Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4723271-20170821151406/@comment-13895380-20170906162533

Killer kev wrote: Like I said, there's no shortage of werecreatures to choose from. Malia's only a coyote bc the Desert Wolf was a coyote. She didn't have to be. They could've made her anything, like a cheetah for instance. Yes, they created werecoyotes just for Malia's character arc, but it didn't have to be a coyote. That's all I'm saying.

They could've still done the ease of turning into a real animal and transference of power from mother to child, plus a lot more, without it being weird or not making sense. I just can't find the logic in introducing a creature so similar to the main creature. Because making it a completely different creature involves spending time to enrich their lore but they only wanted the differences to be plot-related, for Malia's story arc. So yeah, it's pretty lazy but it's also an efficient way to meet the requirements necessary for the Desert Wolf plot without having to take away from the main Dread Doctors and Supernatural Hitlist arcs.

Usually, when they introduce a completely new supernatural with a fully explained mythos, that character is integral to that season's plot (e.g. kanima in s2, kitsunes in s3, chimeras and hellhound in s5). The few differences that werecoyotes have are also for the progression of the plot, so the difference are only small because it was a subplot rather than the main plot. Thus, I think they would have done the same thing if she was a werecheetah or another creature.

Heck, this show didn't even fully explain the circumstances for turning into a werewolf via drinking rain water from a pawprint. They just like explaining things that affect the plot and don't really care about mythos expansion. It's one of the most frustrating things about Teen Wolf but it's inevitable at this point. -_-