The Secret Circle Pilot - Reaction
I just finished watching The Secret Circle. Completely unfamiliar with the books but the first episode? Awesome!
Be warned: spoilers ahead.
Mystery and Magic. How I love thee. This show set up both. What happened to the previous circle? Who is Cassie's father? Are Diana and Faye in on their parent's schemes or are they getting played along with the others? Just what are not-so-good Principal Chamberlain and Charles up to anyway? We're also dealing with powerful magic here. Faye's starting fires and calling storms and Charles is causing mayhem with a water bottle and matches. (Which brings up another question: if he's a member of the previous circle, how does he still have that much power if he no longer has his full circle? With many of them being dead and all...)
Onto the characters...
The thing that made me so excited for this show wasn't just the witches. It was also Thomas Dekker returning to my tv screen as Adam. So I'll start there. I really liked how he was introduced. Judging from his dead parents line to Cassie, it's his mother whose dead. His father is a drunk who, instead of pining and professing love for Adam's dead mother is clearly still hung up on Cassie's dead mother. (Unless they're one and the same. That would be...awkward.) I'm interested in seeing where they're relationship goes if Adam's dad doesn't get himself killed first. There's also him dating the bad guy's daughter while crushing on another girl whose also the daughter of 'a bad man'. Still, it's the father/son part that I'm most looking forward to. I got a soft spot for these dysfunctional family relationships.
Then, there's Cassie and the big question with her is who the hell is her father? It seems she had the nice, loving mother who not only protected her from magical knowledge but also the knowledge that her father was a bad man. Am I the only one wondering if Charles is her father? It would add an element of pride to his 'her father's daughter' line. Or maybe I'm just thinking that because he's the first bad man we've met.
Faye. Despite being an obvious bad girl and the daughter of the shady Principal Chamberlain, she doesn't seem so bad. She was reckless but as soon as Diana went down, she tried to put a stop to it. One entertaining thing about this whole circle idea is that they need each other to have the desired power. So Faye can be bitchy, Diana can be bossy, and they can hate each other but they are tied together. That must suck for them.
Diana. Who made her boss? I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just interesting that she's setting down the rules for the others ("Do not push me, Faye."), especially considering her father is pulling strings in the background. I'm interested what it means to be the leader. Does she have any real power over the others?
I don't have much to say about Nick and Melissa. They were in the background of this episode. All I got is 'creepy boy next door' and 'Faye's friend'.
Bad guys: There's a great bad guy in Charles. Charming even while he's starting fires and threatening to drown people. And the school principle is evil. There's got to be a joke in that one.
Back to Adam's dad: Ethan knows all is not right. If he didn't know before, then the getting choked thing would have tipped him off. How much does he know? Will he get sober and try to stop it? Of course, it'll probably become his heroic last stand before he's horribly killed...
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the new show. I'll definitely be tuning in next week.
By the way, who else loved those stars on the ceiling? Nice, calm peace of magic.
Be warned: spoilers ahead.
Mystery and Magic. How I love thee. This show set up both. What happened to the previous circle? Who is Cassie's father? Are Diana and Faye in on their parent's schemes or are they getting played along with the others? Just what are not-so-good Principal Chamberlain and Charles up to anyway? We're also dealing with powerful magic here. Faye's starting fires and calling storms and Charles is causing mayhem with a water bottle and matches. (Which brings up another question: if he's a member of the previous circle, how does he still have that much power if he no longer has his full circle? With many of them being dead and all...)
Onto the characters...
The thing that made me so excited for this show wasn't just the witches. It was also Thomas Dekker returning to my tv screen as Adam. So I'll start there. I really liked how he was introduced. Judging from his dead parents line to Cassie, it's his mother whose dead. His father is a drunk who, instead of pining and professing love for Adam's dead mother is clearly still hung up on Cassie's dead mother. (Unless they're one and the same. That would be...awkward.) I'm interested in seeing where they're relationship goes if Adam's dad doesn't get himself killed first. There's also him dating the bad guy's daughter while crushing on another girl whose also the daughter of 'a bad man'. Still, it's the father/son part that I'm most looking forward to. I got a soft spot for these dysfunctional family relationships.
Then, there's Cassie and the big question with her is who the hell is her father? It seems she had the nice, loving mother who not only protected her from magical knowledge but also the knowledge that her father was a bad man. Am I the only one wondering if Charles is her father? It would add an element of pride to his 'her father's daughter' line. Or maybe I'm just thinking that because he's the first bad man we've met.
Faye. Despite being an obvious bad girl and the daughter of the shady Principal Chamberlain, she doesn't seem so bad. She was reckless but as soon as Diana went down, she tried to put a stop to it. One entertaining thing about this whole circle idea is that they need each other to have the desired power. So Faye can be bitchy, Diana can be bossy, and they can hate each other but they are tied together. That must suck for them.
Diana. Who made her boss? I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just interesting that she's setting down the rules for the others ("Do not push me, Faye."), especially considering her father is pulling strings in the background. I'm interested what it means to be the leader. Does she have any real power over the others?
I don't have much to say about Nick and Melissa. They were in the background of this episode. All I got is 'creepy boy next door' and 'Faye's friend'.
Bad guys: There's a great bad guy in Charles. Charming even while he's starting fires and threatening to drown people. And the school principle is evil. There's got to be a joke in that one.
Back to Adam's dad: Ethan knows all is not right. If he didn't know before, then the getting choked thing would have tipped him off. How much does he know? Will he get sober and try to stop it? Of course, it'll probably become his heroic last stand before he's horribly killed...
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the new show. I'll definitely be tuning in next week.
By the way, who else loved those stars on the ceiling? Nice, calm peace of magic.