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99.130.170.184 wrote: Unanswered questions are not necessarily continuity issues though. They just haven't been addressed yet. Jeff is praised on how much he has planned and researched, and for him to put blatent contradictions in the show makes no sense to me. Unless they are there for a reason and we have to be patient and wait for explanations. Unanswered questions aren't continuity issues if they're treated like unanswered questions. Here's an example of an unanswered question handled properly: in season 4 of Buffy, Tara intentionally sabotaged a demon locating spell for -- as far as the viewer knew at the time -- no reason. No other characters knew about it so there was no reason to address it, however the moment cropped up a few times in the "previously on" clips up until the episode "Family" in season 5 where it was revealed Tara had been told, by her family, that she was part demon. So, that was something that remained an unanswered question for over a season but it worked because there was no reason to answer it.

When that unanswered question is something all, or at least one, of the main characters should be asking it doesn't work. Where was Cora for eight years? Nobody bothered to find out the details of, y'know, most of her life? Why hasn't super genius, loves to learn things Lydia been reading everything that's ever been written anywhere about banshees to try to learn how to control her powers? That's not an unanswered question, it's a hole in continuity.

Scott's afraid of turning into Peter's Alpha form, but we still don't really have an explanation for how that became Peter's Alpha form. We also don't have an explanation for why none of the Alpha pack (save Deucalion, kind of) had an Alpha form. These are not things that the characters have no opportunity to address and they're not minor details the characters would ignore, they're just things that haven't been addressed and don't make sense. And that is a big problem for the show's continuity.

And that's not to mention the issues we know we're never getting an answer to -- like the post above this says, Jackson's first scene in Season 2? Totally nonsensical and never addressed. That one has the benefit of Jackson being the only one who knows about it (except Derek, presumably, since the bite looked fresh). And why did the bite look just like Scott's if Derek never took on his Alpha form? And in the same vein, but even more frustrating, how about introducing this whole thing about Boyd's sister and then killing him off in the next episode before anyone else knows about it so there's really no way of continuing that story? (They could have had Derek get Boyd's memories of her and make finding her his personal quest, but nope. They could have had the sheriff pick up that cold case, but nope.)

Like I said, there's a lot of really great things about Teen Wolf. The continuity is not one of them.