Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-845740-20140206111417/@comment-4753851-20140206215337

DManCO wrote: LadyX wrote:

I feel like I've been really lenient with getting the werewolf lore into the show, seeing as by normal standards episode wise, we are only in, like, season two. But we are nearing the end of that s2 with no real development of anything. The fact that we are technically on "season four", and fast approaching "season five" only makes it even worse. Am I making any sense?

They clearly didn't want a werewolf show. They wanted a mythological creature show and needed something specific to sell to the network, so they could get their foot in the door. And then abandoned what they were selling to do what they really wanted. Well, I have this deep-seated fear of Teen Wolf turning into True Blood, which also went the Fantasy Kitchen Sink route (straight down the drain). It's bad enough we have to figure out why the Nemeton, a place of power located in California, spat out a bunch of Japanese demons! Couldn't they at least try Native American stuff before heading across the Pacific? At first I thought that was where they were going with the werecoyote thing. But that now seems a lot like the one-off storylines on Supernatural that they insert between the metaplot episodes.

I believe you are on to something. I think Teen Wolf got all tangled up in its own mythology after Season 1. There is so much that is unexplained and I get how the writers don't want to reveal anything or set anything in stone so they have some flexibility; but Derek was born a werewolf and Allison has access to her family's beastiary which contains centuries of knowledge on supernatural creatures. Does everything have to be a mystery when there is such knowledge which can be accessed?