Kaila Hale-Stern's discussions

I know, I know, but trust me, Teen Wolf's another animal. We're living in a world where the actors and creators embrace the subtextual publicity, they don't run. And the fan outpouring is quite lovely. Yes, there's concern the whole thing is a bit baited. But it's another world than Winchesters. Read more

Why thank you very much! Read more

Very much agreed! I'm also love to see an outfit like HBO or Showtime or Syfy get their hands on the material, or a movie studio that would do it justice; I think it would be fantastic as a miniseries, especially if they got the chance to show more of the bugs. Read more

You definitely don't need to have seen the previous plays. There's a good bit of summing-up, and references that flesh out the previous events, but it's very much its own thing. Go, go if you can! Read more

I think it's definitely somewhat Ender-inspired with nodding winks, but it's so much it's own world it's very much not Cardian. Still I have much love for both! Read more

Please write this script and pitch the pilot immediately. The first sentence description is already 185% better than anything I've seen promised for the fall season. Read more

No, that is our common choir refrain every Thursday. Read more

This is DEFINITELY true. I once tried to follow Kevin Williamson more thoroughly at NYCC to get the answers about Dawson's Creek that had eluded me in adolescence, but I was barred from the men's room. Read more

I loved it that you called the "unreliable parents trope" SPN's horcrux. Such apt language, so awesomely wielded. Read more

+42 for this fine analysis. Read more

YAY AGAIN. I also hereby judge this reply thread to be a spoilerific zone. What did you think of tonight? Expected? Not? I was yelling at the screen about Tyler, but weirdly unmoved with some of the other subplots. Tyler! Who'd have thought? Read more

Good question! I'd noted how Caroline had taken over the default BFF role due to her more central role and general interesting-ness but you're right, the lack of object interaction between Elena and Bonnie is...weird. More than weird. There's never any catching-up. Other than the express scene where they made up after… Read more

If everything about your personality gets enhanced when you're a vampire, is it wrong I really have no desire to see vampire!Elena? Also, we must needs have the precious Blood of the Doppelganger Plot Device. Read more

True story! I haven't kept up with TSC but considering the involvement of many of the same creatives, I should do. Are there any parents on that show that, like, parent? Or are they all ball-and-chains or awful? Hot hard-drinking teachers at least? Read more

You know, these laws might very well be enshrined in various CW writers' rooms. I can picture embroidered pillows: "All adults must be despicable" "underage drinking is more of a guideline than a rule" "party by the fourth act!" and another ever-present pillow: "Does the fourth-act party have enough masks in it?" Read more

I'd watch the crap out of an episode that was entirely Elena/Damon/Stefan free. But the TVD universe (and Twitter) would probably eat its own tail and collapse. Read more

This is definitely true. It's one of the show's biggest strengths and greatest weaknesses all bundled together. They'll build up a plotline for AGES that actually turns out to be insignificant (like, psych about that sun and moon curse! Ha ha ha what curse?), then pull out something we never saw coming and that will… Read more

What's confusing — and I hope they explain/explore more in the future — is whether Evilaric is a separate psycho alter-ego entirely, brought on by the ring-deaths and too many trips to the other side. In which case, the Alaric we knew is totally gone. Read more

Yay! This particular topic had been on my mind a while, and the turning of Alaric (which had to happen, I suppose, but it hurts to see Elena and Jeremy lose yet another parental figure) pushed it over the edge. I'm very curious to see what life was like tonight in The Time of Good Parents (because Elena's original set… Read more

"their audience is 100% angsty 13 yo girls who refuse to acknowledge the existence of parents" is probably a pretty great way to summarize some of the thinking behind the decisions. And I do love the friends-are-power message. But teenagers have been huge supporters of "older" characters — Damon, Stefan, Katherine,… Read more