User blog:Calicokat/Teen Wolf News Meta Part 2

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Last time I talked about the first surprise Teen Wolf threw my way. This time, it's the most recent: the scene that jumped out of me during a rewatch of Anchors.

As Mr. Yukimura introduces himself a slow pan over reveals there’s nobody sitting behind the blonde haired boy in the row adjacent to Stiles and Scott.

''Mr. Yukimura: I’m sure, by now, you all know my daughter, Kira. Or you might not since she’s never actually mentioned anyone from school. Or brought a friend home for that matter.''

As he speaks there’s another slow pan, revealing a girl is now sitting behind the blonde haired boy.

Mr. Yukimura: Either way, there she is.

This scene involves deliberate camera work, adding an actor to a scene mid-scene, and dialogue drawing attention to Kira never having interacted with the other students alongside her sudden presence.

Despite these cues, the natural and automatic first assumption of the audience is that the character we just noticed has been in the scene the entire time.

Once again the casual severance of narrative norms has me searching for an explanation.

Kira's sudden appearance isn't unprecedented within the series. In Season 1, Derek appears suddenly outside of the Hale mansion in Second Chance at First Line. Peter appears at the front door just as suddenly in "Co-Captain." While my first assumption was the characters could move really fast, Kira has me re-thinking scenes like this.

The sudden appearances up with just as sudden disappearances. Sometimes this is the Hales, and Derek being shown running along the roof after disappearing in episode 1 suggests that at least some of the time it's that they move faster than other people can keep track of.

However, when Matt instantaneously vanishes amid the chaos at the end of Party Guessed, super-speed probably isn't on the list of explanations.

The characters we've most clearly seen appear and disappear suddenly so far in the story are, I think, the oni. At the beginning of De-Void, the Sheriff's line implies that Stiles has disappeared similarly to these completely supernatural creatures.

Because later in De-Void Stiles crawls out of the floor identically to the oni crawling out of the floor of the loft's balcony in front of Lydia in Galvanize, I suspect that a similarity to the oni is, in Stiles' case, the explanation.



With Kira apperating, too, and potentially the Hales and Matt, these events may hint at the physical nature of the supernatural in relationship to the natural, or the surreal versus the real.



Other, more extensive re-arrangements of the surroundings further suggest an unknown divide....