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60 Teen Wolfs in 60 Days: day 6, Heart Monitor
Amazon Prime description: Scott and Stiles come up with ways for him to control the transformation in order to be with Allison. (I love how this grammatically implies that ScottandStiles are a single individual who is dating Allison. That does seem to be how Stiles views the situation, at least.)
I like the parking garage scene, and it remained tense even though I guessed pretty early on that it was Derek chasing him (I actually thought Scott also knew that, and it was a game of werewolf hide-and-seek). Don't let him be such a buzzkill, Scott! You were clever.
I think there should be age warnings on this episode. I'm too old to see a dude that young looking that hot. It's warping my development.
I feel like Derek has yet to learn that “You don't want to know,” in Scott's world, translates directly to, “Everything bad that you can possibly imagine is totally and without question true.”
So Stiles was Not Talking to Scott for...a day and a half? Actually, I'm impressed. So now we've learned that there is one thing that can ameliorate the separation anxiety: Stiles' protectiveness of his father.
He's pretty free with temporarily misappropriating Coach's stuff. I'd worry if it weren't so apparent from last episode that Coach is extra fond of him. Have I mentioned lately that Coach Finstock is my very most favorite?
(Mary's observation: “Lacrosse? Are they trying to make me hate him?” This is why we get along.)
Yeah, Jackson? That way that she draws away from you when you lean closer and looks like she needs to talk to a trusted adult? That means your Approachable Human Being act needs some work.
Just imagine how angry Coach would've been if he'd noticed his phone had been stolen yet!
I just have this strong feeling that the entire exchange that begins with “Oh, no. You're getting an idea, aren't you?” has been repeated verbatim many times before between these two.
So this is interesting! I feel like you have two pivotal moments in the last act here, and they feel connected to me, along the lines of some stuff I've already written about the Scott/Stiles dynamic. The first is Stiles turning serious with him in detention – all fucking around aside, he just says, This is your thing to deal with, this is yours, and you have to own it and do the right thing. Scott promises that he will, and that feels to me like the next step for Scott. Previous episodes, he's been trying to stay out of trouble. Then the attack at the end of “The Tell” happens, and there is no avoiding it; trouble is upon everyone, and Scott's own people are being hurt, so he begins this episode saying, “I should have done something,” and agreeing with Derek that he wants to protect his friends. That's a new place, but it's a tenuous one. He feels responsible and he wants to act responsibly, but he's still not sure how to do that or if he's capable. So you have an episode of bumbling around trying to figure stuff out, and bumbling into the one thing that no one's suggested to him, but that actually does help: using his connection with Allison as a sort of mental mantra. Scott came up with that – accidentally, yes, but on his own. Then Stiles, who has been pushing him to try things and steering him this direction and that, finally takes this step away and gives Scott the reins a bit. Derek isn't helping him; Stiles can't help him. Scott needs to take this on. And instead of “I should” or “I want to,” Scott says I will.
This is a major shift, I think, because immediately after that, we see Scott for the very first time deploy his shift intentionally and effectively. Another one of his people is being threatened, and Scott does something he didn't learn from Derek and wasn't instructed to do by Stiles: he displays his power, and then he sets limits on both Derek and himself. He won't fight Derek unless he has to, because Scott is his own person, and is beginning to realize he can be his own style of werewolf, too. But he can and will put himself into danger – again, I feel like this is the first time he's headed directly into danger instead of just taking calculated risks – for his people. He tells Derek, and Derek accepts, that he's capable of doing things his way instead of Derek's, having a plan that's his own. This is the debut of the hero, and eventually the alpha, that Scott is going to be, and I find it interesting that he's freed to do that by Stiles giving him this mandate to do it. Scott, who's been looking to all these stronger people to tell him how to handle this, begins to handle it at the moment when Stiles says, “You have to do something,” and then refrains from telling him what to do. What's key here to me is, Scott can't take his power until Stiles lets go a little and gives him permission to step out alone.
I mean, all I'm saying here is basically a very long-winded repetition of “Be a werewolf, not a teen wolf,” so all I'm adding to the world is word-count, really.
Oh, and Derek ends the episode in a pool of blood, so it's just another day in Beacon Hills.
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