by Helen Langdon
And that’s it. With a thrilling denouement, featuring enough running around to make you feel exhausted just watching it, Wolfblood has finally come to an end, perhaps forever. The third series finale didn’t just bring the season’s plotlines to a close – what is Segolia up to? Who can be trusted? Just who is going to end up in a relationship? – but also some of the storylines the series has been dealing with from the start.
And that’s it. With a thrilling denouement, featuring enough running around to make you feel exhausted just watching it, Wolfblood has finally come to an end, perhaps forever. The third series finale didn’t just bring the season’s plotlines to a close – what is Segolia up to? Who can be trusted? Just who is going to end up in a relationship? – but also some of the storylines the series has been dealing with from the start.
We might have been praising Wolfblood’s stories over the past few weeks, but “Moonrise” was never going to win many awards in the originality department. It’s a season finale, and does everything it needs to in that respect, tying up the loose ends and providing some closure to the series arc. Kincaid has most of the Wolfbloods locked up in his dungeon (Sweeney, Dacia and Gerwyn aside, and the latter two just kind of vanish out of the narrative), and reveals that he’s already injected them with the making-them-human serum. Once the moon rises, that’s it – they’re human forever.
Obviously there’s an antidote, and it’s a race against time to... inject the Wolfbloods with Wolfblood juice again? Eh, who cares, science. The episode does everything a finale should do, giving us the villain’s motivation (could have been nice to have this hinted at earlier in the series, what with the parallels to Rhydian, but we can’t have everything in life, and at least this explained his bad leg) and also letting us know what’s going to happen to most of the side characters (presumably Shannon and Tom are going to be doing something, but to be honest, it’s more satisfying to know that Liam’s going to start up a paintball centre and use Gerwyn as an accountant). And for romantics in the audience, if Tom and Shannon’s kiss wasn’t enough (called it), Rhydian got to have his happy ending by tracking Maddy down in the mountains of Canada. In the absence of Aimee Kelly’s return, that meant two CGI wolves nuzzling in the snow.
So, what's next for Wolfblood? According to series creator Debbie Moon, CBBC haven’t yet commissioned a new series (but with the hashtag trending on Twitter and the show one of the most-watched on iPlayer, it’s probably quite likely). If it does return, it’s anyone’s guess as to what would happen. In a blog post, Moon said that it would be unlikely for all of the actors to return, and that they’d be telling new stories. With the departure of Aimee Kelly at the end of season two, Wolfblood proved that it could lose its leading actress and still be as good as before. By losing and gaining characters, especially in that age group, Wolfblood manages to be incredibly realistic for a show about werewolves – after all, people don’t stay together forever.
So, what's next for Wolfblood? According to series creator Debbie Moon, CBBC haven’t yet commissioned a new series (but with the hashtag trending on Twitter and the show one of the most-watched on iPlayer, it’s probably quite likely). If it does return, it’s anyone’s guess as to what would happen. In a blog post, Moon said that it would be unlikely for all of the actors to return, and that they’d be telling new stories. With the departure of Aimee Kelly at the end of season two, Wolfblood proved that it could lose its leading actress and still be as good as before. By losing and gaining characters, especially in that age group, Wolfblood manages to be incredibly realistic for a show about werewolves – after all, people don’t stay together forever.
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