I agree, you might be right that Scott isn't as passive as I thought. But there's been multiple times where his inability to decide anything has caused problems.

Not quite yet. It started the second half of their sophomore year, and they are now in the second half of their junior year. So it hasn't been two full school years, just two half ones. It's so strange.

No, it's only a year. These are the dates for the TW timeline from the Teen Wolf wiki
Season 1 was 43 days in canon Jan 09 2011 - Feb 20 2011
Season 2 was 48 days in canon Feb 21 2011 - April 09 2011
We never saw summer
Season 3a was 35 days in canon August 13 2011 - September 16 2011
Season 3b was October 9 2011 -…

Yeah, he created the show and was co-executive producer for the first season. He and Mandy Patinkin did not get along and Mandy has been pretty vocal about how disgusted he was with the show for constantly using the rape and torture of woman as plot points. It wasn't the show he was told and got out as soon as his…

I think another reason is that Jeff Davis can't move on from the show he created: Criminal Minds. With every passing season, Davis is integrating more and more of the Criminal Minds way of writing into Teen Wolf. More effort is put into the villains and their backstories with the main regular characters being…

Yeah, i guess they felt they weren't a proper supernatural show without 'The Chosen One' element in there somewhere. It's a strange choice to make out that Scott is just so much better than any other werewolf in the show, born or bitten, so that he's a true alpha. I don't see Liam or Brett or Derek or Erica or Boyd…

:D
It should be a rule that if you're trying to make sense out of Teen Wolf, you should at least be paid for the trouble. Your job is safe!

It was actually Entertainment Weekly who started the question with "People have called Teen Wolf the new Buffy". I've never heard anybody call it that except maybe Teen Wolf's own PR. In every interview he's talked about it, Jeff Davis states he doesn't want to be just another Buffy, they're trying for something…

"Removing the choice (even on a subconscious level) from Scott to become a
monster also removes the interest in the storyline. At this point, it
feels like Teen Wolf is intentionally shooting itself in the foot."

I agree. I think it terms of plot importance, Derek, Stiles and Kira could've been totally missing from this season and not much would have changed at all. I'm not sure why they've done that.

TBH, it's not only this season that's done the whole "keeps giving the audience questions, only to avoid answers or closure." The show did it in 3a with the alpha pack and in 3b with nogitsune!stiles.

No, I remember Jeff saying it too. His exact quote was that 'Stiles wasn't magic, but the ash might be'. However, you should never take Jeff at his word. He also said that "Stiles would never kiss a girl", "Stiles would never ever get to play lacrosse", "The werewolves in the show would never be full wolves" — you…

Yeah. So many scenes have led to absolutely nothing, because they're either forgotten about or the writers get bored quickly.

Wasn't it that really rare wolfsbane that Garrett and Violet were using a few eps ago? Or fandom is about to get it's wish and it's wolfsbane sex pollen ;)

Same. Or I kinda thought Jeff had been watching Murder by Death and there were two identical rooms. Jeff does love imitating old movies. Instead it was the complete nonsense we got that just made everybody look stupid.

Werewolf powers seems to change on the show depending on the plot the writers are trying to get across.
Both Derek and Scott can punch through the thick walls of a bank vault, can leap buildings, but then Scott can't easily pull Liam up off that building instead of just biting him.
That, apparently, was the only…

So many good questions. The only ones I can answer is that apparently the Hale house burned down 6 years before the first episode of season 1.
But since the show can't keep track of a timeline (in the show it should only be 2012 but all the dates we see have the prop department thinking it's 2014), nothing makes sense.
…

I think the show will keep that open as option. They've had Stiles believe in something strong enough that he created mountain ash out of thin air to complete a circle when he ran out — which is not something anybody else has done with it.
But since many fans have been adamant about keeping Stiles 'the human', I think…

Same. I've let so much ride with how nonsensical it is, but the more the plotholes and inconsistencies pile up I begin to feel like the writers have no respect for the intelligence of their audience whatsoever.

And if those infodumps actually led to anything making sense…
It's kinda like the writers are saying "we wasted too much time on slow-motion dance parties to properly weave this information into the show so just let Lydia vomit out all this info… Oh, and it won't make anything that happened previously make any sense…