Jane Mulcahy
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What I'm working on - April 2024
🕑 Added 2024-04-17 20:30:44 +0000 UTCGood news, Patrons. I have FINALLY FINISHED ALL SIX SEASONS OF TEEN WOLF. MY SUFFERING IS OVER. Yes, I still have to watch the Paramount+ movie. But I figure I'll write the rest of the video first and get that out of the way last.
So for the next month or two (hopefully sooner rather than later) the final Teen Wolf video is my focus. I've spent all these months dreading it, not knowing if I'd have anything to say, but I started writing the script yesterday and I'm actually kind of breezing through it! Like I've said in my last couple update posts, one of my goals is to make this video more tight and coherent and episodic than the first, so I've written shorter recap/reviews of each season and just finished a section on the relationships in the second half of the show. Not only is it making this one a better video IMO, but working in shorter, less rambly sections is making it easier to work on, I think. Here's a look at my planned sections (So far I've got everything through 'The Relationships' written):
I don't know if this is a controversial Teen Wolf take, but I actually thought season 6B was kind of a return to form. I ended up enjoying it much more than I'd enjoyed the previous few seasons, and that was exactly what I needed. Finishing on a high note made it a lot easier to get through the last few episodes and kind of gave me the pep in my step to get to writing again.
The next section I'm writing is the Sterek section, which I think will be a doozy. I want to first present some explanations (NOT justifications) for why the ship was/is popular despite the moral issues people tend to raise with it, then my big cutting edge theory on why I think the writers set themselves up for failure in regard to this ship, then do some more academic analysis on why ships like these get popular with largely female audiences-- I have a book called The Fan Fiction Studies Reader that I think will provide some helpful resources like Joanna Russ's 'Pornography by Women for Women, With Love' (which though written in 1985 is shockingly prescient to modern fan behavior!), and I recently learned that the Org. for Transformative Works has a fan studies-focused academic journal, so I might have a look through their archive as well. I don't want to make the scope TOO big, which can sometimes make me lose motivation, but I feel like if I'm making a Sterek segment I might as make it THE Sterek segment to end all Sterek segments.
The real good news is that I'm moving pretty fast, so if I can keep this pace up, I could start filming this thing like next week. I have to buy some more wolf shirts! Here are some I'm considering: 
(I definitely also want to make my own "Inside of you there are two wolves and they're both boys and they're kissing" shirt for the Sterek section)
Comments
Allyson
My entire pack will be sat in front of the tv in our den for the teen wolf video when it comes out 🐺
Finn
Oh god I forgot about Scott/Malia lol. I wonder if you're going to touch on the discuss the insane levels of comphet, cause there's enough to write a thesis on. I was always a Scott/Isaac truther, even as I knew deep down it was never going to happen; making the protagonist LGBT is something the writers don't have the spine for today, let alone back in 2013. It's even rougher for shippers of sapphic couples; the only main pairing I see is Malia/Kira, and I don't think either of those girls ever pass the Bechdel test.
Jane Mulcahy
I definitely did also have that thought about Monroe, and there are a few other things I didn't love about the season (Scott/Malia being one of them lol) but I guess there were enough good things to make me like it? my main thing is that I loved that it finally gave us a good relatable human conflict again. like no more of this boring, depersonalized Benefactor/Dread Doctor/Ghost Rider BS, but villains that are actual characters with actual human motivations. it's very politically charged with all the emphasis on hatred only being an extension of fear of the unknown/other? I just liked all the interesting places it went. the anti-werewolf fascist militia? the high schoolers pretty much werewolf hazing everyone? Theo's sad boy redemption arc (which I did NOT expect to like but did)? the return of Derek at the end? I was happy with it!
Jane Mulcahy
I'm already so upset at Kira getting booted off the show!! I talk about that a little in this upcoming video. and don't worry I was not even remotely considering watching Wolf Pack, that is not my responsibility
Finn
As for the movie, there are so many things wrong with it, but my truest grievance is that it tries very hard to convince us that Isaac and Kira never existed, and I don't take kindly about being gaslit about the erasure of my favorite characters. And in case you're wondering if you should watch Wolf Pack, you don't. It tells you nothing about Jeff Davis that we don't already know, that he's the Sam Levinson of Joss Whedons. Everyone agrees you've served your time, free yourself.
Finn
Congrats on making it through! Season 6B is one of the most despised sections of the show, so I'm interested to hear you defend it; my main beef is Monroe; Jeff Davis really said "I'm gonna make a black woman the ringleader of my genocidal lynch mob, I'm sure that's gonna be a good look in 2017".
Jane Mulcahy
it's so good!! I'm planning to wear multiple throughout the video so I'll probably buy both lmao
Charlie Turner
its gotta be the second shirt im tempted to buy it for myself 😭
