Posted by Dustin on 07.19.2010 at 4:27 pm

Both great shows last night, but I’m beginning to enjoy “The Gates” more and more. Each show brings something new, though I’m not sure where it will all lead.

I was right about the photographer girl who was sleeping and moving in with the young cop. She had it out for someone, but I never would have guessed it was the Chief, who confessed to killing a man in cold blood this week. The man ended up being the girls brother, who was a rapist and a child murderer that was going to walk on technicalities. The chief lied and said the guy pulled a gun on him. As he put it, the guy was a monster, but is he now too? It gives him a weakness and puts him in place with the other real monsters he now lives among, and maybe will bring his moral judgements down a little?

The show ended with the vampire husband (Nicholas?) saving the chief from the girl. The secrets out now! Next week should be good. With that girl gone, I suspect the deputy guy will hook up with the computer girl at the station perhaps? I want more of her story honestly. I want to know if I’m right and she’s basically a genie out of the bottle.

The succubus girl (Andy, at least I remembered one name!) who is dating the Chief’s son finally got the talk from her dad, after she came close to killing the Chief’s son. He just thinks he has mono though, which is what the doctor told him to keep him away from the girl for now. It will be interesting to see how she reacts.

I have noticed though that the monster parts of the townspeople have been modernized it seems. A succubus is actually a demon, so how did the girl’s mother die? Was she exorcised? Meanwhile Claire and her husband (as well as Christian) seem to be able to eat and drink real food, which normally Vampires don’t often do in folklore.

“The Scoundrels” was good, but I was falling asleep and started FFing to get to the end. Basically the mother decided rather than fight Wolf’s appeal from jail, she’d let him do the time, as it was what was best for the family. Wolf got out for the day to attend a funeral, and the kids were way too happy to see him back and were falling into old patterns. The mom decided she couldn’t let that happen. Meanwhile we got to see just how much Wolf and the prodigal son Logan don’t get along. Wolf was pretty nasty and cold to him! I’m not sure where this show will go now that Wolf is stuck in jail. Clearly though if he got out too soon, the premise of the show is over.