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Originally Posted by thatnightwolf
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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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.