Blond beauty enters bastion of maledom in episode with virtually all-male cast. The juxtaposition of the rose among all those thorns. The Raven can't help but to go for this. Laura Vandervoort is a highly attractive blond starlet, The Dream, as I stated last time, and while the story-line capitalizes on her ability to appear being able to defend herself, adequately trained to kick ass, it's Elena's cool self-assertive "aloof Ice Princess" nature that adds to the appeal.
Some loose thoughts:
The nude scenes. So, every time, after undressing and turning into wolves, when they regroup, whether as pack or solo, there would have to be a handy clothesline about? Oh, this is gonna get tediously corny. Film without showing "offending" body parts. Fortunately, on the DVD version at least, none too prudish as regards bare buttocks, which tantalizingly promises to be a regular feature. Although, large male, in this episode. Full-screen male butt cheeks rear view, so be warned...
Show is Canadian. No Hollywood big names. Despite ultra-pretty starlet, an abundance of naked behinds, not a well-known show. Canada is obviously up and coming with highly marketable product..
I do not trust this Jeremy guy. The moment Pete went reverent about him, like, Jeremy does all this for us, I just knew. (I haven't watched, or read about, anything up ahead, so this is merely speculation) The actor, Greg Bryk, also seems more ideally suited to play a scheming dark villain, obviously not a plain common cardboard character though.
I like that she is averse to killing. Downer was that corny ripped-out heart scene. Oh, that is so BEAUTY & THE BEAST. It was corny there as well. Here it was quite overkill. Just like that obvious slab of raw meat (and a length of sausage) on the corpse in the pilot. Badly laughable. Don't try to shock, it only shows that you are trying to shock without any real ability to do so (except freak out the weakest ones among us).
Her relationship with Philip: that is not a hot romance. Instantly saw in the pilot episode. I don't trust Philip and his "watching golf at the club which is locked" either. Who knows what is gotten up to there? Again, speculation only.
Has problems. Just like those wolves are far from convincing, and at the crucial (snarling) moment badly cartoonish in a stop-motion way, the show, the story, as a whole doesn't generate any real buzz, but I'm a total nut for pretty actresses, it's what I collect, so I am most definitely in this for the long run. I don't have the other two seasons yet, but this is just irresistible.
