Another episode of Bitten
and more of my endless frustration with this whole show
Like Jeremy – he’s off to kill Roman all on his lonesome
and he decides, along the way, to make Elena the new alpha whether he comes
back or not because she’s totally ready and grown and learned and will make a
whole new different kind of pack
Which, y’know would have been interesting if there had
been one single tiny crumb of development for it. Just one tiny attempt to
throw some development at this, to show this new pack, to show Elena’s new
ideas, to show Jeremy changing. To show one iota of what has been happening in
the books rather than just importing it wholesale into the tv series without
several books worth of development of Elena, Jeremy and the pack that go with
it. And what Pack? Elena, Nick and Clay? That’s not a pack. It’s not even
enough for a poker game!
While Elena and Clay need to kill the assassin (who I am
still not calling “The Albino” because that’s a terribly offensive trope) only
there appears to be two of them now, working in tandem. Rather than actually
trying to kill the Albino they talk to him and he shows off the picture he has
of Nick and Katia who were captured last episode. Which means they keep him
alive through a very very very long and very very very pointless series of
events where the assassin repeatedly tries to convince Clay that he’s a super evil
killer
Why, why is he so invested in this? Why does this matter?
Why am I watching this? Why do I care?
He ends up escaping or being arrested or possibly both
after he tries to make them kill a cop
Thankfully, Nick and Katia free themselves because they’d
die of old age long before Elena and Clay stop playing games with the assassin.
But no before one of the assassin clones ambushes Katia and stabs her. She’s
dead and everyone is sad.
Elena, Nick and Clay are reunited to look at their
brilliant master plan of “sit still and do nothing and hope Jeremy kills Roman
and it all goes away”. A master plan, truly. This whole season is beginning to
feel dreadfully dragged out. We’ve had two episodes of playing silly games with
the assassin and generally being incredibly inept.
Speaking of, it looks like Jeremy is doing the same with
Roman. I'm just so very bored with this series which is kind of sad because it could have been so much better
