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"Derek Angry! Derek Smash!" 

FATHER ALPHA OF THE YEAR

1x02 / 3x11

so today isaac called me at noon from the school’s nurse’s office phone and asked me to get there as soon as i possibly could

i kind of panicked and almost totaled my car barreling down the streets to the high school only to find out that he was in no way hurt

he just lied to a bunch of his classmates and claimed that today was his birthday 

and so to keep the lie going i had to go buy 30 fucking cupcakes and 30 capri suns

these assholes are in high school 

Teen Wolf characters and their Hogwarts Houses

#I AM LAUGHING SO FUCKING HARD

Listen.

If Davis wanted to explain and give insight into Derek’s angst, it was all already there.

Derek had a dubious-consensual relationship with a woman who manipulated and lied to him. Derek revealed crucial information to that same woman who then killed his family in a fire. Derek survived this fire and lived with the guilt of what he’d done. He watched the uncle he’d grown up with become a vegetable. Years after the fire, his sister, the only family he had left, was killed.

So. Derek’s angst does not need explaining by some half-assed, badly written backstory in which he falls in love with and kills a teenage girl. The aforementioned context already enforces his angst. A man living alone and without family, whose only surviving family, Peter, betrayed him by killing his sister (and whom Derek killed before Peter’s uncanny resurrection), who has the blood of his betas Erica and Boyd on his hands, who doesn’t trust anyone because Kate thoroughly fucked with his mind is going to be a fucked up man with problems. That was already established. We didn’t need flashbacks to give us more insight into Derek’s angst.

Derek’s entire arc is going down the toilet. Alongside his random as fuck romance with Jennifer, his willingness to trust Jennifer when he’s regularly suspicious of everyone, how Jennifer’s characterization is limited to Derek, the total absence of his and Cora’s interactions—like, CORA AND DEREK ARE SIBLINGS WHO JUST FUCKING FOUND EACH OTHER AFTER YEARS, AFTER DEREK THOUGHT CORA WAS DEAD—the unwillingness of the narrative to acknowledge Peter as the murderer of Laura Hale, Derek’s sister, killing Derek’s betas instead of giving insight into his relationship with them… You get the idea. Davis is hitching onto cheap thrills and plot points destructive of characterization instead of telling a good story. Derek’s antiheroic characterization and arc was mostly a++ the last two seasons, but now its just disintegrating into shit and I’m retreating to fic and headcanons now, bye.

The Visionary Peter Hale - Why last night's episode wasn't about Derek

Having watched the flashback episode Visionary, I was left with a very uneasy feeling. The narrative, the narrators, the tale as we saw it and as we were told it. Nothing made sense, it did not add up. Something was not right.

Derek Hale supposedly got his steely blue eyes after having fallen in love with a girl. After falling in love with a girl and then being responsible for her death. This is supposed to have happened when he was in sophomore year, when he was 15 according to Peter. However, we do know that the Hale fire took place right around this time. Effectively, we’re invited to believe that Derek, having been so emotionally traumatised by his actions surrounding his first love that it physically changed something about his body, less than a year later thought it was a swell idea to jump into bed with an older woman asking weird questions about his family. What indeed, is wrong with this picture?

I simply cannot believe that this is what happened. It makes no sense, plotwise, for Derek to go through this compounding amalgamation of devastating crap. It overwhelms the viewer and dulls our emotional response to what is happening to the character.

It makes no sense for Cora to never have heard of this. No matter how small the time frame between Paige and Kate, Cora would have at least noticed something about his brother, would have had some sort of idea of him changing afterwards. She said Derek wasn’t like this when she knew him, but how long was the time span between Paige and Kate? Did she not know him then? Talk to him at all?

It doesn’t add up and I do believe Derek was closer to Cora than that.

So what’s going on here?

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I would make a lot of sense for Peter to portray his own tragedy as the tragedy of someone else. 

Still, Derek wasn’t necessarily that young when he met Kate. He would have been 18, which would make it three years after Paige’s death.

And since Cora is definitely a lot younger than Derek (at least 6 years) it would make sense that Derek wouldn’t confy in her - she was 11 at the time the house burned down, after all. She would probably only have seen Derek when they were at home and not have any idea (or interest) as to what he was doing outside those four walls. She was a kid, after all.

On a random note, I’m not sure Cora and Derek were close at all, given that we haven’t even seen one deeper emotional interaction between the two of them.

I do agree that this being Peter’s story would make a lot of sense, given his character and his insight (+ “unreliable narrator") on the other hand I think it’s too much of a stretch storytelling wise if you keep in mind that this is a TV show with a very limited time for plot.

I think it would explain a lot, but I don’t think Jeff and his writers went this deeply to complicate the story.

Either way, if it was true, I’d find if hugely relieving for Derek (who I already think was damanged and “changed" by Kate and didn’t really need this new additional storyline of hurt) and very telling about Peter.

One thing I noticed that really makes me agree with this is the way the camera really drew attention to Paige’s clothing. Say what you want about the writing, but the attention to detail in how scenes are blocked and filmed tends to be consistently good—and consistently deliberate. Especially in the first full-body shot we get of Paige, it’s really emphasized that she is wearing very 90s-looking highwaisted mom jeans. I mean, I lived those jeans. I know what I’m talking about. And even though highwaisted jeans is a trend NOW, the overall style is not consistent with 2013 or even 2011, when the current season is meant to take place (though obviously the clothing the characters wear is current, owing to their deal with Macys).

Paige’s clothing is especially not consistent with fashion from 6-7 years ago, ie. the time just before when the Hale house fire was meant to have taken place. Considering how fashion-conscious Teen Wolf is as a show, I don’t think this is an idle mistake, or even something designed to show the audience this is a Past Event. Derek’s clothing really could’ve been from any decade and was meant to draw a more obvious parallel between him and Scott, so that’s not what I’m focusing on here. No, it’s all about Paige. If the hypothesis is correct that Peter was actually narrating something that happened to him and not Derek, then they may have been sending a subtle message that we were being shown Paige as Peter remembers her, as a 90s (or even 80s - we don’t know how old Peter is, after all) girl, and all the bad fashion trends that implies, rather than someone Derek was actually ever involved with personally.

Just my take, ducks!

Keeping Paige’s clothing in mind and the theory itself, that would also explain why Peter is the only one who gets portrayed by a younger actor. When this is, in fact, about Peter then naturally he would have been rather young, around Derek’s age (as shown in the flashback).

Otherwise it doesn’t make sense why Peter is being shown as so young, looking barely older than Derek when every other person around his age is played by the same actor.

Yes, precisely. I commented to someone this morning that it made NO sense to portray Peter as a teenager in this timeframe, not when we have flashbacks to him being trapped in the fire as an adult who, I assume, was in his late twenties or early thirties. Even if we said, for argument’s sake, that the fire happened between one and three years after the events of Visionary, Peter still wouldn’t have aged two decades that quickly. I definitely think the casting choice was significant here in understanding why the Paige story was fucked up and inconsistent on so many levels.

It also makes me think about a few things such as Chris’ age and where Victoria and Allison were when he was off hunting werewolves. Was Chris sneaking off a typical event? Was it passed off as “business trips" and “conventions" to Allison? Then I’m wondering why all blue-eyed werewolves aren’t tracked and killed by hunters if they technically killed an innocent? Would the hunters question what happen? Why don’t hunters go through Alphas to talk to pack members? Why do they just go after wolves? LOTS OF QUESTIONS FOR THAT WORLD. 

If we go by the Derek = Peter in the flashbacks then it could be around the time when the Argents were in town with Kate and Kate and Derek have a thing. But yeah I reckon if he hunts werewolves then he'd be "away on business" a lot.

And idk about blue-eyed werewolves. Seems strange. I guess they think ALL werewolves are monsters and can't control themselves so it's only a matter of time before their eyes turn blue (weird they didn't know this/make more of it earlier though if they did know), but also I think if they got close enough to see their eyes they'd get killed anyway.

Isaac ‘always looking better than you’ Lahey

(for whoever requested thrift shop)

Lydia Martin loved someone. That’s it. And it wasn’t especially dignified, and he didn’t always treat her well, and most of the time he’s an asshole to pretty much everyone, but she loved him.

And it saved the lives of at least nine people, and that’s not even counting the people who’d have died if he’d gone on as the kanima to find another master. 

And I have to wonder if Derek was jealous.

Not because he wants either of them, but because she fell in love and saved nine people and he fell in love and destroyed eleven. Thirteen if you count him and Laura and honestly you probably should.

Sometimes I think about how thoroughly circumstances have come together to show Derek, time and again, that there’s something wrong with him, that his love is meaningless or destructive where others’ is pure and healing, that he can’t be cared for the way other people are cared for, and it makes me want to scream. 

#the thing is that it’s even gone a step further though #he gave up on love and compassion when he was taught that it only leads to death #only leads to guilt and pain and suffering not just for him but for everyone else #so he turned to violence and anger #anger was his anchor and violence was his purpose #so he bit damaged kids and made a pack and geared up for war #and even that turned back around and exploded back in his face #because he killed Peter to stop the death and destruction and avenge his sister #and Peter came back #Peter used him and drained his power and came back and whispered in his ear and insinuated himself back in Derek’s life #and when Derek tried to stop Jackson he couldn’t even kill him #so what is Derek going to do now #now that he’s learned that someone else’s hatred is stronger than his love #and someone else’s love is stronger than his hate? #what does he have left?

 #DEREK HALE FEELINGS ARE THE ABSOLUTE WORST FEELINGS

#TALK MORE ABOUT LYDIA MARTIN THOUGH #LYDIA MARTIN > DEREK HALE #lydia martin queen

Scott didn’t have a fat chance in hell of finding an inhaler lost in an unspecified area of a forest. (Even if you are on a trail and drop something and know to go back specifically to a trail you are likely never going to find what you dropped unless it’s, like, neon and landed on top of…

Always wanted to make something bittersweet and/or romantic about them on valentines.

Nailed it. 

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