Answer time: Shadowhunters chronicles

[terresdebrume]

Sent by Anonymous :

in your opinion, is shadowhunters good as a tv show? not talking about high quality, but as good as teen wolf and the 100, for example?

I’d say both S1 Teen Wolf and The 100 are better quality than Shadowhunters though in different ways.

Shadowhunters, like the books it’s adapted from, seems to reject the idea of applying logic to their characters or storyline on principle (and it’s not even in favor of sticking to book events) which is frustrating as hell because they could have had something pretty neat if they had. Instead we got a lot of plot that looked flashy but made zero sense or less as soon as you try to use your brain for more than 0.5 seconds.

I don’t remember TW well because I haven’t watched in ages, so I could be wrong, but I don’t recall it having as many glaring plot holes, and on the whole I remember thinking the characters were pretty endearing and well-written back then (more recent seasons aren’t as enticing to me–there’s a reason I stopped watching :P)

As for season 1 of The 100, the plots definitely hold their own better than Shadowhunters in my opinion, but the two shows have a tendency to make eveyone and their moms self-centered to the point of irresponsibility and downright cruelty which ugh, no. x)

Out of the three, Teen Wolf remains my fondest memory tho, again, I don’t know what I’d say on rewatching it ;)