Teen Wolf on MTV

The show over all isn't bad but the last Episode in the school was bad!

Got to agree, that last episode was a waste. Otherwise I've been enjoying the show.

Kind of a Vampire Diaries for Wolves, but not too bad. Especially Crystal Reed! Yowsa! Agree the whole last episode in the school was kind of poor.

Werewolves have always been hard to do well compared to vampires. Even the most silly looking bloke with a pixie cut, plastic fangs and a Dracula cape looks better than a lot Hollywood attempts at a werewolf. TV makes it worse.

Morphing a and CGI have improved things over the years, but it still often comes down to expensive animatronics or full body makeup to get it done right, and few productions have the time or money to go all the way with it. Even the big budget "Underworld" resorted to cheap video game CGI werewolves in places.

Barring that, you often end up putting gnarly fur on real wolves and shooting everything else in closeup to hide the FX in order to hide the lack of render time in the CGI. The problem is, we don't have any animals that can step in as a direct stand-in for a werewolf and people certainly are hard to make look like them in a full body shot.

Any time you can keep your actors looking as close to human as possible, you automatically quadruple your bang for your production buck. It avoids excess makeup and CGI that are not only expensive to produce, but time consuming, as well.

I have to say i was surprised by the season finale. It was by far the best ep of the season. The writing was better than other episodes and the directing was very good. It had a higher quality feel to it than in the past. Even the FX were pretty good (comparatively so). I was surprised how well they wrapped things up and left a few things open. I was really expecting a lame finale but it was just the opposite. The show started well and finished strong. It was just the middle episodes that lacked (some were horrible). For any vampire diary type show fans it is worth checking out for summer filler. I hope they renew it and keep the higher quality up.

Enjoyed this series overall. Some bad momments, but mostly good momments. Loved the last episode. Glad to see its coming back.

I thought the finale was pretty good too, though a couple of transition scenes lacked any logic. And how Derek survives unharmed the obvious 'kill shot' from the sister goes completely unexplained, unless I just missed it or misunderstood it. The finale was cleverly written to (apparently) be satisfying if it didn't get renewed, but left enough going forward in case it did.

Hey there is an article in Post Magazine about the visual FX done for Teen Wolf.
Issue: September 1, 2011

Eden FX details 'Teen Wolf' work
http://www.postmagazine.com/Publicat...Wolf-work.aspx

100 FX shots in the finale.

It back and up to Episode 3 (4 tonight). I really enjoy it for what it is, MTV and all.
Anyone else admit to watching it?

Yeah, we love the show. Pretty good for something on MTV.

I don't mind it actually...I watch it with my daughter so it's good that way. My wife hates it...

Same here. Wife does not watch much TV but does like that my daughter and I can watch it together.

Last night's episode was pretty goods thought! The new credits for season 2 are nicely done as well. Jackson pulled a dick move there at the end

This season has been better than last. More consistant.

Good for them. I can see a new bunch of younger actors coming out of this series.

It was a new one for me.