Someone needs to tell him that less technobabble and more nerdy gestures will take him further down the road to filling in for the Lone Gunmen, who for some budgetary reasons were not the consultants du jour. Well, anyway . . . A monster is an obstacle to our perfect pair, supplied nicely with a paranormal aspect and whose threat derives from that aspect. I suppose Mr. Amann thought he'd try something oblique. Assuming the Sheriff's boy was a good boy before the . . .
Incipient sexpots seem to be immune.
Smarty pants kids are not. We've seen again and again, and I've pontificated again and again, that although the road to MOTW excellence does not end at monster size, it does begin there. Being able to move fast is a serious threat to the natural order of things and it warranted the presence of our dear duo, but just barely. There is no need for this. There was no good reason for this monster to be self-limiting.