#Phoe Rewatching Teen Wolf

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Oh, that Peter-Stiles dynamic is just so fascinating. Right off the bat. I remembered that it fascinated me, but I didn't remember that they are fascinating right from the start.

The tension in their first meeting at the hospital. How Peter, who has hurt or killed everyone he encountered so far, just... circles his prey until Derek gets there to defend Stiles.

The way Peter just. Tore into Lydia without a thought. But didn't harm Stiles at all.

The way Peter only bit Scott out of opportunity but wants Stiles in his pack - because Stiles is "the clever one" - and actually offers Stiles the bite. Doesn't force it onto him, fully giving Stiles the choice and then leaving without doing... any harm at all... when Stiles says no.

Obsessed with how obsessed Peter is with Stiles.

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I just generally love 02x08 Raving so damn much though.

Not just because of the Spark Stiles moment that's stored in it.

It's also because that episode was, and still is, what unlocked Pack Mom Stiles for me.

Stiles alone with Erica and Isaac, who so far have been snarky and cocky and pushing around. But left alone with Stiles in this episode, they both defer to him. He takes the lead, they take the backseat. They follow his orders and commands. They agree to what he tells them to do.

And it clicks all the better considering last episode, Scott officially, verbally agreed to join Derek's pack. Kind of meaning that Stiles also joined the pack.

So, the moment Stiles joins the pack, the betas start following him and his orders.

And it goes even beyond that. This is the episode that first really features Stiles bringing his dad food, healthy food. Watching out for him. Showing his love with food. Which is one of my favorite things to see reflected in fandom by Stiles taking care of the pack by making them eat good/healthy/at all.

This is the episode that really kickstarted Pack Mom Stiles.

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Just rewatched 02x08 Raving and it is truly so unhinged of the writers to set up magic!Stiles and not pull through with it.

I mean, they really did set that up, that's not something delusional fans fully made up themselves, they had the damn druid be extra cryptic and make it sound like only Stiles could do this and use such weirdly phrased advise that really makes your alarm bells ring and then they have Stiles run out of mountain ash with a significant way to go and give himself a pep talk about belief and imagination and he confidently strides along while producing mountain ash out of thin air.

He had no mountain ash anymore. It's not even that he still had some left but not enough and he believed that it would last and the container just never ran out - that would somehow still feel different.

No, the writers chose to have him fully run out of mountain ash and magically produce it in his hands, not even in the bag that had carried the original mountain ash. He just magically makes mountain ash appear.

And when he has to break the circle to let Derek in to save Scott it is a near magical gust of wind that breaks the circle, like again Stiles willed it to break.

None of this is random. None of this is just easily explained with something rooted in the plot. The only explanation the writers leave you with is magic.

And then they never bring it up again and never let Stiles perform magic again and how do you do that. How do you introduce something so tantalizing in such an obvious manner and then just forget that you set that up and never pull through with it.

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Having finished season 2 of my Teen Wolf rewatch and I gotta say, THE dumbest thing of the first two seasons really does remain the fact that the Argents pretend to be a matriarchy.

Our sons are soldiers and our women are leaders.

Yeah, sure, totally. Yep. That's why Chris makes all of the decisions until Gerard comes by and becomes the sole leader whom everybody follows. And that's also why we only ever see Victoria in the kitchen making cookies for the hunters instead of in the room where it happens, giving the fucking orders, as a leader would. And that's totally also why Allison knew jackshit until she started dating a werewolf and got dragged into this thing.

She was seventeen by then and they were still reluctant to teach her about anything, at all. Seventeen. That's still so unhinged to me like I'm sorry you can vote in certain elections and you can learn how to drive and you can legally drink (in my country anyway), but you are definitely not old enough to learn about the supernatural shit that your family has been dealing with for centuries.

If your women were leaders, you would have taught her how to lead. You would have taught her earlier about... literally anything, so she could be prepared and so she would be a good leader.

Chris was the Argent in charge, until Gerard was. Kate was never the leader even though as the oldest born Argent woman, she should have been.

Heck, I still contest that Victoria should have been the Argent! She was the unhinged uncaring bitch of the family, she fit so much better with Gerard and Kate than Chris did. It also would make... so much more sense... if the husband took the wife's name in a culture that claims to be a matriarchy...?

It's just. It's just such bullshit. And they didn't have to. They didn't have to claim that they are a matriarchy, they didn't have to pretend that the women in their world hold the power and are the leaders, they didn't have to do that, so why do it, just to never not once at any point follow through with that claim. That's so wild.

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It is just genuinely baffling to me that they wrote Jackson off for season 3.

And I am aware that he was written off because it was Colton's choice to leave, and he had every right to, but in-universe wise, for the journey and story of Jackson Whittemore, writing him off was just dumb and unsatisfying and even a recast would have been better.

I mean, they set Jackson's change up in the fourth episode. Of season 1. He gets the claws in the neck and slowly starts changing and we know something isn't going right.

All of season 2 was about him and his corrupted form, that was literally the main overarching plotline.

Jackson's change and journey into becoming a werewolf literally took nearly the entire first two seasons.

And in the season 2 finale, he finally gets what he always wanted. And in, like, the most epic romance moment for him and Lydia.

And then he's just gone in season 3.

All of that. All of that was supposed to be a set-up, we should have gotten to see him freed of the kanima curse be a real werewolf, we should have gotten to see what his and Scott's rivalry would have been like now that they both were werewolves, and truly after that epic moment of love between him and Lydia we should have gotten to see them properly rekindle.

Instead, the character just "moves to London".

Which is on multiple accounts frustrating, like... the Whittemores know that Jackson has issues about his adoption so their logic is that surely it would be healthy for him to move all the way across the pond, far away from where the graves of his birth parents are? Instead of focusing on healing, together, as a family, and confronting the tragedy and Jackson's feelings about it, they just up and move him away from there. It's stupid.

Again, adore Colton, think he was absolutely perfect in the role and I wish he'd been payed what he was worth and hadn't left the show, but damn did I want to see Jackson's story continue.

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I'm currently rewatching Teen Wolf with my best friend, right.

And, for me, Teen Wolf is very unique in that I remember exactly what happens, when and with whom. I'm generally more of the type who remembers the overall and remembers what happened, but it all... blurs together into one story. There are only two shows where I can distinctively say "yeah, that's the plot/villain of season x", or where I can rank you the seasons without having to look up what happens in which season, and those shows are Teen Wolf and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Today, in preparation for further watching with the bestie, I realized there's a season 5B.

I know the storylines and villains of s1, s2, s3A, s3B, s4, s6A, s6B and, until today, I was... falsely... under the impression s5 was one story, namely the s5A storyline.

And I can't really decide if being forgettable is better or worse than remembering and hating.

Because I loathe s6B and s3A, a whole lot. Truly so much. But I know what happens in them. Well, bit fussier on s6B than anything else but that's also because I only watched season 6 one time so far.

When I first got into Teen Wolf, I watched the first two seasons 3 times. In a row. And then continued on watching the show in real time as it released regularly.

Until season 5. I quit the show after season 5, the first time around. And I thought that I did that due to That Fucking Scene in 5A, I fully thought 5A was the thing that made me quit, but there's a whole half season that I also watched and after which I actually quit and I... forgot about it.

I picked the show back up in 2018, rewatched all of it and then watched season 6 for the very first time. So technically, I've seen season 5 two times already. And now, remembering that there are a 5A and a 5B I do recall hazy vague bits about it, but... really not much?

I don't know what this post is. Probably a manifestation of dread building up in me about whether not remembering means that 5B was actually worse than the ones I do remember and hate, and that's why my brain erased it? But then I find it utterly impossible to make worse television than s6B or s3A, so... ya know.

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Quick pitch for the dedicated GIF makers of this fandom:

Pride themed set of the scene when Stiles first becomes first line but coach can't read his own handwriting and calls him Bilinski. But the "Bilinski" is bi flag colored.

Stiles is so bisexual you can't even spell his name without "bi" 💖💜💙

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Teen Wolf Rewatch 2024 (1)

Have a little update on this! So, my bestie @kimmycup and I are watching Teen Wolf together, rewatch for me and first time watching for her.

Today, we covered season 1 episodes 1 through 6.

I love this show. I love this show so much. Holy shit do I love this show.

Just, seeing the first six episodes again absolutely reminds me how I ended up watching this show for the first time and immediately after I finished the first two seasons starting a rewatch, and after that, another rewatch. It's addictive. It's so good.

There is just... nothing to complain about so far? I adore the characters, I immediately imprinted on Stiles the moment he hung upside-down scaring the shit out of Scott, the parent teacher conference served to show the depth of pain and facade on Lydia and Jackson so early on, Scott is such an adorable clueless puppy, all of the pain and trauma of Derek's makes his actions so damn understandable, like yeah it's frustrating for Scott, but, shit, fam, Derek just lost his sister, after he had already lost all of his family and he was a born wolf so of course he doesn't really know how to teach a bitten wolf, Allison is so adorable and I am still madly and deeply in love with both Scallison and Jydia, those ships get me.

I remember watching the first two seasons back during the hiatus before season 3 started and latching onto that show hard, and I love how rewatching them just reignites that spark, still giving me that same feeling of unbridled joy.

And rewatching things you love is just so much fun because you have the knowledge of what will happen and see the little foreshadowing, or have a different context for why a character acts a certain way.

And as can be seen by the fact that we just binged six whole episodes - our episode-per-session average clocks in at about 4 usually - I absolutely dragged my beloved Cupcake into this show for good.

The best news is she did also imprint on Stiles. As one should, when watching the show. It is impossible not to love Stiles, honestly.

And it is another delight to see her get attached to him, and also to discover Sterek. See the little seedlings of the ship already and the potential. It has already been pointed out to me, repeatedly, that those two are a great match, and I wholeheartedly agree, naturally.

It's so fun to see Stiles and Derek's beginnings, especially as I have been dragged into writing Sterek fics again. Though I love their dynamic, it is still so different to see all the moments unfold all over again, it's so much fun.

Oh, I love this show. I just. I just really love this show.

(That tune is gonna change during 3A, and is gonna... fizzle out starting with season 4, which is a shame and a pain and a frustration, but I have so much raw, unadulterated love for the first two seasons and for 3B that I am beyond excited about this rewatch.)

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I'M GONNA START A TEEN WOLF REWATCH TOMORROW AND I AM SO HYPED FOR IT!! AND I GET TO DRAG MY BESTIE INTO THIS HELL!! 💜💜💜

So our list of shows to watch had already included Teen Wolf because in a display of very good taste, she has already been curious to meet Stiles. But there are... many things on our watch-list, and we are technically in the middle of watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we just started season 4 and started season 1 of Angel the Series parallel. So there's like 160+ episodes left total.

Noticing that I have gone fully into hyperfixation on Teen Wolf though, my wonderful delightful and amazing best friend suggested that we pause BtVS/AtS and do TW right now <3

(This has been an announcement, that there might be an influx of TW posts due to the rewatch, and it has also been a post of APPRECIATION for how amazing @kimmycup is)

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Going through my "Phoe Rewatching Teen Wolf" tag from 2018 and stumbled across this and it has me really damn excited because I've been rotating "Stiles pack-moming Liam" in my head for the past week but kept going back to "I really don't remember what their canon dynamic was enough to tell if this is a good idea or fully OoC" - so, hey, for the first time I am actually looking forward to rewatching season 5!!

Aaanyway.

I still love and cherish Stiles Stilinski and he one hundred percent is one of the best characters to ever grace the screen.

I think literally the only thing about season 5A that I thoroughly enjoy is how he is still pack-mom. His relationship with Liam is glorious. He teaches the kid more than the actual alpha does.

He moms Liam so hard. I love it.

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“So the plan is... to get Stiles to come up with a plan?”

 - Teen Wolf, literally a summary of the entire show, by Peter Hale

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Dylan O'Brien being pinned against a wall by his on-screen boyfriend is my aesthetics.

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Stiles Stilinkski is one of the best damn things to ever grace a screen.

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Riiight.

So, I thought that the Shadowhunters was bad with the fake social justice warriors and hatred.

Yet somehow, in the past three days of posting Teen Wolf things, I got more bullshit and hatred from over there than I ever got from the Shadowhunters fandom.

Which is intensely astonishing. Especially considering literally everything I got from TW was about canon things. Defending a canon relationship. Stating the canon portrayal of a character. But somehow, that was worth more insults and bullshit than anything non-canon I have ever done.

Not Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Not Shadowhunters.

Not even Voltron.

Nope. Teen Wolf has officially won my award for having the ugliest fandom. Congratulations, I guess? *shakes head*

Anyway. I will now continue being a piece of shit wasting oxygen and liking the ships and characters I like! ;D

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Teen Wolf Season 4 Rant!

I finished season 4 of my Teen Wolf rewatch and like with 3A and 3B, I’d like to recap.

Before I started this whole rewatch, I was bemoaning that seasons 1 and 2 were the only truly good ones and that with season 3, it went downhill. I corrected myself after theseason 3 rewatch that, while 3A was indeed filled with all the warning signs of decline, 3B actually caught it again pretty well.

Season 4, while not exactly bad, is just... offensively boring and filled with so much retconning that it gave me whiplash. Which, actually, scratch that, it was bad.

For those with as bad a memory as me and not boring to remember what every single season of every single show is about - season 4 was the one with the deadpool, the Benefactor, the Calaveras, Kate Argent and the introduction of Liam.

Honestly, where do I even start...? Let’s start before this season.

The Calaveras and Kate Argent. It’s borderline offensive how badly this was retconned in, to be honest. I mean, on top of how last season’s “Where is the shewolf” was just such a bad, bad attempt at the pronoun game where it would have been infinitely more sense to ask where Kate Argent was. Especially considering she didn’t turn into a wolf.

Kate Argent “died”. And her dad, aka the hardass who is super in love with his code (most of the time, until it becomes more dire to survive), came back just for that. You can not tell me the Calaveras disrespected the Argents so much so that they personally came by to check in if Kate was really dead. Gerard would have done that. You can not tell me the Calaveras just stole the body without even consulting them.

And what exactly did they do for the past fucking year...?

Kate Argent dies at the end of season 2. Season 3 already starts with a three months time-gap. So if the Calaveras stole Kate and then Kate turned and killed them, they should have been at Derek’s doorstep even before season 3 rolled around or at the latest when it actually did. But then all of season 3A passes, another additional months, and only then do they seek out Derek... to... torture him a little and play the pronoun game, just to have him be freed and return right back to Beacon Hills. Why exactly did they not bother to go back and recapture him earlier, but conveniently waited until the Nogitsune was taken care of before they kidnapped Derek again...?

My point is, those are offensively bad hunters. They claim to care so much about the code, but only when it’s about their own people killing themselves?

They seemingly live close enough to Beacon Hills to come and crash a funeral. They didn’t live close enough to come and take care of the Alpha Pack. They knew there were only two living Argents left, the Alpha Pack must have been news that traveled fast. They also conveniently only came after the Nogitsune was taken care of, instead of, you know, helping there. It’s frankly quite ridiculous.

And that they then threaten Scott that if he ever bites someone, they’ll come for him. So... remember how Peter turned Scott and Lydia? How Derek turned Boyd, Erica, Isaac... and Jackson? Because y’all didn’t seem to care about turned people back then either.

But speaking of Derek and turning.

Kate Argent’s convoluted plan of deaging Derek so he trusts her to bring her to the vault is just utterly ridiculous. Really? That... That was the only thing she could find out about learning control? That the Hales had a talisman in their secret vault? That is such specific information, I bet it would have been easier to find actual information on how to control being turned.

Now let’s talk about the talisman that Derek then proceeds to use to teach Liam control. Nice, considering that for his own betas, he used medieval torture devices.

They could have come up with a better reason for why Kate wanted into the vault. Heck, I’d have bought greed and her wanting the 117 million dollars.

But to retcon in some talisman that the Hale pack used to teach control is bullshit considering huge chunks of seasons 1 and 2 was how to teach betas control.

Secondly, the vault itself.

That’d have come in mighty handy during season 3 too. You know, a safe place that could only be opened by Hales. Great to hide your pack at least for a little while. Or, like, to lure Cora and Boyd in there and lock them in safely instead of the fucking boiler room. Or just generally, for the betas to go in there where they can’t hurt anyone else during the full moon.

But that thing was only retconned in now, so don’t think too hard on how its existence would have affected earlier seasons.

Now, let’s continue with the pack. Or lack thereof.

Pack is such a vague thing in this show. First two seasons established that an alpha turns betas and that betas give the alpha strength.

Third season establishes that “losing pack is like losing a limb”, but at the same time also establishes that if an alpha kills his own betas, then he gains more power. Being... rewarded... for cutting off his own limb, killing his own family. In a way, it makes sense, considering the whole system is rigged that you are rewarded for killing your own leader by becoming the new leader. But if the existence of betas give an alpha power and if losing pack is like losing a limb, then killing off your own betas shouldn’t have an effect on you.

And that’s not even starting on the whole issue of how pack is even defined.

Beta wolves give an alpha strength. That makes sense.

But how do the non-wolves factor in? They don’t feel the pack-bond. They’re a whole differen species that should work in a whole different way and thus not really factor into a wolf pack.

Scott McCall’s pack is literally non-existence in wolf-terms.

He had one beta in Isaac, but apparently being in a pack wasn’t important enough for him because he up and vanishes. We see him leave with Argent at the end of season 3 and okay, I’m fine with them seeking comfort in each other. But Chris returns and Isaac is nowhere to be found. So what, after all the ordeals he just abandons the pack and everyone he knows... and no one even talks about him. He lived with Scott and Melissa but we don’t even get a casual mention of anyone still being in contact with him or of where he is. It’s utterly ridiculous, to just pretend like... like he was never there to begin with.

Isaac aside, Scott has a human (Stiles), a banshee (Lydia), a coyote (Malia) and a kitsune (Kira).

There is not a single wolf in that list.

What I liked about 3B was that they set it up like Ethan and Aiden would join the pack, which, yay because then Scott and Isaac wouldn’t be a two wolf pack. But then they kill one twin off and send the other away and it was infuriating.

The so-called True Alpha who earned his alpha-ness by being a born leader has literally no pack to lead. Heck, he seems incompetent enough as an alpha that his only beta doesn’t stick around so they could comfort each other, but instead just abandons him.

And then the so-called True Alpha turns his first beta. And, just like you would imagine from a born leader who earns his alpha status through his natural talent at leading a pack... he kidnaps his beta and ties him up in the bathtub before panic-calling his human friend to fix this mess.

Look, it was a fun comic relief spiel. It’d have been easy enough to buy that he’s overwhelmed if he were a regular alpha. But if you’re trying to sell someone as a super-special snowflake who earned those intense powers by being meant to be an alpha, then you damn well should show him display actual alpha-ness naturally. If you’d give me Scott, handling Liam smoothly and naturally, instantly connecting to him on the basis of this being something Scott has gone through, then that’d have been a good sell.

But abducting Liam and tying him up in the bathtub like you want to go serial killer on his ass is in no way or shape the behavior of a True Alpha.

Also, what about Derek.

I mean, is he now a beta to Scott? Because they work together very frequently now and very smoothly. Or is he an omega? We never talk about it at all.

And since it’s never explained how exactly the pack-bond works - because it seems severe and strong and important, but at the same time it can be shrugged off so easily, as shown by Scott jumping on and off the pack-wagon in season 1 and 2 so often that it makes you ditzzy - there is no telling.

Now, let’s talk parents.

Specifically the parents of Malia and Liam, who seem to have no fucks to give. I mean, those kids sneak out literally all the time but neither parent seems to notice at all. Not to mention the part where Liam’s father is a doctor and he is not the least bit suspicious that his son’s broken bones healed literally over night? Even if it had been a sprain or something, it wouldn’t have healed over night.

Especially with Malia’s father, it pisses me off. He thought she was dead for 8 years. Then he throws her into Eichen House to help, but afterward kinda... nothing. Not even when the school’s under quarantine. We should have really seen the man who lost all his family before be worried there. But just... she sneaks out every single night to spoon her boyfriend and her dad doesn’t notice or care or anything.

And on that note, I’d like to talk about how utterly ridiculous and unrealistic it is that Malia goes to the same classes as Kira, Scott, Lydia and Stiles (I mean, the fact aside how disturbingly convenient it is that literally all the teens are always the exact same age; Aiden, Ethan and Cora were all also exactly in their grade).

The girl’s disappeared eight years ago when she was nine. That made her, what, a third grader. And now, eight years later, she is returned.

And immediately placed in high school. She has no middle school education, she hasn’t even finished elementary school, she is literally missing EIGHT YEARS of education.

And somehow, that all is reduced to a running gag of teachers poking and prodding and making her feel deliberately dumb. Which she isn’t. Holy shit, Malia must be a genius to not just catch up with eight years of general education but then dive head first into algebra and manage a passing grade.

It’s just... It’s already unrealistic enough that the girl who was raised and lived as a wild animal for 8 years is, just like that, reintroduced into society without some major hitches - again, something that is reduced to a running gag by Stiles continuously calling it “It’s progress” whenever she doesn’t follow her instincts - but to assume she’d just... go to... high school... and not immediately fail all of the courses?

That aside, because I’m still not done here, let’s talk about the stakes.

Because, boiled down, that is one of the main reasons why I thought this season was mindnumbingly boring. There are no stakes, at the end of it, everyone survives.

And, yes, I am 100% aware of how hypocritical that sounds considering my main complaint about season 3 in general was that they killed off characters left and right or wrote them out like they had no care in the world.

But you gotta take into account the dimensions of things.

Season 3 was one lousy Alpha Pack and one Nogitsune, yet it had a major character body count of Boyd, Erica, Aiden, Allison.

Season 4 literally has an army of trained assassins as well as untrained greedy assholes, but absolutely no one dies. Not. A. Single. One.

Sure, characters we never met before are seen killed, but, like, no one cares?

Liam should have 100% been dead by the end of it, because he is completely untrained, his parents have no clue whatsover so an assassin would have had such easy game breaking into their house and just killing him while he’s alone at night in bed. Not on like a lacrosse team with the entire pack backing him up or anything.

Heck, it would have been a good way to add stakes by killing off Kira’s mother. Because, yes, always reducing the already barely existing pack is annoying, but Kira’s mom is an elderly kitsune who sacrificed all her powers already so is relatively defenseless. It’d have made the whole thing more real, added a layer of pain and not removed any of the main characters.

And while I love Derek and am immensely glad he survived, that cock-teasing of him being a key because he was about to die, just to instead have him... come back from the dead... was just as deflatting.

If no one dies, there are no stakes. Not if you literally set the play-field out with countless killers and assassins highly motivated by millions of dollars.

And on that note, let’s talk about the Benefactor.

That just hurt. It was just so painful that it is the other big part of why this season was mindnumbingly boring.

It had me super engaged while they were still looking for the Benefactor. Running all the possibilities through my own head. And I came to only one logical conclusion. Gerard Argent.

Because why else would you go through the trouble of keeping him alive after Scott poisoned him? Also, how exactly, because everyone else poisoned kinda died within hours, but he’s been hanging around for months now...? And then how they deliberately showed him in season 3 even though he brought nothing new to the table that Deaton or Peter didn’t also know... I was so sure they set him up as the Benefactor, wanting revenge on the Hales and on all supernaturals.

To have it be Peter, who doesn’t even remember it, was such an immense let-down. Honestly, the pay-off was non-existent in that one.

Lastly, before we end this, let’s talk about Danny.

Or, let’s not, just like the show. Look, he became more and more important over season 3 and then they set it up that he knows about the supernatural. And then he just disappears. Without any explanation.

They could have, at the very least, mentioned it. When Coach goes through his list of players, he somehow still mentions that Jackson is gone even though he’s been gone for a while. That’d have been the moment to explain why Danny is gone. That his parents moved away with him, or whatever. Just... one sentence.

But just like Isaac, he’s simply removed from the plot without any explanation whatsoever.

And in both cases, it really wouldn’t have been hard to just mention where they went, without even having to show it, just to acknowledg that they indeed exist.

Actually, I got one more left in me.

Eichen House. Or Arkham Asylum 2.0. The sudden supernatural prison that was never-ever mentioned before in any form or shape.

You know, the place where Peter Hale should have been sent after he was resurrected. Because he kind of killed Laura and terrorized the entire city? But he went free and somehow was only placed in supernatural prison after... uhm... a crazy-ass banchee decided to turn his thoughts into a supernatural killing-plan?

That’d also have been a great place to put Deucalion, by the way. Because this bullshit spiel of “Hey, so, you slaughtered your entire pack and made four others slaughter their entire pack and then you started slaughtering them too and you also killed my entire pack, but we’re just gonna restore your sight and let you leave” was the biggest bullshit ever. The dude killed so many people but you just think that... that if he gets rewarded for that, he should also go free? No, his ass should have definitely and at the very least been thrown into supernatural prison.

But supernatural prison didn’t exist before it was retconned into season 4, so let’s not think too hard about it, mh.

Which, yeah, to sum it up. There was so much retconning, there were no stakes, there was no pay-off to who the villain was and what his plan was, Kate Argent who was set up to be something bad and fearsome was in the end a total let-down too and it was overall just kind of a mess.

Don’t get me wrong, it still also had good things. It wasn’t entirely bad.

I actually really loved Malia, this third time around. I think that Kira was too much reduced into Scott’s Girlfriend in this and would have loved to see more of her on her own, or which would have been great to concentrate more on Kira’s budding friendship with Lydia and Malia. Or have her more involved with her new role on the team, see her train and talk to her parents about it.

I think the introduction of Parrish and the mystery still surrounding him are great. He’s a great character who brings a nice and fresh dynamic into this.

I loved the team-work between Scott and Derek.

There was still humor in it. Already much less than in previous seasons, but as of now, I still had things to laugh about (my main complaint about season 5 is that I haven’t laughed once in it).

I love packmom!Stiles. And packmom!Stiles was actually really, really strong in season 4. I mean, he moms Liam a lot. He literally shakes his head and mutters “Kids” when Kira and Liam run off into danger. I love that. Made me want to dive right into packmom-fics again.

I enjoyed that we explored Lydia’s banshee powers, and banshees in general, more.

I’m very glad that Chris decided to return, because with him I feared they would write him out this season. What with literally his whole family dying in Beacon Hills, you would so not make me stay there.

I also enjoyed that they brought real-world issues into this. With the financial struggles of the Stilinskis and the McCalls.

Though, gotta admit, Rafael was kind of a throw-away character who literally just repeated the same lines every time “I’m sorry I missed the game/will miss the game. I promised to be there”. They could have done more with his character. I was also missing that Scott and Melissa didn’t tell him the truth. I mean, they tell him to stay in Beacon Hills but they don’t think, from experience with both Melissa and the Sheriff, that telling him the truth would be the safest...? Really not?

So, yeah, that’s my two cents on season 4 in depth. Now time to dive into the season I considered one of the worst things I ever watched on television. Not looking forward to that at all...

[takaraphoenix]

Derek pinning Stiles against hard surfaces will alway be my Teen Wolf aesthetics. Just saying.

And pretending that Derek is “cousin Miguel” to Danny will also always be my aesthetics, because... shirtless!Derek borrowing Stiles’ tiny, tight shirts.

Gods, I swear 120% of why seasons 4 and 5 sucked was because all the humor died and they removed the brilliant dynamics between Stiles and Derek. Even on a non-shipper standpoint, they’re just so much fun.

I knew I missed the fun in this show, but I hadn’t realized just how much until I started rewatching it. Seeing all the color, the fun, the jokes, the character-dynamics. How did they screw this show over so hard...?