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I will be reading Bitten this month along with watching the tv series.
I have a couple of WotO novellas to read and also loving the tv series. It's not perfect, but they're staying pretty close to the lore for now. I'm looking forward to Monday's episode.
Saw the first episode of the show on Friday and I'm glad they are sticking to the book (although there is a lot more about Logan than in the book). My one issue was the CGI wolves - they look kind of weird and their gait is odd.
I feel very behind I had no idea there was a show. What is it called??I love Bitten it is one of a my favorite books!
It's a series and it just started this month on HBO and the Sci Fy channel. Here's the Facebook page link: https://www.facebook.com/BittenTVseries
In the spirit of reading and watching "Bitten", I'm keeping my re-read concurrent with the latest episode.Thoughts on "Bitten" Chapters 1 - 2, and episode 1 of the tv series.
Warning, Spoilers Ahead...
I wonder why the tv series changed Elena's job? In the book, she's a journalist while in the tv series she's a photographer. An odd decision since she's uses her investigative skills throughout the series to track down mutts.
The tv series changes Phillip's family from a big working class family who adore Elena to a smaller, snottier family. I think the rationale behind this decision would be that it is easier to showcase Elena's awkwardness in social situations if the family (mother) is hostile to her.
"My one and only lengthy relationship had been a disaster. More than a disaster. Catastrophic." - It certainly had its up and downs. The only adjective Elena forgot to use was "life-changing".
We get a brief recap of Elena's childhood and werewolf society that helps explain why Elena chose to separate herself from the pack. My sister and I both love the Women of the Otherworld series but while she focuses on Eve and Savannah I love Jamie, the Pack, and the Cortez Cabal. We were discussing the tv series and her first question was "When did Logan become a therapist?" I'm guessing the tv writers made Logan a therapist and stationed him in Toronto so the viewers could get some of the insight we receive from Elena in this chapter.
Elena's thoughts on Jeremy give the impression of a master manipulator but that doesn't play out in the rest of the series. I honestly think he's the most laid back wolf alpha in urban fantasy. I would love a meeting between Jeremy and Clay and Bran and Charles from the Mercy Thompson/Alpha & Omega universe. The "laid-back" Alphas and their top enforcers.
I'm stopping a bit before the episode did as the current chapter will surpass the last episode.
My general thoughts on the first tv episode:
1) The actor who portrays Clay is very much how I pictured Clay. I haven't seen the intensity I associate with Clay and my sister complained that the writers missed an opportunity to display Clay's sarcasm as he taught his students. To be fair, the actor didn't have much screen time.
2) I loved Nick's intro scene - it was a great way to display an aspect of his personality. I felt Antonio was rather subdued compared to his book counterpart.
3) The writers introduced the threat earlier than the author did in the book. However, a first episode of Elena doing nothing but fretting about re-meeting the Pack would be rather uneventful.
4) I did like how the writers manage to introduce the pack member's professions in their brief scenes: Clay - an anthropology teacher, Antonio - world-travelling businessman, Peter - works with musicians during concert tours. (If I remember correctly, he's in charge of the sound production).
5) I liked the alternating scenes of Elena hunting the rabbit and the mutt stalking the girl.
I'm supposed to read Bitten this month, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I did watch the TV show the other night and it was okay. The cgi wolves were definitely weird. It was funny watching it with my husband who does not read any type of fantasy and so I was trying to teach him about werewolf stuff. I've read all of Armstrong's YA series, so I'm looking forward to reading her adult series. I've heard good things.
Lisarenee wrote: "It's a series and it just started this month on HBO and the Sci Fy channel. Here's the Facebook page link: https://www.facebook.com/BittenTVseries"Oh YAY it premiers tomorrow night for me
But um Clay looks a little off - I wonder why they did not pick a guy with blond hair more surfer type?
~Leslie~ wrote: "I'm supposed to read Bitten this month, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I did watch the TV show the other night and it was okay. The cgi wolves were definitely weird. It was funny watching i..."I think it is a great read
i need to dvr that and im rereading alot of her books went through all her stuff on goodreads that i ether loved or havet read so i have like 30-40 things coming into the library
Thoughts on "Bitten" Chapters 3 - 7 and Episode 2 "Prodigal" of the tv series - Warning, Spoilers Ahead...
Anyone notice the tv series are naming the episodes directly after the chapter titles?
"...the phone itself had lost the ability to ring four years ago, when Clay whipped it across the room after it dared disturb his sleep two nights in a row."- We've all wanted to that at one point. On a side note, could you imagine being a telemarketer and having Clay answer the phone? Ouch!
"...both men had been known to sit five feet from the phone and not bother picking it up." - We do that at my house too.
"Even if I'd spent the better part of ten years at Stonehaven..." - The tv show has really compressed the timeline. In the tv series, Elena was transformed five years prior to the current events. Jeremy also mentions (in the show) that the death of his father happened a year ago - in the books it happened at least a decade before Elena met Clay.
Poor Elena had a horrendous childhood. What are the odds of all her foster fathers being perverts?
I've always liked Kelley Armstrong's descriptions of the were characters in wolf form. The descriptions make it very easy to visualize the scene.
"Killing them would involve touching them, which meant lowering himself to physical contact with them, which he didn't do unless absolutely necessary." - Humans have cooties, you know.
More timeline compression - in the tv show, Elena left a year ago; in the books she left 14 months ago.
"Jeremy and I too exhausted to do anything more than lob clumps of paste at each other." - This might be the only example of Jeremy's playful side that doesn't involve Jamie.
I wonder why Jeremy is so anti-barbers? Is it simply having to deal with strangers?
"It wasn't like I expected him to welcome me back with hugs and kisses. That wasn't Jeremy's way..." - Except in the tv show where he's hugged everyone at least twice.
The tv show ramped down the initial Elena-Jeremy confrontation. In the book, Jeremy calls her on the carpet for her behavior.
Elena's bedroom makes me laugh. She wasn't kidding when she said Jeremy had no clue about women.
I love the Sorrentinos and their over-enthusiastic greetings.
Logan's a lawyer in the book but a therapist in the show.
Poor Nick - it couldn't have been easy growing up with Clay as a best fried.
Elena isn't hesitant to kill the mutt in the book. In the tv series, she's rather wishy-washy about it. I wonder if the tv writers thought Elena wouldn't be a sympathetic heroine if she had no problem with killing the mutt?
Elena, Antonio, and Peter discuss which mutt is behind the killings. The tv show has mentioned two of the suspects - Daniel Santos and Zachary Caine.
You can tell Bitten's an older book when Clay's bedroom is described as having a "top-of-the-line entertainment system" that inludes a VCR.
"Some things weren't worth the effort of fighting Clay's nature." - I don't know - I think I would still fight the good fight with the bathroom locks.
Thoughts on the tv episode:
1) Nick continues to be my favorite character in the tv series.
2) Are they planning to introduce Malcolm in the tv series? Otherwise it's a bit random to mention him.
3) I like the subtle nods to Jeremy's occupations. We see paintings all over the house and he translates the Italian for Elena.
Thanks for the summary Sara. I tried to watch the Bitten television show but for some reason I could not get into it.Not giving up on it yet, I am not a big television person and most of the time I would rather read the book then see the movie. And I did not like how Clay looked that kind of sucked for me. I thought they did a decent job with Elena though even though I pictured her a bit bigger - like taller and more muscular not like a man but just well developed.
This month I did read
It looked like a book because it is rather large for a hardcover book but it ended up being a novella. I liked it but of course as an Elena and Clay fan I wanted more.
I do hope she will continue publishing these.
Elena was smaller than I pictured her too. Nick is my favorite part of the tv series. They've taken Elena's edge away in the tv show. In the book, Elena is adamant about taking the mutt out - in the tv show she goes on about "not being involved in the killing" blah, blah, blah.
I re-read
. Loved it the first time and I loved it the second time. Jaime is my favorite character from the Women of the Otherworld. Jaime and Jeremy are my favorite couple. What's not to love? The interior art scattered throughout the book was very nice too.
Thoughts on Bitten, chapters 8 - 9 and episodes 3 - 4 of the tv series.Warning, Spoilers Ahead...
The group of hunters are more reasonable in the book than the tv series - at least until Clay shows up.
The tv series continue to lessen Elena's edge and skills. In the book she goaded the dog into attacking her in order to defuse the tension and prevent the hunters from discovering the body. In the tv series, Elena goads the dog but it only aggravates the situation.
Clay's jealousy over Elena's friendship with Logan is absent from the tv show.
"All of my dress-up clothes had been brought with Nick in tow." - Clay makes a reference to this in the second episode.
"I'm Scott. Scott Brandon." - The encounter at the rave played a bit differently in the tv show. The mutt didn't call Elena by name and Scott's name didn't bring up a vague recollection. Brandon's nastiness is toned down in the tv series. In the book, he starts his transformation while he's recalling his kills as opposed to Elena's simply confronting him. We also didn't get to see Clay's dynamic entrance into the club.
Logan has a much more expanded role in the tv series. In the book he has one phone conversation with Elena and the next time he appears in the book is when they discover his dead body.
I've always loved Elena and Jeremy's bond. It's very touching even if she underestimates her worth to Jeremy.
Thoughts on Chapter 10 - and episode 5 of "Bitten".Warning, Spoilers Ahead...
Karl Marsten was introduced a bit earlier in the tv series as opposed to the book. On a side note, I don't care for the tv series version of Karl. Zachary Caine, however, is dead on.
Clay and Elena didn't have Jeremy's approval for their hotel search in the book - his reaction was the exact opposite of approval.
Jeremy has to have the patience of a saint. It has to be exhausting to be in charge of reigning in Clay for years.
I'm not feeling the intense love-hate bond Elena and Clay have in the tv series - the intensity isn't present like it is in the books.
Elena and Clay haven't made love in the series yet but they have in the books (twice) - because of this we don't get the amusing (if awkward for Elena) scene where the searchers discover the remains of her clothes with Nick and Peter providing commentary.
The tv series chose to substitute the discovery of the hunter's body and the ensuing Elena/Clay confrontation for Elena moving the body and being emo. Boo!
I wonder what the point of Elena's boyfriend watching the wolf footage was? Who is he making a deal with?
Highlights of the tv series so far: Nick!, Antonio, Peter's expanded role (it made his death have more impact), and Zachary Caine's casting.
On the fence: Jeremy's casting/role.
Lowlights: The wimpy versions of Elena and Clay, the casting of Karl Marsten.
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