Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-74.78.209.222-20140708151031/@comment-13965604-20140709065140

DManCO wrote: Missed you too!

At this point I have developed the firm belief that Jeff simply hates the fans. It has become almost predictable that if there is something we like about the show, and we make the mistake of saying so publicly, he takes it away out of sheer spite. There had to have been something wrong with his relationship with Colton behind the scenes, because it's not as if Colton's role on Arrow is bigger than his role on Teen Wolf. Indeed, the occasional appearances as a sidekick and the Mirakuru storyline made me laugh due to striking similarities. Roy is just Jackson but from the poor side of town! Unless Colton is getting paid a lot more, it's not a better role. But he left for it, just as Jackson finally achieved his dream of becoming a werewolf. So it smelled fishy to me.

Fans loved Keahu, so Jeff persistently refused to develop him or give him significant scenes. God giveth, and God taketh away. Jeff mostly just taketh away. Notice how he is also trying to discourage Sterek shipping by studiously keeping Stiles and Derek from having scenes together? It's not very subtle.

I truly believe that this is behind the ratings hit the show has taken, a fair chunk of fans are disengaging from the show because Jeff is making it clear that he will not even tolerate their slash fantasies, much less use characters preferred by the fans more than by him. He's telling this story for himself now. The rest of us are just here to make sure the bills get paid.

On the same vein as Haynes leaving, Reed's departure read as fishy to me. I mean, yes, she was getting old for the role, but it still doesn't make sense to me that she 'wanted to leave' a steady role, but had no other plans in the works, no other, better, job that was waiting in the wings. But hey, I guess that goes in line with the fans wanting Scallison back too much.