The Secret Circle – Are these kids too mature?

Jake and Cassie are a train wreck waiting to happen, no? The problem is, obviously, Jake. He’s going to be torn between his loyalty to the witch hunters, and to his heritage that he has been running from all of his semi-adult life. Toss in Cassie — this powerful, intoxicating girl who is also pulling him back into that same past — and you have got a volatile mix. If he decides to come back over from the Dark Side, he will make several lifelong enemies out of people who thought that they could trust him.

Which look was more telling? The one on Adam’s face as he watched Cassie and Jake kiss, or the look on Diana’s face when she noticed? These guys are done, with a capital D. They can pay lip service to wanting to see what life without the other “feels” like, but I call shenanigans. There is no way that Diana will ever be able to get the image of Adam’s disgust out of her mind, anytime future-her might allow future-him to try to kiss him. One last night of lust is one thing, but emotionally, their relationship is over. Which sucks, because I was finally starting to like them together.

Is anyone else put off by the rather “advanced” maturity of the characters? I know that television is rarely accurate when portraying the life of high-school-aged characters. I also know that Glee is hardly the example I should be using in such a comparison, but I couldn’t help but think of it several times during this episode. Next week’s Glee – if you believe the preview commercials — will be about a couple of characters “having relations” for the first time, though one or two of them may have lost their virginity during the last “Very Special Episode” about sex. But here in Chance Harbor, characters having sex is just a fait accompli. Plus, they drink like sailors. When I was in high school there was drinking and sex, but I don’t remember anyone who would take swigs straight from a bottle while relaxing in the tub. In my walk of life, we call people like that “pros.”

Not going to lie – I was more than a little unhappy with the anti-climatic reveal that Charles was the one who assaulted Jane last week. I don’t really see the point of leaving a point like that as a cliffhanger. Who else but Charles – or a new character, as I posited last week – would it be? If the writing team is going to build in cliffhangers each week, they need to fit the narrative, and not just be there for the sake of having a cliffhanger.

Notes & Quotes

• I try to ignore Phoebe Tonkin’s rough attempt at an American accident, but sometimes it is harder than others.
• “[About Cassie] The closer I get to her, the closer I get to knowing how to kill her.” – Jake
• Rain? In the Pacific Northwest? I’m shocked!
• “Way bored of macho tension.” – Faye
• “Faye likes to think of our relationship as more interesting and complicated than it was. I don’t even think of it as a relationship.” – Jake
  “Spoken like a true guy.” – Cassie
  “I like this side of you. You’re cute when you’re angry.” – Jake
  “Spoken like a true cheese ball.” – Cassie
• Did anyone else find it ironic when Charles called Jane smug, self-righteous and dull? Anyone?Bueller?

Clacked by Ivey West
on Nov 03, 2011 @ 23:55 EST5EDT