#tw 3x19

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ teen wolf edition #2. Kira Yukimura portrayed by Arden Cho

[princeescaluswords]

If you could redo the scene with Lydia and Allison seeking help from Peter with her Banshee powers, how would you change it?

Oh, this is the easiest question I have ever received from you in the years we have known each other. I have multiple reasons for my answers, and they remain bedrock firm.

I would have burnt the entire concept of that scene to the ground.

Reason #1: What is this man doing here? At this point of the narrative, which characters would be able to trust or even willingly approach Peter? The scene literally points out what Peter did to Lydia and what Peter did to Allison. Earlier in the episode, Lydia recognizes that Peter is trying to manipulate her through her mother. In Galvanize (3x15), Derek demonstrates that he doesn't trust Peter and learns something about him from Talia's spirit. Season 3B shows everyone fighting for their lives against the nogitsune, while Peter fights for what Peter wants. The entire season of 3A showed Peter being selfish, Peter scheming, Peter lying, and yet they're still coming to him in crisis situations. It's just dumb.

The answer, of course, is that the production had to justify resurrecting Peter and keeping Ian Bohen on the payroll without changing Peter's essential nature. Only fools would want to involve themselves with a vicious serial killer and proven con artist, but the production is willing to paint every single character as a fool in order to keep White Male Snark on the screen. And the worst part is -- the plot makes it clear that the action isn't even worth it. All Peter does is smirk at both of them and then yell at Lydia until she figures it out herself. Allison says "Peter doesn't offer help; he offers you the chance to be manipulated into giving him what he wants" and that's exactly what happens! Peter manipulates Lydia into giving him what he wants. You might think they learned their lessons, but Lydia will do the same thing three episodes later.

Reason #2: Wasn't Lydia supposed to be the smart one? As I said before, she recognizes what Peter's doing when he accosts Natalie at the school, but somehow still thinks that her only recourse is to go him? Did she not have Derek's number? Could she not have waited twenty-four hours for Deaton to return? I'm pretty sure she could have tracked down Morrell in that time. Her best friend is the Argent Matriarch; the Argents have no knowledge or contacts with knowledge about banshees? Instead, she sees the trap, she walks into the trap, she gets caught by the trap, and she will be pay the price three episodes later. What's worse, we're not even considering she's made to crawl to the man who violated physically and mentally, who possessed her and made her hurt people, and by the time the show ends, she will supposed to be grateful for it. There will never be a single scene where her suspicion and negative feelings for Peter will be shown to be justified as an end in and of themselves.

Reason #3: Allison will be killed later this season, why did they have to assassinate her character first? Just like Lydia, she knows what's going on, but she goes along with it anyway. She has other options, one of which is turning to Lydia and saying "I know exactly what it's like to listen to an evil man because you're feeling helpless, and I can't stand by and let you make the same mistake!" But no, she has to stand there in that loft and get treated like she's an interloper and, even worse, get equated to Kate. "Your aunt had one of those." When Lydia agreed with him, "cut it out, both of you," their wonderful friendship was damaged as Lydia tosses Allison over the cliff for Lydia's right to get used by a murderer.

Reason #4: Malia never really had a chance, did she? Malia's story was compromised from the beginning, because they were never going to let Malia do to Peter what she did to Corinne. She was never going to get the chance to reject Peter in his entirety, even after he used fatherly affection to try to get her to kill Scott. She was going to be written again and again into having to slight her real families (the Tates and the pack) by making nice with this monster in order to give Ian Bohen a reason to be on the show, and that bullshit starts right here, where Peter's entitlement to be her "Dad" (be right back, throwing up in my mouth a little bit) becomes more important than anything else.

What could have been done instead? How about Deaton, who will literally help Lydia do the thing she wanted in Superposition (6x02) a little more than a year later. Morrell, who works at an institution that has housed multiple banshees. Or maybe an early introduction of Lorraine. Anything but make two female characters who had both struggled with being more than just an accessory to a male character go to an entitled white male shitbucket and ask for help they know will come with strings attached. As funny as it was, the scene was against theme, against characterization, and against aesthetics. It was total fan service of the worse possible type because it fed the audience's idea that ruthlessness = competence and that to achieve victory you have to do things like value your abuser and tolerate their selfishness.

[anthonybrxdgerton]

I’m a creature of habit AKA The best of Peter Hale [1/?]

[fandomontherocks]

(S3E19) Pack Dynamics: A Teen Wolf Podcast - Letharia Vulpina

Podcast Episode · Fandom on the Rocks · 11/12/2025 · 1h 25m

This week on Teen Wolf, Dr. Deaton is in fact the world's only veterinarian, Derek and Chris accidentally become besties, and everyone else is having an absolutely terrible time.

In 3×19, "Letharia Vulpina," Stiles is missing (again) and we see some wonderful familiar faces. Fall sports are back at Beacon Hills and everyone's running cross country. Uncle Peter is back and he hits on Natalie. Jared-the-almost-bus-vomiter is back, except this time he has a Suspicious Package.

(No, seriously. It might explode.)

In other news, Allison and Lydia confront Peter for help and they end up with an enormous secret that Talia took to her grave. Derek and Chris are arrested together (#EnemiesToLovers) and end up in an explosion. Kira can catch a literal live wire in her hands, Isaac gets super burned, and the Die On Teen Wolf contest winner makes her debut.

Mrs. Yukimura breaks a tail, Stiles stabs Scott with a sword, and Deaton injects Stiles with the wolf lichen he stole from the Yakuza. A totally normal day here on Teen Wolf, like you do. Next week: somehow, it gets worse.

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