#tw 4x10

[forbescaroline]

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #06. scott mccall and lydia martin - teen wolf

[quietwingsinthesky]

gwen volunteering to be the one to shoot jack, thinking it will finally kill him for real..... . guhghguhghghghg foaming at the mouth.

[eusuntgratie]

4.10 Monstrous

YES Kira kicking ass, protecting people, ON HER OWN not just helping a dude I love it MORE OF THIS PLEASE

Not much makes me softer than Mama McCall mom-ing Stiles. My mom’s a nurse and raised me pretty much by herself. She stepped up and mommed the shit out of my best friend when she needed it. TW gets a lot wrong, but I love Melissa so much and I’m happy to see a lot of her this season 💜

DAMN GIRL Kira did some work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I know a lot of folks don’t like Daddy Argent but OOF SIR 🥵

Every time I’m like this is dumb maybe I’ll stop watching, Derek comes on screen for one second and I’m like hmmm no that’s fine I’ll definitely watch infinite episodes of this show. GOOD LORD HE’S SO ATTRACTIVE.

Stiles’ hair in S4 looks like what would happen if I gave my kid some gel and let her loose on his head.

Scott’s claws look like bad acrylics in this shot 🤣

THE FUCK?!

[anthonybrxdgerton]

teen wolf week: day 2: favorite (relationship) development

What do I tell Scott?

[princeescaluswords]

Misunderstanding “Monstrous”

I just saw a gifset with over a 1000 notes on it which purports to be about Monstrous but neglects to include Scott McCall except in one ‘aftermath of the battle’ scene.   To me, that misses the entire point of the episode which was about the end of the Dead Pool and what it meant to Scott McCall.

Please ignore the ridiculous 70s computers in the wall plot line -- anyone who can think critically knows what that was.   You can say they were mystically-empowered 70s computer towers that were telepathically connected to an institutionalized banshee (as good an argument as any) their narrative purpose was to allow White Sidekick to be relevant in this episode.  Wheeeee.  Go away now.

The real point of the episode was Scott having the balance two opposing desires -- first, to somehow reject his “destiny” of becoming a supernatural killing machine and second, to prevent innocent people from being killed.   This was the central thrust of the season.   Repeatedly -- in Muted, in I.E.D., in Orphaned, and in Time of Death -- a false dichotomy was put before Scott -- to save people from the Dead Pool, he would have to kill, or if he refused to kill he would not be able to save people from the Dead Pool.  

This struggle was specific to Scott.  It wasn’t a general stance.  You notice that Derek, Braeden, Chris, KIra, and Satomi all used deadly force and Scott had not the slightest problem with it.  It’s about his use of deadly force, it was about him becoming the alpha that we saw briefly at the end of “Monstrous” -- a bloodthirsty monster.   He rejected that, as he should, and as he always would, because this struggle wasn’t about the moral problem of killing to protect others.  It never had been.

It was about “Wolf Moon” and being changed against your will.  Scott has said in Season 5 that he should be the one forced to kill (”Co-Dominance”) and that he knows that eventually he will have to (”Beast of Beacon Hills”).   But he is going to fight against it until he has no other choice.  

Because this is about Peter.  It’s always been about Peter.   It’s Peter’s face that he dons in Monstrous.  It’s Peter’s will that powers the Dead Pool.  Scott will not knuckle under to Peter’s worldview.  He will not become the killer the way Peter wanted him to. 

People were mystified when the Dead Pool ended because there were still two episodes left.  Did they have time for a new story, they wondered.  The truth is -- it was still the same story.  It was about the struggle not to allow yourself to be fundamentally changed into something terrible for the ‘right’ reasons.   Because to people like Peter and Kate, who believed they had no choice but to indulge in brutality and murder, the ability to become powerful and influential without giving in to the darker impulses of murder and madness is a slap in the face.   “What’s so special about Scott McCall?”  “ Not usurped by some idiot teenage boy, so incorruptible, he won't shed the blood of his enemies even when justified.” 

“Not all monsters do monstrous things” wasn’t a melodramatic platitude; it was a thesis statement.   It was a declaration that people get to determine what they are in life -- that even the smallest of us can choose what we are, regardless of the events that happened to us.

[forbescaroline]

dynamics i've been wanting to gif: stiles & malia - teen wolf I would never leave without you.

[quietwingsinthesky]

REX

[quietwingsinthesky]

esther..... T-T