Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-544940-20160224074510/@comment-13895380-20160305150614

Episode 5x19 was awesome but I felt like it showed how poorly paced the season was. The first 10 episodes were essentially filler episodes. They featured "chimeras of the week", and some of them weren't even important to the season. We knew almost nothing about the Dread Doctors or Theo either, which made me anticipate 5b so much more.

Now, in the 19th episode of the season, so much happened in one episode:

- Trying to save Mason, Sebastien being reborn

- Theo trying to steal the Beast's powers

- Deucalion trying to kill Scott

- Desert Wolf trying to kill Malia

- Kira trying to control her powers

- Parrish trying to evolve

- The Argents trying to find the pike

- The Dread Doctors dying

So we have so many subplots going into the finale, and it's practically impossible for them to address most of them without giving a rushed and unsatisfying solution to them. I'm wondering why this is the case. If they had these many stories to explore, why didn't they just cut the chimera plot to like 6 and 7 episodes so we can explain more about the Desert Wolf, the Hellhound, Deucalion, or...THE DREAD DOCTORS.

That was probably the saddest part for me. Teen Wolf has always had amazing villains. The Dread Doctors were definitely the most mysterious ones but there comes a time when you know so little about the villains that their mystery just seems like bad writing. We don't know who they are, how long they've been alive (it seems like they've been alive for hundreds of years, so I'm kind of surprised they don't know the Beast's name, given how resourceful they are), and...WHY ARE THEY DOING ALL OF THIS?

It made total sense that the Beast killed them because Scott, Theo and their packs never had a chance of beating them; if they did, the DD would have to have been super-nerfed or a deus-ex machina weapon must have emerged. However, it's sad that they died so soon because I want to know why they resurrected the Beast in the first place. People have said "maybe they're just evil" but that is not a quality answer I'd expect from Teen Wolf. Resurrecting La Bete just cause "...evil" makes for the most 1-dimensional characters ever. I don't like how they didn't elaborate on Valack's relationship with the DDs either, and how he even got that helmet. Was he a DD? Who knows because they didn't explain anything! :D ... :( And the reason why they chose Theo was lame and disappionting, but passable. So...Theo as a child was more pure than Corey, Tracey and whoever else they tried to make La Bete (besides Mason)? LOL. It seems like the Surgeon is still in the last episode, so hopefully some (most likely not all) of these questions will be answered.

Finally, we were told that this would be a Hellhound vs La Bete season but we've barely seen any of it. Almost all the fights happened off-screen. WTF. But whatever, as long as we get to see them fight in the finale. What gets me anxious is that they've introduced so many different ways how La Bete can die now. Death by Evolved Hellhound? Death by Pike? Will Lydia do it? Wait, but Kira is getting controls of her powers, maybe she will wield it? Some people think it's destined to be a girl because of The Maid of Gevaudan, but maybe it is destined to be one with Argent blood to do it, like Chris. But wait! Don't forget that Theo and his pack wants to kill him! But Deucalion may try to do it too! And Scott's the True Alpha, he must do something to save the day! Liam tells Hayden that Scott will save everyone. This is a Scott re-birth season. He has to save them somehow.

It just seems like the finale is going to be packed, which makes for a very engaging episode (as was the last one), but it'll ultimately lack focus.