User blog:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 080613

What time is it anyway?

There have been chapters worth of speculation about just exactly when the Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode Visionary took place.

After watching the episode a few times now, I've come to the conclusion that the production doesn't want us to know.

Here's what I've found.

The production made little effort to change the set for their big "flashback" episode and left a number of obvious anachronisms in frame.

I've collected a few of the most glaring that would have also been the easiest for the production to mask or change if they had wanted to convey a sense of time.

The most obvious are in the Band Classroom.



Here you can see the room from Episode 4 Unleashed. Note the cardboard box with the X on the shipping label and the position of the notes on the metal cabinet's door.

You'll find the exact same configuration in the shot below from Visionary.



Also note in the above shot the poster just out of sight behind that partition. The same one is hanging "now" in this shot of Lydia from Unleashed.



Also in the Band room we have an historic timeline of "Women in Music" and a Winston Churchill quote on a poster with a bulldog that also seems to "time travel".

From Currents...



back to Visionary -



Again, these are many other similarities, the ageing of the paint and the general wear and tear on the lockers and other parts of the school, but moving these posters and boxes and such would have been the easiest for the production to do had they been interested in actually trying to create a time period for the episode.

One more of these just to change the location up a bit.

The vet clinic has a cute - but easily recognizable new poster this year.



Then we see our Yoda-eared friend in the same spot "back in the day".



There are a few differences too.

The large Beacon Hills home of the cyclones poster seen dominating the music room scene in Unleashed isn't on the back wall in Visionary - but this seems to be a lighting choice since they put up eye level lights and then blocked them with partitions for effect in the flashback.

It's worth noting that the banner is also missing in Currents



I don't think these are mistakes. These pieces would have been obvious to the Director of Photography and others responsible for how the shots look in frame.

These would have also been easy to address by simply removing and replacing the current posters with something from another area of the school set or by framing these elements out of the picture.

This suggests they saw these things and chose not to address them indicating disinterest on the part of the production in creating any genuine sense of an earlier time.