Well, Crystal Reed has said that she was sick of playing a teenager as she edged closer to thirty, which seems pretty reasonable to me. I know there were rumors that her breakup with Daniel Sharman might have also contributed, and might have had something to do with him leaving the show too, although according to Jeff…

I don't think it's bad luck so much as a lot of the minor actors preferring to go for bigger roles rather than be eigth-billed in an ensemble. The girl playing Cora Hale left so she could take the lead in the Reign pilot, for example, which is clearly a lot better for her personally even if it resulted in another…

Dude, I didn't object to your original comment because I think all relationships are easily torn asunder in the wastes of the world—for one thing, Scott and Stiles are in conflict but their relationship isn't over. I objected to it because your phrasing seem to indicate that far from talking out their conflicts,…

I think the conflict about trust and the ethics of justice they're having this season kind of has something to do with their differing emotional responses to the traumas they've experienced. For example, I think Stiles' protectiveness of his father has a lot to do with the fact that a) his other parent didn't just…

I've had to say this before, but I think continuity isn't the word you mean. Like I said earlier in this thread, in the current season they're exploring the sometimes violent protectiveness that has been a part of Stiles' character since the very first season and tied Stiles' current character arc to his…

The dread doctors kill the chimeras when it becomes clear that they're failed experiments, i.e. when they start leaking mercury, which all the chimeras in this episode did. That's already been long established.

12/34/56 = 1/2/3/4/5/6

Yeah, I would enjoy people's reactions to Teen Wolf so much more, even negative reactions, if there was even a thread of humor or awareness of the show's inherent absurdities. It's a horror movie universe, but lets all complain that the horror movie asylum is unrealistic and would logically be shut down by the proper…

Yeah, stereotyped representation wasn't the complaint. "Jeff Davis only writes coherent arcs for twinks he wants to bang" was the complaint, which has shit to do with "calling out Jeff Davis for his internalized homophobia" and everything to do with assuming a gay man's actions are entirely led by his dick. Read the…

I already said it below, but Allison's arc in 3B was strong as hell. After spending the seasons before that terrified of being weak and allowing that fear to let her be manipulated by her sociopathic family into almost killing people, Allison had visions of her aunt that made her confront the fact that she herself is…

Stiles has been protective of his father to the point of not just hostility but violence since season 1 when he decked Jackson for trying to bring his father to the school when the Alpha had them trapped (which is also kind of the issue here—it wasn't just uncomplicated self defense, he actively wanted Donovan dead).…

Ah, I thought it was an eye like Valack had but according to the Teen Wolf wiki it was a trepanation hole. Seeing it was what triggered Lydia's flashback to her grandmother in Required Reading.

It seems particularly weird to complain about the line of white-boy twink things taking all the focus when one of the things that's happened this season (facilitated by characters like Liam, Corey, and Brett) is the increased focus on Mason. It's also a weird complaint in a season where, as LaToya complains, a female…

I think you misunderstood a few things. I don't think the reference to hundreds of bodies is meant to indicate that hundreds of teens are being killed right now. I think it's meant to indicate that hundreds of supernatural creatures of all ages have been killed in the time since Parrish came to town, and that he's…

I don't think the intro implied Lydia was there for the events she remembered—I'm pretty sure we were supposed to assume they were banshee visions, not just her own memories. I also think they're life-or-death mainly in that they're events leading to the pack's dissolution which puts them all in danger because they're…

Once again, LaToya is clearly trying to imply that the gay male show runner is inappropriately sexualizing actors who are "very young" despite the fact that the only "eye candy" actor/character in this episode is in his mid-twenties (unless she thinks that back with wings was supposed to be really hot, I guess). This…

Wait…was Logan's name not Logan St. Voguin'? Now I'm terribly disappointed.

I didn't say you expect too much from Teen Wolf. I said that you have very exacting, specific expectations from Teen Wolf that it is not obligated to fulfill. You say there are "a thousand ways to write it," but you're listing only one way as acceptable. Stiles didn't talk about his guilt to the person you wanted him…

Possibly baseless speculation, but Parrish's makeout with the Lydia corpse reminded me heavily of Lydia kissing young-Peter-turned-toasty-Peter in 2. If Peter turns out to be somehow responsible for Parrish's work with the Nemeton I will be ceaselessly delighted.

Your problem seems to be primarily that the characters didn't act in very specific, super proscribed ways that you wanted them to act. But Teen Wolf isn't written just for you, and your concerns are not necessarily the show's concerns, or even other viewers' concerns. They certainly aren't my concerns.