Bitten: The Series

[Wbfoot]

I wish brownrigg would just film the transformation scene at this point. Forget the rest of the movie and just sell that scene.

[Chiaroscuros]

Final ep - what a steaming pile.

Not going to shed a tear if there's no s2.

Meh acting, lousy characterisation. Wimpy "big bad". Only a tease worth of werewolf inside an otherwise forgettable family action-drama.

Am I being too rough?

Disappointed,

-C

[Anahki]

Well, it is what it is. I won't also miss a second season. If someone remembers the first long trailer of the series, it was 50% of Elena turning into wolf in different scenes, that turned out to be the 90% of what they shown afterwards, with the notable exception of the second TF on ep.1, that was in fact the best one IMHO. Other bad things were the not very good casting, the fact that they deviated from the book to save money with the FX (scene of Elena under the car, of non existant Elena TF in front of Phillip), the misunderstanding of who the target of the series would be (they tried to sell it as a werewolf show first, and then as a love triangle, when it was a "mafia" drama), the concerns of Ms. Vandervoort about nudity (I still believe that they ruined some of the TF takes) and the self censorship to sell the series outside Canada, that made the series a fair success in Canada, but not great numbers in USA.

Ok, I will balance my comments with the good things: there were three decent werewolf transformations, and they were well done... very censored, but well done. the very first one was cool and showed some nice facial TF, and "Elena's first TF" had a very nice "previous to TF" performance... the only one in which Laura V. showed nice actorial skills. But the best one was the TF with Logan, and I especially loved the foot TF, as it is quite unusual and was nicely done. In fact, it is to the date my third best female werewolf TF ever, being the other two in my top ten too.
Other good things were the story itself, I mean, the series was very viewable, and the CGI were not bad either, even though I still prefer the real props. And I really hope that this series could have helped to "normalize" the female werewolves in future shows .

[Kantomaster1111]

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters. This show could have been about a mafia without having any wolves and nothing would have changed. Elena simply can't leave the mob the same way a cult would not let you leave. If they're not going to utilize the whole werewolf thing to appease our own fetishes, could they at least utilize to fulfil the show's title and premise?

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by Kantomaster1111

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters. This show could have been about a mafia without having any wolves and nothing would have changed. Elena simply can't leave the mob the same way a cult would not let you leave. If they're not going to utilize the whole werewolf thing to appease our own fetishes, could they at least utilize to fulfil the show's title and premise?

A script with as many holes as a gruyere cheese... the plague of the XXI century writing xD.

[hexen]

Originally Posted by Kantomaster1111

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters.

World of Darkness's goddess of nature solved that issue by giving werewolves an old Hollywood thing called the hybrid form... you know, half man, half wolf. But yeah for the most part the ending of season one left me completely unwilling to keep up.

[Garnu_Thorn]

On hopping over to Shadowlore Inc. I found Dragoniade got around to posting more vids. That, and including any of Bitten all the way up to Vengeance.

[TF-Viewer]

Strayed too far from the book, that's about all I can say about it.

[Anahki]

There are some people alergic to that website... anyway, there is nothing new there regarding the show, but thank you Garnu .

I can add that JB Sugar (producer) has his own account on vimeo. He posted some "promising" videos, but unfortunately there wasn't anything new... and he has avoided (consciously or unconsciously) any of the TF scenes (e.g., the initial scene is cut after Elena goes off the elevator).

Ah, I am waiting for the DVD official release. I know that some people have been awarded with it, and the casting has it too... yep, the chances to get a "director's cut" are more than zero, but nearby :P. What do you think?

[Garnu_Thorn]

Nada. That is until the uncut collection comes out. It will probably be another werewolf production collecting dust on my shelf once I have it.

Personally I am put off too much by the overly painful scenes. I'm one to argue that natural shapeshifting is far from painful. I'd like to see some porn company show tf as it should be, the most orgasmic thing to happen to someone. Bitten esques shapeshifting in such a light that from my perspective it's something of a concoction from people that make propaganda to skew people from pursuit of actually experimenting in shapeshifting.

Of course once a film company shows shapeshifting as pleasurable I think all of a sudden it goes the direction of romance or, *cough*porn*cough*

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by Garnu_Thorn

Nada. That is until the uncut collection comes out. It will probably be another werewolf production collecting dust on my shelf once I have it.

Personally I am put off too much by the overly painful scenes. I'm one to argue that natural shapeshifting is far from painful. I'd like to see some porn company show tf as it should be, the most orgasmic thing to happen to someone. Bitten esques shapeshifting in such a light that from my perspective it's something of a concoction from people that make propaganda to skew people from pursuit of actually experimenting in shapeshifting.

Of course once a film company shows shapeshifting as pleasurable I think all of a sudden it goes the direction of romance or, *cough*porn*cough*

Coming off as a lil' bit crazy there. Propaganda? Really? Okay, let's just ignore 90% of the established werewolf mythos from earlier movies, television and books so we can romanticize it. Oh wait, someone did do that a few times, in Twilight and the god awful mess that Blood&Chocolate became on screen. Now the book version of Blood&Chocolate is exactly what you're actually talking about, but even then they had painful transformations to an extent. Remember when she tried to fight her change, it became agonizing in that book. The rest of the time it was basically a full body orgasm though. In the movie it was magical poof TFs with no logical way of dealing with clothing. I would rather watch Bitten's poorly written story 100 times than look at the mess Blood&Chocolate turned into ever again. Neither story translated well to video, but both books were excellent in their original form. The issue is perhaps that both of those video productions had to water down the transformations, but with Blood&Chocolate there wasn't much left after it was diluted. They weren't going to have her get sexually aroused as she changed in the movie like in the book; so the poor man's version of that was the happy little run and jump TFs that took place in a split second and erased the person's clothing from existence randomly. Person takes off random articles of clothing then runs through the forest half naked and jumps and lands and is a wolf in midair after a magical flash of light, all the clothes they had on at the time are gone and when they change back.... the clothes stay gone for no reason. People taking their shirts off before they change only to have their pants vaporized by magic. It was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen up until that point. It's not what happened in the book at all. And that mess of a movie taught me something, Hollywood does not want anything to do with the 'orgasmic tf'.

That was a bit of a rant, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwfZPT6ZfE#t=2m53s

^ Example of the problem Blood&Chocolate has with it's TFs. If we wrote scenes like that into stories around here, even we wouldn't read them. Seems the choices are either painful or poof as far as Hollywood is concerned, pleasure is not likely something we'll find on the screen when we watch a TF scene. There are a few rare cases, but not from anything mainstream or recent. I'm up for pleasurable TFs too, but television isn't.

[Garnu_Thorn]

Originally Posted by TF-Viewer

Coming off as a lil' bit crazy there. Propaganda? Really? Okay, let's just ignore 90% of the established werewolf mythos from earlier movies, television and books so we can romanticize it. Oh wait, someone did do that a few times, in Twilight and the god awful mess that Blood&Chocolate became on screen. Now the book version of Blood&Chocolate is exactly what you're actually talking about, but even then they had painful transformations to an extent. Remember when she tried to fight her change, it became agonizing in that book. The rest of the time it was basically a full body orgasm though. In the movie it was magical poof TFs with no logical way of dealing with clothing. I would rather watch Bitten's poorly written story 100 times than look at the mess Blood&Chocolate turned into ever again. Neither story translated well to video, but both books were excellent in their original form. The issue is perhaps that both of those video productions had to water down the transformations, but with Blood&Chocolate there wasn't much left after it was diluted. They weren't going to have her get sexually aroused as she changed in the movie like in the book; so the poor man's version of that was the happy little run and jump TFs that took place in a split second and erased the person's clothing from existence randomly. Person takes off random articles of clothing then runs through the forest half naked and jumps and lands and is a wolf in midair after a magical flash of light, all the clothes they had on at the time are gone and when they change back.... the clothes stay gone for no reason. People taking their shirts off before they change only to have their pants vaporized by magic. It was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen up until that point. It's not what happened in the book at all. And that mess of a movie taught me something, Hollywood does not want anything to do with the 'orgasmic tf'.

That was a bit of a rant, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwfZPT6ZfE#t=2m53s

^ Example of the problem Blood&Chocolate has with it's TFs. If we wrote scenes like that into stories around here, even we wouldn't read them. Seems the choices are either painful or poof as far as Hollywood is concerned, pleasure is not likely something we'll find on the screen when we watch a TF scene. There are a few rare cases, but not from anything mainstream or recent. I'm up for pleasurable TFs too, but television isn't.

At least we agree on something. Did anyone ever compile a list online of the films that actually show orgasmic tfs? I'd like to pour through that. A favorite tf scene in my collection is from Waxwork 2, of a woman involved in a ritual probably intended to mimic an Ancient Egyptian ritual involving an initiation rite for shapeshifting with the twist of the intended result not to initiate the woman as the purpose of the rite, albeit a panther was used, but any animal could be used. Hinatasaix's video upload of the scene has a lot of commentators saying ala "that looks so painful!"

Well, I'm off to the online book store to find a copy of the book. Maybe that will sate my interest in reading about these werewolves in Bitten.