Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-11247069-20170201151537/@comment-13895380-20170203180918

Honestlycynical wrote:
 * "So...was the wild hunt the cause of Stiles' mom's return or was it his dad's grief?"

It was a bit of both. The Ghost Riders took someone deeply important to the Sheriff, and, in order to keep him from remembering, they "brought" her back.

The answer Jeff gave, was:

TWN: "How did the Sheriff magic his wife back into existence?"

JD: "That was partly his own emotional desire and the Ghost Riders taking advantage of a need. We talked a lot in the writers’ room about who the Ghost Riders are and how they are actually people, and what happens if they got stuck in a town. We had this idea that this actually was a Ghost Rider pretending to be, wanting to be, human again and sort of fulfilling that need. It was a little bit of both."


 * "If the Ghost Riders have no leader...why tf were they taking commands from Douglas throughout the episode?"

Keep in mind there are no canonical answers for this question, so this is all my speculation:

Their interests were aligned for the moment. The GRs were stuck there, so they were doing what their lore says they're supposed to do. Take people. When those interests no longer aligned (read: when the Wild Hunt moves on and they get ready to leave), they don't listen to Douglas. When he tries to force them to follow him, they make him a Rider.


 * "When and when doesn't the portal cause physical harm?"

When you try to force an exit (see: burning dude) or entrance (see: Grenadier Abel? I forgot his name), you get harmed/killed. If a rift opens because someone remembers you (see: Stiles), then you can pass through the rift unharmed. When Corey was being used to "merge" both worlds, it seems as though those rules went out the window.


 * "What exactly did Douglas shooting Stiles and Scott do, when they basically just walked to where they last fought him?"

He wanted to get them away from the diverter. He probably wasn't aware that both worlds were collapsing on each other, like Stiles speculated*. So, when he tried to "take" them by shooting them, all he did was send them to a different room. In that sense, his "plan" worked, but not in the way he'd have wanted.

Thanks!
 * He knew the worlds were merging, but there was nothing to suggest that the Gun or Whip would just send people to different rooms and not GR limbo.

About the Ghost Rider disguising herself as Stiles' mom...didn't she disappear as soon as the Sheriff remembered Stiles? If she was a Ghost Rider, she shouldn't have just disappeared like that, no?

I still don't get how bullets don't kill or even cause physical harm to Ghost Riders but a non-magical knife can.