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Teaser for season 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX46km2Nbh4

So, do you think there will be any TF scenes worth watching this season?

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I don't expect there to be anything better than in season 1 as far as TFs go. There will probably be zero involuntary TFs and those we see will probably be less dramatic and less painful in appearance. The teaser seems to indicate that the other supernatural characters from the books will appear, vampires, demons, witches etc. The more of those we have the more the werewolf characters will stay in human form, very little transforming, instead the werewolves will be relegated to using their heightened senses, enhanced strength, and moderate level of regeneration to confront all the baddies.

So I fully expect this to turn into a poor imitation of Buffy but with more sex. I would love to be wrong though.

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I wouldn't necessarily say that there will be zero involuntary TFs this season. In SyFy's version of Being Human, there was an interesting plot involving a witch that led to said witch causing an involuntary TF with one of the werewolf characters because of her magic. Something similar could happen in this situation. I'm going to stay positive. Despite the lack of TF content, I still enjoy the show, so I'll be tuning in regardless. The addition of some more supernatural characters is gladly welcomed. Werewolf mafia family can get a bit tiresome after awhile.

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I have to agree with you both. Now that Elena has rejoined the pack, her TFs will not be "involuntary". And one of the divergences from the book is the fact that in the series Elena (during the no-TF under the car) has managed to revert the change, a feat that is beyond from the normal werewolf capabilities. In the books, she has still some "TF issues" even after getting back to the pack.
About the production, I suspect that in season 1 there were two of them in the pilot for promotional matters, and well, the "big one" in episode five, ruined by Ms Vandervoort nudity issues (she forgets about that in her collaborations with Peta, though) and the age restrictions in Canadian shows (I suppose).
Even after all that, and the DVD version with nothing new to show (we all know that they could have done a nice "director's cut" with a little effort), the series is still interesting and I would recommend it. It is true that the "werewolf mafia" could become tiresome, but it is also not necessary to include the whole pack (witches, demons, vampires) as it is done in other shows to make it interesting... it is a different matter that they have utterly ruined the love triangle, as long as it is something that could have helped to keep the ratings higher :P.
I will keep you informed :), as usually.

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What SyFy does with Being Human doesn't really apply here. For one, SyFy doesn't make Bitten, it's made by Space in Canada, then SyFy airs a more censored version later. Cutting down the nudity from what airs in Canada basically. Secondly the writers for the TV version hold just close enough to the book version that we won't get any involuntary TFs on TV that didn't happen in the books. They're going off the later books now, loosely anyway, but the involuntary TFs in those were sparse. There is perhaps only one more, and if they don't use a particular scene from the books it won't appear at all. They've apparently already decided that Elena is supposed to be some special werewolf who has gained greater control of her transformation than any other werewolf for the TV version (this isn't the case for the books, at all, TV version pulled this out of thin air). That entire idea comes from an apparent desire to have her transform less frequently, to avoid the clothes tearing transformations from the book entirely, and probably to reduce the number of nude scenes that would need to be edited down for TV. They've chosen a conservative and practical approach rather than one that's true to the source material. They randomly killed off the boyfriend character rather than have the more complicated break up too. So many of the decisions they made for changing the story come from a position of pure laziness that I can't stand to watch it.

When it first came out I had high hopes, I wanted it to be good, I appreciated that it existed at all when it never should have gotten off the ground, but it quickly became evident that the source material was discarded for the most part. It lost too much in the transition from print to screen, it hurts to look at.

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Just skimmed through the first episode of the second season. Save yourselves the effort folks. Elena does not Change at all in this episode. Not even partial TFs. Nada. Zilch.

What a letdown.

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Well that doesn't surprise me a bit. I had already figured we'd have less transformation action this time around.

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You are right. Anyway, they put a male werewolf TF, I assume only to justify that it is a "werewolf show".
BTW, any of you could tell me what's "The Undoing" about? Is there any interesting thing there? A "Sondra Bauer" character is highly unlikely, but I (stupidly) never give up.

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Honestly though I don't think we should give up hope just yet since the end of last episode showed the undoing people injecting a woman with werewolf blood. So honestly another character injecting herself with female saliva honestly doesn't look to out of the picture. Also I realize we don't care so much for this on the board but I felt like this was a much stronger start thematically than last season. We have an established threat, an established goal, and Elena is no longer a weird pouting sookie like character and is actually getting shit done. Also the undoing looks like a pretty cool black magic/ fbi type organization which are always my favorites.

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Nope, it seems that they were extracting some amniotic fluid from Rachel (Logan's pregnant fiancee), possibly because she is pregnant with a werewolf... will they use the werewolf blood? And with another woman? I don't know, but I reeeally want to. The good thing about that happening would be that we could get a "decent" female werewolf TF. Who knows?

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That'd mean Elena would no longer be the world's only female werewolf :)

If I remember correctly, in the second book Bauer had a partial TF and was then killed somehow right?

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There was a partial TF after the woman infected herself, she lived through that. Later there were 'off screen' full TFs of the character and ultimately she was killed while in wolf form.