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1st Season...Intentional misdirection?

posted 8 years ago by amodestproposal
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MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.

So, second two seasons aside...I like to think of the first season as a nicely arched story that stands wonderfully by itself. I loved the first season.

I have one problem with the chronology at the beginning, however.

Toward the end we find out how Christina became a werewolf and what it entailed, namely drinking water from the paw print of an existing werewolf, Peter, which she does near his trailer, as seen in the flashback.

However, at the beginning of the first episode we see the first victim killed at night. Then afterward we see Peter and his mother arriving at the trailer for the first time during the day. Are we just to take the murder as a sort of intro to the episode and not as sequential scenes, or is it a deliberate attempt to make the audience...those that were paying attention anyway...think that Christina couldn't be the werewolf?

It also bothered me a bit that the retroactively made it seem like Peter and Christina had more of a relationship than we were led to believe. We only see her come by the trailer once, and it doesn't end well. Then she's cold to him at the beginning of school...so when was this hearfelt moment in the trailer that we see in the flashback supposed to have taken place?

Do you think the writers knew who the werewolf was going to be before they got to the end of the season, or the second half at least?

[–] EerieForest 8 years ago

The first scene with the murder was a flash forward. When Peter and his mother arrive there is a caption that says, "Earlier This Summer".

About Peter and Christina seeming to have not interacted much over the summer, they kind of hint at their friendship when school starts and he calls her Hemingway. I think that showed that they knew each other quite well because they spent enough time together to have nicknames. Also, Peter made some comment about how summer was over now that she wouldn't talk to him in public. It gave me the impression they had been hanging out for a while because he seemed genuinely hurt by it, and why would he care if they had only met once? I do agree that it was a little confusing, though.. Their first interaction together ended in a way that made it seem like they didn't see each other again afterwards.

I definitely think the writers knew who the killer would be when they started the show. The interaction between Peter and Christina in the beginning had a bit of foreshadowing to it. The other thing that makes me certain they planned it all along is when Christina's hair begins to turn white. It was changing because she was changing.

[–] amodestproposal 8 years ago

Thanks so much. I guess I totally missed the Earlier This Summer caption.....

So at what point do we catch up to the first murder? Is it that first episode where Peter and Roman visit the murder scene?

Yeah...the Hemingway thing I guess is a hint but yeah...it was damn confusing. Why didn't they show us any of that? Their relationship I mean. Seems it would have made for better character development. Especially in hindsight, considering all the threads that were started and never finished...

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Well, you see, if you’d put down the phone and actually pay some attention. . .