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 Recent News Seems to Rewrite Teen Wolf Canon



Some recent news about Teen Wolf messes with some of the established canon.

All of today's news is about young Ian Nelson.

The actor will portray a 15-year-old Derek Hale in Episode 8 of Season 3.

Here's what the MTV Remote Control Blog says about the younger version of our Alpha -


 * The Alpha was apparently once a level-headed, friendly guy, until tragedy struck his family (some of whom are also werewolves), which ultimately led him to transform into the lonely recluse we've come to know and (sometimes) love today. We're definitely interested to see where this could go, but if teenage Derek cracks a smile, we might get a little freaked out.

Again I'm reading information that I don't think we've actually see before.

Here it's apparent confirmation that only "some" of his family were werewolves. This seriously fffs with the canon as far as the hereditary nature of werewolves.

We've heard that "innocents" died in the Hale House Fire but I don't know that the “some of them were human” thing was confirmed.

This is just the latest in a series of little things that have come out in the last couple of days.

Another bit of potential canon eraser came from an E! Online article about young Derek.

Tierney Bricker described Adult Derek –

“a lone werewolf always in search of a new pack"

A lone wolf is an Omega. Was Derek an Omega? He said in Season 1 that he and Scott were Betas so….

The big press release yesterday included some individual lines that offered up what appears to be new information too.

“the first half of its supersized 24 episode third season”

So they WILL split the episodes?

12 and 12?

Summer then Winter the way SyFy and some other cable nets do it?

“Alphas intent on bringing Derek into their fold”

Really? That’s the first I’ve heard of that. Is that their motivation?

“Cora… …who has ties to the Beacon Hills werewolf line”

The "Beacon Hills werewolf line" is the Hales as far as we know, right?

But if it’s not hereditary, is there a “werewolf line”?

While we are getting a lot of stuff from various sources none of it is from Jeff Davis so a largish grain of salt should be applied.

And as a general note you should keep in mind that nothing is actually canon until Jeff says it or we see it on the show.