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Filming the Final Five Episodes Ever
Teen Wolf cast and crew returned to their studio this week to resume production on the final season of the show. After roughly three and a half weeks off for the holidays, cameras are rolling again with writer and producer Eric Wallace in the Director’s Chair. “It’s gonna be an intense, but fun week and a half!” Wallace shared on Instagram. “Let's ROCK!” They’re now halfway into filming and we still have no clue as to what the plot for the second half of the season might be. We’ve been told, but it’s not officially confirmed, that MTV doesn’t plan to take much of a break between airing the first and second halves of Season 6.

The final episode of 6a, Riders on the Storm, is slated for January 31. Our source says MTV may decide to start running 6b episodes in February, but again, that’s not confirmed. Our source is going off what they’ve been told, not official network statements. Whatever the case, with filming back on now, it looks like the very last episode of Teen Wolf will start filming in March.

Linden Ashby Murdered my Heart Again
Two weeks running, Linden Ashby is guilty of murdering Teen Wolf fans with incredibly emotional performances. In Heartless, we watched as he and Holland Roden took the first steps to remembering Stiles together. In Blitzkrieg, the memories came like a flood, and as they did, he realized his wife was truly dead. Writer Will Wallace tells Teen Wolf News that it was a difficult thing to write. "Those scenes were hard to write because they were breaking Stilinski's heart. Those scenes are always hard to write because we love the characters very much and don't want to hurt them, but great drama often comes from great pain." Behind the scenes, Ashby says they worked hard on the tone of the episode. “It was this intense back and forth as to what that last scene with Claudia (Joey Honsa) would be,” he tweeted, “how to tell someone you love they don't exist.” For his character, accepting reality was difficult. “Is it sometimes easier to keep living in a world you know isn't real.” Love, fear, sorrow, excitement, Ashby once again managed to convey all those emotions with his face in just a matter of seconds. Director Kate Eastridge summed it up best in discussing Ashby’s performance in Heartless, “Linden traverses all of this adeptly by grounding each reaction. His struggle to reconcile these strange occurrences and logic is heartbreaking.”

Stiles Has a First Name
Don’t ask me to pronounce it, but Stiles Stilinski’s real first name is Mieczyslaw. Mieczyslaw Stilinski. The name literally means Sword (miecz) of Glory (sław) in Polish. Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis says he picked the name less for its meaning and more for its difficulty to spell and pronounce. He also liked it because it sounded like “mischief” and that suited Stiles’ personality. It makes for another very touching scene where the Sheriff reveals the name and explains how young Stiles couldn’t pronounce it and called himself “mischief” instead and his mother adopted as his nickname. More heartbreak right there courtesy of Linden Ashby.

The name thing with Stiles has been a problem since the very first season. Early publicity for the show identified him as “Stan Stilinsky” as did the pilot cast list for “Wolf Moon” at IMDB.

Later listings of the cast have the character name as simply “Stiles,” and this is the nickname all characters use when addressing him on the show.

During The Tell, Coach Bobby Finstock made fun of Stiles’ first name. He said it amounted to child abuse. A brief screen shot take from this scene had some fans convinced beyond all surety that the character’s name was Genim. Now we all know better The joke about his name was revived in the Season 3 episode Riddled when the doctor performing the MRI says he's unsure how to pronounce Stiles' first name or believes it to be a misspelling.

While it’s nice to know his real real first name finally, the character will always be Stiles.

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The Huge Continuity Error that Wasn’t Really
In six seasons of covering the show, Teen Wolf Wikia has documented dozens of continuity errors. Most involve props that we simply ignore when it comes to canon.

Some fans believe Blitzkrieg gave us the mother of all continuity errors with the retelling of the events surrounding Claudia Stilinski’s death. This is NOT the case as a careful examination of the dialog shows.

In the Season 3 episode Alpha Pact, Sheriff Stilinski, Mellissa McCall, and Chris Argent are trapped under the Nemeton. The Sheriff tells the story of the night his wife died. He explains he was not there because he opted instead to stay at an accident scene with a car crash victim.


 * “There was a night eight years ago, the night my wife died. I was at the end of a shift, and a call came in. There had been a pile-up and a young woman; she was a teenager actually. She was trapped under an overturned car. We had to wait for the paramedics. We were never getting her out. But I was able to hold her hand. She knew she was gonna die. But I just kept telling her, ‘No, no, listen. The paramedics are on their way.’ And then I remember, her hand suddenly gripped mine so tightly that I literally thought she was gonna break the bones. And she looked me in the eye, and she said, ‘If you wanna be with her, go now.’


 * And I knew she was talking about my wife. But then that other part of my brain, the part that looks for clues, for fingerprints, for logical connections, that part told me that there is no way that this girl could possibly know about Claudia, and so I stayed. I stayed until the paramedics pulled her out, until her heart stopped beating, and they declared her dead. When I finally got to the hospital, I saw Stiles sitting in the waiting room with his head in his hands. He was with Claudia when she died, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t with her because I didn’t believe. I just did not believe.”

<p class="MsoNormal">In this week’s episode Blitzkrieg, Sheriff Stilinski relates to Claudia the story of her “last good day.”
 * “I took this picture on your last good day. You were yourself all day. Stiles had his mom back, and I had my wife back. Stiles refused to leave your side. Stiles couldn’t stop talking, about school and all the trouble he got into. He tried so hard to stay awake. And when he finally fell asleep, it was in your arms. We just sat together and watched each other. We didn’t need to talk. But when you finally closed your eyes, I knew you were gone.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Some fans took “you were gone” to mean she died. She did not. He’s relating the story of the last day she was fully cognitive of her surroundings before the dementia fully took hold. She lived for a while after this as we witnessed during the hospital flashback in Required Reading. All that to say, there’s nothing to see here. Move along.

Will Wallace: Star Wars Made me Do It
<p class="MsoNormal">Last night’s episode, Blitzkrieg, is written by Will Wallace and he says it’s his favorite. Before last year, most of us didn’t really know Wallace existed. He had a writing credit on one episode of the show, Ouroboros, but beyond that, his profile was low in the wider world of Teen Wolf. That changed when Wallace suddenly appeared on the social media side of the fandom. <p class="MsoNormal">He started responding on Twitter to fan questions about the show. His increased interaction was a boon to some, the bane of others as he opened up a window into the writer’s room, character development, and production of the MTV show. While fans are apt to get his patented “wait and see” answer to any potentially spoilery questions, Teen Wolf News managed to get all our questions answered about the man who went from working in a video store in Alabama to the writer’s room on one of his favorite shows.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – Where are you from?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - I'm from Montgomery, AL.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN - When did you know you wanted to work in the entertainment industry?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW- When I was in the eighth grade my dad took me to see the release of the special editions of the original Star Wars films when they came back to theaters (in 1997). I had grown up watching Star Wars and had worn out several copies of the VHS tapes from watching them so many times. However, seeing those films on the big screen activated something in me and I knew from that moment on I was going to be a writer.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN - How did you get to LA?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - I moved to Los Angeles ten years ago. I always knew I'd have to move to LA eventually, but I wasn't exactly sure when. At the time I was working at a video store called Suncoast Video, and I was told a branch was going to be opening in LA and I was asked to manage that branch. So, I packed my bags and moved to LA a few weeks later. I lasted about a month at the video store before quitting to find work in movies.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – Is that the path you’d recommend for aspiring writers?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW. The road to being a writer is different for every person who makes it. There's not a set path for anyone to follow. What works for one person might not work for the rest. However, I'd say the one thing people who make it as a TV writer have the most in common is that they moved to LA and found as much work on TV and movies as possible. Yes, it's possible not to be a PA (Production Assistant) and then become a writer if you write an amazing screenplay and get it into the right hands, but more often than not you have to work your way up from the bottom.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – When did you start your path on Teen Wolf?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - This whole crazy adventure started when I answered an ad on ProductionsNotices.com. I started working on Teen Wolf when the show came back to LA for the reshoots on Season One. I was a set PA for that and made great connections with two of the executive producers on the show. They really liked me and hired me again for the Season Two reshoots a year later. After that, when Teen Wolf moved back to LA, I was the first person officially hired for season 3A. I spent a week watching people move our deconstructed sets into an empty speaker factory.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – What’s your favorite part about the job or maybe your proudest moment working for Teen Wolf?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - My proudest moment was when I was still the writers' assistant. Jeff looked at me across the table and said, "You're writing episode 508." I'd been in LA for almost ten years at that point, and that’s exactly what all of the blood, sweat and tears had been for. The favorite part about working on Teen Wolf is getting to create a great show that's loved by so many people around the world.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – What’s next for you after the final season of Teen Wolf?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - When Teen Wolf ends this will be the first time I'm an unemployed writer. Currently, I'm writing pitches for several new TV series ideas that I have. I'm going out to meetings with networks and studios to land a job on a new TV show hopefully or to potentially entice someone into taking a chance on one of my series ideas.

<p class="MsoNormal">TWN – LA can be a tough town, any regrets?

<p class="MsoNormal">WW - Not one. Everything I've done in LA has been a part of the path that landed me in a writer's seat on Teen Wolf.

<p class="MsoNormal">Wallace is still a Teen Wolf fan at heart. He says his favorite episode (that he didn’t write) is The Fox and the Wolf, the show’s other World War II flashback in Season 3. You can follow the writer on Twitter @willwritesgood.

Blitzkrieg and Real Nazi Occultism
<p class="MsoNormal">Writer Will Wallace took Teen Wolf back to World War II in this week’s episode, but this time they traveled to Germany. Jeff Davis tells TWN they wanted to give us a little backstory on that Nazi Werewolf that the Dread Doctors were keeping in their greasy green tube of a hydration station down in the basement all through Season 5.

<p class="MsoNormal">If you’ve not yet watched the episode, this preview from MTV shows some of the flashback from in Blitzkrieg.

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Supernatural Nazis
<p class="MsoNormal">“We definitely dug into the Nazi's interest in the occult for story ideas,” explains Wallace, “but ultimately it became part of the background to give flavor to what was happening during the war and with Douglas.” <p class="MsoNormal">The whole "Nazis searching for occult solutions to win the war" thing is a popular trope in post-World War II fiction. During the 1940s, DC comics even used the idea that Hitler had the "Spear of Destiny." With it, he could overwhelm even Superman's powers.

<p class="MsoNormal">Fear of the spear explained why the man of steel didn't just swoop down and knock Hitler on his keister and destroy all his tanks and submarines. The Nazis did have the spear, they got it after the annexation of Austria, but it doesn't appear to have helped with the war.

<p class="MsoNormal">This belief in "Nazi magic" actually began in the popular belief that Hitler was possessed by a demon. There's no real proof to back up the belief, just a series of stories people told about him after his rise to power and the fact that he was perhaps the evilest human being in modern history. There is also the fact that Nazis actually had a

The Löwenmensch

<p class="MsoNormal">The writers drew from genuine German history for the introduction of a new creature, part lion and part werewolf, they call it the Löwenmensch. “The Löwenmensch came from (writer/director) Eric Wallace,” Will Wallace explains. “He spent a lot of time growing up in Germany and knew the Löwenmensch from there.”

<p class="MsoNormal">In reality, the Löwenmensch is just an ivory statue found in a cave. It has the head of a lion and the body of a man and is the oldest statue of its kind in the world. There’re no real myths surrounding it. Carved from a single woolly mammoth tusk, researchers believe the statue was part of the shamanistic rights of the earliest humans that lived where Germany is now. Unfortunately, their traditions and the part played by the Lion-Man are lost to history.

<p class="MsoNormal">For Teen Wolf, this was fertile soil in which to plant a new mythology. “It was a new creature for us and a lot of fun to play with,” says Wallace. “We have some thoughts about how you become a Löwenmensch, but you might have to stay tuned for that.”

Teen Wolf visits Germany

<p class="MsoNormal">The new Teen Wolf '40s flashback was cool but not the same kind of expansive world-building episode we saw with The Fox and the Wolf or the snow-covered French countryside of The Maid of Gevaudan “It’s not the same as our usual flashbacks,” Jeff Davis tells Teen Wolf News, “much more condensed.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Season 3 World War II episode that gave us the Nogitsune origin story was filmed over several days at a genuine former military installation along the California Coast.

<p class="MsoNormal">For Blitzkrieg, the Teen Wolf art department recreated the war years closer to home. “We shot the Germany stuff by doing a build of rebuilding of sets and on location in the woods,” Davis explains.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Teen Wolf World War II flashback in Blitzkrieg is available now on iTunes and Amazon Video and at MTV.com.

Next Week on ‘Teen Wolf’

<p class="MsoNormal">Now that the pack knows the power of remembering can open a rift to the Ghost Rider’s limbo, they’ll be trying to remember every little detail they can about Stiles in the aptly titled Memory Found.

<p class="MsoNormal">The official MTV Synopsis for the episode –


 * Liam and Theo act as decoys; Scott, Lydia, and Malia enact a plan to try and remember Stiles.

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf News was actually on set during filming of part of the “decoy” scenes with Liam and Theo. Here are a few of the images from that night.

<p class="MsoNormal">Memory Found airs Tuesday, January 24 at 9 PM on MTV and the MTV App. You can also get new episodes via iTunes and Amazon Video.

‘The Death Cure’ Filming Begins in March

<p class="MsoNormal">Director Wes Ball is back into pre-production on Maze Runner: The Death Cure. They’re reportedly visiting locations in South Africa for the third movie in the series. Ball says work on TDC will resume in March. Actors will return almost a year after filming on the project halted due to a life-threatening accident on set. Ball announced the planned start date on Twitter on Friday.

<p class="MsoNormal">For full details, check out the story at Fandom.com. LINK: http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/death-cure-filming-begins-march