ODedonCoke wrote:

Wow you have insider information? More details please!!

I did read the first book in the "Elena" storyline of the Otherworld, but it was some years back. Now that it's been realised into a TV series I get to relive the experience

I'd love to, but no, I was just guessing, as long as we have the name of the episodes, so we could try to connect them with the book chapters, that's all.
Btw: if you could, try to get the canadian ones, and you will avoid a bit of censorship (I mean, 2 or 3 seconds) on werewolf thing... yes, USA censorship attacks again.

Minor spoilers for those in the US: Epi 2 has no transformation scenes worth noting. Just a partial hand change, and that's about it.

Plenty of arse though. Both from the guys and Ms Vandervoort.

***Minor spoiler***

Epi 3: Elena does not Change in this episode. Though someone else does. Bummer. Hope they'll make up for this next week.

He He. Made some screencaps from the fourth episode and had some fun.

Enjoy.

Last edited by fredriksam (2014-02-06 10:36:44)

Yep, in fact, the eyes were created similar to the actors'. And they call this "bad CGI" in some critics out there.

Hmm. Personally, I find them to look unrealistic. Obviously CGI. (my first statement was more surprise that they went with CGI, not confusion over whether they were) I personally like the Twilight wolf effects, because at least they added a little bit of natural patterning to their wolves.

I hated the movies, but I didn't have a problem with the actual wolves themselves.

Guess I need to see the show, see them in action. I'm just a bit surprised that they went totally CGI, but didn't really give the wolves any sort of distinction (outside of eye color) to justify the cost?

Basing this off two stills though, which isn't really fair. I'll check it out.

Morning!

To think I'm actually local to this production, hee. (Toronto, Ontario werewolf pup!) Haven't really dipped into seeing much of the series so far, but I'm curious. Yay for curiousity!

-2Paw.

SPOILERS POILERS.

Episode 06: sadly no transformation or wolf scenes. there is alot of Elena being at the wedding and Santos too. Someone is pregnat too.

Some scenes in the episodes are quite funny. Even if they arent supposed to. Here is some of the scenes i find funny.

01.

In episode 02 when they search after the mutt, Clay pets Elena when she's a wolf. She doesnt like that very much. Later when they are home, Clay and Elena discuss why she's upset and dont wanna change. Elena doesnt wanna talk about it but she says
"the fact is.. You pet me..
Clay answer "You let me.
The funny thing here is the way Elena says pet me. It sounds like she says pett me with long t afterward. I chuckled a little when i heard it first time.

02.
in episode 04 Elena and Clay go for a run as wolves. They run side to side together. Then Clay wolf jumps on Elena and bring her to the ground. It looks like he's about to mount Elena.

However that doesn't happen. Elena wolf lay on the ground protesting against Clay. They look at each other and Clay makes a funny face. Elena jumps up from him and they run again. Clay wolf looks very goofy.

03.

Not an actual scene, but i notices every time we see the wolfs view theres a sound that sounds like ziing to make you understand we see the wolves view. I think the sound is unneccesary and distracting.

Last edited by fredriksam (2014-03-01 18:57:35)

***Spoiler***

Epi 09: Elena's adrenaline rush causes her to begin to Change while hiding from a baddie with a gun.

The key word here is "begin"; she manages to reverse the transformation while it's not even halfway. This is a deviation from the book, where she Changes fully into a wolf because of the panic attack, and the sound of her shifting vertebrae hitting the undercarriage of the car she's hiding under alerts the bad guys to her location.

Looks like they pussied out on this scene

On the bright side, there seems to be another female wolf towards the end. We see her twisting in pain, half-formed.

***Spoiler***

S01E11: after a dry run for a couple of episodes, Elena goes off to Change in a stairwell (off-screen, naturally ) aft the bad guys invade Phillip's apartment.

After wolf-Elena chases off Olsen - and taking two of his fingers as a souvenir - Elena goes off to Change back in the bathroom (warning: minor nudity), and puts poor Phillip in a daze realising his fiancee is a werewolf. We only see her silhouette during the reversion to human form though, which I think is an unforgivable cop-out on the part of the producers. Reverse-change scenes are very rare, even more so when it comes to female werewolf characters.

Also, this scene is yet another deviation from the novel. In the book (if I remember correctly), Philip discovers Elena's true identity when she suffers another panic attack after sensing danger, and Changes unintentionally in front of him, ripping out of her clothes and dropping her engagement ring.

Sigh. I would have really liked to see the revert TF though.

I've told him off a couple of times. All he does is b:tch and whine about our finds without ever contributing anything. I feel bad for Dig.