Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-67.80.49.73-20150208080851/@comment-6383956-20150212001818

I love vampires. I mean, I LOVE vampires.

But I don't want vampires in Teen Wolf. I can see, okay, vampires might exist in the Teen Wolf universe. I'm for that. I don't think it's necessary for them to show up on the show. And I think that Teen Wolf needs to focus on the mythology it has already established without venturing out into the realm of the undead.

Symbolically speaking, werewolves are the antithesis of vampires. Vampires typically represent the unnatural, death, a disruption of the natural order, and are almost always in civilized areas -- cities, villages, castles. Werewolves, conversely, represent nature itself, and are symbolically tied to life, and usually invade civilized areas from the woods (where they live). That's why so much media has depicted the two in eternal conflict with each other. And while this might sound like I'm saying "here's a ready made storyline" (even though it's one we've seen before) what I'm actually saying is, introducing vampires -- to do it right, in my opinion -- means introducing an entirely new mythos to the show and that's not what Teen Wolf needs.

More to the point, Jeff Davis said he wasn't doing vampires.