Sceo Weekend Day #3: Sceo + parallels

// 05x19 The Beast of Beacon Hills // 06x07 Heartless // 05x06 Required Reading // 05x10 Status Asthmaticus // 03x12 Lunar Eclipse // 06x20 The Wolves of War // Sometimes I lie by Alice Feeney

My Final post for Sceo Weekend 2022 thank you so much for all the support 🤍 and this is dedicated and with a lot love for our dear @spikeface 🤍🙌

Season Four, Episode Twelve: Smoke & Mirrors

One of only two episodes that's longer than the usual 42ish minutes (the other being 06x20: The Wolves Of War, for obvious reasons)

I feel like they have no idea what to do with Kira this season. They made her a regular, but she's mostly there to be in love with Scott and get beaten up.

I wonder if that's actually Posey under that Berserker get-up the entire time, or just for the close-up shots.

Aren't you being suspiciously helpful, Peter?

Has no one seen Star Wars?!

See previous note about Peter being suspiciously helpful. Hmm.

Being attacked by a Berserker is one way of getting Mason to find out about the supernatural, poor guy.

Noshiko's hair looks better now than the last time she was here. Being shot fixed it right up.

This feels like the first time Stiles and Derek have shared screentime this entire season. I wonder if that was intentional after all the Sterek stuff.

Well that was a good start. Bye Derek.

This actually is the last time we see Derek till the end of Season 6 IIRC.

Kate does love her dramatic smokey entrances, doesn't she?

I do love Braeden's bravado even if it was unfounded.

Hello Calaveras back-up, feat. Chris and Parrish. Chris looks well for someone who had a gaping stomach wound last episode.

Bye Derek :(

Other than Vallack, there's not a lot of teases or set-up for next season this time around, is there?

Ya gotta give Mason and Lydia points for trying at least.

Oh hey, it's The Mute's claymore. Or it was, boom! One Berserker down, one to go (not counting the Scottzerker).

There's that stomach wound. And that yellow wolf's bane Chris stole a few episodes back.

"You're not a monster! You're a werewolf! Like me!" - We love a callback.

Peter's had this ass kicking coming for four seasons.

Hi Derek! Good boy!

Beating a Berserker while naked has to be an achievement.

I know she's your sister Chris, but you can't say she doesn't deserve shooting. What a bitch she is. And she still gets away until Season 6B even after being shot and mauled by Wolf!Derek.

"You were never an Alpha, Peter. But you were always a monster." - Truer words have never been spoken.

Braeden pops back up for the Desert Wolf resolution next season, I believe?

Can't say Stiles doesn't deserve being handcuffed to the desk, lmao.

A tail! :D

And a fitting ending for Peter (for now, at least). Meet your new roommate, Doctor Vallack.

Look at Escalus trying to erase canon again in order to excuse his personal fave Scott and demonize a canonical neurodiverse character of Polish origins https://princeescaluswords.tumblr.com/post/184941520580/why-did-scott-think-that-stiles-a-human-could

anonymous: Why did Scott think that Stiles, a human, could overpower and beat to death a chimera with a wrench? When Scott and several other supernaturals could barely fight one off before? What’s his thought process there?

PEW:

Let’s start with, by Lies of Omission (5x09), which chimeras had Scott encountered or about which he could have reasonably learned? Belasko, Tracy, Lucas, Corey, Hayden and Josh. Beth, the kitchen-table claw girl, and Donovan, Scott neither had first-hand experience nor could anyone give him a reasonable report.

You know what’s interesting about those six? They’re all different. Being hybrids of different supernatural creatures, they all seemed to have different power sets and different extreme emotional states.   

Tracy was a tough fighter. Her tail, her paralyzing venom, her wall-crawling, her hard skin. In the animal clinic, she did put Deaton, Scott, Malia and Stiles down for a time, but that’s because she got the drop on them. Kira fought her off by herself and Malia fought her off by herself.

Now, Lucas managed to keep Brett, Liam, Scott, and Kira busy, because they had to avoid those nasty stingers, but they also weren’t fighting to kill. They (except Brett) knew that Lucas had been transformed against his will, so Scott were holding back (until Kira decided to go all terminator on Lucas.)

But Lucas, as tough as he was, was killed by one crossbow bolt. So he wasn’t invulnerable. A lucky blow could take him down.   

Corey on the other hand, was also a chimera, but he had no fighting capability whatsoever. He was pliant and relatively calm. Hayden, as well, had claws and fangs, but she wasn’t instantaneously a candidate for the Mortal Kombat tournament.

In other words – Stiles would probably be helpless against Belasko, a chimera designed to kill, but Stiles could probably defeat Corey. So what was Donovan? Scott didn’t know.  

And Scott also had experience with Stiles – the real Stiles – taking on monsters too powerful for him. Stiles took on the conjoined twins in The Overlooked (3x10), and before you say “he was ineffective” his mother also took on the conjoined twins in The Overlooked (3x10) and was very effective. There’s also the Argent and Calaveras hunting families, who are humans who scare werewolves.

Scott himself said that very season “No super strength or samurai swords, but they stay alive“ about Stiles and Lydia. He has respect for Stiles’ capabilities. He always has. He never tried to bench Stiles and even in Said the Spider to the Fly (6x11) it’s Lydia who tries to bench Stiles because they almost lost him. Scott doesn’t want to call Stiles because Stiles is having fun in Virginia. “You guys didn’t hear his voice. He sounded really excited to be there.“

It’s only fanon (and Stiles himself) who believe that Stiles deserves special consideration for only being human. And Stiles really doesn’t believe that – his words in Lies of Omission were a desperate and cruel attempt at deflection, because he really thought this was the end of his friendship with Scott. 

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And this is yet another proof that not only does Escalus despise canon more than he clearly despises canon Scott McCall, but he also never watched an episode of the actual show, because here’s exactly what Scott himself actually said about Stiles and Lydia in season 06x20 (“The Wolves of War”): 

SCOTT: Some can do things you’d never believe. And others might only be human, but they make up for it by being really smart. 

I mean, either delusionals never even bothered to watch an episode of the actual show, or they are EXTREMELY bothered by the fact that everyone acknowledge Stiles Stilinski & Lydia Martin as the clever ones in canon for some very obvious reason.

DW: Oh dear. Pew is taking a lot of words here to make excuses for Scott, isn’t he? But what’s new? 

What does he mean he doesn’t know what sort of chimera Donovan is? It doesn’t matter, Prince, because Scott also thinks Theo is a werewolf, and Scott knows what werewolf strength is and still thinks that Theo couldn’t physically prevent Stiles from attacking Donovan, even if Donovan was somehow as weak as a lamb. 

It’s bad writing, Prince, and it makes Scott look like an asshole for not even making an attempt to clarify with Stiles what happened–it also makes him look as dumb as a fucking post. 

Not forgetting that even in the kindest scenario that Prince can imagine for Scott–that he’s entirely ignorant of how dangerous chimeras are, or at least assuming their default is weak and fluffy as kittens despite the fact they’ve been killing people left, right and centre all over town–Scott literally has to think the worst he possibly can of Stiles in order not to question Theo’s story. That has to be his starting position for everything else to fall into line: that Stiles is the dangerous killer, not the chimera. And he doesn’t even question it! 

“Oh, Theo says my best friend beat a chimera to death. Even though the only thing I know about chimeras is that a bunch of them have been killing people, and that this one specifically made threats to kill people before he was a chimera, it makes most sense to assume that this one is relatively harmless and that Stiles, who I have known most of our lives, is the violent and unstable killer in this scenario. I’m sure that Theo, who Stiles has been warning me for ages not to trust, is, after all, perfectly trustworthy.” 

Some fucking friend he is, huh? 

teen wolf 06x20 - The Wolves of War episode 10/10 THIS IS IT!

Had to work, that is why this is late.  kind of dying right now.  scotty!!!! in a motel???? this feels like a dream sequence... oh this breaks my heart wtf this is also very divergent-esque so they are building an army. Alec. I’ve got my own story. SO THIS IS THE FLASH FORWARD WTF? and we have seen this. MY SON RETURNS!!!!!!!!!! we have seen this tho. intro unf my husband is hot.  deucalionnnn bro hug :( “I came back from you” gerard... I’M DYING, GERARD GO BACK TO BEING DEAD. break one theooooo THE BODIES OF THE WEREWOLVED dead or alive lEAD IT OH MY GOD H E L P M E  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THEY ShOT HIS TOE I’M DEAD, I’M FUCKING DYING, STILES YOU DUMBASS I can’t stand you jeff because you baited me MASON AND COREY MOMENT YASYASYAS kill him mama MY MELISSA <3 I LOVE HER SO MUCH PROTECT MAMA MCCALL 2K17 the gang <3 stiles: becoming blind, huh never thought that would be his fear i love how they are in the vet <3 derek you snarky ass break two peter bby PETER STOP DID HE JUST HEAR “DAD?” i fucking love jackson okay?  i knew they weren’t dead... jackson don’t be dumb okay that was a cute reunion stiles tho, jealous stiles <3 hE’S SO PROUD OF HER OMG.  jackson literally had the stereotypical “I’m gay and i’m angry that I am gay because of X reasons” I FUCKING CALLED IT. they can be fucking friends. HAHAH I TOLD YOU ALL I  TOLD yOU ALL!!!!! Lydia KNEW Jackson was gay.  THEY ARE NOT AND WILL NOT GET TOGETHER.  tHIAM PLS FUCKING HELL break three someone save mama mccall pls “he used his other tail” LYDIA PLS and kiss thiam YAS MAMA my baby derek! YAS PAPA STILINSKI YAS MY PAPA SHERIFF, YOU ADDRESS ME BY MY PROPER TITLE OH YAS. YASSSSSS In the words of Mama McCall: THAT WAS SO HOT. and here come the tears... break four oh yiss Papa McCall his biggest fear is jennifer blake... DEREK ITS NOT REAL HELP ME FUCKING KILL HER SHE SHOULD HAVE STAY DEAD TOO NONONONONONO SOMEONE HELP HIM HIS BIGGEST FEAR IS VOID. SCOTT’S BIGGEST FEAR IS VOID OH MY GOD. failed allison... OH THAT WAS A LOW BLOW. god damn i just he’s scared of failing everyone... oh my god scott. HE JUST MADE HIMSELF GO BLIND WHAT THE FUCK break five please don’t kill derek.... COACHHHHHHH i can’t believe... theo... well well well kate. this makes me so happy like.  WELL DONE JEFF.  don’t expect that agAIN YOU’RE AN AMAZING COACH FINSTOCK MCARGENT!!! JETHAN I’M CRYING