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MTV Brings On Star Trek Writers For A Teen Wolf TV Series

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AngryEddy
06/24/09

In reply to MTV Brings On Star Trek Writers For A Teen Wolf TV Series
I don't know about all of you, but I'm actually excited to see how MTV plans to blend the Teen Wolf franchise with their trademark mastery of skank and douchebaggery.

If the part of Stiles isn't played by Spencer Pratt, then a casting crime has truly been committed.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: ... can we just have Pratt eviscerated on live TV?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

In reply to MTV Brings On Star Trek Writers For A Teen Wolf TV Series
I'm not exactly sure where this "growing werewolf phenomenon" is coming from. Surely not from the Underworld series.

What's that? Twilight? I don't understand that word.
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AngryEddy
06/24/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Brooding, sexy vampires are so 2008. Nowadays it's all about brooding and sexy werewolves - complete with their own unique smoldering angst.

Why do all the old school monsters keep getting sexualized? Remember when they were scary and threatening? When is Bella going to start dry humping the creature from the Black Lagoon?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

In this day and age, if something isn't titillating (hurr hurr) enough, then it won't sell. I just can't wait until someone decides that banshees deserve pity, too. Plenty of popstars that can play THAT role...
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NotArthurPDragon
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: Apparently you missed Christopher Lee's turn at Dracula in the 50's and 60's, then Frank Langella's turn at Dracula in the 70's, or Catherine Denueve in The Hunger or even Chris Sarandon in Fright Night or how even Jack Nicholson became more virile after a werewolf bite in Wolf. Sexuality has always been a part of it.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@NotArthurPDragon: I'm going to guess that rampant sexuality was seen at first as a sign of becoming a bad, bad person, and part of the appeal was that someone was breaking social norms? Now it's just norks and man flesh, but still.
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AngryEddy
06/24/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Ding. Different era, different purpose.

And Wolf sucked.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: No, Wolf bit. I loved the crappy slo-mo shots.
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NotArthurPDragon
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: Ding. The 30's and 40's was a different era with a different purpose too. If you accept the concept that the use of monsters changes over time then what exactly are you complaining about?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@NotArthurPDragon: CantankerousEdward is probably angry because the usage of monsters went from horror and forbidden pleasures to just cheese and beefcake, which arguably diminishes their cultural value. Either that, or Swamp Thing won't return his calls.
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evildead1971
06/24/09

In reply to MTV Brings On Star Trek Writers For A Teen Wolf TV Series
turning teen wolf into a tv series? wow, MTV has it's finger on the pulse of what's hot!
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ManchuCandidate
06/24/09

@evildead1971:

Next I hear they'll start playing something called Music Videos.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@ManchuCandidate: Hahahaha, why would Music TeleVision play these so-called "Music Videos"? That's redonkulous.
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AngryEddy
06/24/09

@evildead1971: MTV's Mac and Me series is supposed to be really good.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/24/09

@AngryEddy: Oh damn, someone else knows about that tripe. Hope you enjoyed your McDonald's dance scene, corporate whore.
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