It’s sad but true! We returned to the scene of the first episode, La Enrique y Julio Iglesia. But, unlike our first visit to this locale, there was no real sense of urgency — even though Kira had a moment of nearly dying, and even though the likelihood of Scott or any one of his friends dying was supposed to be all-too real. Instead, Scott freed himself (with some help from a pep-talk, courtesy of Liam, who apparently has a real future in Life Coaching) and immediately deduced that it wasn’t Kate Argent at fault, it was Peter. Because…it’s always Peter. Always. That’s what made this episode so disappointing. When you go out of your way to give us a new breed (quite literally) of evil with a character like Kate, you’re playing a cruel joke on your audience to make her a red herring for Peter’s whining, perpetual and uninspired plan to take back his alpha powers. I really wanted them to get all Snape with Peter this season, but it just never happened. Exhibit how he brutally hurled his newly-discovered daughter into a wall of rock while making lame quips at her: Peter is the same as he, in the words of The Talking Heads, ever was. The acting was strong, and, because it’s Teen Wolf, there were beautiful moments (Kira’s climb out of her cell into the twisting haunted looking basement of the church, for one) but sadly, there wasn’t much else going on. It’s like someone dropped the story face down on the floor, and rather than doing the right thing and throwing it out, they figured they’d serve it to us anyway. That said, I don’t care where my cake has been — I’m eating it. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
