#jeff davis is not a gift

[arlos-warm-drpepper]

Jeff Davis is #1 on my shitlist

[shellyss]

it's the way it was and idc what everyone says

[trollprincess]

Just trying to picture Allison trying to mom Eli like, “I know how you feel, I was your age about six months ago.”

[gingersnapwolves]

I’m sorry but

.....who’s they, Jeff? WHO’S THEY?????? WHO IS ASKING FOR MORE OF THIS???????

[meret118]

Did you also have a moment where you wondered if you should give yourself an out, in case you read the script and didn’t want to do it? What was that moment like, when you read the script?

REED: Funny you should ask, because we didn’t have a script, until the last two weeks of filming. It was very far along in. We were working scene by scene, and there was a rough outline. There were a lot of circumstances that led to that, so there was a suspended trust that we had to have, in Jeff and the producers and the creative team. We had to just go off of our actor instincts.

From an interview with Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed

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I'm somehow shocked and not at all surprised at the same time.

My guess after reading this is the whole reason JD wanted to do the movie is to build interest in his new werewolf show, and that's why it was so rushed.

The question the reporter asks totally sounds like, "Why did you agree to do this shit show?" to me.

[tropesfic]

Just finished the goddamn motherfucking Teen Wolf movie and what a fucking disaster show. Incoherent, derivative, inconsistent with its own canon, petty, childish, and vindictive to those who chose not to take the job. The dialogue was perfunctory and half the scenes made no narrative sense.

As I said to @stoneyboboney, Jeff Davis is the Cassie Claire of Joss Whedons.

Time to get writing to fix this canon like we ALWAYS have.

[morewinepod]

Were you frustrated by the #TeenWolfMovie? You are not alone! @DevilDoll & @stoneyboboney joined me to work through our exasperation about the endless number of disappointing writing choices in the film. Derek deserved better!

[carlospy]

I didn't watch "the movie" but I saw a clip...

And I'm just...

[joannestorm]

Are they SURE they want to do that?

[sammysamstuff]

Ew, no thank you. Please go away and just let this die. We Stereks have fics and fanart and don’t need anything else, especially if it comes from Jeff Davis

[spankerella]

Wow. I knew it was going to be bad, but holy fucking shit. I really have no words.

[trollprincess]

Watched the Teen Wolf movie.

… well, that happened.

I read a spoiler-free review a couple of days ago that was like, “You have to have seen the show before to know what’s going on,” but I’ve seen every episode, like, ten times at this point and I was still asking myself what the fuck was going on multiple times.

This feels like something Jeff Davis wrote on a napkin when he got bored and then didn’t edit. Like, it’s one thing to be like “Lydia left Stiles and he’s off ‘fighting his own fires’, whatever the hell that means.” You can’t get Dylan back, you can’t get him back. Whatever. But why the hell is Derek saying so many very, very dim things? That “your eyes!” line is funny, but it makes him sound like they put a Stiles line in his mouth. Melissa and Argent are in multiple scenes together and I literally had to stop myself and try to remember if they even *spoke* to one another. Are they together? Who the fuck knows? “Did you tell your mom?” doesn’t tell me shit. Maybe they are, maybe they’re not. There’s just so, SO much of this.

Addendum: I mean … Adrian? Really? Seriously?! What, did he get picked out of a hat?

Addendum, part two: Does Eli have a personality? He has no mom so he only has Derek who talks to him like he just met Eli yesterday, he’s on the lacrosse team but in Beacon Hills which guys aren’t, he has no friends that we see, all he does is steal Stiles’s jeep. Oh, and he’s got past trauma from seeing Derek wolf out, but JD can’t write people dealing with past trauma to save his life. That ending is hilarious because “teen” and “wolf” are literally the only two things I know about Eli. At all. I mean, he seems very nice, but it’s not enough to make me want to watch a new show about him. At least Scott had Stiles and lacrosse within that first episode.

So much of a two-and-a-half hour movie had me going, “Okay, that could have been written better.”

I said, “Well, that was A Choice,” out loud twice during the movie, which is two times too many.

Okay, I want to preface this by saying it is NOT a criticism. Crystal Reed is 38. She has had a little work done, which there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with. *However*, these actors are all notably older than they were during the show, which makes sense given they AND THEIR CHARACTERS have aged. So are we just handwaving Allison’s aging? I mean, she’s clearly physically *not* a teenager, but is Allison supposed to have come back as one? Okay, fine, we dangled some keys over the Nemeton and now Allison’s back? I just …

The fact that there are at least two characters who are like, “I haven’t used my powers at all in the last fifteen years!” is annoying as balls. I just have a hard time believing that overachiever Lydia is really going to let her banshee abilities slide. I feel like the Lydia I know, over the course of fifteen years, would have been able to send a dart into the bullseye through an open bar door from a block away from absurd amounts of practice. She might not have been fighting monsters the same way she had in high school, but STILL.

Jackson could have not been there and the flimsy plot would have still worked, and yet Colton was enjoying himself immensely in a way everyone but maybe Ian was not. Also, Jackson and Ethan are still together! Awww. Wish we could have gotten two and a half hours of that.

NGL, I laughed when Derek died. It was mostly because I could see the strings. Which I probably shouldn’t be able to, but I could see “well, he’s Superman now and we can’t bring him back for more movies and episodes” tugging that little plot point into position. To be fair, you can’t really have the character walk that plot point into existence when you’re writing him from minute one as if he banged his head off something.

Scott and Allison … just … can we stop for a second and go back to that question of where she’s at when she comes back? Because I feel like we’re going back to the issues with Malia when she returned from being in coyote form for years, except in that instant she lived those years. And it was still problematic for her to be having sex with Stiles and going to regular high school classes. Allison hasn’t been *alive* for fifteen years. She hasn’t even been a CORPSE. She’s been ash in an urn. And now she’s back after dying when she was a teenager, and it’s just back with Scott and everything’s normal? Come on. Come ON.

Meanwhile, Malia and Parrish. I’m fine with that. Provide that man as many fitted uniforms and fireproof underwear as he needs to rip and/or burn off.

I’m mad about Hikari, because I’m sure she’s great, but also it feels like they wrote Kira in and then when Arden wouldn’t do it they erased Kira and drew Hikari in but without giving her much to do as a person instead of a kitsune. (And if she and Liam were together together, then let them be? I don’t fucking know at this point.)

I know this sounds like I didn’t like the movie, and that’s because I didn’t, but also I appreciate it being so badly written because watching badly written things makes me throw things and shout “I can write better than that!”, and in this case I have a first draft inspired by Teen Wolf crossed with Yellowjackets which I can direct my annoyance at.

[murfpersonalblog]

Teen Wolf: The MOVIE - RANT & DISCUSSION - AbnormallyAdam

[brokehorrorfan]

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[colethewolf]

The audacity for them to actually come onto this site and ask fans for questions after the way they've treated fans & members of their own cast is actual mental illness

anyways, ship sterek!

[morewinepod]

And don’t forget - the #TeenWolfMovie was so messy I was compelled to drag it twice. Two delightfully smart and funny ladies - Devil Doll and Laura Stone - also joined me to discuss why Jeff Davis is NOT a gift.