#okay the scott and stiles moment in motel cal IS v good but like you could have gotten there honestly.

[astralleywright]

the thing about teen wolf season 3 is that it's bad. like all of teen wolf is bad. but season 3 takes what made the first two seasons so good despite being bad (likeable and compelling characters and not taking itself too seriously) and said actually fuck all of that, this is a Dark and Serious Show now. and it fucking sucked.

but also there's the episode where Scott got fucked up in a werewolf fight but his injury wasn't healing because Derek had (presumably) died in that fight and Scott blamed himself, even though he had been the one trying to find a peaceful solution. but Derek's dead and its Scotts fault and he's bleeding out on the floor of a rest stop bathroom. and Allison has to stitch him up because their only idea is to trick the wound into healing, and she's using a needle sterilized with a lighter and sewing thread from Lydia's purse, and Allison, who shot 10 arrows into another teenager's chest while looking him in the eye, is shaking too bad to thread the needle. and then she hallucinates her dead mother berating her, and she's breaking down on the floor of this rest stop bathroom, and then her mother tells her to breathe. and she does. and she threads the needle and stitches Scott up. and he does start to heal.

and she helps carry him out, and Isaac is beating the shit out of Ethan in front of everyone. because he found out that Scott was hurt, dying, and even if Ethan wasn't the one who put the claws in Scott's side he's one of them, he was there, he's a part of this monster that's killing Scott, the first person in a very long time to really care about Isaac, to be kind to him. Allison's father taught her how to stitch up a wound, and Isaac's taught him how to hurt someone like you really mean it. and then Scott sees what's happening and yells Isaac's name, not angry, just firm. And Isaac steadies, and stops. and looks up at Scott (still holding Ethan by the shirt just in case lmao), looks at how he's standing, looks at where the wound is now healing, and all the tension leaves him as he smiles at Scott. and Scott accepts this. Ethan's still collapsed on the ground, bleeding profusely out the face. everyone else looks on in horror. (none of them could get Isaac to stop; most of them don't even know why it happened). In the next episode they go to The Motel That Makes Werewolves Want to Kill Themselves