Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-68.204.189.179-20140112024603/@comment-19765459-20140112211621

Paul.rea wrote: Wow. That's all so negative. The canon is evolving it's not thin. There have only been 37 episodes - a total of 9 months have passed in this world.

We the audience, like Scott and Stiles, have learned about what you would expect to learn in that period of time.

They're not taking a class with textbook that lays out everything that could possibly happen. They are simply living their lives and learning things as events transpire. It's all been natural without a lot of forced explication.

We knew Laura looked like a real wolf. We then learned that Talia had the same ability and it was widely respected.

What more do the characters within this universe actually need to know about the phenomenon until now?

It's likely, due to current events, that we will learn much more about it in the next few episodes.

Dude, it is literally a matter life or death that the characters know this stuff! You are treating it as idle exposition and it really is not, because people die when these little factoids are not known to the characters (and by extension the audience)!

You are absolutely right in that it is not a class. That is the entire problem though. This is deadly serious business for the main characters and everyone else in Beacon Hills. Thus the rather ambivalent attitude that is often displayed towards getting all the facts is frankly quite ridiculous.

The specifics about werewolves (especially Alphas) are patricularly pertinent to Scott, since this is the reality of his life and world. It was something of a running joke among some people I know that back in season one, in the face of becoming a werewolf and the threat of the Alpha, Scott nonetheless tended to fixate primarily on Allison and secondarily on lacrosse, as if the werewolf stuff were just a hobby or something.

Now, the simple fact is, they do play fast and loose with the canon, often to the detriment of the story. For example, Derek's affair with Kate comes across as a lot less tragic now that they have decided that he a) had a relationship before her, and b) killed that girl (not happily, but he did), so that his blue eyes would have given Kate the moral conviction that Derek was a dangerous killer werewolf from a pack that allowed such things.

See what I'm saying?