Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-98.163.116.64-20140702165118/@comment-4753851-20140707203124

LadyX wrote: I agree with Maria, Allison couldn't be recast. Besides, it wasn't just that Crystal wanted to leave. MTV wanted a MCD, Crystal just happened to want to leave, so they chose her so someone who actually still wanted to be here wouldn't get fired. Or so the official story goes. I've still got my doubts on that, but that's a different story for another time.

Side note,mi felt we could've replaced Cora with a different actress though. She was in the perfect option to pull it off with little backlash, IMO. Cora could have definitely be recasted, but wouldn't change my indifference to her. For her to be a long lost Hale survivor that Derek or his sister Laura didn't know about or tried to find was a bit far-fetched for me.

For me they could have just as easily just made Cora a young werewolf who was friends with Derek and Laura before the show and when she went to meet up with them she got captured by the Alpha Pack. A little more plausible to me and makes her character expendable if need be. Having a sister suddenly show up and leave to never return. Great job Teen Wolf/MTV.