Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140724175741/@comment-19765459-20140724220056

Everything after the S3a finale.

Basically I think that things went off the rails between S3a and S3b. You have this closing scene of Scott in school looking happily over his friends, which is Aiden & Lydia, Ethan & Danny, Allison & Isaac and finally Stiles. Then you have Jennifer and Peter in a twist ending.

S3b hit the reset button as if those last two scenes never happened. The twins had mysteriously dropped off the map (kind of, Aiden was apparently still taking Lydia's calls, but Ethan wasn't taking Danny's). Derek & Peter are off on a quest (without Cora, because she's like royalty in an alternate universe now). Scott is having werewolf power outages for no particular reason. Stiles and Allison are having nightmares. Deaton is about as useful as a flashlight with dead batteries (although that's normal). It was like the two seasons were not even remotely connected!

This was mainly to bring in the Nogitsune storyline, which I hated. While it had standalone horror movie potential, it just wasn't well-suited to the show, and required a lot of plot-induced stupidity from everybody in order to work.

Instead I would have picked up where things left off, with Peter as the bad guy. My take would have been to run with him being on a quest to return to being an Alpha, and exploring why he talked Derek into using up the Hale Spark to heal Cora (which seemed like some kind of plot). Also, repositioned him as an overt villain rather than an occasional source of exposition that everybody dislikes but still, for unfathomable reasons, trusts. In addition, I would not have had everybody just treat it as okay that Jennifer just disappeared (out of sight, out of mind) or that Deucalion really just walked away to become a better person again. Finally, I would have drawn more scrutiny of the druids, because clearly they have more impact on what goes on than is obvious, yet still everyone defaults to treating them like a vet and a guidance counselor except when they have a specific question.

In short, I would have stayed focused on the werewolves, and ditched the Japanese mythology.