I've decided I'm not going to do a full breakdown video of Teen Wolf:
The Movie because it would likely be six hours long.
Instead I'm tackling my thoughts and your questions about the film the same
way one eats an elephant - one bite at a time.
The polite spoiler window is closed, but if you still haven't seen the
movie and you want your virginity to remain intact - look away now.
This is a funny scene. All this build up,
dirt from where she died, the sword that killed her, the nemeton...
All that and then - meh.
But then - after a few beats - things start happening .
We'll just speed this up a bit since drama is not the point of this video.
There. Rehydrated Allison Argent.
A couple of things you should know - that is indeed Allison. She is 100% real.
Second thing - this is all still a trick of the nogitsune.
On the latter, I'll discuss possessed J.R. Bourne in another video.
But his fox-ridden ass was the one who came up with this entire crazy plan.
I'm not 100 that Lydia's stuff was all just her.
I mean, she might have been seeing the future.
She might have been seeing Allison's return before
it happened or void might have given her a little push in that direction.
Either way, this entire "bring Allison back from the dead" thing came from Nogitsune.
So this is definitely a trick, but part of the trick is bringing back a very real Allison Argent.
Ta-Da! Bringing back the spirit part is easy.
Void is a spirit. Allison is a spirit. It was just a matter of
finding her.
Now he's found her in whatever nether she's
been hanging out in for the past 15 years, how does she get a new body?
She gets it the same way the Oni get bodies and the same way
Nogitsune got a new Stiles body back in season three - energy to matter.
The stump of the nemeton is a great big battery storing
and focusing the energy of telluric currents.
The telluric currents are real. There's a lot of watts flowing right under your feet right now.
In Teen Wolf, this natural phenomenon is tweaked with supernatural energy.
It can provide everything from force field barriers to weather control.
Now, to get Allison back, the Nogitsune brought her spirit and used the energy of the telluric
currents to build her a new body just like the Oni got their bodies in season three,
energy from the nemeton shaped into physical form.
All the smoke and light this time I suspect is mainly for show.
Nogitsune is a total ham.
But the supernatural science of Allison's resurrection all
fits with what we have seen on the show before.
I'm a little surprised that some fans are still laboring under the misconception that
Allison was trapped in some afterlife crisis and calling out for help during the Teen Wolf movie.
She wasn't. She was just dead. Her spirit went on
to wherever conflicted but ultimately good little hunters go when they die.
All that Bardo stuff was BS cooked up by the nogitsune
to get everybody back to Beacon Hills and playing on his field.
I mean, Deaton is standing there telling an obviously
sleep-deprived and crazed Chris Argent that his visions of Bardo are [ __ ].
Chris: It's not just a dream! Allison is caught between life and death!
Deaton: It's not that simple. Bardo is a Tibetan word, it's a means of interpreting death and
the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It's a concept.
Chris: Well that concept is waking me up in the middle of
the night in a cold sweat telling me my daughter is still out there!
Bardot isn't a place. It is... it's a spiritual state of intense mental
activity. It is experienced by the individual.
While you can be delayed in your various Bardo experiences,
it is not a literal place that you need to escape from.
Those phases of Bardo can actually make you a better
and more enlightened spirit for your next life.
Chris: It's not just a dream! Allison is caught between life and death!
Chris is describing Purgatory which is a whole
different spiritual plane and an entirely different belief system.
Nogitsune: You want retribution
against him...
Knowing that we have a nogitsune on the loose, let's look at the facts.
Chris is straight up possessed, just like the wolves were back in Teen Wolf season three.
Isaac: I guess this is the part where I say something witty.
Everything Chris says in these scenes is the
result of the fox's paw shoved up his backside puppet style.
Scott's visions are a simple non-tangible illusion.
The nogitsune can do fully immersive illusions,
so this wispy thing and a few knocks on the door - that's a piece of cake.
Scott: I was on the phone the other day and I was writing down a client's number.
But instead of the number, I wrote that.
Scott's Bardo phone call is a bit of a deeper cut into the fox lore.
Mason: Fox spirits have difficulty with language and the way that you
prove that you're not a fox when you answer the phone, you say Moshi twice.
Moshi, moshi confuses kitsunes.
Now, if there's a danger of getting a phone call from a fox spirit then
tricking Scott into hearing the word Bardo instead of what his
client is saying is just another slightly smaller piece of cake.
Ray: All I want to know is who is Allison?
I'm not sure about Lydia. Her abilities could have been manipulated or she might have just been
seeing the future and all the things leading up to Allison's return.
Both are equally possible. But it wasn't Allison calling out to her because Allison wasn't trapped.
She's just dead.
And while her spirit is ultimately retrieved and thrown into a new
body - that was not Allison's choice it was just another tricky move by the nogitsune.
Dealing with a thousand-year-old trickster spirit just does my head in.
I'm talking about Jeff Davis of course, but the Nogitsune is confusing too.
Having Chris Argent possessed for the first part of the movie is
equal parts genius and reflux acid in my throat.
The Argent Puppet is given quite a bit to do right off the top,
including introducing this McGuffin that is key to bringing back Allison from the dead.
Puppet Argent: It's the sword that killed her, Her blood staining the blade.
Yeah, just like I think he was lying about Allison being trapped,
he's lying about this being the sword too.
We know it's not the sword because the Oni that killed Allison kept its
sword before it went wherever Oni go when the sun comes up.
I feel like I just went over this information, but Oni are made from energy.
The Oni spirit is summoned and then makes a physical body from
the telluric energy present in a power center like Beacon Hills.
It is very possible to keep hold of an Oni sword after they're gone
because - if they're not holding it - it's just solid matter untethered
from the rules that say the Oni have to disappear at sunrise.
We saw swords left behind when Scott got stabbed and with Aiden too.
Those things are solid and untethered from the limitations of the Oni.
They're just like any other objects.
But the Oni that killed Allison kept its sword.
There were probably a couple of weapons left over after the final battle,
but it just makes more sense that Puppet Argent is lying about this too.
In fact, I'm just assuming that he's lying about everything right up until
the point Deaton gives him this dose of mountain ash aromatherapy.
I am wading into the shipping lanes, so y'all wish me luck.
The idea that Malia during the series and now Allison in the
movie are somehow not the same age as the other characters is silly
and just another way for anti-fans to troll shippers on the internet.
We first heard this about Malia back in season three.
Paragraphs and paragraphs were written about how - because she turned into a coyote at age nine
that would mean that when Scott scared her back to human - she was still mentally nine years old.
People who say this must believe that animals don't think, feel emotions or age.
Malia grew to full coyote adulthood. Most of these
animals in the wild only live to be three years old.
So she was the oldest and wisest coyote in the greater Beacon Hills region and
lived and learned everything she needed to know to survive.
She then resumes her human form, which has aged right along with her coyote form.
Critics want to say she is somehow still mentally a child. That's dumb.
Just because she doesn't know math and which
fork to use with soup doesn't mean that she has the mind of a child.
Yes, she might fall for that Ethiopian Prince email scam or donate money to
politics or other things that most other regular humans have learned not to trust,
but she's actually older and much wiser than her peers when it comes to one-on-one
interactions because fighting for survival and eliminating threats is her basic programming.
She's constantly on the lookout for danger and knows how to handle herself whenever it comes up.
Malia is not a child when we meet her.
Allison's situation is a bit of a trickier proposition.
First the whole concept that Allison is back requires that the human soul
be a real thing that exists in this universe.
Human souls continue after the death of the body.
Where they go in this universe once the body dies we don't know,
but the spirit survives and it is fully intact.
And - if you can build a new body out of nemeton energy - the spirit
can return to Earth and walk and talk and do all the other things.
Again - like with Malia - the "puberty trolls" want to act
like Allison's consciousness ceased to exist when she died.
If the human soul survives the body's death then Allison did not cease to be.
From the moment she died Alison's life as an immortal soul continues.
She exists and experiences - without any break - right
up until the moment she wakes up in the hospital.
While her body had that "new car smell", the soul inside was more than 30 years old.
Just like Malia, Allison lacks some worldliness and some of the world weariness that she
would have picked up living on Earth in a physical body throughout those 15 years.
But Allison is not - in any way that matters - still 17.