10 Thoughts On… Bitten – Episode 3

10 Thoughts, Reviews, Top Story

1. Loved the twist ending this week. I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t expect one of the Pack members to die in only the third episode of the series (although I should have suspected something was up when I didn’t see a biography for Joel Keller included in the show’s press kit). With that being said, I certainly thought that the Pack had too many members and that it was bound to lose one before the end of the first season. I just didn’t expect it to be this soon.

2. Pete was definitely being written as the first member of the Pack to fall. He was the comic relief on a show that revolves around dark plot twists.

3. I sound like a broken record, but I still don’t see the chemistry between Clay (Greyston Holt) and Elena. Perhaps it is because we haven’t really seen them in the carnal sense like we have Elena and Paul,b ut I just get the brother/sister vibe from Elena and Clay. What about you?

4. This week’s episode seemed to move very quickly. It was definitely a much faster episode than the ones before it and this one required a lot of concentration as I believe it was a pivotal one in terms of set-up for the rest of the season.

5. The cinematography of the club scene was fantastic. It was believable and easily one of the best sequences on Bitten thus far.

6. Am I the only one who gets the feeling that there will be a new Pack leader before everything is said and done? While Jeremy is one of my favorite characters on the show, I definitely feel as though the show is setting up Clayton to be the new leader instead of just the enforcer that he is now.

7. When Elena finally caught up with the murderous mutt at the club, I thought that he should have attacked her immediately. The fact that he engaged in banter didn’t seem realistic to me. With that said, who wouldn’t be wooed into bantering with Laura Vandervoort?

8. I definitely would like to a see a female confidante for Elena’s character. While Logan’s girlfriend Rachel (Genelle Williams) seems to fill this role for Elena in Toronto, she needs a sidekick of some sort to balance out her Wolf World.

9. I thought the seating at the dinner was strange as I was expecting Paul and Elena to sit beside each other.

10. What I like the most about the show thus far is that it is minimizing the Pack constantly changing into their animal selves. If they were to constantly keep changing from human to wolf, it would minimize the impact of the transition and I think that the writers have handled this balance perfectly on the show.

Bitten airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. EST on Space in Canada and Mondays at 10 p.m. on SyFy in the U.S.

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