#wolf pack 1x07

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Everett Lang and Blake Navarro

Wolf Pack 1x07

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Who: Chloe Rose Robertson as Luna Briggs What: Free People One Colt Thermal in Charcoal - $68.00 Where: Wolf Pack 1x07 “Lion’s Breath”

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SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR as Kristin Ramsey Wolf Pack | 1.07 – “Lion's Breath”

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wow, a fantasy story using their magical creature transformation to do a ableist ‘cure’ narrative, how original

[loveallthegays]

Armani Jackson, Tyler Lawrence Gray and Rainer Dawn in Wolf Pack 1x07 Lion's Breath

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Conditioning

So, I encountered a take where Allison is described as being 'not the brightest,' 'gullible,' and 'stupid.' Apparently, this is because she was 'conditioned' to believe anything her parents told her, which is why she was manipulated by Kate and then by Gerard.

And I have to say I have so, so, SO many problems with that take, but in the end it's only another encounter with fandom misogyny. It won't be my first, and it won't be my last.

Were Chris and Victoria domineering? Yes. Did they intrude upon her privacy, both before and after the discovery of the supernatural? Absolutely. Did they surreptitiously train her with gymnastics and archery? There is no doubt. However misguided their attempt to ready Allison for a life as a hunter while concealing that reality from her, they gave her the opportunity explore the life of any normal teenage girl. They didn't tell her to give up photography or painting or poetry. They didn't force her to continue archery or gymnastics. She only had to hide her social life for them after she decided to date a werewolf, which she had enough strength of will and agency to choose to do. (Coming from a extraordinarily strict household myself, I am fully aware of the strength of personality required to defy oppressive parents like this.)

But she was supposedly 'not the brightest' because her parents were able to conceal the supernatural from her. She realized that her entire family was hiding things from her from one incident where they told conflicting stories. She had developed enough agency to choose to get to the bottom of things. Scott never told her a single thing about the supernatural (which is why she was so angry at him later); she went to him with her concerns.

But she was supposedly 'gullible' because Kate tortured the captured Derek in front of her and Allison didn't do anything. This isn't true. Even though she and Kate were 'more like sisters,' Allison didn't accept everything that Kate told her without any reason. She had read the whole founding history of her family: the Beast and Maid of Gevaudan. She did indeed have a breakdown in her car, but then she remembered that Derek had approached her at the party in Wolf Moon (1x01), when he must have known who she was. She was in a car with a werewolf whom her family was hunting. This was the same werewolf who was either the monster who chased her in Night School (1x07) or was working with the monster who chased her.

She wasn't 'conditioned' enough to just do what Kate told her in Code Breaker (1x12), refusing to kill Scott and Derek even though they werewolves. She refused her aunt's mindset and her father's fear to kiss Scott -- a werewolf! -- right in front of him.

And then, in Season 2, she decided that killing Isaac was wrong and executed a plan to prevent it. Chris didn't kidnap her because he decided that she needed to start her training; he started her training because she had decided to get involved. She perceived that Derek's biting teenagers was him building up his forces for a war. When her mother tried to bully her into behaving the way her family wanted, she found ways to get around her parents.

And then, there is her being 'stupid' by being manipulated by Gerard into going after Derek and his pack. It's not like she hadn't watched Derek murder his uncle for the alpha power. It's not like Derek hadn't recruited her schoolmates as soldiers for his pack. It's not like Derek hadn't spent the entire season trying to kill Lydia and Jackson with that same pack. It's not like those schoolmates hadn't attacked her twice. It's not like they hadn't attacked her boyfriend twice. This was all before she tried to kill them. They had killed her aunt; they had killed her mother, and they had tried to kill her.

The hypocrisy in this fandom is gargantuan, and it's solely because Allison had the nerve to be a girl who wouldn't do as she was told by the appropriate white men.

Because if Allison was not the brightest, gullible, and stupid, then what the hell was Derek Hale? How many times in this show did Uncle Peter the Serial Killer play him like the world's dumbest violin? People warned Derek not to trust him -- Deaton came out and explained exactly how Peter would manipulate Derek -- and Derek hur-dur-dured when it came to listening to Peter until Derek left the show. Derek watched him violate Scott, sit out important battles, murder people in police custody right in front of him, convince him to give up his own alpha abilities, mysteriously regain powers Peter had lost during his resurrection, and then suddenly become Scott's #1 fan and did NOTHING.

The only defense that fans of Derek could make (and that I actually make) is that Peter was family. If he let Peter get away with things, it was because the risk was worth it for that reason. But wasn't Kate Allison's family? Wasn't Victoria? Wasn't Gerard?

And family is important isn't it? Scott is pilloried and scorned and literally hated because he chose to believe a 'complete stranger' over automatically assuming that Stiles -- his best friend, his brother! -- was innocent? (Which he did, but the evidence was pretty strong in the end). But Allison is 'stupid and gullible' because she didn't believe Derek Hale, a 'complete stranger,' over her own family? No one sees the contradiction there?

They see it, but it doesn't matter because Allison was a stupid girl.

BUT IT'S NOT MISOGYNY.

[greatrunner]

‘Wolf Pack’ Impressions (Ep. 5-8)

1x05 - “Incendiary“

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Armani Jackson are easily the best part of this series

Ramsey is a duplicitous cop with a personal agenda connected to the werewolf murders, and the confidence in this narrative reveal is superbly supported by Gellar’s steady performance.

Everett started out like a walking ‘anxiety (get nervous)’ kind of character in the same way Scott was your prototypical ‘kid with asthma on TV’, but has otherwise not been pigeon-held in a quagmire characterization where his kindness disallows him from defending himself from assholes (Harlan, Austin, his mother) or assholes experiencing no consequences for their fuckery (see: Scott’s every interaction with discount Logan Lerman).

Additionally, his connection to the werewolf killing people is not in the least overshadowed Harlan and Luna’s bio-family drama. His status as a forced-werewolf has allowed him to become what he considers his ideal self and I’m here for it, honestly. Scare the shit out of your bullies.

Garrett really isn’t contributing anything to the current trajectory of the plot besides some nice UST between himself and Ramsey. He is, at the moment, a distraction (like he considered himself in Harlan’s flashback).

Harlan actually becoming proactive in the narrative and contributing to an episode something other than self-involved anger? Say it ain’t so.

This series seems to want to depict teenagers authentically, but lapses right into tried and true trope(s) of ‘unsupervised parties’ and ‘teenagers have easy access to drugs to the point of being pushers themselves’.

Luna’s subplot with Austin feels more necessitated by plot than anything they’ve got going story-wise, so not terribly unfamiliar territory in the box of ‘Jeff Davis can’t do teen romance’.

However lukewarm I am on Everett and Blake’s romance, it at least feels companionable vs. Luna and Austin’s “oh, hey, you drew pictures of me, so clearly you like me!” mess.

I like Prisha. I hope we see more of her next season.

1x06 - “After Party“

Balthier’s (Gideon Emery) appearance was a nice throwback (and definitely less hammy), especially working as a springboard for Ramsey’s story.

Ramsey as the avenging werewolf mother who goes into law enforcement to track arsonists is certainly a narrative I’m here for, and a large part of the reason why I was never interested in dismissing the arsonist storyline continuing on in the background without the teens.

By and large, the story becoming more motivated by Ramsey’s desire to find her son, protect him from [the] harm (of others), at the same time protect him from the authorities is just *chef’s kiss*. I love this monster woman, she is precious to me in all her violence and underhandedness.

Everett being handed the name of the murderous werewolf feels lazy as hell. Yet it does very little to my general enjoyment to how Everett remains at the center of unraveling the red herring of a ‘teen arsonist' plot.

Ultimately the best thing to come out of the reveal that the weird kid at the pool party was the werewolf projecting into Everett’s mind was the use of sound and visuals with the dead mean girl (Phoebe) to alert him about the next victim (Austin).

And, yeah, I was kinda sad about Phoebe’s death. Especially after that dead-straight heart-to-heart they had about Blake’s mother’s infidelity, and why she cut everyone out of her life. She was a jerk, but was also intercommunicating her pain in a similar way as Blake. Let this girl have friends, please!

1x07 - “Lion’s Breath” / 1x08 - “Trophic Cascade”

There are elements to Everett’s narrative (and the idea of lycanthropy being a cure-all for all disabilities or even autism) that hits a decidedly sour (abelist, anti-medication) note. I like the idea of it boosting your confidence, or even changing your perspective on the world (since the person has become an uber predator). But altering things that are often a case of nature or nurture, not so much.

That said, the Everett’s growing steadiness and unwillingness to give his parents emotional neglect and dismissal any more room in his life is incredibly thrilling.

That scene with his mother (”You should be nicer to me”) fucking rips. But it's also what makes part of the finale so bitter. Everett’s mother really white-woman-in-distressed her son, and her exaggeration of events really got his Black ass, swirl-silly father to try and get him confined. Fuck. Everett’s. Mom. I hope Ramsey eats her.

Luna’s loss of faith in her family and friends is a far more interesting note in her stakes than Austin (who promptly disappears from the plot), and a nice reversal of her role as the believer and her brother as the inward-looking jerkass. She neither trusts her father or her brother.

Ramsey’s agenda regarding her lost children, particularly the undercurrent of discomfort from the reveal that she’s known where they were for some time, is something I’m looking forward to see play out in the next season. She doesn’t appear to be angling to nix Garrett but at the same time she’s making it very clear (to the audience) that she won’t be separated from them again.

Even as the arsonist (lmao, what a wet flop of a reveal), driving her son out of hiding (and harming him, losing his trust), she’s gone out of her way to protect the new members of her pack. And the reasons feel like an illustration of how she views who’s worth saving and protecting vs. who isn’t. It’s not altruistic, but I wouldn’t call it intentionally malicious either. She’s a wolf, and she uses her ‘humanity’ so to speak in a way that will benefit the wolves. Again, I’m here for it.

The Malcolm reveal was pretty weak, all things considered. There was no build up, and they literally have the guy spelling it out to the audience.

How did he know she was the wolf from seventeen years ago that murked his crew? How did he know Baron was her son? Why was he not a bigger character in the story if he was going to be that important to the finale?

Ramsey turning out not to be the mysterious caller was a relief and a frustration. But I’m also expecting this to belly flop should it ever get a proper reveal.

Basically, this was like any finale of Teen Wolf. Rushed to hell and back.

Could’ve done without the grim-dark trailer rendition of “Can’t Fight the Moonlight”.

My overall (first) impressions of Paramount+’s Wolf Pack first season is that it’s Teen Wolf if Teen Wolf was written more a little more competently, and Jeff Davis’ preoccupation with white boys didn’t (or wasn’t allowed to) push the protagonist (Armani Jackson’s Everett) into the margins like he did with Tyler Posey’s Scott McCall.

The super-hero-fication of werewolves ah-la HEROES (everyone gets a special ability!) is kinda eye roll-inducing, but I can deal with it.

But, if Ramsey was going to be the fire-starter all along, then the story honestly should’ve been tailored to that instead of telling and not showing that part of the story in favor of a whodunit that basically went nowhere like the Kamina plot. It seems like an ass-pull to intentionally make her the antagonist when there were better and stronger elements in her character that qualify her for that.

Part of me wants to accredit a lot of the show’s success to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s skill as both an actor and an executive producer.

Please, do not kill her character off.

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I'm watching Wolf Pack 1x07 "Lion's Breath"

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Your dad is armed with an entire sheriff’s department. Call him.

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That Sounds Like an Alpha

for @teenwolf-meta​ week, day six: lore

Statistics drawn from this nonexhaustive, but comprehensive, list of howls/roars. Malia has been included as she is part of a pack.

When you think of a wolf, you think of howling. Howling at the moon, howling at each other, howling at their prey and howling at their foe. Werewolves, according to Teen Wolf, are no different. The werewolves howl over eighty times in the series, an average of nine per season, and no one more than Scott—coming in at nearly 38% of all roars. What he uses it for also has the most variety—and his roar can do something no one else’s can.

The werewolf’s howl can be broken down into three distinct categories: offensive, signaling, and Alpha power.

Offensive is the most straightforward roar—simply a wolf announcing its attack—and also the most common. Out of the 80 howls recorded in the chart, 56 of them are offensive—a full 70%. It’s the easiest howl to attempt, as it requires neither pack nor alpha status, and so can be used by any wolf/werecreature.

The second category, which is available to any wolf with a pack, is signaling. Instead of being a warning, this howl is for alerting one’s own pack of their position. Scott is the first wolf to use this howl, as he howls to lure Peter to the school in Heart Monitor (1x06). It’s fitting that Scott is the first here, as signaling defines Scott’s howls: every single one of the nine signaling howl involves Scott, whether it be from him (1x06, 2x08) or to him (3x16, 4x06). Scott’s ideology as an Alpha is built on the importance of pack, and his use of the howl is part of that.

The final category is Alpha power. The traditional use of Alpha power allows Alphas to control their Betas’ shifts. This can either force a shift, as Peter does to Scott in Night School (1x07), and Deucalion to him in Lunar Ellipse (3x12), or pull a Beta out of a shift, as Derek does to Isaac in Shape Shifted (2x02). 

While Alpha roars are typically directed at specific wolves—Derek roaring at Isaac does not affect Scott (2x02), and Deucalion roaring at Scott does not affect Derek (3x12)—we have seen that a roar can affect multiple people at once. When Peter roars at Scott in Night School, forcing him to shift, Jackson also has a visceral reaction as well, although at the time he is unable to shift (1x07). It’s significant that both Scott and Jackson react in agony—it’s a level of asserted power neither of them had asked for. 

Especially in the hands of Alphas like Deucalion and Peter, Alpha power is something to be wary of: a threat used to control others. As Scott is on the receiving end of it multiple times, it’s no wonder he never tries a similar forced shift on any of his Betas.

Instead, Scott makes his roar a way to give people power. We’re told in s2 that wolves are literally stronger when in a pack (2x01), and we’ve seen an Alpha cannibalize his own pack to claim all that power to himself (3x08), but Scott is the first alpha to use his roar to give that power to others. He does so in two ways:

1. Power to the Person.

Even while he’s still a Beta, Scott manages to roar Isaac down from a violent loss of control twice (3x04, 3x05). The immediate reaction from Isaac and the tenor in Scott’s voice clearly indicates Scott is accessing a proto-Alpha version of Alpha power. It’s significant also that when Isaac comes back to himself, he’s doing just that—returning to a state of calm, rather than one of terror. This is the staple of Scott’s Alpha roar: instead of turning people into monsters, it calls people back to themselves.

Once Scott becomes an Alpha, the fullest version of this power manifests. Just like he once calmed Isaac, he’s able to turn Malia back into a human (3x14), help Stiles throw off the nogitsune’s influence (3x22), and call Kira out of her kitsune form (5x17). He’s also roaring when he breaks free of the Berserker mask—Liam has just reminded Scott that he’s a werewolf, not a monster, and so Scott is roaring himself back to humanity in this moment (4x12). This ability works for any member of his pack—wolf, coyote, kitsune, human, and himself—because they are all pack.

2. Power to the Pack.

As well as using his roar to free his pack, Scott uses it to empower his pack. When Scott roars in 3b’s More Bad than Good, Malia turns back into a human, but Isaac also gains the strength to break free of the bear trap, and Stiles and Lydia seem rejuvenated with hope. This howl also features later on s5’s Amplification, when Scott’s howl gives Liam the strength to push past the electrical batons, both Malia and Kira receive a rush of power as seen in the sudden flash of their eyes, and Stiles is visibly affected even from a distance.

This form of howl is less a new category, so much as it is all the previous three categories put together. It’s an offensive howl, encouraging them to keep fighting. It’s an Alpha’s howl, giving them the strength to keep fighting with. And it’s a signaling howl, reminding them of what they’re fighting for. It’s the embodiment of what an Alpha, and what a pack, is supposed to do.

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Who: Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kristin Ramsey What: Charles David Jessy Leather Boots - Sold Out Where: Wolf Pack 1x07 “Lion’s Breath”

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Teen Wolf Masterlist

scenes from the teen wolf series i'll never write

summary: peyton stone is stiles and scott’s best friend. she is soon thrown into the world of supernatural creatures when scott becomes a werewolf, and eventually discovers she might not be fully human herself...all while juggling feelings her best friend stiles...and potential other love interests. 

series announcement | series description | peyton character profile 

full masterlist undercut (in progress)

season one

wolf moon (1x01)

the one where stiles climbs to her window 

the one when scott gets bitten

the one with derek driving her home

the one before they adopt a teen wolf

second chance at first line (1x02)

pack mentality (1x03)

the one when stiles realizes his feelings

the one where they definitely are not on a date

magic bullet (1x04)

the tell (1x05)

heart monitor (1x06)

night school (1x07)

the one where they’re at school when its night (soon)

lunatic (1x08)

the one where stiles makes first line

the one where they discuss love

wolf's bane (1x09)

co-captain (1x10)

formality (1x11)

the one with all the self-sabotage

the one when everyone is with the wrong person (soon)

the one when they almost... (soon)

code breaker (1x12)

season two

omega (2x01)

shape shifted (2x02)

the one where derek is gorgeous (soon)

ice pick (2x03)

the one where stiles is the one pining (soon)

the one when she finds out she’s a... (soon)

abomination (2x04)

the one where she finds comfort in stiles’ arms (soon)

the one with all the [redacted] talk (soon)

the one where she almost tells lydia everything (soon)

venomous (2x05)

the one where derek trains her (soon)

the one with threats and flirts in science (soon)

the one where derek picks up the phone (soon)

the one when isaac learns a lesson (soon)

frenemy (2x06)

restraint (2x07)

raving (2x08)

party guessed (2x09)

fury (2x10)

battlefield (2x11)

master plan (2x12)

season three

tattoo (3x01)

chaos rising (3x02)

fireflies (3x03)

unleashed (3x04)

frayed (3x05)

motel california (3x06)

currents (3x07)

visionary (3x08)

the girl who knew too much (3x09)

the overlooked (3x10)

alpha pact (3x11)

lunar ellipse (3x12)

anchors (3x13)

more bad than good (3x14)

galvanize (3x15)

illuminated (3x16)

silverfinger (3x17)

riddled (3x18)

letharia vulpina (3x19)

echo house (3x20)

the fox and the wolf (3x21)

de-void (3x22)

insatiable (3x23)

the devine move (3x24)

season four

the dark moon (4x01)

117 (4x02)

muted (4x03)

the benefactor (4x04)

I.E.D. (4x05)

orphaned (4x06)

weaponized (4x07)

time of death (4x08)

perishable (4x09)

monstrous (4x10)

a promise to the dead (4x11)

smoke and mirrors (4x12)

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Armani Jackson as Everett Lang in Wolf Pack 1x07 Lion's Breath

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Season One

Anchor

Stiles Stilinski x Original Character (Reader)

Story Masterlist

01. Lycanthropy [1x01; Wolf Moon]

02. Meddling Boys [1x02; Second Chance at First Line]

03. Hospital Visits [1x03; Pack Mentality]

04. Saving Derek [1x04; Magic Bullet]

05. Attack of the Alpha [1x05; The Tell]

06. Lessons of Control [1x06; Heart Monitor]

07. Run for Your Life [1x07; Night School]

08. The Full Moon [1x08; Lunatic]

09. The Alpha [1x09; Wolf’s Bane]

10. Investigation [1x10; Co-Captain]

11. Formally Screwed [1x11; Formality]

12. New Alpha in Town [1x12; Code Breaker]

(Gif is not mine)

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Both a Poison and a Cure

This is written for @teenwolf-meta 's May meta event; the subject being trauma.

Teen Wolf, inspired by Romeo and Juliet, starts off with a newly-bitten werewolf and a girl from a werewolf-hunting family falling in love. While it works completely and quite effectively as a romance in it's own right, I believe it also serves as a symbol of Scott employing externalizing behaviors in order to cope with the trauma he endures throughout the show.

In the strongest possible way, I want to emphasize that this is not meant to define Scott and Allison's relationship as somehow superior to Scott's other romantic relationships with Kira and Malia, nor is it meant to define it as more important than his platonic relationships with Stiles, Liam, and Derek. All of those relationships were fully developed and just as valuable.

But I believe that Scott fell into the habit of thinking about Allison in order to avoid thinking about his own trauma, and I'm grateful the production was careful to indicate that this technique had its drawbacks as well. I also think that no matter how one deals with trauma, only focusing on how it affects other people cannot be entirely healthy.

Scott: My boss told me it's a poison and a cure... which means you can use it... and it can be used against you.

Scott said these words to Jennifer in The Overlooked (3x10), but they can also apply to Scott's symbolic relationship with Allison. In Season 1, the beginning of his relationship with Allison coincides with his horrifying transformation into the werewolf. This link crystalizes in Pack Mentality (1x03) when his subconscious conflates being drawn out by Peter to kill Garrison Meyers to an attack on Allison during interlude. He is filled with relief that he hadn't killed her. From then on, his frequent response to what he is put through is often immediately directed at Allison (or Allison's memory). This isn't to say he becomes obsessed with Allison; that is demonstrated by the number of times he risks their relationship to protect others, in Magic Bullet (1x04) when he uses a study date with Allison to save Derek, in Night School (1x07) when he ditches a date with Allison to go to the school, and in Wolf's Bane (1x09) when he risks their relationship to steal the pendant for Derek.

Instead, he manages his reaction to pain and horror by focusing on the idea of her. It's aligns with but is not exactly the same as making her his anchor, because he still does this after his anchor shifts. There are scenes showing this process in stark clarity. In Co-Captain (1x10), he is lying in the woods bleeding out after being shot by a poisoned bullet, and his possible last words are Allison's name. In the next episode, Formality (1x11) after Peter comes for him at the clinic (and he is protected by Deaton) he pushes any thought of what that means to him by focusing on protecting Allison. He moves past any resentment he might have had for Derek betraying him, helping Peter violate him, and trying to kill Jackson when Stiles brings it up in Code Breaker (1x12) by arguing that while he doesn't believe Derek was going to kill Jackson, he needs to forgive Derek in order to help Allison anyway. Scott learns that he can move past what's happened to him if he can focus on someone else, and while Allison isn't the only person he saves, she continues to serve that purpose, even after her death.

While this behavior is established in Season 1, Seasons 2 and 3 begin to show us the downsides of this externalization. Certainly, in Season 2, Gerard tries to use their relationship against Scott, and while that gambit fails, suppressing his trauma by focusing on Allison begins to complicate matters. There's his infamous reaction to Victoria poisoning him in Raving (2x08), where he focuses on not what the act did to him but on what knowledge of it might do to Allison. This decision causes conflict later with both Derek and Allison. He repeatedly tries to make what's happening about protecting Allison, much to Allison's anger.

This externalization also breaks down at a major crisis point. I would argue it also appears in Motel California (3x06) when Allison is not able to stop Scott from contemplating his own suicide, because:

Scott: What if doing this is actually the best thing that I could do for everyone else?

The problem with externalizing the trauma response is that a person can come to believe that they deserve their trauma or they are misbehaving if they think of themselves and not other people. There is the scene in A Promise to the Dead (4x11) -- which I would argue is directly related to this idea -- where Scott doesn't surrender to Kate until she invokes Allison.

Kate: But yet somehow, in less than a year, this great family is decimated by a teenage boy. So my question is simple. What the hell is so special about Scott McCall?

Scott: You want me? Take me. Just me.

Allison's memory becomes tied to Scott's flirtation with martyrdom. Such as in Creatures of the Night (5x01) when after stating that he was worried about Belasko trying to kill him, literally his next act was writing Allison's initials during the Senior Scribe. While I'm sure it's meant as a gesture of love and remembrance, it does come straight on the heels of yet another attempt on his life.

I like this idea mostly because it supplies a satisfying answer to a nagging question that I've always had about the show. In Apotheosis (5x20), during a deadly fight between Scott, his pack, and the Beast, Sebastian Valet grabs Scott by the neck and accidentally shoves his claws into it, starting the memory-sharing ritual. Sebastian sees memories of Allison, who looks nearly identical to his own sister, Marie-Jeanne and shocks him into loosening his grip. Why the hell was Scott thinking of Allison during the climax of the crisis? If my meta is valid, then it is because that it what he always does: focus on Allison to push through the pain and suffering. It gives credence to Stiles assertion that Allison -- or in this case, Scott's devotion to Allison -- saved him.

It also explains why The Movie employed Allison's resurrection to enable Scott to find closure that he didn't find in the show. When Scott encounters Allison again, she doesn't remember him. In fact, she is a pawn of the nogitsune. (Note: I like what that means for Allison as well, but that's a different meta.) He has to re-establish their relationship, and this one isn't about moving past old trauma, but focusing on a future with her and Eli. It transforms his feelings about Allison into something different -- an action rather than a reaction.