[ SECRET POST #2104 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2104 ⌋

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Comments

[velvet_mace]

Eh, it is campy. I like that it's campy. Campy just means that you don't think too hard about how this would really go down if it were real life, because if you did then there'd be a lot more horror involved.

Campy means you can get away with having a character being wacked in the head with an engine part and tossed unconscious into a dumpster and not have the next scene take place in the hospital or the morgue, with a lot of people deadly serious about attempted murder and Stiles never, ever forgiving Erica.

Let's face it, if it weren't campy, the first time Scott chased Stiles around the locker room with his claws out would have ended with Scott being shot to death by Stiles dad, not Stiles sticking around to help his friend learn how to control himself, because shit, that would be scary.

TL;DR Campy keeps things light and fun rather than dark and stomach churning.

[(Anonymous)]

Good description of campy!

[hoggle2807]

No, campy is not "somebody gets hit in the head to the point of unconsciousness but doesn't end up in a hospital," unless we're calling every show that doesn't strictly adhere to the confines of reality "camp."

Camp has a very real, widely-accepted meaning, which is to be willfully stylized in an extravagant/over-the-top manner. Dark Shadows is camp. A lot of Will Ferrell movies are camp. Monty Python and Rocky Horror Picture Show are camp.

Teen Wolf is not camp.

[valenciapilgrim]

I agree that the show is not campy - I think that people just over-use the term for lack of a better one. I do really like the show, but I think it has a bit of a problem with tone in that one minute something dark and problematic will happen that seems to have huge consequences, and then the next everything will be all light and fun and "woo! We're just teenagers who want to blow off some steam!"

Specifically, I have problems with the parts where Allison's dad threatens to kill Scott if he and Allison stay together, and he seems REALLY serious about it (I mean he is part of an organization that makes it their job to harass werewolves like Derek who have NEVER done ANYTHING to them), and then then next minute Scott and Allison are screwing around and giggling - it just seems like a weird shift in tone to me. And when he threatens Scott like that, why isn't Allison like "Do it, asshole, I'll testify at your trial! Try telling the jury he was a werewolf, that'll be an awesome defense." I mean, why isn't she like "he's a PERSON, dad, you can't just go around killing people, there are like laws and stuff." I just don't really get how her family seems to be BLATANTLY raciest, yet at the same time it doesn't seem like they are supposed to be complete villains.

[velvet_mace]

Dude, Teen wolf is a live-action cartoon. It's funny! I laughed at the Derek in the Pool with Stile's scene. And oh god, when Derek runs in wolf form, that's fucking hilarious. It's wonderfully cheesy and low budget and full of silly.

Yes the dark Shadows was camp. It was also comedy. Yeah, Rocky Horror was camp. But not all campy things are comedy. They just have to be goofy and cheesy, which Teen Wolf is. Sometimes Supernatural is campy. Monty Python, on the other hand, is not camp. It's surreal.