This episode is the return of Crystal Reed – and while I
like her and I really like the role she plays… I kind of think the whole point
of this episode is “Crystal Reed guest stars” rather than anything particularly
useful
Don’t get me wrong, the adventures of Marie Jeanne, the
hunter who killed the first Beast and founded the Argent family is a pretty
epic one but it doesn’t add any knowledge to what we already know. Like the
idea that the Beast will become a complete beast when it remembers it’s original
(hidden) name – Sebastian Valet? We knew that. The methods they used to kill
him? Well, basic anti-werewolf things.
The fact he was a sister to Marie Jean is a nice touch
and the whole story itself is pretty epic. But I’m kind of sat here thinking
that it’s a really great story, but why is Gerard taking a time out to tell it
to Lydia?
Who isn’t convinced she’s the beast killer anyway – and after
story-time goes looking for Parrish. Honestly I think she was two seconds away
from “that’s nice old man, but I have shit to do.”
But Crystal reed was awesome.
Meanwhile in the present the actual beast is rampaging
around the school presumably killing lots of extras off screen and giving all
our heros liberal coatings blood
Scott is super duper heroic, saving people, getting
people to safety and constantly putting himself in the Beast’s path, knowing he
cannot win but buying lives with his own – because he’s Scott and beneath the
goofiness, the hot abs and not being quite as funny or snarky as his fellows,
his defining feature is being a really good person.
Malia makes and appearance and so does Braeden and her
shotgun (which, coincidentally, is also her defining feature. A gun. Because
she has had ZERO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT) which eventually stops Scott being
eaten
There’s also Liam running around. He doesn’t get eaten.
Scott does catch the scent of the Beast which they track
down the infamous blood stained shoes – in Mason’s car. We’ve found our Beast
everyone! Yes, it’s Mason – and just as he begins to realise that, Corey
vanishes with him.
This could be huge – this could *gasp* mean an LGBT person
on Teen Wolf has an ACTUAL storyline
(by the way, this also kind of undercuts the shock of this scene- if Mason has
actually been developed we could have had a moment like learning Stiles was the
Nogitsune)
On the flip side, Teen
Wolf is happy to throw gay people in the plot box, kill them off or vanish
them without any reason at all – having a “we had to kill him to stop the beast
and now the straight people can practice their saddest faces” excuse does not
bode well for Mason’s continues existence.
I rather suspect Corey will not end well.
