Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-2187922-20140218213657/@comment-13965604-20140222002216

Shakester71 wrote: We know Lydia's mom is a single mom and Malia is what? 17 years old? or so? Thats a long time and its possible that Lydia's mom just didn't recognize him since wolves age more slowly. There has to be a reason Lydia's mom is part of the story this half of the season. Its almost like Jennifer playing a small role as a teacher then all of a sudden, she's the big, bad guy.

My mom recognizes people walking by that she hasn't seen since high school 30+ years ago. And I know she recognizes the boyfriend she had when I was in 2nd grade, 18 years ago...god, writing that makes me feel old...

If he aged more slowly, she should recognize him all the more, because his looks wouldn't have changed as much as a normal person. But we can't even really base anything on the aging thing because in Visionary we found out that he was old enough to be out of high school, but still young enough that nobody says anything when they see him walking around it without an entry pass, when Derek was 15 sometime more than 7 years ago when the fire happened. Well, he's aged a lot since the fire. Far more than the 7-10 years it's been since Visionary happened.

The only way it makes sense for it to be Lydia's mom is if, like Ravensong78 said, Talia took her memory too. But we've seen nothing that says a werewolf can do that. But I will stipulate that it's a possibility until we have confirmation one way or the other.

I agree, Lydia's mom has to be important to something that's coming up. We saw her all of what, twice, in the whole rest of the series? And now she shows up, teaching. Lydia. In a biology class. Genius brained junior Lydia is still in a freshman biology class? Something be up.

Honestly, I was really doubting the Ms. Martin is Malia's mom theory...but I just looked up a picture...Malia and Lydia both do have some pretty plush lips. I guess looking at the four of them...I can kinda see it...so I'm off the disproving it band wagon, but not sure I'm wholeheartedly this is it bandwagon.