Even that speech that Brett gave in the episode about Scott being a true alpha because of his conscious choices was a little bit of retconning — Scott did not make the conscious choice to be bitten, he wasn't even in the woods by choice.

Anyone else have additional thoughts on what purpose the whole "Benefactor" thing served?

Yeah, she ate her mom after transforming, but she could have gone wolf —> coyote if the coyote form was just a kanima thing, in the same way Jackson went snake/lizard —> wolf.

Well, Kate went to the werejaguar temple and got the Berserkers, so she might have done something there to become a werejaguar? Or it is just what the shows says—sometimes the creature you become reflects who you are inside, and inside Kate is a jaguar for some reason. I'm actually kind of disappointed that Malia's…

Peter was pissed at Talia for trying to facilitate peace rather than asserting her leadership through violence, so he wanted to prove that werewolves (and specifically him) were the apex predators by killing all the supernaturals in town.

He informed her of his money and his vault during the long rants—one of them included the fact that he would use the bearer bonds in the vaults to pay off the assassin.

I would guess there's going to be a Scott and Papa Argent face-off sometime soon. The Calaveras' concern was that Scott was going to make new betas and kill someone, and by now he's done one and come close to doing another. The Calaveras' enlisting Chris and bringing him back to the original hunter code seems to point…

I'm guessing it's supposed to play into or reference Grandma's story
somehow, what with the lover lost at sea and all (and maybe a lost banshee-scream voice or something), but lol yeah, clearly
no one actually bothered to read the original version. Or even google
it, honestly—to be fair, it's also been long enough…

Ah, that makes significantly more sense. I was honestly baffled as to whether you'd just forgotten that it had been established where she was, or whether you and I were just having wildly disparate responses to the value systems and emotional responses of fictional teenagers again.

To be fair, Eichen House is clearly an evil medical institution. I'm just surprised they didn't send over a bill collector with a hatchet and a sack.

I don't really think that Meredith being the Benefactor means that Lydia is just her victim now and therefore doesn't have to feel bad about how she treated her, or that Meredith is now "simply" a vengeful, crazy girl (and therefore does not elicit sympathy anymore? That was the objection, I think?). If anything, I'd…

Rewatching, Scott and Stiles actually didn't mention Isaac. Scott mentioned texting Chris Argent in France, and my brain apparently took it in as "The last time we saw Isaac he was going with Chris to get rid of the boxed-up nogitsune, so now we know Isaac is probably in France with him."

He was a child actor, so it'd be a little harder for him to hide his real age than someone who just got into acting. He played Tom Hanks' preteen son in Road to Perdition the year that I graduated from high school (12 years ago).

The show has acknowledged that Isaac is gone. Finstock mentioned losing him (and Jackson) from the team, which was why they held try-outs for new members, and Scott and Stiles had a conversation about how he was in Europe with Chris Argent.

You mean sick, sad world, right?

It was discussed. I definitely remember Finstock mentioning that they lost Jackson and Isaac—that was why they held lacrosse try-outs—and I believe Scott and Stiles discussed it as well. My impression was that he went to undifferentiated-by-country Europe with Chris Argent and just decided to stay there. So he's…

I think the lack of transparency is…kind of the point? Like, I don't see it as a flaw of the writing so much as a flaw of the characters, and one which they seem to be explicitly dealing with this season on a number of levels. Yes, Scott will do his best to protect his pack. And for several seasons now that has…

Yes, it was a real shame that they ruined the incredibly accurate historical veracity of the Hercules: The Legendary Journey franchise by adding a female warrior. She had no place sharing a screen with the likes of Aphrodite, a fictional goddess who was a character on the show and dressed in the traditional Roman…

Could you c&p a quote from this article that is "a tirade about how men in charge of said media are all misogynist pricks"? I can't see any so I'm afraid that we might be reading this article in alternate universes.

Rape culture doesn't encapsulate the idea that men are inherently inclined towards rape. If it did, it would be called rape nature rather than rape culture.