User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 091014/@comment-107.145.11.251-20140916004927

To answer the question you keep asking about the overall decline in all other supernatural shows: NO! I do not think this TW decline is part of a global one. The reason I don't think this is what happened with Teen Wolf is because Teen Wolf is not in the same market as any of the shows you are referencing. It is a completely different animal. It is a small cult show on a very small network. And it lives and dies on fan-buzz. That was initially part of the charm of the show. It was unique on TV. Yes, it was a show with teenagers like a lot of other shows. And it was a show with supernatural overtones. But it used to bear little resemblence to those other shows. It wasn't about improbably beautiful teens (though the cast is amazingly fit) living glamorous lives. It wasn't about big bad monsters every week either. The Vampire Diaries might be the closest to it, but have you seen that cast? That show is sophisticated cool.

Teen Wolf was a small story about growing up and also being a werewolf. It was a sort of parable of the teen years. The stories were human stories in the first two seasons. Then, the writers began to expand their world. They started thinking they were writing a show about global mythologies. They held that together in 3A and, thanks almost totally to Dylan O'Brien, they managed to squeak by in 3B. But, it became obvious that the show was unraveling a little in 3B as they tried to juggle too many new ideas in the space of 12 episodes. Then, with a glut of new characters and huge over the top set pieces full of assassins and viruses and too many dayplayers to even track, Teen Wolf simply collapsed under its own weight. They apparently can't go back to being the show everyone fell in love with 4 years ago. But if they could they might even salvage the idea of Teen Wolf: The New Class. If they could appeal again to their core fans and maybe draw in new ones, but obviously that won't happen if they refuse to take any constructive criticism from the few people who care enough to still offer it.