S1 Scott had little self preservation skills because you just found out that Derek, who has been stalking you, just killed someone allegedly, and the best idea you had was to confront him, in his haunted ass house, in the woods.
His best friend was just as stupid because you went into a car with guy you just got arrested (who also happened to have super human strength).
Honestly s1 was just Scott and Stiles consistently making stupid decisions and surviving it for whatever reason
We have the alpha who was gentle in revealing his wolf form to his absolutely gentle crush and her reacting in such an adorable and cute way.
Then we have the beta who growled at his crush (who is definitely NOT gentle) and her reaction was to punch him and leave him there. Also cute reaction.
I hate acknowledging the teen wolf movie, but the fact that they had Derek dying the same way his family died in the fire, leaving his family (especially his son) behind just so they could bring Allison back is really something.
Also choosing to let go of the one character that is directly tied to void and replace her character is such an odd choice. (I actually like the new characters they introduced, but it could've been done a much better way).
Meanwhile, they brought Harris back (he was dead btw) but couldn't bother to bring back Kira, Isaac, Cora, Braeden or Theo. Okay...
And why did they have to bring void back? That chapter was closed. They really missed an opportunity to introduce a new villian but what do I know?
Also, why tf is Jackson there? So Lydia, an intelligent woman, couldn't figure out the puzzle, but Jackson could??
The thing about Scallison and Stydia is the fact that they were kinda both doomed from the start and not going to last forever. Season 3 really starts to develop that where both Scott and Stiles move on, but Allison and Lydia were both their first love so the connection is still there. The bond is still strong and the fact that they're all able to be friends is incredibly important.
Scallison starts off as this Romeo and Juliet story where there is a huge part separating the two of them- Allison is a hunter while Scott is a werewolf. There is the newness to them and innocence, but also they both have a lot of aspects fighting against them. Scott has to keep a large part of him secret in season 1 (which I don't blame him at all), but he still lies constantly to her and the werewolf side of him is getting in the way. He can't trust her fully and she can see the lies which leads to them breaking up multiple times. Allison was also incredibly fair for all of this, because she is missing a big picture and her boyfriend is lying to her constantly. Season 2 we also see how they go back and forth trying to handle everything. Their ways are different and they are in different circumstances so it's incredibly hard.
Stydia it's a different dynamic than Scallison, but they're still the same in the aspect of it being a first love that wasn't meant to last romantically. Lydia is Stiles' first crush and Lydia doesn't know that Stiles exists. They're the popular girl and the nerdy boy. Stiles has a picture perfect idea of Lydia and doesn't see her flaws as flaws. Lydia doesn't want to date nerds or doesn't notice them. It's why it's so nice that when they actually get to know one another that the dynamic is able to change. Lydia starts noticing Stiles when he compliments her, and notices things about her. Stiles eventually in season 3 is able to understand Lydia and know her besides her mean girl title, but he does have to learn that Lydia isn't a mean girl per say. They get to know each other, but they're never together in the first 3 seasons like Scallison is.
Both are about knew beginnings and feeling seen by someone even if they contrast you. Just because these couples wouldn't work out romantically doesn't mean that they're completely void of feeling. They still are strong bonds and mean the world to each other.
Yess! This explanation is exactly why I hated the writing pushing them back together. That chapter of scallison was over even before she died. And them bringing Allison back to get back with Scott kinda messed up the storyline. Because Mellisa actually destroyed the idea of only falling in love once through that speech. And he did, he fell in love more than once. So them now going back on Mellisa's words and still making these two characters end up together after making it clear that it's okay to move on is odd.
Stydia is actually frustrating because they're so perfect as friends. And I think Stiles moving on from Lydia reflects well on his character. It means he has the ability to move on. And he sees Lydia as more than just a crush or a love interest and he also gets to love and care for her in a different and even better way. Now, season 6 and they don't realise the implication of putting Lydia and Stiles together. It means Stiles has actually been emotional cheating with Lydia, with the way they pushed the stydia plot. Especially with the way they left things with Malia and Stiles, putting them together doesn't really reflect well on both characters. And Lydia doesn't have to end up with Lydia.
Meanwhile, the one time it'd have been perfect to bring them together was s3, then they introduced Malia which was random btw.
Literally what you said about Scallison being over before she died. ngl i never watched the movie lol but hearing everyone talk about it always rubbed me the wrong that the writers decided to bring her back and scallison back. because at that point in the movie so many years have gone by to bring back scallison will always feel weird. i loved melissa’s speech and also what it meant for scott’s character growth because scott finding love after allison is actually such a cute thing and also is incredibly realistic. you’re not going to be with one person your whole life and you’re going to fall in love again and again. that’s kinda the whole beauty of love you can find it in multiple places.
the stydia frustration is real because they really are amazing as friends. season 3 came along and they were allowed to be friends which i did find so sweet. for real the implication of stydia in season 6 was something they didn’t realize. now i wasn’t into teen wolf when it came out or when season 6 aired so idk what the atmosphere was around fans and especially stydia at that time. so i wont know if it was fan pressure or fan service fully (i have speculations) but still i dont know for sure. but yes for sure the implication isnt that great at all. honestly i have a whole rant about season 5 and how they handled the romantic relationships between scott and stiles characters with their partners. the writing was just yikes and really set them back both character wise.
season 3 would’ve been the perfect time for stydia if it was going to happen
Honestly, I'd have preferred if they introduced another love interest for Scott and putting him back together with Allison in that movie. Even without introducing another character, Malia was right there! Kira could've been brought back! Why does it have to be Allison? And just like that, they completely destroyed her character arc just by bringing her back because they ended her story so beautifully in s3. Even if they wanted to bring her back, they could've done it another way. Like the movie was so bad, it had so many complications and made the teen wolf story so much worse.
Season 5 could've actually been so good if they paid attention to the characters and weren't just messing around with them. Especially the relationship between Stiles and Malia, what the hell was that breakup? Everything was so wishy washy, just so Stiles could get together with Lydia.
Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch by James D. Reid & Candace R. Craig / Redefining Biological Horror: The Aesthetic Evolution of an Infected Body in HBO’s The Last of Us by Flavius Floare / Superfluous Bodies and Loneliness in Under the Skin by Donald Prentice / ‘We are not who we are’: Lovecraftian Conspiracy and Magical Humanism in The Cabin in the Woods by Christopher Lockett
Agency and autonomy are brought up repeatedly throughout the show. The catalyst of the narrative is when Scott is bitten by Peter against his will and turned into something he doesn’t even recognise anymore. This idea is repeated throughout the show when characters repeatedly have their agency stripped from them by other characters. In just the first season we see peter repeatedly forcing Scott to turn, inducing homicidal urges and triggering amnesia. Both of these actions are then later in the show repeated by Scott on other characters, though the reasoning is different in such a capacity we as the audience are made aware that the loss of autonomy does not stem from bad faith. When Scott forces Malia to turn and when he bites Liam, it is done because it is the only way for him to save their lives. This is an important distinction as when Peter did this he only ever did it as a way to make himself more powerful, he needed a pack and for Scott to be part of that pack so he’d be strong enough to take on the hunters and Kate. It is also important to note that Liam and Malia are allowed within the narrative framework of the show to be angry about this. Liam directly at Scott when he is initially turned and Malia at Stiles as a sort of proxy-Scott within Eichen House. Because they are allowed to show their grief and anger at losing part of themselves, they are then later able to reconcile this anger they’ve felt with the reasons Scott acted as he did and they both become important members of the pack.
Body horror usually follows instances when a character is stripped of agency, their body physically turns on them and they’re no longer able to control the things it does. This further visualises the invasiveness of what happened to the character for the audience, we now have a visually gruesome component to the incidents taking place, making it much more horrific for us to witness. This is particularly highlighted in season five with the chimeras. Chimeras within the show are repeatedly stripped of their agency and autonomy in an effort for the dread doctors to perform experiments on them. They don’t have any recollection of this happening to them, without their knowledge their bodies are changed and begin acting without their conscious decisions. When the pack brings Tracy to Deaton it’s a particularly repulsive image that greets the viewer, her back cracks open, all her bone and muscles are on show for us and a tail grows out of nowhere. When a character consents to something like the bite we don’t actually see the changes happening to their bodies. Isaac, Boyd and Erica are never given the same initial scenes as Scott of bodily changes, they simple weren’t werewolves then they are. The closest we get to this is the scene in the train car during the full moon, but during that scene it is not their bodies turning on themselves, it’s them turning on Derek. The violence is not turned inwards it’s turned outwards.
Then how come a character like Jackson who wanted the bite has multiple body horror scenes throughout season two? Jackson wanted to become a werewolf, the bite was merely the means to an end. Assuming Derek never told him it’s clear he had no idea there was a possibility he might turn into something like the kanima. He is not only turning into something he never wanted he is also in a sense being possessed. He is no longer the only occupant in his body, the kanima is someone he initially has no knowledge of, a creature that is basically using his body to commit murders at the will of Matt. Matt too becomes one of the theoretical entities possessing Jackson’s body as the show makes it clear to the viewer in Raving that the kanima and Matt have a sort of telepathic connection.
Stiles’ possession by the nogitsune in three b is interesting because it is a clear instance of a character within the show having both agency and autonomy stripped from them but there are hardly any distinct body horror scenes to visually showcase this. The effect of the nogitsune’s possession has a more hidden and somewhat downplayed effect on his body than that of other creatures seen in the show. Stiles begins to look sickly as the season progresses, the bags under his eyes grow more pronounced, he becomes paler. The only true body horror scene the audience sees is when the nogitsune splits the two and starts ripping bandages from its throat in a sort of gruesome circus act. After this Stiles’ body continues deteriorating until he is no longer able to stand on his own and he looks like he’s on the brink of death.
Lastly it would be impossible to write a post about agency and autonomy in Teen Wolf without discussing Lydia. It could be argued that the instances where Lydia is stripped of autonomy are less grand in comparison to other events in the show but it happens repeatedly to her and to such a degree that leaving her out would be a major disservice. The two major ones in my opinion are the season one finale where Peter bites her, and then uses her to resurrect him; and when she is in Eichen House in season five and Valack performs trepanation on her to make her more powerful. Peter’s action was done for the same reason he bit Scott, it was a way for him to gain power, to keep the upper hand. The following resurrection plot then becomes an event which even further strips Lydia’s autonomy, she now acts only according to what Peter wants, poisoning her friends to keep them distracted on the full moon for her to perform the resurrection. When Valack performs trepanation on her in Eichen House it’s despite Lydia’s many vocal no’s. He does not care if Lydia dies because of it, he even believes that doing something that will likely kill her is worth it and the good thing to do if she can find out who the beast is. It’s also interesting to note in regards to the trepanation that within psychiatry trepanning was the precursor to the lobotomy. Something which wound be a very interesting thing to look at from the perspective of a character analysis of Lydia.
[Also this is me barely scratching the surface of this topic,,, both in the webweave above but also in the essay i wrote. like i could write an entire thesis about this topic i'm not even kidding and i had to hold myself back from using even more quotes than this even tho this is def the longest post i've ever made.]
thinking about teen wolf and sexual violence in the first three seasons I might actually throw up . . . scott being dressed as little red riding hood is his first appearance and the night of his turning which completely changes and steals his body and mind . . . the turning which like lydia's is framed as an assault and then with lydia in s2 peter so thoroughly invades every corner of her life while trying to create life from her body and no one notices!! or at least, no one really cares!! they don't have the time to care!! vs s3 nogitsune arc being kicked off with stiles alone in bed and by the end of it he's lost his literal, actual body . . . he's stuck in a copy of it which was quite literally created by his abuser. your body gets stolen or your body gets changed and it means the same thing, both ways
Adding to this by saying the fact that their bodies were taken advantage of supernaturally means that even if they were to tell someone (other than the pack), no one would believe them. They’re forced to keep the changes and violations to their bodies secret from (most) adults, have to go to school and act like everything is normal and that nothing bad happened because no one would believe them.
Also adding on that when Melissa saw Scott as a werewolf for the first time she didn’t speak to him or look at him for a while. Scott not only had to deal with the shame of being forced to become something he’s not after one attack that changed his entire life and outlook on life, he also had to deal with the fear and shame his mother had for him and the isolation many victims of S/A deal with.
Side note; Dereks pack in season 2. They all wanted the bite but as Scott (someone who got bitten in a violent and manipulating way) says, they don’t understand what they’re getting into. They’re kids who can’t legally consent to anything even if they (think they) want it. And lo and behold it does not work out for them because at the end of the day they were taken advantage of, violated, and threatened like any other victims.
Teen wolf au where the dread doctors aren't french, actually no one knows where they come from. In the mundane world, they are known to be mad serial killing scientists who reoccur from time to time and unusual disappearaces occur. But they're seen as myths because no one actually sees them and they're just a symptom of mass hysteria.
But the supernatural world, they are feared and cause terror in the hearts of even the strongest creatures. Not just because they're dangerous, but also because they change the rules of the supernatural and their methods are uncannny. What makes them more disturbing is that they're human, or they were.
So the lore is that the dread doctors are scientists who believe the supernatural can be accessed through scientific methods. No one in the ordinary society actually took them seriously. But people who knew about the supernatural actually knew what they were talking about but hoped their methods fail.
Now, the scientists took interest in a lot of supernatural creatures, particularly wolves and they actually believed that a wolf pack could be achieved through science. They tried so many methods and failed. But then, a solution came; what if they don't create a supernatural creature bu resurrect one. A powerful beast that can grant them the powers of wolves without the supernatural limitations, wolves better than the natural ones.
But in the during their experiments, something goes wrong. Maybe the wrong calculation or a malfunction in the devices used, but an accident happened and it changed them. They were unsuccessful, but not totally. So they changed into something else entirely, something worse than an abomination. They died but not really. People say they're ghosts. So they can't feel, they don't think like humans, they were stripped of human ambitions and emotions and had one and only goal in everything they did: resurrect the beast of gevaudan.
The thing about Scallison and Stydia is the fact that they were kinda both doomed from the start and not going to last forever. Season 3 really starts to develop that where both Scott and Stiles move on, but Allison and Lydia were both their first love so the connection is still there. The bond is still strong and the fact that they're all able to be friends is incredibly important.
Scallison starts off as this Romeo and Juliet story where there is a huge part separating the two of them- Allison is a hunter while Scott is a werewolf. There is the newness to them and innocence, but also they both have a lot of aspects fighting against them. Scott has to keep a large part of him secret in season 1 (which I don't blame him at all), but he still lies constantly to her and the werewolf side of him is getting in the way. He can't trust her fully and she can see the lies which leads to them breaking up multiple times. Allison was also incredibly fair for all of this, because she is missing a big picture and her boyfriend is lying to her constantly. Season 2 we also see how they go back and forth trying to handle everything. Their ways are different and they are in different circumstances so it's incredibly hard.
Stydia it's a different dynamic than Scallison, but they're still the same in the aspect of it being a first love that wasn't meant to last romantically. Lydia is Stiles' first crush and Lydia doesn't know that Stiles exists. They're the popular girl and the nerdy boy. Stiles has a picture perfect idea of Lydia and doesn't see her flaws as flaws. Lydia doesn't want to date nerds or doesn't notice them. It's why it's so nice that when they actually get to know one another that the dynamic is able to change. Lydia starts noticing Stiles when he compliments her, and notices things about her. Stiles eventually in season 3 is able to understand Lydia and know her besides her mean girl title, but he does have to learn that Lydia isn't a mean girl per say. They get to know each other, but they're never together in the first 3 seasons like Scallison is.
Both are about knew beginnings and feeling seen by someone even if they contrast you. Just because these couples wouldn't work out romantically doesn't mean that they're completely void of feeling. They still are strong bonds and mean the world to each other.
Yess! This explanation is exactly why I hated the writing pushing them back together. That chapter of scallison was over even before she died. And them bringing Allison back to get back with Scott kinda messed up the storyline. Because Mellisa actually destroyed the idea of only falling in love once through that speech. And he did, he fell in love more than once. So them now going back on Mellisa's words and still making these two characters end up together after making it clear that it's okay to move on is odd.
Stydia is actually frustrating because they're so perfect as friends. And I think Stiles moving on from Lydia reflects well on his character. It means he has the ability to move on. And he sees Lydia as more than just a crush or a love interest and he also gets to love and care for her in a different and even better way. Now, season 6 happens and they don't realise the implication of putting Lydia and Stiles together. It means Stiles has actually been emotional cheating with Lydia, with the way they pushed the stydia plot. Especially with the way they left things with Malia and Stiles, putting them together doesn't really reflect well on both characters. And Lydia doesn't have to end up with Stiles.
Meanwhile, the one time it'd have been perfect to bring them together was s3, then they introduced Malia which was random btw.
Meanwhile, she didn't even do it. I mean, she planned it which is fucked up, don't get me wrong. But she didn't do it! Infact, out of everyone in that fuckass table, she was the only one who actually did something and got hurt in the process. She actually suffered the consequences of what she was planning to do and absolutely no one got hurt. But Ms. Rachel locked a kid in the woods and didn't say anything. But oh, she was drunk, "oh the kid was annoying" or "i don't know, I was so scared". Bear in mind, she left that kid in the woods the whole night even when they asked her where the kid was. So she was so comfortable. And what she did was so unprovoked. Why the hell would you think to lock someone in an RV in the woods? Mike used his gf as body shield which she could have actually died from. Charlie allegedly bullied someone to the point of the family moving away. But "you were 14. Your brain hasn't developed yet."
Sidenote- she's the only one that made amends. She became an activist and chucked that gun into the lake. None of them showed remorse apart from her. But when she told her husband this, the first thing he asked her was "so you didn't feel like a fraud?"
Watching Nikki desperately trying to break free from the spell and trying to gain back control is so scary and heartbreaking. Then it becomes infuriating when the mf that did that to her to acting like the victim and acting upset when she's clearly not herself!
"Nikki, you're scaring me"
"Nikki, why would you do that?"
Are you freaking kidding me? You're the one who did this to her! She's in that situation because of you!
Him constantly making himself the victim as if he was the person who was wronged by Nikki is irritating to watch. Not once did he even reflect that what he was doing was wrong. It didn't click to his freaking brain. Or maybe he knew it was wrong and that's why he intentionally left that part of the conversation out to his friends anytime they're discussing Nikki.
I also strongly believe that he didn't try to kill himself because he felt bad or wanted to release Nikki. He didn't want to deak with the consequences so he planned to leave Nikki in that fucking mess he created!
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