One very common thread through a lot of these teen drama shows
is the whole, like, supernatural thing, right? You got vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, whatever.
The setting of being, like, a normal girl just trying to get by and live life,
you know survive high school or whatever?
And then you meet some dude who turns out to be a vampire or like an alien or something and your normal boring
small-town life gets turned upside down and it's up to you and only you for some reason
to save the world while every hot guy in town falls in love with you.
This is basically repeated over and over again for like, you know, eight seasons or whatever.
But when you can't just pick one supernatural monster thing
and you end up picking all of them, you end up with the freeform teen drama "Shadowhunters".
Let's take a look: we start out with three young people hunting down an old man.
Now, originally I was gonna make a joke here about like how did no one else see this
there's literally like 20 other people walking towards him, but turns out that's like the whole point so you know
yay me
The whole magic wand thing, that's pretty cool I guess,
but I think we all know that her real superpower is running in heels on a roof and not breaking her ankle.
I mean hey, I'm impressed.
As this man walks toward the nightclub we see him turn from an old Asian man to a middle-aged black man to a
go-go girl,
which to be fair is pretty much what I end up doing in every online game.
The blonde dude bumps into a redheaded girl who can see him,
and apparently that's a big deal.
"Hey, can you watch where you're going?"
"You can see me?"
Now, flashback to earlier in the day
and we learned that this redheaded girl is named Clary Fray
- because being born a redhead just isn't tough enough, I guess -
as she goes to an interview for art school.
"I'm Clary Fray"
"This landscape is very... decorative."
"Well I wasn't really going for decorative exactly."
"What are those?"
"Oh, those, nothing just, um"
Nothing to see here, no sir, no ma'am.
It's definitely not my animorphs fan fiction, okay?
It's totally not that so don't bother looking
"Really, it's just there by mistake."
"The Brooklyn Academy of Art doesn't believe in mistakes."
Which is why I have 10 kids, but that's a different conversation.
Anyway, she gets accepted to the school and she and her friend do like a fist bump explosion thing
which reminds us all that they are indeed ~very white~.
Now, flash sideways to this scene:
"Yup, this one's drained of blood..."
"Another body drained of blood?"
"We're going to get formally involved. Alec and I are chasing down a bunch of leads."
"I need you to do something for me."
"What, catch these guys?"
"Besides that.
Marry Jocelyn, what are you waiting for?"
Uhhh, I'm waiting for an appropriate time and place to have this conversation because, uh, funny story
There's a body right here drained of blood out in the beach. Okay. Why are we talking about this now?
Here, we learn that there have been several bodies as of late that turn up with no blood in them.
And we also learned that Luke either has some kind of mystical power or just a bad case of jaundice, I mean
it's anyone's guess at this point.
Back with Clary, she meets her friend Dot
who I guess reads tarot cards because in today's economy a college degree just doesn't get you as far as it used to
"Dot!"
"Okay, open it!"
"Wow!"
"Yeah you might want to keep that on the DL,
cause your mom's my boss, and I don't want her to flip out."
"Yeah, but that's how I know it's cool.
You know you're way better at gift-giving than magically predicting the future."
"Nothing magical about it, I just buy the things that I want to wear."
Is that why you gave me that t-rex
costume last year because I've been meaning ask you about that.
Today is Clary's 18th birthday
and she has plans to go out with her friends naturally, but her mom is a little on edge.
"Losing circulation here."
"Breakfast, you and me tomorrow, promise?"
"Yep. Mom?
Uh, mom?
Mom you have to let me go, I'm
biologically and legally an adult."
I'm pretty sure the phrase "I'm biologically an adult" is something you would only ever hear on like the Maury Povich Show
I mean who talks like that, really?
Now flashing sideways again. We're back with the three young hoodlums we saw in the beginning.
And it turns out they work for, like, the Avengers or something, and they have all this fancy technology stuff
but still use swords because of course they do.
After her friends perform at the local beatnik scene,
Clary decides to paint their van with a new band name,
but in the process ends up painting something mysterious.
"What's that tag?"
"Weird, I didn't even mean to draw that.
Second time today."
"You know they have confirmed cases of people waking up in the morning speaking French
and they never even studied the language."
Okay, how did you get from here to there?
'Oh, I didn't mean to draw that. Hmm, that's weird.'
'Did you know some people wake up speaking French? I saw it on the news
it's true!'
So now, we're back to where the show first started where the blonde guy first bumped into Clary, but of course
she is the only one who can see him.
"Can you guys believe that blonde dude?"
"You mean the imaginary dude you were talking to?"
Hey! Whoa! I didn't judge you when you bought that anime pillow at Dragon Con last year, okay?
so can we lay off guys?
Curious to know more,
Clary follows the invisible man into the club
and all the way to the back where we see him having a conversation with the old man
turned a go-go girl person or whatever
and of course it escalates into what might just be the most confusing fight scene I have ever seen.
"Are you hurt?"
Like, what is even happening here?
What am I supposed to look at?
And they have this slow-motion shot of them throwing a sword like a foot-and-a-half
I'm not sure why they put this in slow-motion
I mean, I guess I'm supposed to be impressed here by this light underhand toss, so
good job I guess?
After the fight is over, Clary is a little upset and confused,
of course,
and heads home where she tries to tell her mom what happened
and here is where we get the big reveal that Clary is actually part of a secret-society-family thing
and to protect her, her mom throws her into a portal that sends her to the police station.
Clary finds her way back home and learns that her house, or whatever this is
I mean okay quick tangent here
Where exactly are they supposed to be living? Is this a house?
They live in a museum? Like, I can't really tell where this is supposed to be.
All I know is that the rent must be insane.
Just a quick little detail here. They have a battle-axe laying around the house, and this is played off like:
'Well of course she grabs the battle-axe. What else would she do?'
She sees her friend Dot again, but actually it's a shapeshifter
And right before she's killed she gets saved by handsome man
before she passes out from demon poison.
Sure, okay.
She then wakes up in a strange place with perfectly curled hair. Which is a pretty cool trick, I'll admit.
"Isabelle, can you-
I'm Jace Wayland."
"I'm-"
"Clary Fray. We know who you are."
"Am I the only one who finds this unusual?"
Well I wasn't gonna bring it up, but now that you mentioned it:
Yes your hair does look like a 90's boy band
Okay
It's out in the open now. And now Clary finally comes to accept that she might be different after all and she's found herself all
wrapped up in this eternal conflict between shadow hunters and
shadows, I guess.
This show... Wow, there's a lot going on here. There's a lot to digest in this show
I mean
I thought the CW was kind of cheesy and campy or whatever, but even I was not prepared for this.
This is...
This is, just, wow.
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