Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-192.230.165.112-20140420035210/@comment-6383956-20140617172703

Paul, I have watched the scene recently. But just for you, I'll rewatch it right now and then I will write out exactly what happens here in this post. The scene totally stops.

SCOTT: I know this guy.

ALLISON: You do?

SCOTT: Yeah, when I used to take the bus, back when I used to live with my dad. He was the driver.

Background music stops. Shot of Stiles staring at Scott. Total silence.

LYDIA: Can we talk about something a little more fun?

The scene completely stops. They emphasize that moment -- not because of Scott's dad, no, it's so the audience can grasp that Scott knew the driver (because at this point they still want us to think Scott attacked him). But it is not a throwaway line by any means.

His parents might get together again to tell him about the divorce except that we know from 3b that Scott's dad left the house and never came back. So, obviously, they must have been already getting a divorce OR Jeff Davis totally disregarded everything he said about Scott's family in Season 1.

Yeah, elementary school? Like, y'know, in a lot of places they keep the little kids up to 6th or 8th grade in a separate building from the high school? It's a reason why someone who doesn't take the bus in high school might have taken it earlier in life? Which makes more sense than saying that he used to take the bus when he lived in the same place he lives now but with a different family set up?

Uhm, let's see. Beacon Hills is in California, yes? Do you know what nurses in California get paid? Do you know what housing costs and the cost of living are like in California? (Or is this information that's readily available on the Internet? Yes, it is!) Have we seen the house they live in? Can we make a rough estimate of the size of the house? Yes. We can. Ergo, we can reasonably conclude that Melissa McCall could not have afforded to purchase that house.

Also, we can reasonably assume that this is the house Scott's dad once shared with them since he told us that when he pointed out the spot on the floor where Scott hit his head. Since Scott does not presently take the bus (nor did he when he was an asthmatic) we have to figure that it's nearby the high school. So, he would only have been taking a bus if the starting point and/or the ending point of the bus ride was different than his current situation. It doesn't make a lot of sense for him to be like "When I was living with my dad" versus "when I was going to ____ school" (like I said, probably elementary/grade school) unless his living situation with his dad was in a different place than where he lives now.

Like, you're very good at accruing information Paul, but information is pretty useless if you don't actually think about its implications. :P