter about who is who? I have opinions on this (way more than can fit in 140 characters). You may not agree with my choices. They aren’t necessarily perfect matches. Perfect matches are impossible as they are clearly different shows and clearly distinct characters. But the process of matching (and justifying it in my head) was fun. Also who a character is in season 1 of a series isn’t who they are for the rest of the series. So this is focused on the core of the character, who they were introduced to us as, and not necessarily who they become as time goes on.
( Teen Wolf/Buffy character match )
