Your cut text encapsulates my feelings about this show. STILES, basically. (Based on the pilot; I was too bored to watch any more.) I have a friend who insists that they are doing fascinating things with gender on this show, that women and people of knowledge are coded as leaders and people of brute force as followers, which... makes Stiles inherently queer for being leaderish and book-guy? IDK. I can't argue any further, having not seen the show. If you're curious, she talks about it here.
Were you aware that the creator says Stiles is bi? I suppose this is on par with Rowling saying Dumbledore was gay, except that the canon is still open, so possibly it will show up in canon eventually.
I actually have a fair number of feelings about the fandom, despite having seen only one ep of the show, because the fandom taken over so many of the corners I frequent (Tumblr; the mpreg and a/b/o tags on AO3). My feelings are mostly that Sterek is dull as dishwater because I find Derek so terribly boring, and also, in the way of fandom, Stiles is so frequently coded as 'the girl.' (Particularly a problem with mpreg, not unexpected, although I will say I have one pregnant!Derek Sterek series I am following that is delightful, if you're interested.)
In closing: it is a great personal delight to me to inform people that neither Stiles no Derek is the protagonist of the show.
P.S. I've discovered a new character for your Spike-and-Rhett-Butler outside observer list: Tyrion Lannister, from Game of Thrones. I've been meaning to email and tell you all about it. Tyrion is one of those perfect marriages of character and actor, and he is GOLD.
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Were you aware that the creator says Stiles is bi? I suppose this is on par with Rowling saying Dumbledore was gay, except that the canon is still open, so possibly it will show up in canon eventually.
I actually have a fair number of feelings about the fandom, despite having seen only one ep of the show, because the fandom taken over so many of the corners I frequent (Tumblr; the mpreg and a/b/o tags on AO3). My feelings are mostly that Sterek is dull as dishwater because I find Derek so terribly boring, and also, in the way of fandom, Stiles is so frequently coded as 'the girl.' (Particularly a problem with mpreg, not unexpected, although I will say I have one pregnant!Derek Sterek series I am following that is delightful, if you're interested.)
In closing: it is a great personal delight to me to inform people that neither Stiles no Derek is the protagonist of the show.
P.S. I've discovered a new character for your Spike-and-Rhett-Butler outside observer list: Tyrion Lannister, from Game of Thrones. I've been meaning to email and tell you all about it. Tyrion is one of those perfect marriages of character and actor, and he is GOLD.