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Originally Posted by mb78
The next episode is what I predicted to have the "first change" based off the title (Bitten), and the teaser that's up is a flashback, so that's a good sign.
However, the promo for the episode is all "current", so while it appears the next episode will have a lot of flashback, it will not be all flashback. I could see a scenario where the next episode has it leading up to Elena getting bitten, and saving the change for a future episode. Which is to say, don't freak out if it isn't this episode.
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As for the plot/setting, thanks to Chiaroscuros for putting into words the nagging difficulty I'm having with it. They tried to explain some of that away with vague references to other packs in the last one, but it was forced. And at some point are they going to explain why it's cool for Logan and Pete to have their own lives outside, but they're desperate for Elena to not live in Toronto?
I know the books are basically written chick flicks, but the whole "one female character surrounded by males who worship and love her or want to protect her" and "brooding bad boy being the winner" things are killing the show for me. I really can't believe I'm saying this, but I think Being Human US may be better, and I don't think they plot out that show more than one episode in advance.
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It's been awhile since I since I read the book, but here are some explanations as I remember them.
The Pack doesn't want Elena in Toronto because she's denying the wolf in her, and that will eventually drive her into a berserk killing frenzy when it finally breaks out.
The werewolf gene is sex linked. A baby boy werewolf has to have a male werewolf father while a baby girl werewolf needs to have a werewolf mother. Natural born female werewolves disappeared at some point, so with the difficulty of surviving the infection made getting new ones really, really rare.
The number of werewolves is fairly small, so between modern transport and communications as well as The Pack's numbers they can dominate all the mutts in North America. Werewolves also have long lifespans, which helps The Pack accumulate wealth and influence.
Elena and Clay's relationship I think is actually the opposite of what people are assuming; she doesn't tame the bad boy, he unleashes the bad girl. In the later books she becomes the second scariest Pack enforcer after Clay. The books didn't feel so much like "one female character surrounded by males who worship and love her or want to protect her" as "woman breaks into a society dominated by men and kicks major ass". YMMV of course.
There are still romance elements of course, but much of the time they happen while the characters are wolves. Like in last night's episode when Elena and Clay turned into wolves and ran around, which in the book was totally a make-out scene.