Contains Spoilers A clip from my KZhead video: Wednesday has painfully bland characters | a deep dive. In this Short, i analyze and explain the writing of Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) from Tim Burton’s Wednesday (2022, Netflix). Her story was disappointing because of the way it ends in season 1.
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The fact that her mom would only accept her as a wolf is actually a problem that I think she’s gonna have to deal with. Does Enid’s mom love her for who she is, or does she just love the fact that Enid’s a werewolf? If it’s the latter, is Enid going to realize this and stand up for herself? And how will being a werewolf impact her life from now on? These are just a few questions the next season could explore.
these are my thought exactly!!!
There another way they can play this , what if Enid can only Wolf out , when her emontions are highly pushed ( she loves Wedsday and was scared she was going to be killed) but has a mental block on wolfing out every full moon . Making her wolfing out a thing thats not predictable.
being a person that is used to lot of dysfunctional things happened in my life. It's actually really exciting for me that Enid was able to stand up and defend her friend. As well as being able to still keep Wednesday in her life. That being said we have the issue of whether her mother will want to send her to a Wolf academy or if she'll be able to stay in Nevermore. We'll have the conflict for Enid of trying to figure out her family and maybe realizing that she doesn't want her mother in her life if she can't even accept her for who she was or might be. edit: for me personally that's faced a lot of strife in life I enjoy when there's great wholesome plot twists.
ill cry my eyes out if she isent in season 2
That's legit what I was thinking
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I would honestly love that now that her mom accepts her she starts rejecting her mom giving her a new bitter view on having transformed and slowly hating everything that comes with that. giving her a bit of a lone wolf arch but as she realizes that her problems are her mother and the way she pressured and made Enid feel othered when she should've been supportive and given Enid time and even actually try to help Enid herself instead of trying to basically put her in a conversion camp of sorts because it was taking too long.
**clears throat** Wenclair
Absolutely yes ❤
Jenna doesnt want romance in the show tho
@@milanek1527 not really up to her, is it.
My guess is that she'll come to dislike her powers or struggle with them and wish she'd never changed after all, with her arc being that the grass isn't always greener. But a resolved arc in season 1 usually means the character will be used in the next season to introduce us to other characters and then become overshadowed by these new characters, so I'm guessing we'll be seeing new wolves - maybe Enid's relatives?
I just want the wolf girl to thrive, I can understand that her plotline/conflict may be over but having just a shiny partner with Wednesday is honestly just so fun to see
I disagree. First of all, they didn't know if they would get a second season while filming the first, so 'saving' Enid's wolfout could have been a huge missed opportunity. And the show's best 'trick' for setting up future storylines is that it hasn't fleshed out its own world when it comes to outcast society yet. So since we don't know all the rules of the show's lore yet, there are plenty opportunities for discovering Enid's relationship with her own wolf and pack. And judging by the vast amounts of fanfic about that, the possibilities are limitless. Then we aren't even mentioning yet that the dynamic between Enid and Wednesday is one of the show's main driving forces. And it's also THE driving force behind Wednesday's developemental journey. Enid is teaching Wednesday how to be a friend. (which is why I hope they stay away from romance plots for Wednesday's character, because girl needs to learn how to be a friend first.)
I agree- this is also an example of Chekhov’s Gun- Enid’s struggle with “wolfing out” was a gun, and they had to use it. Also I think there’s plenty of character development and struggle that will come as she finds herself after “wolfing out.” Enid was an outcast from her family- where does she fit in now?
I think it ended well and i am not really expecting a second season
I think the tension with Enid’s family will still be there, things don’t often change because something good happens one time. Perhaps they’ll see it as a fluke or her mother will find other things to blame. Another potential route they could take is have Enid’s emotions come into play. I’ve thought before that while she is an open person, she could be scared to open up about something really important like her feelings if she think she’s in the wrong. A conflict with Ajax in which Ajax ditches her for some reason (either on accident or purpose) could make her very emotional but very scared of her own emotions. She would seek advice from the people closest to her, Wednesday and Yoko, but Wednesday likely wouldn’t know how to deal with it, and maybe Yoko sides with Ajax or something? An argument with Yoko perhaps could be bigger drama than with Ajax, perhaps. This would leave Enid feeling isolated, and as someone who relates to a lot of things about Enid, when she feels like she’s all alone, she might turn the blame on herself. One of the problems with Enid being so modern and open is the possibility of the walls being torn down and her feeling vulnerable. So no, I do not think her character has run out of options.
You can't have the show without her
I love the way her and Wednesday’s personalities bounce off of each other and yet mesh at the same time.
this is a clip from my youtube video! i love the idea of Enid & all her cute outfits 💕 but would love to see her character be written better for S2. what did you think of her?
I really like her. She's my favorite. I kind of get what you mean by the wolfing out being a little rushed. But, she's fine
What is the problem with someone having a 'happy ending' and someone who can simply be there for support and love?! Do we NEED to have a 'thing' going on with someone?
In real life there is nothing wrong with that, but people definitely tend to prefer to have some type of conflict for a narative.
The series is Wednesday’s journey of discovery; Enid is important because of her relationship to Wednesday, and her role in Wednesday’s development as a character.
Whatever.. It would've been boring if the same story arc continued in Season 2.. Glad they gave a proper satisfying ending to Season 1. This video proves that people can complain about anything
Maybe Enid only wolf’s out in a specific type of moon (wasn’t it the blood moon or something?), adding some deepening tasty scrumptious juicy lore into the werewolf population
There is a lot of things to resolve with Enid like how Enid is expected to join the werewolf society to the reality of her actual fitting into the werewolf society
My major questions are what happens to tyler and is his mother where they are talking him or did she truly die
I see her leading her own pack and being Wednesday's bff and protector. Even if Wednesday doesn't need protection. Enid will always be by her side. She'll always be the happy and goofy Lucan. However being Wednesday's bff she's going to learn a bit and be a badass. As for her and Ajax. They make a great couple. (Even though I'm a Wednsnid fan) But the idea of a Local and a Gorgon together. Badass
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They made the metaphor for werewolf=straight really on the snout so it’s kinda weird that she just wolfs out
on the snout lol
idk if you're aware of some werewolve lore, and I certainly don't 💀 but i'm thinking of the repercussions of her wolfing out and enid technically saving wed from tyler-hyde; lycans are known to be protective, those scars on her face are battle scars that may haunt her and wednesday would feel some guilt from that. There's actually so much more to explore for her character growth and friendship dynamic with an "I owe you" w/ wed will be different now 👀 physical touch isn't in her character, but she showed her vulnerable side; kissed tyler but got betrayed, then saved by enid and returned her gratitude by hugging her. I would expect they'll make Enid wolfing out as a struggle to control over her wolf, considering her wolf encountered a hyde; u could say it's definitely watching out for wed as a protector now 🤔 joining a pact may come in handy, she won't get accepted easily OR they'll treat her such a hero that will make wed feel left out/distant from their newly found titles from the school
i think her conflict with her motger is pretty much still a thing. it didn't get resolved, she just managed to conform to her expectations. there is A LOT to uncover there.
They clearly weren’t planning for a Season 2
The problem with Enid is, there is no problem. 😁 She's awesome.
Somebody needs to write their own script, produce their own show, or both.
I mean, with how netflix is, they probably wanted be able to make a single season, that could stand on its own if netflix chose to not continue it. So they wanted to probably wrap up alot of stuff, just in case.
I thought that she was going to turn into a werecat 😭 because of the claws, and she said she was a kitty! She was so adorable, intense and fierce, like a cat. Not like a canine
Can you do Blair waldorf? She’s my favourite character!!
She could easily struggle in season 2 with werewolf pack dynamics and still struggle with her family because she might be so used to being a lone wolf that she may decide to stick with her outcast friends vs her werewolf family. She might also have to choose between Ajax and another werewolf she meets dating wise.
imagine a new character is introduced and problems between her and ajax start happening
Yes, she wolfed out to save Wednesday, but I could see her still having problems when it’s not to protect her loved ones. Doing something one time doesn’t always mean you can do it again.
Just bc in the season finale we see her "wolf out" during the blood moon it doesnt mean her journey to full fledge werewolf is over, her tansformation could've easily been the result of the adrenaline and the extra pull of the blood moon that triggered it, meaning she could still be struggling on season 2 to learn how to trigger the transformation on her own now that she knows she can "technically" phase
I pointed this out to my bf when we watched it. There weren't enough questions left unanswered. It feels like they wanted to set up for a season 2, but didn't think they'd get one.
I think Enid is still going to deal with her mom berating her for wolfing out on her time and Mama might be all "if you just went to Camp Howl you would have wolfed out sooner!" Type of thing. But also the new season means new beginnings and new problems, maybe the prospect of Enid's mate or something.
Enid was never a sidekick ever she is one of the mains and the best one though the series is based on Wednesday but her role was very much important too in that so..
Not every character needs to be in a crisis, Wednesday and the family has enough for a town to go around. There is good room for a nice and happy companion, even in Wednesday :) Her situation is very open for a season 2 honestly. She can go from love interest to antagonist. Gods know that conflict is a awkward stare away in any teenage drama, don't think we need to worry much.
She wolfed out once. Who’s to say it will ever happen again? Like in Beast Machines, Rattrap would spontaneously transform but, he couldn’t figure out how to control it. I figured it would be a similar situation
I think the question is what it’ll do to her? I mean she’s literally a sunshine, but after wolfing out and almost ending someone? That’s a lot for a character like Enid
I'd really like for Enid to fully stand up to her mom, because her accepting her now that she can transform is an incredibly hypocritical thing to do, and a cruel thing for a parent to do to their child. I want Enid get the strength to face her mom and call her out on her behaviour, which is pretty damn awful. Then she'd have room to make a choice on how she wants to deal with her family from now on.
Netflix looooves to put cliffhangers for season 1 of every show and then cancel the show so I rather take this than the constant annoyance of just being teased. I know Wednesday gets S2, but at the time it wasn’t so sure sure.
They could be doing that thing they did with Zuko in Last Airbender. Give them what they always wanted and realize, they hate it and go back to the people who did care about them.
Maybe she'll have problems with wolfing out again or maybe shell have some kind of a trauma after wolfing out and whole season 1 finale, she's so cheerful after all and maybe it could hurt her in some ways lol. Either way I really hope for something bigger for Enid rather than just sidekicking
They didn't know they were going to have any more seasons
The fact that season 2 is in production hell and main characters leaving and being fired. Maybe its for the best she has no spoilers
I’m going to point out that not every character needs unsolved issues at the end of the season, however there are still some conflict in the way that Enid’s mother would accept her thanks to her wolfing out she would still have issues with her mother, but we still have other characters that have unsolved conflicts, it is all right to let some of the characters have their happy endings until the conflicts of the next season start Wednesday has her new stalker and Tyler has seemingly escaped we have enough conflicts to carry over into the next season, I’m also going to point out that Netflix loves to cancel shows if they are not popular enough, stuff that is not as popular as Stranger Things and how Wednesday has been doing usually do not make it past a season or two so they can’t leave to much unsolved stuff going on.
The problem is there is no guaranteed second season for anything anymore, no matter how good it is. Best to wrap up a bit than leave cliff hangers that may never be resolved.
Enid was one of the best parts of the wednesday show
she’ll have to get used to her new werewolf form tho??? like i see a lot of potential for exploring that. there could be a mystery of something “going wrong” or it affects her daily life/who she is as a person, just magical shenanigans
I think it just got caught up in first-season-itis. The concept was so weird that they weren’t sure it was even going to make it to season two or what type of audience would take to it. It’s such a weird mix of a teen movie but with nostalgia that only adults would have! I’m really excited for season two just because I think the writers now know where they stand!
Ok, everyone wants an Enid x Wednesday relationship and some of the writers I believe want it too, maybe that will be the conflict of season 2 between them, conflicting feelings and such, especially since the whole Percy situation is still ongoing
I think despite endid wolfingout, she will not fit in or at least with her mother. She will realise that it is not what define her and need to find who she is and what she want. Not wolfingout was just a pretext she made to herself for her problems.
enid is wednesday's foil. she gets love from that simple fact alone. am perfectly fine with the lack of a cliffhanger for her. shes supposed to balance wednesday and be the only one capable of putting up with her. Enid is untouchable
Its very likely Enid is unique with her wolf form, its triggered by strong emotion not full moon, and she has control unlike the other werewolves that need to be locked out during full moon.
She still has all her family issues her mother and father won’t just stop being an issue just because she is finally what they expect of her - it doesn’t erase the years before plus it’s clear how she has trouble fitting within her family and how that makes her “needy”, learning to control the wolfing out and also in its core she’s still a very good trope: Colorful sweet teen who is a monster. There’s a lot to work with when it comes to Enid especially since Wednesday seems seasonal as in we will get new villains characters and conflicts each time.
Personally think they tried to tie up a certain number of loose ends and conflicts just in case they didn't get a season 2. They did what they could to make season 1 a complete series on it's own leaving it just open enough to build off if they get to continue the series.
Or maybe the conflict will be with trying to feel like a werewolf,to join in with a pack, when she has been an outsider for so long... she has to understand and accept that side of her nature. Also,I think she will still have issues with her mum.
She's so sweet ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Not so sure about that. Sure, her mom might accept her now (assuming she doesn't find another fault in Enid), but will Enid herself just accept her mother's "love" after being denied it for so long over something she couldn't control ? Knowing how fake it has to be for her wolfing out to be the only reason she was denied, then granted it ? Even if she does and tries to please her mother further, her relationship with Ajax might be put into question as well. After all, Enid's mom didn't care about her daughter's crush since her wolfing out was a "much more pressing matter", but now that Enid's a full wolf, will she still turn a blind eye to her daughter dating a Gorgon instead of a proper wolf who could give her werewolf kids to continue the family line ? Season one's conflicts have been resolved for most characters, so season two's will be different for everyone and Enid's can easily be deduced from what we've already seen.
As someone who took Novel classes, let me explain WHY its not an issue. enid having the wolf issue was one kind of conflict. what we call man vs himself” you can have her encounter one of the other two, Man vs nature or Man vs man. The fact they tied it up was just basic storytelling. Its called a subplot. they had no guarantee of a second season and even if they did, its better for the story not to leave loose ends
She has plenty of conflict...like coming to terms with the fact that her mom only accepts her AFTER she wolfed out...dealing with the fact that if she hadn't she wouldn't be given the love she craved
I still believe that Wednesday should've left and have every season set in a new school, have it become an anthology series with new characters and locations every season, that's at least what I would've done.
It is what it is people write stories how they write stories I am OK with whatever I’m not expecting. Also, when they tend to stretch out someone’s story, and some thing, it takes them a long time, and sometimes they don’t end up not focusing on the character. I’ve noticed the most TV shows, and it just ends up being on one track and not everybody else.
It seems there's quite the possibility for a strong conflict between Enid and Tyler. The contrasting scars they left on eachother's faces has essentially marked them as enemies. Should the Hyde(?) truly return, it's likely Enid's major conflict will be keeping him away from Wednesday, or something along those lines!
Just because she has wolf’ed out, I don’t think that will automatically make her family accept her. Some parents no matter what you do, it’s never enough. They keep moving the goal posts further away just as you are about to cross the line. It wouldn’t surprise me if next they are insistent of her dating other werewolves solely. Before they probably didn’t care who she got with because she was the black sheep and a disappointment. But now she has shaped up to their expectations, they will expect her to fall in line even more.
My only question is Wenclair bc these girls deserve each other
Her wolfing out needs to be a fluke, that way she's still a 'disappointment' but its almost worse because she's done it once and can't replicate it. More pressure for her to grow. Her arc is a tough one though, maybe self-acceptance needs to be her goal
I think setting up a second season that heavily would have made me walk away. I refuse to watch shows that rely on set up future seasons that have not been greenlit.
i mean who's to say she can wolf out on command, looked like she was massively assisted by circumstancial adrenaline - and she's still the foil to Wednesday, our star of the show wouldn't shine half as dark without that obnoxiously bright light standing next to her
That was gonna be my thoughts as well just a sidekick character but we will see
Characters failing is not interesting character just because they fail. Enid is a great character because when she fails, it's actually gonna mean something. Same as Wednesday. She is very well grounded and difficult to disrupt. Therefore, a truly satisfying character. Any character can be flawed.
I have to disagree. There was no guarantee that a season 2 would happen, and giving her a satisfying ending to her story was the best option. Adams Family was always about how these monstrous characters were a happy, caring family and friendly, if odd, neighbors. A happy, fulfilling ending fits perfectly with the main theme going back to the original comic strip.
She might struggle with controlling her Wolf part? She might still be bitter towards her mother and what IF Wednesday's stalker is Ajax?
I didn't wached the show but if I'll have to ges there will be a big fight between Enid and her mom
There’s plenty of things they can do to create more conflict with enid’s emotions, family, and transformation. Just depends on how good the writers are.
You know fans…they want two best friends being a couple…but Jenna says maybe not because Wednesday should be more of a horror mystery that rebels against the teen genre.
I think Enid has some potential issues left with her transformation. Mostly control issues, she hasn't wolfed out before so she doesn't have the experience to control her shifts. We're probably going to get some pretty funny scenes out of her learning process. Also, her mother is going to be a problem, in a super proud of my daughter but i can't give up control kind of way, but a problem none the less.
Shes awesome we will take what we get
I see her mother pushing even harder. It seems like her mom thinks Lycanism should be the only thing that defines her. She may see Nevermore and Wednesday as distracting.
she will be just fine
Anyone else want her turn into a werecat or something else?
You just described a side character....
I like things being wrapped up at the end of a season, especially in today’s unstable TV land. You’re never guaranteed a next season and I’m sick of having unanswered questions at the end. I’ve never recovered from Alphas, and I refuse to watch the last season of Santa Clarita Diet because I know it ends on a cliffhanger.
So pretty
clearly her mother will reject ajax as enyd’s boyfriend.
Yea interspecies Porking is gonna be weird. Also teen preggers this is the Adams family after all.
Enid and her mom will probably have an uncomfortable shift in their relationship and their problems might not resolve. She's gonna have to deal with her relationship with wolfing out and her mother's expectations and ideas of Enids worth. I don't want Enid to go through that tho so I hope they do something thats gonna end out well for her. I know Enid has a good idea of her worth and knows shes great but still. They can play off of her strengths and she's good.
Her character will likely have to deal more with her relationship with her mother. Sure now that she has wolfed out her mother will accept her. But what does tgat mean for her? Does her mom see her as an individual person or as just another extention of the werewolf race? Sure now she gets the acceptance she what's for her mom. But does that really make her happy because it only has happened because she has Wolfed out (again see the first question) then there is the problem of who she is dating. Do we really think a mother that is so obsessed with her daughter wolfing out that she wanted to send her to a conversation camp would be alright with her dating a non-werewolf? Because I have a strong feeling she won't be happy about it. So again we come back to her mother and hers relationship and if she will stand up to her mother and what that may mean for their relationship. Then there is also the fact that while it seems her mothers attitude (a werewolf centered-ness way of thinking. Like being self-centered but around werewolf-ness) is not a universal thing within werewolfs (the father seems to care and support her no matter what and her brothers don't seem the care one way or another. They are self engrossed in werewolf-ness. They seem to be different from their mother because while they seem to be werewolf centered it is more about just being caught up in the experience of it and not thinking about anything outside of it. Where as the mother seems to be thinking about what it means to be a werewolf and what is and is not the proper way of being one and taking a huge amountof pride in it) there may be a certain part of the werewolf people that think/feel like her mother and they could also cause conflict (even if it is just some other ingredients and social exclusion Which was part of her worry when she couldn't wolf out. Now if she still gets that from her "people" because of who she is dating it will be much the same for her as when she couldn't wolf out).
I would politely disagree,the questions for her are how will her mom treat her now that she wolfed out?Will we see more of what her siblings and family are like?
i think it would be cool for them to explore enid's relationship with her mother following the change. it could create an interesting parallel with the homophobia/conversion allegory they've been using. after all, many queer people with homophobic family members will find themselves in m/f relationships and having to deal with those homophobic family members supporting them for all the wrong reasons. that can create a lot of guilt, as well as further damage the relationship with that relative bc it is so difficult to tell if their support is stemming from bigotry or not. enid could even find herself harmed in one way or another by the wolf form and have to choose between the newfound acceptance from her family and her own safety. i wasnt very impressed with the show, so i doubt the writers will go to a lot of interesting places with her character, but there is definitely some space for growth.
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wrong, Enid is still very interesting
Hello! Could you do Blair Walforf next?
I think have the Hyde’s claws be poisoned be cool so have of season 2 is trying to get an antidote for a poison that is slowly killing her
YES someone agrees with me I don’t think she should’ve wolfed out
I think they ended ther series like, because they weren't expecting to make another season 2 or something like that.
I like Enid how she is!!!!
My main question is why do people think she's Greek, or is she actually Greek like HELP
Idk, maybe because werewolves originate from Greece
Enid is perfekt! Nuff said.
In the show Enid is treated in a similar way some queer characters or real people are treated, parents wanting to send them off to conversion therapy in order for them to be what their parents want them to be. In Enid’s case it’s like a bisexual or pansexual individual getting a partner who’s the opposite sex/gender and due to their apparent straightness, the parents accept them. Yes your parents are better to you, but it just highlights how much your parents will only accept you and love you when you do what they want. I could see Enid becoming more angry and aggressive, upset that only now does her mother accept and love her, while having a sought of hatred towards her wolf side for proving that, this is the only way her mother will love her.
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Luffy is so likeable it’s actually unbelievable. if anyone hurts him there will be blood shed
Bro what, this ain't even about one piece 💀