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Besides a reflection of the person I believe the main reason is due to budget constraints. It is cheaper to hire a wolf and handler then it is to CGI a hybrid "monster" of a werewolf. Last season probably shook MTV up with the cost of doing the Kanima. They probably wrote in all the full wolf stuff late so that they could sort of explain away the lack of a large hybrid form. I believe the original intention was to make the full transformation look as frightening or as "badass" as Peter's full Alpha form but again the budget simply isn't there to make it happen. This is all things I gathered in interviews and behind the scenes stuff and is of course IMO.