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 Teen Wolf News 101414



 Who’s Coming Back?

In an interview with French entertainment giant Canalsat, Jeff Davis told the crowd that “one or two” former cast members may be returning for Teen Wolf Season 5.

Of course, Fandom and Jeff have a communication problem. Fandom is often disappointed because we shove tons of meaning into whatever he says. Even little, off-the-cuff remarks take on great import. So, when these things don’t come to pass as Fandom believed they would, the conversation runs like this -


 * Fandom be like “But you said!” and Jeff be like “Did I?” and Fandom be like “You’re a liar!” and Jeff be like “You misunder…” but then Fandom interrupts by repeating “Liar!” over and over again while sticking its fingers in its ears.

Here’s the deal with this latest edition of Jeff Said.

The question is in French, I don’t speak French and Google hasn’t invented “Translate for Audio” yet so I don’t know exactly what she said. Her question begins at 20:36 on the video posted below. I can hear her say Aiden, Allison, Isaac and Jackson quite plainly. Even Jeff understood that part –


 * “It’s about actors leaving the show? (laughs)”

The onsite translator only bothered with the kernel of her question without elaboration on the specifics. The basic question was “if you could do one more thing with these characters before they left what would it be?” - before Jeff answers that, he says,


 * “Well… One or two of those characters may be coming back next season.”

There. That’s it. An off-the-cuff remark in France, with no follow up question, is all we've got to go on.

Things we don’t know –


 * Was he talking about the characters on the questioner’s list or other former cast?
 * Who else was on that list (because I don’t speak French and accents confuse me)?
 * Is the hedge in his statement - “one or two” “may be” - due to ongoing contract issues?
 * Is this just wishful thinking on Jeff’s part since the stories for Season 5 have yet to be decided?

Here is the video - the salient question is at 20:36.



If you’re interested in the real behind the scenes stuff – how the show is written and filmed, how much stuff costs and how they put it together – you’ll enjoy watching the whole thing.

 Erica Exploitation

If you’re a Teen Wolf fan and feeling a bit exploited these days, you’re not alone. MTV is bombarding us with online advertising efforts and they’re no longer disguising them as genuine “fun for fans” content.

First out of the gate after the season we had the Tyler/Dylan Gum Challenge hyped through a series of tweets apparently composed by a corporate PR robot. Now they’re exploiting our feelings for departed characters to sell a movie – again with the robot takeover of Teen Wolf twitter to hamhandedly sell it to us.

Of course, the network has always been selling us something through their social media but they used to give us things of value in exchange for our clickthrough. Great examples include the Search for a Cure webisodes and the Teen Wolf: The Hunt online game. Both were advertisements but we were rewarded with actual content in exchange for our time.

“Interacting” with Teen Wolf and MTV now is like that time you bought that whole box of sugary, marshmallowy breakfast cereal to get the “genuine x-ray specs” and learned the hard truth that the “specs” are just two pieces of cardboard and an optical illusion.

The current MTV promotion for the Ouija movie sounds really cool -ask questions of the Ouija and get answers from our dearly departed Teen Wolf Characters. In practice it is anything but cool, it’s kinda awful really. You tweet your questions then some intern at the network picks out just 5 questions and makes up all the answers. The Ouija answers those four questions only. There is zero actual interaction with the Ouija board. There is no actual insight, at least in the Boyd section, into the character’s death or afterlife. Is this fun? Really, I’m asking, is anybody having fun with that?

The network is now accepting questions for Erica with Allison slated to follow next week. It’s all in advance of the release of the Ouija movie in US theaters on October 24.

Social Media is, at its heart, a sales medium. I get that and I ain’t mad atcha for making a buck. My problem with Teen Wolf’s Social sales is actually one of their own making. They used to be SO GOOD at it (and at interaction in general) that their current performance is glaringly bad in comparison.

 Teen Wolf News in Brief

Speaking of briefs, Tyler Posey stripped down to his for The ELLEN Show cancer dunk tank thingee. Here’s the video.

The very attractive Zoey Deutch is joining Tyler Hoechlin on set for the Richard Linklater baseball movie in Texas.

Then there is this amazing video from SNL. The Maze Runner passed the $220 million mark over the weekend and Saturday Night Live spoofed Dylan O’Brien’s character specifically and the “teen post-apocalyptic adventure book to movie” genre in general.