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Originally Posted by Chiaroscuros
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Anyone else find it odd that Bitten TV's werewolves don't seem to use their superior senses as frequently as you'd expect them to?
There have been several scenes where they would have smelled someone before they saw them, and there's no dramatic reason for them to not have been able to do so, other than that the writers are lazy. If these people have superior senses, they shouldn't have them 'switched off' other than when the plot calls for it.
I'm thinking more and more of this as an inferior spin on the werewolf mythos a la Twilight's take on vampires.
Best,
-C
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Yes, that is a very typical resource for writers (books and scripts too) as some kind of deus ex machina that appears to save the day in a complicated situation. Suddenly they find out that they can grow claws, hear and smell kilometers long, jump dozens of meters, etc. If they did it all the time, instead of Bitten or Being Human we had Skinwalkers or the upcoming "Wolves". From that point of view, maybe I prefer the forgetful werewolves instead of the "furry superheroes"
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