Teen Wolf is
back for a final season – so this had better bring the epic.
We begin with a continuation of the theme of Stiles from
last season. He’s afraid of what he’s losing. College is looming, everyone is
preparing to move on – and he’s going to be left behind. I think this is not
just a comment on his insecurity and dependence on his friends but also worth
noting that he’s the only non-supernatural there. If he’s separated from his
friends by college he also very much faces being separated from the
supernatural world, from supernatural reality
Which is probably why Stiles is super super desperate to
try and stop supernatural threats in Beacon Hills… when, for one, there really
isn’t one. He’s slightly irritating his friends though
Teen Wolf is
also filling in time with lots of super dramatic slow motion reveals of
supernaturalness.
Of course despite this, the supernatural is definitely
real. Liam and Hayden discover a spooky car on a spooky road in the middle of a
spooky night and they DON’T run for the hills
Really, some people are positively inviting serial
killers to murder them
Instead they find a kid, Alex, in a car with a shattered
windscreen and his parents missing. They call the police and Sheriff Stilinski,
being a resourceful fellow, decides the best way to help the forgetful urchin
be a useful witness is by stabbing him in the neck with werewolf claws
Not just for odd kiddy torture – remember one of the more
unusual werewolf abilities on this show is for Alphas to be able to read your
memories and risk complete paralysis by stabbing you in the spine. Could you at
least wait an hour or two for the forensics to come back before we stab
kiddies?
Reading memories Scott sees a horseman with a gun that
shatters windscreens and enough strength to rip off a car door. He took Alex’s
parents
Yet, all Scott seems to report from this memory is that a
horseman with a gun took Alex’s parents. Which sounds very mundane to everyone…
Except Stiles, of course, who finds enough little clues
to convince the rest of the gang who are trying to pursue some level of
normality that something is afoot: namely that the shot windscreen shattered
entirely from a bullet (unlike other examples of shot windscreens) and turned
the glass green… which is not normal bullet behaviour
So time to examine Alex’s house (after school as Natalie,
teacher and Lydia’s mother and made of awesome) won’t let Scott skip more class.
And it’s spooky. Very very spooky. So very spooky. Entire
rooms are entirely empty, completely devoid of furnishings
Scott: Want to split up
Stiles: Absolutely not
Except on room – Alex’s room. Every room in the house but
Alex’s own room. Yes it’s creepy. Pictures of the family only show Alex – his parents
have been erased. So. Very. Creepy. They’re also joined by Mason and Liam who
are following some weirdly acting compasses that are no longer pointing north –
but to this house.
Where they shatter when the horseman appears again (with lots of creepy appearing and vanishing before hand – and my gods have you guys not watched a single horror movie? RUN!) to menace Stiles (who is alone. Why is he alone? He just rejected splitting up?!). We learn they are very creepy and really awful shots – as the horseman shoots repeatedly at Stiles and misses from not that far away. Then decides to vanish
Well, still creepy.
Stiles realises that Alex’s parents have been completely
erased as if they never appeared. For more menace, Lydia, the Banshee keeps
hearing music. And it’s really
creepy music. I think this episode is now edging from creepy to “trying too
hide to be creepy.” Putting together erased people and creepy music and Lydia
announces that it’s the wild hunt
Which, a) is an astonishingly incredible leap of logic. I
mean “creepy music and disappearances = wild hunt”? Really? And b) could banshee
powers be more vague? Sorry your death omen failed because you aren’t familiar
enough with obscure music which your powers liked before it was cool.
Hipster Banshees!
Stiles realises that the kid may be next because of
knowledge of the Wild Hunt that he just has and he and Scott rush to the police
station… where Alex has vanished. The Wild Hunt broke into his cell (where he
was hiding out of terror of the Wild Hunt), took the child and then vanished –
repairing the cell in its wake. When Scott and Stiles arrive, no-one even
remembers that Alex even existed.
Back to Lydia for some ominous forboding. She knows
something terrible is going to happen. She calls Malia to try and figure it out
before realising, Stiles can see the Hunt. Stiles is the next victim. She runs
to find him
While Stiles runs to the school… and no-one recognises
him. Not Natalie. Not Mason, Liam and Hayden, not Malia.
Not his father
And when he calls… not Scott.
Lydia eventually finds him and she remembers him
together. The hunt appears and they try to run together… before Stiles realises
it’s useless and he’s putting Lydia at risk. He leaves her after making a
beautiful goodbye and after telling her he love her (noooo don’t drag this up
again it never works). He asks her to remember him… and the Hunt takes him
The next day at school, everyone is happy except Lydia is
troubled… because she’s forgotten something
Whoa whoa, no Teen
Wolf, no you are not ending this show by taking the actor who brought us super-creepy
nogitsune and say “we want you to go for super tragic! Let her rip!” Bad Teen Wolf! No! Of course it may also be a way to not have Stiles around much this season since he has a movie schedule as well.
Points for some elegant foreshadowing though – and Mason
actually managed to be present!
And we may have solved one of Teen Wolf’s mysteries – where did Danny and now Kira go? How did
these characters completely disappear and no-one even notice them being gone?!
Seriously, this is like the only way they can explain
that nonsense.
