It Was an Animal Attack

Draw, aim, fire! Sandile and Fadzai begin the Teen Wolf season by discussing the huntress herself, the Allison Argent.The deuteragonist of the series (at least during her time on the show), Allison arrives in Beacon Hills to begin her junior year, and quickly becomes a love interest for the lead, Scott McCall. Over time, though, she learns the truth about werewolves and the supernatural goings-on in town, as well as secrets about her family - the Argents - and their position as hunters of the supernatural. Her physical prowess, common sense intelligence, and her capacity for empathy, make her a key and memorable part of the show, even beyond her untimely death.Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of arson, emotional abuse, grooming, mental illness and related stigma, racism, and religious bigotry.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod

It's the first MID SEASON, where Sandile and Fadzai do an episodic rewatch of a cancelled one-season show in the genre of supernatural drama series! Take a detour to Chance Harbour as they revisit "The Secret Circle", a CW hopeful from the creators of "The Vampire Diaries" that didn't quite stick the landing.Join your hosts for this brief introduction before jumping into the first official episode!Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod

In this S1 special of It Was an Animal Attack, Fadzai and Sandile put two generational giants of the genre in the ring - The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Character archetypes, genre tropes, story inspiration and influences (and sometimes, direct rip-offs), along with the usual episode nonsense.Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of gratuitous violence, homophobia, murder, racism, religious fanaticism, sexual assault, and slavery.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod

Spin-off! Your hosts talk Storm in X-Men: Evolution and various other adaptations of the X-Men comics, The Little Mermaid and its surprising metaphors, and some early to mid-2000s vampire-related Disney movies. Also: a Tyra Banks throwback, more X-Men comics (the Krakoa era!), and the silliness of "gingercide".Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of fetishisation, internalised bigotry, misogynoir, and racism.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod-(00:00:05) - Ororo Munroe / Storm in X-Men: Evolution(00:11:34) - The Little Mermaid: Fairytale, Movie, Metaphor(00:14:14) - Disney vampire movies and shows(00:16:28) - Iris West, DC female reporter girlfriends, and so-called "gingercide"(00:18:06) - An iconic panel from the X-Men comic, Bishop: War College(00:20:10) - Once Upon a Time and the currency of hope(00:21:10) - An America's Next Top Model throwback moment(00:22:10) - Characters dying mid-sentence / mid-thought(00:23:21) - Dark romance book tiktok memes

Living dead! Fadzai and Sandile planeswalk the line between life, death, and several realities with Bonnie Bennett.One of the main characters of The Vampire Diaries, Bonnie is the best friend of lead character, Elena Gilbert, and a budding witch with ties leading back to Salem and the founding of Mystic Falls. As she discovers more about her powers, and the existence of vampires and the greater supernatural lurking in her town and out in the world, Bonnie is at first hesitant to get involved, given the historical fate of witches in and beyond her family. By the end of the first season, though, she reaches a point of certainty that she wishes to be the town's protector from vampires and the harm they cause to its innocent people.Beyond this point, however, Bonnie finds herself constantly having to compromise her principles given her friends' association with vampires - and some of her friends becoming vampires. From a narrative standpoint, this is largely a result of Bonnie's relegation as a character in the story, with focus placed on her usefulness as a witch in solving supernatural problems for the group. With several deaths, depowerings, and damn-near farcical tragedies under her belt, Bonnie's time in the show is mired by trauma and neglect - especially as the one black main character - and she is in retrospect someone in the show, and in the genre, who deserved so much better.(This episode focuses on Bonnie in seasons 5 and 6.)Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction, defeated mental state, familial abandonment, familial neglect, grooming, gratuitous violence, mental coercion and manipulation, physical abuse, racism, sexual abuse, assault and related victim blaming, slavery, and suicide and suicidal ideation.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod

Spin-off! Your hosts talk the live-action God of War casting, the most recent incarnations of the Addams Family, and some chatter on Castlevania and Nocturne. Also: Talk to Me (2023) and skibidi teens, the career of Bianca Lawson, and the retelling of a truly insane episode of Touched by an Angel.Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod-(00:00:05) - Ethnicity and the live-action God of War casting(00:01:50) - The 2020's Addams Family movies(00:03:15) - Castlevania / Nocturne chatter(00:05:55) - Twitches (2005) and apologies in the wrong direction(00:06:55) - Talk to Me (2023) and kids messing with stuff they shouldn't(00:09:06) - The Vampire Diaries vs Twilight(00:11:45) - A truly insane storyline from Touched by an Angel(00:16:00) - Bianca Lawson's illustrious career(00:17:10) - Language, kinship, and ostracism(00:18:44) - The truth of the "rainbow nation"

Fadzai and Sandile make magic and mayhem with the wonderful witch of the southeast, Bonnie Bennett.One of the main characters of The Vampire Diaries, Bonnie is the best friend of lead character, Elena Gilbert, and a budding witch with ties leading back to Salem and the founding of Mystic Falls. As she discovers more about her powers, and the existence of vampires and the greater supernatural lurking in her town and out in the world, Bonnie is at first hesitant to get involved, given the historical fate of witches in and beyond her family. By the end of the first season, though, she reaches a point of certainty that she wishes to be the town's protector from vampires and the harm they cause to its innocent people.Beyond this point, however, Bonnie finds herself constantly having to compromise her principles given her friends' association with vampires - and some of her friends becoming vampires. From a narrative standpoint, this is largely a result of Bonnie's relegation as a character in the story, with focus placed on her usefulness as a witch in solving supernatural problems for the group. With several deaths, depowerings, and damn-near farcical tragedies under her belt, Bonnie's time in the show is mired by trauma and neglect - especially as the one black main character - and she is in retrospect someone in the show, and in the genre, who deserved so much better.(This episode focuses on Bonnie in seasons 1 and 2.)Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of familial abandonment, familial neglect, gratuitous violence, mental coercion and manipulation, racism, sexual abuse, assault and related victim blaming, slavery, and suicide and suicidal ideation.Questions, queries, or just to say hi!E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.comRefs and Links: IWAA S1All our online stuff!Podcast: It Was an Animal AttackTwitter: @animattackpodInstagram: @animalattackpodTiktok: @animalattackpodYouTube: @animalattackpod