Jeff, you know that now that Danny’s in on Beacon Hills’ supernatural shenanigans, you have no reason not to give him a bigger role in season four, right? There are no excuses now, not even bad ones. FYI.
Allison and Isaac, on Finding Lydia’s Car duty, have a cutesy-pie conversation about whether Isaac was really Isaac when they did the horizontal mambo the other night, or if he was completely under the control of the demon fly. Allison wants to know whether the person she had sex with was actually a supernatural entity seducing her under false pretenses. Awwwwwww—playing potential rape for comedy, like how Isaac’s history of child abuse was the butt of jokes earlier in the season. How cute!
Peter, you can’t even look cool to dorky teenagers. Stop trying. You’re embarrassing yourself.
I repeat: MIDDLE AGED LADY WEREWOLF. Can she get her own show? Can we ditch the twins for her?
Kira gets herself in on the adventure after showing Scott that, whaddayaknow, she’s apparently preternaturally talented with a sword. And you know I love my violent ladies, but… Teen Wolf, don’t. Don’t do that. Do you know how uncomfortably close this is to the “all Asians come out of the womb knowing martial arts” stereotype? And this from a show where the major downside of an otherwise excellent half-season has been its reliance on ~Asian people and their yakuza and their kitsunes and their Asian magicks~. And now part and parcel with being a Japanese fox demon is epic sword skillz. Stop it.
Writers, can you please give Danny some narrative purpose this season that doesn’t involve him making out with guys? I love that Teen Wolf is a show with multiple canon LBGT characters, as opposed to characters-who-we-totally-want-you-to-read-as-LGBT-but-we-won’t-actually-say-they-are-because-queerbaiting. But Danny used to banter with Jackson, and even Stiles occasionally. So far in 3B, with the exception of a few tiny moments (Danny being the first one to sign Isaac’s get well card, because he’s nice like that), all the screen time he’s been given has revolved around his being gay, specifically him being Ethan’s love interest. LBGT people aren’t defined exclusively by their sexuality, y’know? They have other stuff going on in their lives, just like straight people do. I know, take your time, it’s shocking. Did Keahu Kahuanui kick Jeff Davis’ dog?
Looks like the dubstep theme was only a one-off for the rave episode, thank God. Annnnnnd that’s a sentence that I’ve never come close to typing before.
At school Stiles recommends that Scott stay away from Kira until they know for sure that she’s not, I dunno, a people-killing monster. But try to get Scott to not be the sweetest, friendliest person in the world to a lonely girl with no friends? Pah. You might as well try and get bears to stop peeing in the woods, or Jeff Davis to stop torturing Derek as a plot device. Not gonna happen.
The Alpha Twins show up in the Beacon Hills High parking lot and ask Scott to be their new alpha because being a leader was just too much. This moment’s got two ups to it: 1) We’re apparently acknowledging now that these two are in no way high school freshman, and 2) Isaac responds to their request to join the pack with a big ol’ “HEY REMEMBER WHEN YOU GUYS MURDERED OUR FRIEND BOYD,” to which I say “YES THANK YOU, ISAAC.” I am very grateful for Isaac’s new personality trait of casually reminding people of all the atrocities that have occurred.
Kira, it is official. I love you. Please do not die. You’re both a female and POC, and both those groups have a suspiciously high mortality rate on this show. It’ll be an uphill battle, I know. But I believe in you.
Peter and Cora both tell Derek he should run, to which Derek responds: “How do you know I’m going to lose?” Honey. You’re Derek Hale. Look at your track record. You’re going to lose.
The first half of season three has had a lot of problems—the aforementioned reliance on screwing over Derek has a narrative device, general loose ends and inconsistency, sloppy storytelling, weaksauce villains. But I’m going to play the optimist here and say it looks like we’re being set up for some potentially awesome things in the second half of the season. Other types of monsters coming to Beacon Hills (ohai, Teen Wolf fanfic)! Dark!Stiles (slightly less Teen Wolf fanfic)! Derek going back to being a beta and therefore hopefully losing some of his angst and interacting with the other characters a bit more!
Jennifer tells Derek about Scott being the True Alpha like it’s supposed to hurt Derek’s feelings somehow, but all I can imagine is Derek making another page in his Scott McCall Fan Club scrapbook while sniffling that “They grow up so fast!”
Lydia, stop flirting with your English teacher. This is not THAT KIND of high school AU fanfic.